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Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Trump Shows Signs He Will Pardon Servicemen Accused or Convicted of War Crimes — President Trump has requested the immediate preparation of paperwork needed to pardon several American military members accused or convicted of war crimes — including high-profile cases of murder …
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CNN, Reuters and Task & Purpose
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Australia Election Results: Prime Minister Scott Morrison Seizes a Stunning Win — SYDNEY, Australia — Scott Morrison, Australia's conservative prime minister, scored a surprise victory in federal elections on Saturday, propelled by a populist wave — the “quiet Australians,” he termed it …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Breaking: Big Election Upset in Australia — Australia held a national election yesterday which all of the polls predicted for weeks would be won handily by the Labour Party. The ruling Liberal Party (which is the conservative party in Australian politics because they still understand …
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Washington Post, Agence France-Presse and NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
NEWS.com.au:
Scott Morrison clinches unlikely victory over Bill Shorten in bombshell election result
Scott Morrison clinches unlikely victory over Bill Shorten in bombshell election result
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The American Conservative
BBC:
2019 Australia election: Morrison celebrates ‘miracle’ win
2019 Australia election: Morrison celebrates ‘miracle’ win
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The Last Refuge, The New Neo, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, Jihad Watch and New York Times
Michael Heath / Bloomberg:
Ex-Australian PM Abbott Loses Seat in ‘Unprecedented’ Defeat
Ex-Australian PM Abbott Loses Seat in ‘Unprecedented’ Defeat
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BBC and The Guardian
New York Times:
Austrian Leader Calls for Snap Election After Far-Right Vice Chancellor Resigns — BERLIN — Austria's chancellor called for snap elections after the country's far-right vice chancellor resigned on Saturday over a secretly filmed video from 2017 that showed him promising government contracts …
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Bloomberg, Political Wire, NPR, Hullabaloo, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Politico, Washington Monthly and Süddeutsche.de
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Kirsti Knolle / Reuters:
Austrian government collapses after far right leader caught in video sting
Austrian government collapses after far right leader caught in video sting
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Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli / Politico:
Salvini rally rumbled by Austrian far-right scandal
Salvini rally rumbled by Austrian far-right scandal
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One America News Network and Sputnik International
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
Sebastian Kurz triggers Austrian election after far-right scandal
Sebastian Kurz triggers Austrian election after far-right scandal
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Associated Press
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
How Europe's ‘Identitarians’ are mainstreaming racism
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
USGA investigates after golf scores ‘erroneously’ recorded for Trump — The U.S. Golf Association (USGA) says it is looking into unflattering golf scores that it said were “erroneously” recorded for President Trump this week. — Scores of 101, 100, 108 and 102 were posted Friday under …
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Golfweek:
President Trump's golf scores hacked; USGA confirms it's looking into the matter — President Trump is at the center of another hacking incident, but this one doesn't involve Wikileaks. — Four scores were posted to Trump's USGA-administered GHIN handicap system on Friday …
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Axios, Washington Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
BuzzFeed News:
Bernie Sanders Has A Plan To Fix Racial Segregation In American Schools — ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Sen. Bernie Sanders released a plan Saturday to repair the American public education system that focuses on ending school segregation and racial discrimination against students …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have
Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have
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CNN, Conservative News Today and Outside the Beltway
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Bernie Sanders unveils plan to reform public education system
Bernie Sanders unveils plan to reform public education system
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The Daily Beast and KTLA
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Sen. Bernie Sanders' education plan nixes for-profit charter school funding
Sen. Bernie Sanders' education plan nixes for-profit charter school funding
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Vox, The Week and Citizen Times
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
The Hell of Working at Trump's New Favorite Network — Conspiracy theories, racist outbursts, and a whole lot of Putin love. Working for the far-right One America News Network was a deeply weird experience, former employees say. — Ernest Champell realized there was something unusual …
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Raw Story
Just Security:
The Balance Has Shifted: The Data on Impeachment Favor Moving Ahead — [Editor's note: Just Security is publishing a series in conversation with Sidney Blumenthal's “An Open Memo: Comparison of Clinton Impeachment, Nixon Impeachment and Trump Pre-Impeachment.”
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Raw Story
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
‘I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy’: Bernie Sanders on the 1980s — In an interview, one of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination discusses his long-held opposition to war and his support for socialist leaders. — As Burlington's mayor from 1981 to 1989 …
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Fox News
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
'It's entirely inappropriate': Trump shot a political video on Air Force One — Seated behind a desk on Air Force One, the presidential seal over his left shoulder, President Trump shot a short video Thursday, blasting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's entry into the 2020 race.
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
President Trump's Air Force One video trashing Mayor Bill de Blasio may have violated law
President Trump's Air Force One video trashing Mayor Bill de Blasio may have violated law
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PJ Media Home, New York Times and Daily Wire
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Trump admin not sending migrants to Florida after backlash — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) does not plan to send migrant families to Florida after reports about a Trump administration proposal resulted in backlash from local and state officials this week.
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Fox News, WPTV, Conservative News Today, Orlando Sentinel, IJR, Associated Press and The Daily Caller
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Jack Shepherd / The Independent:
Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked in the back while attending event in South Africa — The actor was at Arnold Classic Africa when he was attacked — Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was attacked while on a trip to South Africa. — The former Governor of California was attending …
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RedState and The Daily Caller
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Republican Rep. Justin Amash says Trump should be impeached — Rep. Justin Amash, a critic of President Trump who entertained a run against him in 2020, became the first Republican congressman to say the president “engaged in impeachable conduct.” — The Michigan lawmaker …
Frank Figliuzzi / NBC News:
AG Barr's FBI investigation, President Trump and the threat from within — By perpetuating Trump's falsehoods about the FBI and Mueller's report, Barr has become the kind of threat capable of doing severe harm. — On Monday, Attorney General William Barr, acting more like defense counsel …
Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
Does Anyone Actually Want Joe Biden to Be President? — What ‘electability’ seems to mean in 2020 — and what it meant in 2018. — The most important requirement for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee? Electability. It matters more, we keep hearing, than nominating a candidate who has good policies.
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Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
A Genuine Populist is Running for West Virginia Governor. His Donor Rolls Broke the State's Campaign Finance Software. — When Stephen Noble Smith's campaign sought to present its 62-page finance filings to the West Virginia secretary of state, something went wrong.
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Fran Lebowitz Apologizes After Telling Bill Maher U.S. Should Give Donald Trump To Saudis Who Killed Khashoggi — Fran Lebowitz said she regrets that “everyone misinterpreted” her comment onb Bill Maher's Real Time Friday night, when she suggested the U.S. turn President Donald Trump …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Trump ‘deserves’ Khashoggi treatment, Maher guest Fran Lebowitz says before backpedaling
Trump ‘deserves’ Khashoggi treatment, Maher guest Fran Lebowitz says before backpedaling
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Conservative News Today and IJR
CBS News:
Democratic governor ready to sign Louisiana abortion ban bill — Nearly three decades ago, when Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' wife was 20 weeks pregnant with their first child, a doctor discovered their daughter had spina bifida and encouraged an abortion. They refused.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Dem Louisiana governor prepared to sign fetal ‘heartbeat’ ban
Dem Louisiana governor prepared to sign fetal ‘heartbeat’ ban
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Big League Politics, WAFB-TV and Fox News