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Joe Biden Expresses Regret to Anita Hill, but She Says 'I'm Sorry' Is Not Enough — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called Anita Hill earlier this month to express his regret over “what she endured” testifying against Justice Clarence Thomas at the 1991 Supreme Court hearings …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump's Biden insults fueled by belief he can win — Hours after Joe Biden posted an online video announcing his 2020 White House bid, President Donald Trump responded on Twitter. “Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe,” Trump taunted the former vice president on Thursday.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Trump's greatest threat has arrived — The front-runner has finally thrown his hat into the ring. Joe Biden starts the 2020 campaign not only as the favorite for the Democratic nomination but also probably as a slight favorite to win the presidency itself. — Biden's virtue in both contests is his relative moderation.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Why Is Joe Biden the Only Democrat Who Wants to Talk About Donald Trump?
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Joe Biden was in charge of the Anita Hill hearing. Even he says it wasn't fair.
Jordan Schachtel / Conservative Review:
Biden wanted to establish a ‘Biden-Putin commission’ to cozy up to the Kremlin
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Joe Biden's High Crimes Against Logo Design
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Joe Biden: Old man, still in a hurry
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Executives Are Very Worried Fox & Friends Will Be Next”: After Taking Over Fox, Lachlan Murdoch Is in a Trump Trap — When advertisers rebelled at outrage anchors like Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, Trump called Lachlan's daddy, Rupert Murdoch, to keep them on the air.
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Hannity pondering bailing on Fox News because he no longer feels the network is loyal to Trump: report — A new Vanity Fair analysis behind the scenes of Fox News reveals an interesting new piece of information: longtime Fox megastar conservative commentator Sean Hannity has told friends …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called Rep. Ilhan Omar after Trump's tweet sparked a flood of death threats — Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar's request, a source said. — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday and stood by the company's decision …
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Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. — A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Armenian Bar Association's Public Servants Dinner — “Peri yerego.” Good evening. — Rick, I am grateful for your friendship and for your 20 years of exceptional service to the Department of Justice …
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Washington Post:
Rosenstein fires back at critics over Mueller report — NEW YORK — Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein hit back hard against politicians and the press Thursday night, and warned that hacking and social media manipulation are “only the tip of the iceberg” …
Murray Waas / The New York Review of Books:
Mueller Prosecutors: Trump Did Obstruct Justice — Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded last year that they had sufficient evidence to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice over the president's alleged pressuring …
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Washington Post:
Stymied by aides, Trump sought out loyalist to curtail special counsel — and drew Mueller's glare — President Trump was furious. — He had just learned that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation went beyond Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign and into the White House …
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Baltimore Sun:
Attorney for Baltimore Mayor Pugh says she's not ‘lucid’ enough to make a decision about resigning — Mayor Catherine Pugh's lawyer Steve Silverman says that she “is not fit to make decisions today” about resigning. (Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun video) — Amid raids by the FBI and IRS …
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Elizabeth Drew / New York Times:
The Danger in Not Impeaching Trump — It may be risky politically, but Congress has a responsibility to act. — Ms. Drew is a journalist based in Washington who covered Watergate. — The decision facing the House Democrats over whether to proceed with an impeachment of President Trump …
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea issued $2 million bill for comatose Otto Warmbier's care — BEIJING — North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.
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Strzok-Page texts suggested using post-election briefing to gather information on Trump team — Text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page indicate they discussed using briefings to the Trump team after the 2016 election to identify people they could …
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Jed Handelsman Shugerman / New York Times:
The Trump Campaign Conspired With the Russians. Mueller Proved It. — By the standards of a potential impeachment inquiry, the evidence is clear. — Mr. Shugerman is a law professor at Fordham. — In his first letter after receiving the Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr accurately quoted …
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Washington Post:
Trump orders staff to prepare arms-control push with Russia and China — President Trump has ordered his administration to prepare a push for new arms-control agreements with Russia and China after bristling at the cost of a 21st-century nuclear arms race, according to administration officials.
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump's Chief of Staff Says He's Having a Ball — Here's the thing, Mick Mulvaney says, sitting in his West Wing office on Wednesday afternoon: He knows that Donald Trump's administration doesn't always make good on conservative ideals. He knows that they're “spending a bunch of money …
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David French / National Review:
Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness — Graham's willingness to abandon Christian principles when it's politically expedient has cost the church dearly. — It's hard to think of a single prominent American Christian who better illustrates the collapsing …
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Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings — A recent uptick in sightings of unidentified flying objects — or as the military calls them, “unexplained aerial phenomena” — prompted the Navy to draft formal procedures for pilots to document encounters, a corrective measure that former officials say is long overdue.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Here's what happened inside The Markup — The Markup was one of the most highly anticipated media startups in recent memory. Julia Angwin, a former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, teamed up with her ProPublica writing partner, data journalist Jeff Larson, and brought in Sue Gardner …
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Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Heather Heyer's Mom Breaks Silence on Joe Biden Invoking Charlottesville for 2020 — 'I wasn't surprised,' Susan Bro told The Daily Beast. ‘Most people do that sort of thing. They capitalize on whatever situation is handy.’ — Tim Teeman — Joe Biden did not tell Susan Bro …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Bob Woodward is considering another book on Trump — After his blockbuster “FEAR,” which comes out in paperback this fall, Bob Woodward tells me he's considering a second book on President Trump, perhaps before the election: “I'm not sure. Let's see what the story is.”
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘Stopping the bad stuff’: Japan's Abe visits White House in latest bid to soothe Trump's ego — and avoid his ire — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Washington on Friday for a two-day summit with President Trump that includes meetings at the White House, a private birthday dinner …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The U.S. Military: Like the French at Agincourt? — America risks a catastrophic defeat if it doesn't radically change the way it thinks about war. — Early on a Sunday morning in 1932, a fleet of some 150 fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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Noah Michelson / HuffPost:
If We Want To Stop Queer Kids From Dying By Suicide, We Need To Start At The Top — I spent my freshman year of high school dreaming of dying. — I was hopelessly, unmistakably and inescapably gay and because of it ― and what that meant about how the world around me saw and (mis) …
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Conrad Black / American Greatness:
Democrats Court Electoral Disaster With Trump Hearings — The Democrats should be changing the subject, and running away from President Trump's legal issues as fast as they can. — It is illustrative of how completely invested they were in the hare-brained fraud of Russian collusion …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
“You're in an attention war”: 2020 Democrats use abortion, gun control to drive online ads — Onstage and on the air, 2020 Democrats are talking about topics like health care, student loans and reparations, but in the online scramble for donations and e-mail addresses, Trump-centric topics dominate the left's conversation.
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