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The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim  —  The mayor was briefly accused of assaulting a young man.  A GOP source says right-wing operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman approached him to make similarly untrue accusations.
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Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Pete Buttigieg was falsely accused of sexual assault in a stunt concocted by conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl
Discussion: Big League Politics
New York Times:
Trump Sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to Block Compliance With Subpoenas  —  President Trump, his three eldest children and his private company filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in a bid to prevent the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas.
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Trumps sue to quash Deutsche Bank, Capital One subpoenas  —  Deutsche Bank has continued to lend money to the president when other banks have refused.  Trump wrote a check to Michael Cohen on his Capital One account.  —  President Donald Trump and several members of his family sued Deutsche Bank …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One to block House subpoenas
Discussion: Fox News
Cristina Alesci / CNN:
Trump team sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to keep them from turning over financial records to Congress
Discussion: Raw Story
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Submits Resignation Letter  —  Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to President Trump on Monday, ending a tumultuous two years in which he tried to steady a rocky Justice Department and its relationship with the White House.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rod Rosenstein Quits, Thanking the President Who Trolled Him  —  The Deputy Attorney General was a frequent target of Trump's ire.  Rod Rosenstein thanked him for his “courtesy and humor,” anyway.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  Rod Rosenstein is ready to jump.  The deputy attorney general …
David Mark / Washington Examiner:   Rod Rosenstein resigning from Justice Department post
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden solidifies front-runner status with post-announcement bump  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden's announcement of a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination earned him an 11-point polling bounce, leaving him head and shoulders above the rest of the Democratic candidates.
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Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Biden, followed by Sanders and Buttigieg, leads among Democrats in N.H. survey  —  In the unwieldy field of more than two dozen Democrats, Joe Biden leads in the New Hampshire primary with support from 20 percent of likely voters, according to the first poll of the state since …
CNN:   Bernie Sanders draws sharp contrasts between himself and Joe Biden
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Biden, Now the Front-Runner, Gives First Speech as 2020 Candidate
Washington Post:
Trump's lack of cooperation with Congress intensifies impeachment push in House  —  Frustration among House Democratic investigators is intensifying after President Trump's refusal to cooperate with congressional inquiries, leading some to privately question whether they should try …
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Los Angeles Times
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CNN:
Graham calls Democrats ‘political hacks,’ says Trump should fight their subpoenas ‘like hell’  —  Conway: Trump might block McGahn testimony  —  (CNN)A defiant Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that President Donald Trump should ignore congressional subpoenas demanding the administration turn …
Discussion: Political Wire, IJR and Axios
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I hope he has learned his lesson’: Chuck and Nancy's rematch with Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Observer
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Chuck and Nancy head back to the White House
Discussion: AMN - Al-Masdar News
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Drops Syndication Service That Supplied Anti-Semitic Cartoon  —  A ‘Times’ spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively about the paper's decision to stop using syndicated cartoons, including those from the syndicator of the offensive cartoon.  —  Lloyd Grove
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Mairav Zonszein / Washington Post:
Netanyahu won't condemn the real danger to U.S. Jews: White nationalism
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge  —  President Trump ordered major changes to U.S. asylum policies in a White House memo released Monday night, including measures that would charge fees to those applying for humanitarian refuge in the United States.
Discussion: One America News Network and Axios
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New York Times:
Asylum Seekers Face New Restraints Under Latest Trump Orders  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday ordered new restrictions on asylum seekers at the Mexican border — including application fees and work permit restraints — and directed that cases in the already clogged immigration courts be settled within 180 days.
Discussion: The Week and Politico
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Trump introduces sweeping changes to asylum in memo
Los Angeles Times:
Authorities disrupt alleged terrorism plot in Southern California  —  A domestic terror plot aimed at “multiple targets” in Southern California was disrupted by federal and local law enforcement agencies, sources told The Times on Monday.  —  A single suspect has been arrested on domestic terrorism charges …
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NBC News:
California man busted in domestic terror plot wanted to kill LAPD officers
Discussion: The Root and Mediaite
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Stephen Moore wants people to pay more attention to his economic policies.  Challenge accepted.  —  Stephen Moore wants the media to pay less attention to his idiotic comments about gender and more attention to his idiotic comments about the economy.  —  Sure thing, bro.  Happy to help out.
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
White House Reviewing Stephen Moore's Writings
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Post
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
‘Bizarre, Dangerous, and Insulting’: Baby Nurses Fed Up With Trump's Bogus Abortion Rants  —  They say his talk of executing babies distorts the palliative care they provide gravely sick infants.  —  President Trump's latest rant about babies being executed after birth is riling up neonatal nurses …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Abortion Incitement
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos and Mediaite
New York Times:
Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Breaking: Stacey Abrams won't run for US Senate in Georgia  —  Stacey Abrams said Tuesday that she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2020 but left open the possibility she could launch a presidential campaign.  —  The decision not to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue follows months …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Popular Information:
Facebook allows the Trump campaign to run false and misleading ads with impunity  —  To stay updated on this story, subscribe to the Popular Information newsletter at popular.info/subscribe.  —  I regret to inform you that Facebook and the Trump campaign are at it again.
Windsor Mann / The Week:
What all of President Trump's ‘jokes’ have in common  —  The day the Mueller report was released, President Trump said he might stay in the Oval Office “at least for 10 or 14 years.”  Trump, fearing “bedlam” over this remark, said it was a “joke,” similar to the one he made last year …
BBC:
Indonesia's planning minister announces capital city move  —  Indonesia is moving its capital city away from Jakarta, according to the country's planning minister.  —  Bambang Brodjonegoro said President Joko Widodo had chosen to relocate the capital in “an important decision”.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Why Vermont's single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it  —  Three and a half years after then-Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont signed into law a vision for the nation's first single-payer health system, his small team was still struggling to find a way to pay for it.
 
 
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HuffPost:
Poll: 30% Of Conservatives, 15% Of GOP Say They Won't Vote For Trump
Kelsey Snell / NPR:
House Democrats' Campaign Chief Says Focus on Kitchen Table Issues, Not Impeachment
Angelo Codevilla / American Greatness:
Why Are Clapper and Brennan Not in Jail?
Pew Research Center:
Many Across the Globe Are Dissatisfied With How Democracy Is Working
Discussion: Politico and Axios
David Brooks / New York Times:
An Era Defined by Fear
The Editorial Board:
Trump Injures America 10,000 Times
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Former U.S. Diplomats Lobby to Stop South Sudan War Crimes Court
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Pompeo defends US support for Saudis in Yemen as 'in America's best interest'
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller wins again with appeals court ruling against Stone associate
Discussion: Raw Story
Chad Sokol / Spokesman.com:
Kootenai County GOP urges feds to let Austrian nationalist into U.S. to marry alt-right YouTube pundit
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio was a passenger in a car crash; the NYPD covered it up
Valerie Bauerlein / Wall Street Journal:
Foxconn Tore Up a Small Town to Build a Big Factory—Then Retreated
Discussion: Breitbart
Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
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