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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert  —  More than 370 former federal prosecutors who worked in Republican and Democratic administrations have signed on to a statement asserting special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's findings …
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DOJ Alumni Statement:
STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS  —  We are former federal prosecutors.  We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the federal system: as line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice.
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 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Nadler Schedules Vote To Hold Barr In Contempt Of Congress  —  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler scheduled a vote Monday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not giving the committee special counsel Robert Mueller's full unredacted report.
Discussion: Fox News
CNN:
House panel sets Wednesday vote to hold Barr in contempt after DOJ doesn't turn over Mueller report
Discussion: Mediaite
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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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.
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
UN report says nature is in worst shape in human history
Discussion: VICE, VICE News and The Week
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.
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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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How gender bias is shaping the 2020 Democratic primary
Discussion: Althouse
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.
Discussion: Task & Purpose, Slate and The Guardian
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
The Real Trump Foreign Policy: Stoking the G.O.P. Base
New York Times:
On Muslim Brotherhood, Trump Weighs Siding With Autocrats and Roiling Middle East
George A. Sorial / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Was a Bluffer, Not a Fixer  —  He wasn't involved in the Trump Organization's core business.  —  Michael Cohen was my friend.  I knew his family and he knew mine.  But for him to suggest before Congress in February that he was the Trump Organization's top lawyer and deal maker is surreal.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
President's former lawyer arrives at prison to serve sentence for tax, campaign finance crimes
Discussion: 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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Democrats start playing hardball with Trump?
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
Discussion: Instapundit
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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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi is worried Trump won't give up power if he loses in 2020. He just underscored why.
Discussion: CNN, Salon and Breitbart
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Think They Know How To Win Back Congress In 2020.  Races Like This One Could Screw It Up.  —  STATEN ISLAND — “I didn't vote for you,” Kevin Smith told Rep. Max Rose, after flagging the freshman Democratic congressman down while walking his dog.  “But I gotta give you credit — you worked your ass off.
Facebook:
Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia  —  Today we removed multiple Pages, Groups and accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.  We found two separate, unconnected operations that originated in Russia and used similar tactics …
Discussion: CNN
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders Decides to Play Rough This Time  —  The senator is playing to win, drawing sharp contrasts with his opponents far more quickly and aggressively than he did four years ago.  —  Gideon Resnick  —  In just the last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unloaded a blistering attack on a leading Democratic think tank.
Discussion: CNN, The Week and ABC News
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 …
Jon Gargis / MDJOnline.com:
New NRA president, Cobb native, aiming for higher membership, reclaiming government offices  —  Carolyn Meadows, an east Cobb resident and new president of the National Rifle Association.  —  Buy Now  —  Carolyn Meadows, an east Cobb native and new president of the National Rifle Association …
Associated Press:
Red Sox manager Alex Cora won't visit White House  —  Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora will not attend the ceremony at the White House on Thursday honoring the 2018 World Series champions.  —  Cora cited the Trump administration's response to Hurricane Maria in his native Puerto Rico as the reason for his decision.
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Another Chinese American Trump Donor Tried to Sell Mar-a-Lago Access to Overseas Clients  —  In recent weeks, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has been at the center of intersecting scandals.  There's the curious case of Yujing Zhang, the Chinese woman arrested for allegedly sneaking into the resort.
Discussion: Raw Story
Gerrard Kaonga / Daily Express:
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK  —  MEGHAN MARKLE and Prince Harry could be leaning towards a royal baby name that pays tribute to both US and UK history, according to royal expert Victoria Arbiter.  —  Meghan Markle is expected …
Sophia Ebanks / Washingtonian:
What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right  —  A Washington family's nightmare year.  —  When my son Sam,* who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017, I said no. The pro-Trump event was billed as a demonstration to preserve …
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.
Axios:
Trump hits all-time high approval rating in Gallup poll  —  President Trump hit a 46% approval rating in Gallup's tracking poll, the highest thus far in his presidency.  —  The big picture: Gallup notes that Trump's bump is likely due to good economic news — higher-than expected GDP and jobs growth …
 
 
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Kara Alaimo / CNN:
Facebook handled Alex Jones just right
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Vanity Fair
Barbara Rodriguez / Des Moines Register:
Pete Buttigieg announces 4 staff hires in Iowa as part of new state operations
Ned Ryun / Fox News:
Facebook's latest crackdown begs the question — Who is the final arbiter of free speech in America?
Discussion: Breitbart
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Translator Had Close Relationship With Terrorism Suspect, Documents Show
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
US to add 30,000 seasonal worker visas as soon as this week
Anna Hopkins / Fox News:
NPR reporter refers to Barr summary in same terms as FDR describing attack on Pearl Harbor
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Center for American ProgressCenter …:
America Adrift  —  How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Massachusetts Republicans move to protect Trump in 2020 primary
Discussion: Political Wire
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Fright of James Comey
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Salon and New York Times
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Desperate drive to make the debate stage shakes Dem campaigns
John Hickenlooper / Wall Street Journal:
I'm Running to Save Capitalism
Discussion: National Review, Politico and Splinter
CBS News:
CBS News announces anchor changes at “CBS This Morning” and “CBS Evening News”
Discussion: CBS Chicago and Mediaite
Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Juggles Day Job Alongside Shielding Trump's Tax Returns
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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