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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History’ — WASHINGTON — Humans are transforming Earth's natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction …
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Washington Monthly and The Guardian
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
One million species face extinction, U.N. panel says. And humans will suffer as a result. — Up to 1 million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction, with devastating implications for human survival, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
Matt McGrath / BBC:
Nature crisis: Humans ‘threaten 1m species with extinction’
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Raw Story
Jonathan Watts / The Guardian:
Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life
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Splinter and Financial Times
CNN:
House panel sets Wednesday vote to hold Barr in contempt after DOJ doesn't turn over Mueller report — Barr gave his version of the report. Then we read it. — Washington (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has scheduled a Wednesday vote to hold Attorney General William Barr …
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Mediaite
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James Reston Jr / New York Times:
Trump's Other Impeachable Offense — As Nixon learned, Congress will not abide a president who defies its subpoenas. — Mr. Reston is the author of “The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews.” — On July 30, 1974, nine days before President Richard Nixon resigned …
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Hullabaloo and Philly.com
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Democrats prepare to hold William Barr in contempt — The House Judiciary Committee has taken its first formal step toward holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 election …
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The Week
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump furiously demands Mueller not appear before House Judiciary Committee in Twitter meltdown
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NPR, Vanity Fair, New York Times, Daily Wire, USA Today, twitchy.com and RedState
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia mayor under fire for alleged remarks about black job candidate — The mayor of Hoschton, a nearly all-white community 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, allegedly withheld a job candidate from consideration for city administrator because he was black, an AJC investigation has found.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Political Wire
New York Times:
In Tiger Woods, Trump Finds a Hero and a Business Opportunity — WASHINGTON — Ever since Tiger Woods arrived on the public stage as a golf phenom at the age of 21, Donald J. Trump has been cultivating him as a celebrity who could add a sheen to his properties around the globe.
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Talking Points Memo and Fox News
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Democrats start playing hardball with Trump? — DRIVING THE DAY — A FEW THINGS WE'RE WATCHING ... — WHEN WILL DEMOCRATS start making PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP pay a political price for the administration's refusal to cooperate in congressional investigations?
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Talking Points Memo and No More Mister Nice Blog
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Claiming two years of his presidency were ‘stolen,’ Trump suggests he's owed overtime — Democrats running for president are weighing the idea of government reparations for black Americans to compensate for slavery and discrimination. — President Trump on Sunday seemed to warm to the idea …
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Politico, Daily Kos, The Week, Washington Press and Axios
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Retweets Falwell's Call For Two Years To Be Added To His Term As ‘Reparations’
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ThinkProgress, American Prospect and Rolling Stone
Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
Trump is a policy simpleton, but he's a shrewd survivor
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Raw Story
Alex Conant / FIREHOUSE Strategies:
BREAKING: New early state Democratic primary voter survey results — Key Findings: — The Biden Surge: We asked Democratic primary voters who they favored among the eight highest-profile Democrats who have already announced their candidacies. According to our survey …
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Axios and Political Wire
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How gender bias is shaping the 2020 Democratic primary
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Althouse
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Dow dives 450 points at open after Trump threatens higher tariffs on Chinese imports — U. S. markets tumbled Monday as global fears of a trade meltdown between the U.S. and China resurrected worries of an economic slowdown. — The Dow Jones industrial plunged more than 450 points, or nearly 1.7 percent, at the start of trading.
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The Week
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NBC News:
Democrats lose their enthusiasm advantage in latest NBC News/WSJ poll — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — Democrats had two advantages that fueled their midterm victories …
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Political Wire, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Mother Jones
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The FBI's Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses — The State Department and an Australian diplomat grossly exaggerated Papadopoulos's claims — which were probably false anyway. — Chicanery was the force behind the formal opening of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation.
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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Major Report Omission Shows Mueller Was Either Incompetent Or A Political Hack
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Instapundit
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Mulvaney aims for ‘more proactive, less reactive’ Trump message — One of Mick Mulvaney's first acts after he started working as President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff in December was to hit the television airwaves. With Trump under fire for forcing a government shutdown to fund …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Jack Turman / CBS News:
Cory Booker unveils “bold” plan to curb gun violence — Democratic presidential candidate and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker introduced a sweeping gun violence prevention plan. If elected, the campaign announced Monday that on day one of his presidency, Booker will use executive action …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Cory Booker proposes gun control plan
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ThinkProgress, Politico and Cory Booker
New York Times:
U.S. Officials Raise Alarm of Iranian Threat Targeting American Troops in Iraq — WASHINGTON — Senior American officials said on Monday that new threats by Iran against United States troops in Iraq were behind the sudden deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group and Air Force bombers to the Persian Gulf.
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The Guardian
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Massachusetts Republicans move to protect Trump in 2020 primary — The Massachusetts Republican Party is aiming to protect President Donald Trump from primary challengers such as former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld by approving a new winner-takes-all delegate plan.
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Political Wire
Gregory A. Smith / Pew Research Center:
U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say Trump favors the Israelis too much — In his more than two years as president, Donald Trump has taken significant steps to support Israel, including moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognizing the Jewish state's sovereignty over the Golan Heights region.
Center for American ProgressCenter …:
America Adrift — How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want — Introduction and summary — These days, foreign policy and national security publications are filled with stark warnings about the demise of the U.S.-led rules-based international order …
Associated Press:
Michael Cohen heads to prison in Trump hush-money scheme — NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, media attack dog and all-around fixer for President Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence Monday for crimes including campaign finance violations related …
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Daily Kos, New York Times and The Week
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