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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Democrats dismiss Biden as front-runner in name only — In another election, at another time, the late entrance of a well-funded candidate leading in the polls might send convulsions through the primary field. — But Joe Biden's arrival into the 2020 race has not had that effect.
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Talking Points Memo and NBC News
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Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
That Time Joe Biden Voted To Restore Robert E. Lee's Citizenship
That Time Joe Biden Voted To Restore Robert E. Lee's Citizenship
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The American Spectator
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Fickle Over the Faithful — Loyal supporters of the Democratic Party deserve answers.
The Fickle Over the Faithful — Loyal supporters of the Democratic Party deserve answers.
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National Review
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Democrats' path to 2020 victory paved with questions
The Note: Democrats' path to 2020 victory paved with questions
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Washington Post
Gabriela Resto-Montero / Vox:
Joe Biden wins some early Congressional support, but former colleagues see challenges ahead
Joe Biden wins some early Congressional support, but former colleagues see challenges ahead
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Washington Post, The Hill, The Root and Breitbart
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke releases $5 trillion plan to combat climate crisis — The Democratic presidential candidate Monday released his first major policy proposal of the campaign, a four-pillar plan to battle climate change. — MODESTO, Calif. — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke …
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Beto For America:
Climate Change — A FOUR-PART FRAMEWORK TO MOBILIZE A HISTORIC $5 TRILLION OVER TEN YEARS, REQUIRE NET-ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2050, AND ADDRESS THE GREATEST THREAT WE FACE — Climate change is the greatest threat we face — one which will test our country, our democracy, and every single one of us.
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Axios
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Michael Cohen's Last Days of Freedom — These days, the President's former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator. — It takes some time for Michael Cohen to work his way to a table at the grillroom of the Loews Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue.
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
New group launches to harness political power of women — WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the nation's most influential activists are launching an organization that aims to harness the political power of women to influence elections and shape local and national policy priorities.
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Axios
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's handling of illegal immigration is a weakness headed into 2020
Power Up: Trump's handling of illegal immigration is a weakness headed into 2020
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New York Times and Daily Caller News Foundation
Washington Post:
President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims — It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker's database, an average of eight claims a day. — But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark …
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Axios, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite and CNN
David Freedlander / Politico:
‘I Want Him on Everything’: Meet the Woman Behind the Buttigieg Media Frenzy — If you read through the many, many profiles written of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in the past several months, it's hard not to notice just how many reporters happen to have had intimate personal encounters …
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The Guardian
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Guide to the Mueller Report's Findings on “Collusion” — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report focuses only on whether crimes were committed. It addresses two Russian conspiracies to interfere in the 2016 election—one involving a social media influence campaign and the other involving …
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Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
The Five Most Important Takeaways From the Mueller Report
The Five Most Important Takeaways From the Mueller Report
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Wall Street Democrats Are Absolutely Freaking Out About Their 2020 Candidates — One night in early April, roughly 20 of the Democratic Party's highest-profile donors from the financial industry sat down over dinner to discuss how exactly they were feeling about the 2020 presidential race.
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Combat Vet Who Stopped The Synagogue Shooter: ‘I Scared The Hell Out Of Him’ — The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him …
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RedState, USA Today, PJ Media Home, New York Post, Instapundit and Associated Press
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
America's majority minority future — By 2045, the U.S. as a whole is projected to become majority minority. And the changes are already underway: non-white Americans are now the majority of the population in four states, as well as in the most prosperous and powerful U.S. cities.
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Political Wire
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign moving early to keep Arizona from switching to blue in 2020 — The Republican Party is moving early to build a political firewall around Arizona's critical Electoral College votes, a recognition that the perennial red state is threatening to turn against President Trump in 2020.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Despicable Cartoon in The Times — The paper of record needs to reflect deeply on how it came to publish anti-Semitic propaganda. — As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
How Kushner sought advice from a ‘pro-Kremlin’ Russian — Jared Kushner needed help. — It was March 2016 and Kushner's father-in-law, Donald Trump, was steamrolling to the Republican presidential nomination. But the businessman-candidate was taking heat for his campaign's lack …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Matt Bruenig / New York Times:
Universal Health Care Might Cost You Less Than You Think — We don't think of the premiums we already pay as taxes, but maybe we should. — Matt Bruenig is the founder of People's Policy Project. — As the national debate about health care kicks off ahead of the 2020 presidential election …
Associated Press:
The Men Who'll Ask First Iran-Contra Questions Aren't Members of Congress — WASHINGTON (AP) _ Neither Arthur L. Liman nor John W. Nields Jr. is a familiar name yet, but in the tradition of Senate Watergate counsel Sam Dash, both may become media stars. — Liman, hired by the Senate …
Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos emerges a Trump Cabinet survivor — In a presidential Cabinet that resembles a season of “Survivor” more than “The West Wing,” an unlikely contestant is still standing after more than two years. — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos remains so disliked in certain circles that her very name is a punchline.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
John Bolton on the Warpath — Can Trump's national-security adviser sell the isolationist President on military force? — Earlier this year, as Donald Trump prepared to meet the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, in Vietnam, he took a moment in the State of the Union address …
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Repeats a False Claim That Doctors ‘Execute’ Newborns — The president has made “executing babies” part of his refrain on abortion, but the evidence does not back him up. — WHAT TRUMP SAID … President Trump revived on Saturday night what is fast becoming a standard, and inaccurate …
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ThinkProgress, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Attorney general may withdraw from Mueller report hearing over terms of his testimony, House Democrats say — Democrats and the Justice Department are in a standoff over the terms of Attorney General William P. Barr's planned testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week …
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The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, Splinter, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
Boeing Didn't Advise Airlines, FAA That It Shut Off Warning System — Accident investigators have linked bad data the system is designed to detect to the deadly Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes — Boeing Co. didn't tell Southwest Airlines Co. and other carriers when they began flying …
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Talking Points Memo and Fortune
Chuck Grassley / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Tariffs End or His Trade Deal Dies — Congress won't approve USMCA while constituents pay the price for Mexican and Canadian retaliation. — Donald Trump bucked decades of Republican orthodoxy by railing against free-trade agreements. To say I was skeptical of his plans to rip …
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Washington Times
The Daily Beast:
Synagogue Shooting Suspect Was a Piano-Playing Nursing Student From Religious Family With a Racist Secret — The 19-year-old was the son of a devout preacher, a high school overachiever, and a piano player who went on to shoot up a suburban San Diego synagogue.
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NPR, Raw Story, The Daily Dot and Breitbart