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New York Times:
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses — Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump's businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known. — By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Keeping Trump's Tax Returns Secret Is an Insanely Huge Security Risk — Last year, the New York Times found that Trump had inherited more than $400 million from his father, largely through a series of illegal schemes. Now, in a new report, the Times has discovered that, from 1985 through 1994 …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The New York Times drops another tax bomb on Trump — DRIVING THE DAY — ANOTHER NYT TAX BOMBSHELL ... RUSS BUETTNER and SUSANNE CRAIG — winners of the 2019 Pulitzer for a series on Trump's taxes: “Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses” …
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New York Times:
5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures
5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures
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Washington Post:
A day after blocking House demand for Trump's tax returns, Mnuchin addressed gathering of his top fundraisers
A day after blocking House demand for Trump's tax returns, Mnuchin addressed gathering of his top fundraisers
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Will Steven Mnuchin Go to Prison for Trump's Tax Returns?
Will Steven Mnuchin Go to Prison for Trump's Tax Returns?
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Washington Examiner, Washington Post and Axios
Daniel Moritz-Rabson / Newsweek:
Former Bush Ethics Chief Calls for Mnuchin to Release Trump's Tax Returns or Go ‘To The Slammer’
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
N.Y. Lawmakers Move Closer to Allowing Release of Trump's State Tax Returns
N.Y. Lawmakers Move Closer to Allowing Release of Trump's State Tax Returns
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump fixer Cohen says he helped Falwell handle racy photos — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.'s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.
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Committee on the Judiciary:
Chairman Nadler's Statement On DOJ Asking the White House to Invoke Executive Privilege — Wednesday: House Judiciary to Markup Contempt Report for AG Barr — Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Nadler: Trump claim of executive privilege could delay Mueller testimony — The Justice Department's sweeping effort to block congressional access to the Mueller report could complicate Democrats' efforts to bring special counsel Robert Mueller in as a witness, a top Democrat told POLITICO on Wednesday.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller fought release of Comey memos to prevent Trump and others from changing stories
Exclusive: Mueller fought release of Comey memos to prevent Trump and others from changing stories
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
DOJ threatens executive privilege over Mueller report if Dems carry out contempt vote
DOJ threatens executive privilege over Mueller report if Dems carry out contempt vote
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Pelosi says Barr should be held in contempt of Congress over unredacted Mueller report
Pelosi says Barr should be held in contempt of Congress over unredacted Mueller report
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Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
White House asserts executive privilege over Mueller report in latest confrontation with Congress
White House asserts executive privilege over Mueller report in latest confrontation with Congress
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
House Democrats threaten salaries of Trump officials who block interviews
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
John Kelly Says Trump Family Must Be ‘Dealt With’ in White House — Former chief of staff spoke in interview with Bloomberg — Kelly resigned after almost two years in the administration — Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said members of President Donald Trump's family serving …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Pelosi: Trump is becoming ‘self-impeachable’
Pelosi: Trump is becoming ‘self-impeachable’
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Robert Pear, a Mainstay Times Reporter in Washington, Dies at 69 — Robert Pear, a reporter whose understated demeanor belied a tenacious pursuit of sources and scoops during his 40 years at The New York Times covering health care and other critical national issues, died on Tuesday in Rockville, Md. He was 69.
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New York Times:
School Shooting Leaves 1 Student Dead and 8 Injured — [The authorities on Wednesday identified the suspects as an adult male and a juvenile female. Read the latest updates here.] — HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Last month, as the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting approached …
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TheDenverChannel.com:
1 student dead, multiple injured in Highlands Ranch school shooting, officials say — HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — An 18-year-old male student was killed, multiple others injured and two suspects were in custody in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin Inflated Iran Intel, U.S. Officials Say — John Bolton and other Team Trump hawks are trumpeting intelligence that Tehran is readying attacks on U.S. forces. They're exaggerating the threat, officials tell The Daily Beast. — On Sunday, the National Security Council announced …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Iran Will Stop Complying With Some Parts of Nuclear Deal
Iran Will Stop Complying With Some Parts of Nuclear Deal
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Colin Kahl / Foreign Policy:
Trump's Iran Policy Is Becoming Dangerous
Trump's Iran Policy Is Becoming Dangerous
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Seth Meyers Grills Meghan McCain: Your Rep. Ilhan Omar Comments Are ‘Dangerous’ — The late-night host got into it with the conservative heiress on Tuesday night. — Marlow Stern — On Tuesday evening, conservative heiress Meghan McCain—daughter of the late Senator John McCain …
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T.J. Stiles / Washington Post:
America is losing its memory — T.J. Stiles received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is a member of the governing boards of the Society of American Historians and the Organization of American Historians.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Durbin: McConnell ignored election security because GOP benefited from Russians — Sen. Dick Durbin suggested Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn't putting election security legislation up for a vote because Republicans benefited from Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
The Democrats Will Never Learn — On Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi followed up a controversial New York Times interview in which she said House Democrats should not impeach Donald Trump with a speech in which she asserted that the president is “goading” Democrats into impeachment because it would help him politically.
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NBC News:
Kamala Harris blows past Democratic rivals in fundraising in communities of color — An NBC analysis found the presidential contender has been hauling in more than double the donations of other candidates in mostly minority neighborhoods. — WASHINGTON — On a sunny Sunday afternoon in late March …
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Scott Shackford / Reason:
Kamala Harris Wants to Be Your Online Censor-in-Chief
Kamala Harris Wants to Be Your Online Censor-in-Chief
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election — If ever there were an admission that taints the FBI's secret warrant to surveil Donald Trump's campaign, it sat buried for more than two-and-a-half years in the files of a high-ranking State Department official.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Clash Between Trump and House Democrats Poses Threat to Constitutional Order — WASHINGTON — President Trump's wholesale refusal to provide information to Congress threatens to upend the delicate balance that is the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
My comprehensive plan to end the opioid crisis — Life expectancy in the United States dropped again in 2017, part of the longest sustained decline in a century — one largely driven by the opioid epidemic. More than 685,000 Americans have died from a drug overdose in the United States …
Reuters:
Exclusive: China backtracked on nearly all aspects of U.S. trade deal - sources — WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The diplomatic cable from Beijing arrived in Washington late on Friday night, with systematic edits to a nearly 150-page draft trade agreement that would blow up months …
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Hope Hodge Seck / Military.com:
Navy Leader Who Told Sailors to 'Clap Like We're at a Strip Club' Has Resigned — A Navy command master chief who inadvertently made headlines with a raunchy direction to sailors ahead of a visit from the vice president has resigned, the service announced Tuesday.
Megan Hernbroth / Business Insider:
A former Netflix creative director just got $1.6 million from big names in tech for Liquid Death, which is water in a tallboy can — On Tuesday, the former Netflix creative director Mike Cessario announced he raised $1.6 million for Liquid Death, a canned-water startup. Science Inc. led the round.
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Kaye Usry / Washington Post:
Joe Biden is much less popular among Democratic women who've been sexually harassed — And Democrats take #MeToo more seriously than Republicans do. — Recently, former vice president Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign. Biden leads the field for the Democratic nomination …
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Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Drug makers must start listing prices on TV ads: HHS Secretary Azar — Drug makers must begin disclosing their list prices in television commercials this July, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. — The move by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is aimed at driving …
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