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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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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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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Judiciary Committee to Vote Wednesday to Hold Barr in Contempt
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Democrats prepare to hold William Barr in contempt
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Washington Post:
House Democrats to hold contempt vote Wednesday after Barr misses deadline to provide complete Mueller report
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Wednesday: House Judiciary to Markup Contempt Report for AG Barr
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump furiously demands Mueller not appear before House Judiciary Committee in Twitter meltdown
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
House Judiciary schedules vote to hold Barr in contempt of Congress
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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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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.
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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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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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.
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Some Look at Joe Biden's Campaign and See Hillary Clinton's
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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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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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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
President's former lawyer arrives at prison to serve sentence for tax, campaign finance crimes — Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, who pleaded guilty to tax, bank and campaign finance crimes, reported to prison Monday after spending months trying to delay his punishment …
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George A. Sorial / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Was a Bluffer, Not a Fixer
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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, Political Wire, Breitbart and Florida Politics
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How gender bias is shaping the 2020 Democratic primary
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Althouse
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, Rolling Stone, Daily Kos, The Week and Washington Press
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Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
Trump is a policy simpleton, but he's a shrewd survivor
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Raw Story
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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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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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
The Real Trump Foreign Policy: Stoking the G.O.P. Base
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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.
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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CNBC:
Dow drops more than 450 points as China considers skipping trade talks after Trump threat — China trade tensions flair as Trump threatens new tariffs — Wall Street kicked off the week with a sharp sell-off on Monday after President Donald Trump said that the U.S. will hike tariffs …
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Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Dow dives 450 points at open after Trump threatens higher tariffs on Chinese imports
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Booker calls for requiring licenses for all gun owners — Sen. Cory Booker is rolling out a sweeping gun control agenda that includes requiring licenses for all gun owners, as well as more standard proposals such as conducting universal background checks and banning assault weapons.
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Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Juggles Day Job Alongside Shielding Trump's Tax Returns — Treasury chief hits deadline to hand over president's forms — Mnuchin's policy goals may be undermined by oversight fight — Steven Mnuchin's job as Treasury secretary is to protect the value of the dollar.
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James Downie / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo, master of cluelessness
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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 …
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Washington Post
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 …
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Media Matters for America and Raw Story
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.
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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.
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