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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
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Right-wing activists tried to recruit young men to falsely claim they were sexually assaulted by Pete Buttigieg
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Hunter Kelly and Big League Politics
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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Slate, The Daily Caller, Power Line, Daily Kos and Mediaite
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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 …
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Vanity Fair and The Guardian
New York Times:
Trump Sues Banks to Stop Them From Complying With House 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 …
Cristina Alesci / CNN:
Trump team sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to keep them from turning over financial records to Congress
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Raw Story
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One to block House subpoenas
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Fox News
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 …
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Politico, CNN and Los Angeles Times
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I hope he has learned his lesson’: Chuck and Nancy's rematch with Trump — The last time Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer met with Donald Trump it was an unequivocal disaster, culminating in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. — Now, more than four months later …
CNN:
Graham calls Democrats ‘political hacks,’ says Trump should fight their subpoenas ‘like hell’
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Axios
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 — The suspect was under surveillance for weeks after he posted online messages lamenting the killing of Muslims at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. — A California man was arrested on terrorism-related charges …
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Joe Biden on handling of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearings: ‘I take responsibility’ — Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden said he takes “responsibility” for Anita Hill's treatment when she testified before the Senate Judiciary committee during Supreme …
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Washington Post, CNN, Slate, Breitbart, Politico, VICE News, Splinter, Vanity Fair, Mediaite and Boston Globe
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Posts 6-Point Bump Among Likely Democratic Voters Amid Campaign Launch
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Political Wire and CNN
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden gets under Trump's skin
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ABC News, Washington Press and Raw Story
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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CNN, The Daily Caller, NB Blog, Breitbart and The Federalist
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The Times of Israel:
After cartoon uproar, Israel's US envoy calls NY Times a ‘cesspool of hostility’ — Dermer claims newspaper has become ‘a safe-space for those who hate the Jewish state’; Trump says Times has apologized for cartoon, but hasn't apologized to him for fake news
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RedState, Washington Press, Breitbart, ThinkProgress and New York Times
Ron Kampeas / Jerusalem Post:
Israeli ambassador calls NYT ‘cesspool of hostility’
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Washington Press, NB Blog and TheBlaze
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
White House Reviewing Stephen Moore's Writings — WASHINGTON — The White House is reviewing past writings by Stephen Moore, the conservative commentator whom President Trump plans to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, amid criticism that many of the opinion columns he penned denigrated women.
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Washington Post and CNBC
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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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CNN, Politico, Raw Story and Shareblue Media
New York Times:
In California, Home to Many Hate Groups, Officials Struggle to Spot the Next Threat — California has more organized hate groups than any other state — it has chapters for street-fighting skinheads and black nationalists, Holocaust deniers and Muslim haters.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Yisroel Goldstein / New York Times:
A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew. I Will Never Back Down.
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Los Angeles Times, Algemeiner.com, Chabad Lubavitch, Jewish Journal and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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:
Axios and Political Wire
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Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Trump introduces sweeping changes to asylum in memo
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Daily Caller News Foundation and The Daily Caller
Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts — Fisherman raised alarm after white whale sporting unusual strapping began harassing their boats — Play Video — Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy …
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Pompeo defends US support for Saudis in Yemen as 'in America's best interest' — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday defended U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's civil war as the Senate prepares to take a vote on President Trump's veto of a resolution to end that support.
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The American Conservative
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Valerie Bauerlein / Wall Street Journal:
Foxconn Tore Up a Small Town to Build a Big Factory—Then Retreated — The iPhone maker got fat incentives to build a $10 billion LCD plant that largely hasn't materialized on land where Mount Pleasant, Wis., razed homes and crops — MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.—Six miles west of Lake Michigan lies …
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Breitbart
Sally Schindel / USA Today:
There's nothing funny about today's highly potent marijuana. It killed my son. — Modern medical marijuana is much more potent than your father's pot brownies of the 1970s, and that potency is taking a toll on mental health. — CONNECT — As attorneys argued over a section of an Arizona law …
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio was a passenger in a car crash; the NYPD covered it up — On a Saturday morning in August 2015, Mayor de Blasio was in the back seat of a black NYPD Chevy Tahoe bound for an event in Harlem when a driver changing lanes slammed into his ride.
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