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Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Leaked Letters Reveal Details of NRA Chief's Alleged Spending — Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day, $18,300 for car and driver, ad agency says; NRA says board has ‘full confidence’ in him — National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre billed the group's ad agency $39,000 …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Documents: NRA Racked Up $24 Million in Legal Bills — The NRA has racked up huge legal bills over the last year that threaten to debilitate the organization, according to documents posted anonymously online that appear to be written by the group's ex-president Oliver North.
Washington Post:
Trump and his allies are blocking more than 20 separate Democratic probes in an all-out war with Congress — President Trump and his allies are working to block more than 20 separate investigations by Democrats into his actions as president, his personal finances and his administration's policies …
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Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump seeks to limit judges' powers on injunctions after legal blows — President Trump is looking to stop lower courts from being able to issue wide-ranging injunctions in a move that could dramatically limit the authority of judges. — The plan comes as groups opposed to Trump have been able …
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
A group raised over $20 million to ‘build the wall.’ Now its supporters want answers. — A December fundraising campaign brought in more than $20 million over the course of a few weeks, its thousands of donors united by a common goal: the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, oft-promised by President Trump.
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Axios and Daily Kos
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Harvard Drops Harvey Weinstein Lawyer as a Faculty Dean — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard said on Saturday that a law professor who is representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, bowing to months of pressure from students.
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The American Conservative, The Harvard Crimson and Law & Crime
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Michael Oren Doesn't Want To Talk About Israel — Michael Oren, born Michael Bornstein in New York in 1955, emigrated to Israel forty years ago and served in the Israeli Defense Forces. After returning to the U.S. to receive a Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies from Princeton …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Killing the Pax Americana — Trump's trade war is about more than economics. — O.K., they weren't supposed to start the trade war until I got back from vacation. And I really have too many kilometers to cover and hills to climb to weigh in on a regular basis or at great length.
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Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans
Trump's Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans
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The Daily Beast, Des Moines Register, Fox News, Politico, Slate, Daily Kos and Sputnik International
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Frustration Mounts Among Farmers as China Trade Talks Break Down
Frustration Mounts Among Farmers as China Trade Talks Break Down
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Los Angeles Times, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Firestorm erupts around Sen. Richard Burr, man behind Donald Trump Jr. subpoena. He's not backing down — WASHINGTON — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr is not one to make a splash. — So when the Senate Intelligence Committee, which Burr chairs, issued a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr., it didn't leak out for a couple of weeks.
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HillReporter.com, Raw Story, The National Interest and ThinkProgress
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
McConnell tells Trump ‘not to worry’ about Trump Jr. subpoena
McConnell tells Trump ‘not to worry’ about Trump Jr. subpoena
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Breitbart, Power Line and The Hill
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Resurfaced video shows Joe Biden pushing border fence, calling for employers who hired ‘illegals’ to be punished — Former Vice President Joe Biden, while a senator in 2006, advocated for a southern border wall and punishment for employers who hired illegal immigrants.
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Sanders to join Ocasio-Cortez at rally as climate fight heats up
Sanders to join Ocasio-Cortez at rally as climate fight heats up
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New York Times, RedState and Conservative News Today
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
As Biden predicts a shorter race, rivals dig in for long fight
Nick Clegg / New York Times:
Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer — Dismantling our company won't fix what's wrong with social media. — Mr. Clegg is Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications. — When does a company become too big or too successful to exist?
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Engadget, Variety, PJ Media Home, Gizmodo, Deadline, The Verge, Breitbart, Mediaite and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country — KERMIT, W. Va. — It was a startling spectacle in the heart of Trump country: At least a dozen supporters of the president — some wearing MAGA stickers — nodding their heads, at times even clapping, for liberal firebrand Elizabeth Warren.
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The Guardian
Washington Post:
Trump's interest in stirring Ukraine investigations sows confusion in Kiev — MOSCOW — As President Trump and his inner circle appear increasingly focused on Ukraine as a potential tripwire for Joe Biden and Democrats, officials about to take power in Kiev are pushing their own message: Leave us out of it.
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Fox News, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, The Guardian and News Agency UNIAN
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CNN:
Washington is flirting with a debt crisis. No one has a plan to stop it — President Trump: 'It's time to stop this nonsense' — Washington (CNN)The US government is hurtling toward a potential financial crisis, and no one in Washington seems to know how to stop it.
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A reporter declined to reveal his source. Then police showed up at his front door with guns. — Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house. — About 10 officers from the San Francisco Police Department …
Reuters:
Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis — CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Saturday he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with Pentagon officials to “cooperate” on a solution to the South American country's political crisis.
Associated Press:
Beto O'Rourke plans ‘reintroduction’ as 2020 buzz fizzles — NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Beto O'Rourke barreled into the 2020 presidential race with breakneck energy and a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants campaign style that saw him leap atop tables to address overflow crowds with the organic …
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Townhall and twitchy.com
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Beto O'Rourke is polling worse than ever
Beto O'Rourke is polling worse than ever
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Outside the Beltway and Axios
VICE News:
Democrats Are Training to Appear on Fox News: “Everyone Has a Fox News Horror Story” — WASHINGTON — Former Hillary Clinton aide Jess McIntosh doesn't go on Fox News Channel anymore. — “They have an agenda,” she said. “I stopped doing it a few months ago ... I didn't want to be a part of it.”
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Has a Strong Economy to Proclaim. In Wisconsin, It Just Might Work. — COLFAX, Wis. — President Trump came to Wisconsin late last month to boast about the state's unemployment rate, which has been at or near 3 percent for more than a year. “It's never been this low before.