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White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes — White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump's political adversaries …
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Trump pressured Nielsen to release detained immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities
Trump pressured Nielsen to release detained immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
An ICE Official Who Said Detention Was “More Like Summer Camp” Will Now Lead The Agency
An ICE Official Who Said Detention Was “More Like Summer Camp” Will Now Lead The Agency
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Inside Ivanka's Dreamworld — You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me. Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump. “Oh!” the president said. “Ivanka!” — Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished.
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David Cay Johnston / The Daily Beast:
Here's the Law That Requires Mnuchin to Turn Over Trump's Taxes, or Lose His Office and Go to Prison — The law is clear, and it leaves no wiggle room. The consequences for breaking it include removal from public office and up to five years in prison. — Donald Trump and his top White …
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Brian Faler / Politico:
To get Trump's tax returns, Democrats must show they have a good reason
To get Trump's tax returns, Democrats must show they have a good reason
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
W. Samuel Patten sentenced to probation after steering Ukrainian money to Trump inaugural — An American political consultant whose guilty plea marked the first confirmation that illegal foreign money was used to help fund Donald Trump's inaugural committee was sentenced to probation Friday …
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Michael Weiss / The Atlantic:
Julian Assange Got What He Deserved — In the end, the man who reportedly smeared feces on the walls of his lodgings, mistreated his kitten, and variously blamed the ills of the world on feminists and bespectacled Jewish writers was pulled from the Ecuadorian embassy looking every inch …
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Kriston Capps / CityLab:
The Hidden Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed — Since its official unveiling last month, critics have been teeing off on Hudson Yards, the $25 billion office-and-apartment megaproject on Manhattan's West Side. The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright calls it “bargain-basement building …
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Pence says Buttigieg bringing ‘attacks on my Christian faith’ — Pence: Trump is expressing frustration of Americans — Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence hopes South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will offer more than attacks on his religious faith or the character …
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Joe Walsh / The Bulwark:
What We Already Know About the Mueller Report Should Scare Us — And Congress has a duty to push forward from here. — The Russia probe is too big and too important to be judged by a highlight reel. Yes, there are some clear takeaways from Attorney General William Barr's summary of the report's conclusions.
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Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Rod Rosenstein Defends Justice Department Handling of Mueller Report
Rod Rosenstein Defends Justice Department Handling of Mueller Report
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘Liz Was a Diehard Conservative’ — “Fight.” It's the signature word of Senator Elizabeth Warren's short but consequential political career. — It's in the title of both of the books she has published as a senator: A Fighting Chance and This Fight Is Our Fight.
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Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Elizabeth Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic party
Elizabeth Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic party
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Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump's new attorney general launches fresh changes to immigration courts — WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is making his first major moves on immigration policy since his confirmation, setting up big changes for the courts that decide whether immigrants will stay in the U.S. or be deported.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump bulldozes across the presidency's red lines — President Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks trying to bend to his will what are arguably three of the federal government's least political institutions - the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Reserve and Department of Justice.
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NBC News:
Trump advisers discussed whether military could build and run migrant detention camps — Top Trump advisers met at the White House Tuesday to talk about increasing military involvement at the border, including building tent cities for migrants. — WASHINGTON — When some of President …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Barr Brings Accountability — Trump's foes call it ‘stunning and scary.’ Here's what they have to be scared about.
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump — After Bernie Sanders lost his primary campaign for president against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“They Just Had an Unbelievable String of Assholes Running the Place”: The L.A. Times, Once a Print-Media Tragedy, Is Rising from the Near-Dead — Having survived a foul-mouthed owner, frat boys, and new-media loopiness, L.A.'s paper of record is now journalism happy-news …
Daily Wire:
WATCH: Daily Wire's Knowles Sprayed With Bleach-Like Substance By SJW Protester During Speech At University of Missouri-KC — Speaking at the University of Missouri-Kansas City on Thursday night, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles was attacked by a masked protester who used a super soaker …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans are anti-voting and anti-democratic — By definition, you get a more robust democracy and leaders more reflective of the population as a whole when more people vote. Democracy has little meaning if it doesn't rest on the broadest possible franchise.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012. He Makes About $40,000 a Year. — COTATI, Calif. — Uber's public stock offering next month will make a bunch of people remarkably rich. Peter Ashlock is not one of them, although he has toiled for the ride-hailing company almost since the beginning.
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying — Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”
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Lulu Ramadan / Palm Beach Post:
Undisclosed cash flowed at Trump inaugural ball with ties to China, embattled Saipan casino — Thousands of dollars in donations flowed to an undisclosed source at a Trump inaugural ball with links to China and dubious donors, but no financial records. — In the decked-out ballroom …
New York Post:
DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency — The Manhattan DA's office had graphic and detailed evidence of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's depravity when a prosecutor inexplicably argued for leniency during his 2011 sex offender registry hearing, The Post has learned.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
'We've done a lot more than you would think': How the health-insurance industry is working to pull Democrats away from Medicare-for-all — At a company town hall meeting in late February, a UnitedHealthcare executive assured employees that the private health insurance giant was indeed working …
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 says Republican criticizing Ilhan Omar told him he was ‘too busy’ to talk victim benefits — A retired FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 said Thursday he was recently snubbed by Dan Crenshaw, the Texas congressman who's drawing heat for accusing a Democratic lawmaker of downplaying the terror attack.
NBC News:
Steve Bannon and U.S. ultra-conservatives take aim at Pope Francis — The pontiff has expressed support for migrants and the poor, while warning against nationalism and unfettered capitalism. — VATICAN CITY — Strolling through St. Peter's Square, the heart of the Roman Catholic Church, Steve Bannon surveyed the enemy camp.
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
A column suggested waiters could ‘tamper’ with Trump officials' food. Amid backlash, the Boston Globe pulled it. — The roughly 1,200-word op-ed that appeared on the Boston Globe's website Wednesday began with the author looking back on one of his “biggest regrets” in life — “not pissing in Bill Kristol's salmon.”
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
You Say Democracy, I Say Republic — The terms are interchangeable descriptions of the American political system, yet a fight over their meaning could have outsize consequences. — One of this age's great crank ideas, that the U.S. is a “republic” and not a “democracy,” …
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
NY Dems block bill expanding college tuition for Gold Star families after approving $27M in tuition aid for illegal immigrants: report — New York Assembly Democrats on Tuesday blocked a bill that proposed expanding college tuition aid for children of deceased and disabled military veterans after …
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Nicholas Fondacaro / NB Blog:
Nets Give One Minute to Obama Counsel Indictment, Gave Manafort's 60 Percent of Airtime — One more indictment that originated from the Trump-Russia probe came tumbling down the pike on Thursday, when a former White House counsel for President Obama was charged with lying to investigators about his foreign lobbying work for Ukraine.
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