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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel — House Republican leaders took aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Sunday for a podcast interview in which she discussed her support for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Haaretz, Breitbart and Yeshiva World News
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Rashida Tlaib says thinking of the Holocaust provides her a ‘calming feeling,’ shockingly claims Palestinians created ‘safe haven’ for Jews — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has made yet another shocking and historically ignorant claim: That thinking about the Holocaust gives her a “calming feeling” …
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Human Events, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, Fox News, RedState, Breitbart, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Kudlow's admission about who pays tariffs contradicts Trump — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House's top economic adviser has acknowledged that U.S. consumers and businesses pay the tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on billions of dollars of Chinese goods …
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Allan Smith / Associated Press:
Trump aide Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers pay for tariffs, not China — “Both sides will suffer on this,” Kudlow said. — White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow contradicted President Donald Trump on Sunday by acknowledging that U.S. consumers end up paying for the administration's tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Reuters, Sputnik International, Splinter and New York Times
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers, not China, pay for tariffs on imports
Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers, not China, pay for tariffs on imports
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New York Times, Quartz, Slate, Vox, The Guardian, POLITICUSUSA and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Backed Libyan Warlord After Saudi Arabia and Egypt Lobbied Him — The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Egypt successfully lobbied President Trump to reverse U.S. policy in Libya and support a rogue general leading an offensive on a government in Tripoli backed by the United Nations …
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Politico, Associated Press and The American Conservative
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
An Imperial Presidency? — President Trump's free rein from political norms puts the United States at risk. — We watch daily as the constitutional and conventional fabric of this country is clawed at and unraveled by Donald Trump, while those with any power to prevent or punish his actions …
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The Stanford Daily, Raw Story and Politico
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon will pull money from ballistic missile and surveillance plane programs to fund border wall — The Pentagon will shift $1.5 billion for President Trump's border wall from programs that include the military's next nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile and a plane that provides surveillance …
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Suddenly conservative lawyers are condemning Trump for abuses of power … Washington seems to be barreling toward a constitutional crisis. — Democrats are barraging President Trump with demands for witnesses and documents. Trump has answered by stonewalling, vowing to fight “all the subpoenas.”
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
What Joe Biden Is Teaching Democrats About Democrats — Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has seemed to race leftward so fast that its recent standard-bearers are considered no longer qualified to lead it. Bill Clinton? An embarrassment not welcome on the campaign trail. Barack Obama?
Wall Street Journal:
Frustration, Miscalculation: Inside the U.S.-China Trade Impasse — The latest breakdown shows the two countries still haven't found a way to negotiate effectively. 'Sometimes you need to say “stop screwing me.”
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Raw Story
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
‘The safe choice:’ Biden widens SC lead in 2020 Democratic presidential primary — Now that he's formally entered the race, former Vice President Joe Biden widened his lead in South Carolina among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, according to a new poll.
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Washington Monthly, Bloomberg, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Washington Post:
'Who's going to take care of these people?' — As emergencies rise across rural America, a hospital fights for its life — The hospital had already transferred out most of its patients and lost half its staff when the CEO called a meeting to take inventory of what was left.
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
SOURCE: Wall GoFundMe just paid for a ‘nearly’ $1 million yacht — A source close to the Florida man who raised over $22 million on GoFundMe in the “We The People Will Build the Wall” campaign just revealed today that the money has been diverted to pay for a ‘million dollar’ yacht and high-flying lifestyle.
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Boing Boing, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
‘There He Goes Again’? Not Yet, as Biden Avoids Major Gaffes — LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Los Angeles was attempting to praise Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the press, but Mr. Biden's aides were more focused on shooing the press away. — At the end of a made-for-cameras lunch he shared …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Chamber of Commerce courts Trump, comparing him to Reagan — Sign of the times: The top advocate for corporate America, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has installed a sign on the front steps of its headquarters in Washington, D.C., comparing Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower.
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Raw Story
Ali Vaez / The Atlantic:
Trump's ‘Maximum Pressure’ Won't Make Iran Yield — A magnificent fresco adorns the main pavilion of the royal palace in the Iranian city of Isfahan, depicting the 16th-century Battle of Chaldiran, fought between the Turkish-Ottoman and Persian-Safavid empires.
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Al Jazeera and The American Conservative
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Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Buttigieg calls out Democrats for playing ‘identity politics’ — In a risky speech to the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT rights group, Buttigieg warned of a “crisis of belonging in this country.” — LAS VEGAS — Pete Buttigieg sought to diffuse weeks of fraught questions about white privilege …
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The Week and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Buttigieg takes shot at social conservatives, describes coming out during Vegas LGBTQ gala
Buttigieg takes shot at social conservatives, describes coming out during Vegas LGBTQ gala
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