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New York Times:
Allies of Trump's Son Declare War on G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel After Subpoena — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr.'s political allies launched an all-out war against the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, turning several Republican senators Thursday against the panel's chairman amid news …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena — Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia probe. — But despite a day facing attacks …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Splinter, Raw Story, BuzzFeed News and CNBC
Washington Post:
Decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. sets off a Republican firefight
Decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. sets off a Republican firefight
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HillReporter.com, The Hill, The Week, Bloomberg, Breitbart, Shareblue Media and IJR
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s endgame
Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s endgame
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RedState, Raw Story and Mother Jones
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump — WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …
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Axios, Daily Kos, CNBC, HillReporter.com, Washington Times, Fox News, The Week, News Agency UNIAN, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Boing Boing and New York Post
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Petitions with 10 million signatures to impeach Trump delivered to Congress — “This is incredible because this is how movements start,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who received the signatures on a flash drive. — WASHINGTON — National advocacy groups on Thursday delivered …
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Axios
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Nadler Really Wants — His strategy clearly aims …
What Nadler Really Wants — His strategy clearly aims …
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Power Line and The Hill
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
If This Is a Constitutional Crisis, Act Like It
If This Is a Constitutional Crisis, Act Like It
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Daily Kos, Reuters, Washington Press and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Suggests Mueller May Testify; Pelosi Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Trump Suggests Mueller May Testify; Pelosi Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’
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Above the Law and The Daily Caller
Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Did Attorney General William Barr deceive Congress?
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Did Attorney General William Barr deceive Congress?
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The Week, HillReporter.com, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Contemptor and Fox News Insider
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Republicans are hall-of-fame hypocrites
Republicans are hall-of-fame hypocrites
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HillReporter.com, Raw Story, New York Times and Tampa Bay Times
New York Times:
A Strategy Emerges to Counter House Democrats: Dare Them to Impeach — WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congress escalate their constitutional showdown, President Trump and his team are essentially trying to call what they see as the Democrats' bluff. The message: Put up or shut up.
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Raw Story
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
‘Things were often a bit not normal’: Rosenstein gets fond, jokey send-off from Justice Dept.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Here's why Democrats may rethink impeaching Trump
Here's why Democrats may rethink impeaching Trump
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Informed Comment
Washington Post:
Trump and Kim battled subordinates ahead of spike in tensions — President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shattered more than a year of relative tranquility Thursday with the U.S. seizure of a North Korean vessel and the isolated regime's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles.
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The Atlantic, The Week, ABC News, BBC, Rolling Stone and New York Times
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Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile — TOKYO (AP) — The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military …
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Political Wire
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge fast-tracks fight over congressional subpoena of Trump financial records — NYT reporter calls Trump business losses ‘unbelievable’ — Washington (CNN)Congress and Donald Trump's fight over his financial records is now on the fast track. — Judge Amit Mehta plans next week to weigh …
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New York Times and Law & Crime
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
US hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing vows retaliation — BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump's latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China's technology ambitions and other trade tensions.
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law — David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists. — Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted — The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China …
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Raw Story, New York Post and The Guardian
Associated Press:
US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.
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NBC News, Political Wire and Boing Boing
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants — The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.
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Shakesville
Kamala Harris / ELLE:
Sen. Kamala Harris on Being ‘Momala’ — California Senator Kamala Harris announced in January that she would be running for president. But aside from being a United States Senator and a 2020 presidential candidate, she's also a stepmom to her husband Doug's children, Cole and Ella.
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Mayor Pete blindsides Kamala Harris in California
Mayor Pete blindsides Kamala Harris in California
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Variety, ActBlue, The Atlantic and VodkaPundit
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA — The FBI's sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir t-shirt bought at a tourist trap. — Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official …
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Colorado students walk out as school shooting vigil turns political — A vigil held Wednesday evening to recognize the victims and heroes of the shooting earlier this week at a Colorado high school turned into a political protest after some students in attendance expressed frustration with the tone and focus of the speeches.
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Splinter and Media Matters for America
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Anita Hill / New York Times:
Let's Talk About How to End Sexual Violence — That's the most important conversation right now. — Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University. — Last month, Joe Biden called me to talk about his conduct during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991.
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Politico, The Guardian, Fox News and Axios
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It turns out Trump's business success was a media-made myth — President Trump has finally proved, beyond any doubt, that there is such a thing as #FakeNews. — In the 1980s and 1990s, the media conspired to perpetrate a vast fraud on the American people.
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Vox, Raw Story and The Ringer
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Lily Batchelder / New York Times:
Trump Is a Bad Businessman. Is He a Tax Cheat, Too?
Trump Is a Bad Businessman. Is He a Tax Cheat, Too?
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The Daily Signal, Bloomberg and The Moderate Voice
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Beto's Long History of Failing Upward — AMES, Iowa—The presidential run of Beto O'Rourke is a profoundly personality-driven exercise, his charisma and Kennedy-esque demeanor the topic of one profile after another, so it's surprising to listen to his speeches on the stump in which he doesn't talk a whole lot about himself.
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Mother Jones
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5 percentage points to 45 percent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes of Trump interfered …
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
Charles Leerhsen / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen — On Tuesday, the New York Times scooped the world on the news that from 1985 to 1994, Donald Trump incurred the biggest business losses of any single taxpayer in American history.
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The Week, Raw Story, New York Post and The Daily Beast
Sean Illing / Vox:
How golf explains Trump. Seriously. — “This guy cheats like a mafia accountant.” — Have you ever won a tournament you never competed in? Have you ever stolen the ball from a child to gain a competitive advantage? — If the answer to either or both of those questions is no, then you're not cheating at the highest level.
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Common Dreams