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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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Mediaite, Common Dreams, Task & Purpose and New York Post
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
New York Times: Trump requests paperwork to pardon accused US war criminals — Trump pardons ex-Army officer sentenced for killing Iraqi prisoner — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has requested paperwork allowing him to move forward quickly with pardons for accused US war criminals, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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Mediaite and Balloon Juice
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
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, Jihad Watch, The Week and New York Times
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
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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Political Wire, Bloomberg, NPR, Hullabaloo, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Politico, Washington Monthly and Süddeutsche.de
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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
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
Austrian government collapses over Russia scandal
Austrian government collapses over Russia scandal
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Spiegel Online and Associated Press
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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The Gateway Pundit and 444
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
How Europe's ‘Identitarians’ are mainstreaming racism
How Europe's ‘Identitarians’ are mainstreaming racism
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Hullabaloo
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
GOP lawmaker says Trump's conduct meets ‘threshold for impeachment’ — Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), a critic of President Trump who has entertained a run against him in 2020, became the first Republican congressman to say the president “engaged in impeachable conduct” based on the Mueller report.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Michigan GOP congressman says Trump's conduct impeachable — Michigan Rep. Justin Amash became the first Republican lawmaker to declare that President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses and that Attorney General William Barr “deliberately misrepresented” special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
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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Washington Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Fox News and Axios
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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Politics K-12, CANNONFIRE, Common Dreams, Joe.My.God. and Diane Ravitch's blog
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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
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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The Week, Vox and Citizen Times
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
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
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
Yashar Ali / CNN:
In San Francisco, an attack on press freedoms and echoes of autocracy — PEN America president optimistic in face of press arrests — Yashar Ali is a contributor to HuffPost and New York Magazine. Follow him @yashar. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
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Mercury News
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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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Dear Millennials: The Feeling Is Mutual
Dear Millennials: The Feeling Is Mutual
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The Big Lead and Mediaite
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden Delivers Call for National Unity at Philadelphia Rally — PHILADELPHIA — Joseph R. Biden Jr., sometimes known to Democrats in this city as Pennsylvania's “third senator,” returned to the state of his birth on Saturday to deliver a forceful call for national unity …
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UPI, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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.
Jennifer Bellamy / WXIA-TV:
District attorneys from across metro Atlanta say they won't prosecute women for abortions — A big concern surrounding Georgia's “heartbeat” law is whether a woman could be prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy. — District attorneys across metro Atlanta have said they would not prosecute …
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Townhall and Big League Politics