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New York Times:
Trump Expected to Instruct McGahn to Defy Subpoena and Skip House Testimony — WASHINGTON — President Trump is preparing to instruct his former White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, to defy a congressional subpoena and skip a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, denying Democrats testimony …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Some Republicans unsettled by Trump's sweeping claims of immunity — Senior House Republicans are breaking with Donald Trump over the president's legal claims that Congress can't investigate whether a commander-in-chief violated the law. — That view, advanced by Trump's personal attorney …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump blocks former White House counsel McGahn from testifying to Congress — President Donald Trump has ordered former White House counsel Donald McGahn not to testify on Tuesday before Congress about events relating to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, the White House said on Monday.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House instructs McGahn to defy Dem subpoena to testify — The White House on Monday directed former White House Counsel Don McGahn to defy a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, and the Justice Department released a corresponding legal opinion arguing …
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Trump to tell ex-White House counsel McGahn not to appear before Congress: New York Times
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White House blocks former counsel McGahn from testifying to Congress
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
There's No Boom in Youngstown, but Blue-Collar Workers Are Sticking With Trump — YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — In May 2016, David Betras, a Democratic Party leader in the heart of industrial northeast Ohio, sent a memo warning Hillary Clinton's campaign that it was on the verge of losing Ohio …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump scrambles to reverse Rust Belt slide — Donald Trump's aides and allies are moving aggressively to shore up his support in three Rust Belt states that propelled him to the presidency — but where his own polling shows him in trouble heading into 2020.
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
‘Mindless murdering savages’: Border agent used slurs before allegedly hitting migrant with his truck — In November 2017, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Matthew Bowen fumed about the humane treatment his agency was expected to give migrants who had illegally crossed into the country.
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Associated Press:
5th Migrant Child Dies After Detention by Border Patrol — HOUSTON — The U.S. government says a 16-year-old Guatemalan died Monday at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child apprehended by border agents since December. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection …
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
16-year-old migrant boy dies in U.S. custody, 5th child to die since December
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
After impeachment remarks, Rep. Justin Amash gets Republican challenger — WASHINGTON — A Republican state representative plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, after Amash said this weekend he believes President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Throwing Justin Amash Out of the GOP Might Make Trump Lose 2020 — Saturday, Representative Justin Amash became the first Republican in Congress to call for impeaching President Trump on the basis of the massive misconduct detailed by the Mueller report. It was a rare act of bravery, one likely to end his career in Congress.
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Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Starting Line/Change Research Poll: Biden, Sanders Locked In Iowa Tie — Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are locked in a tie in Iowa atop the large field of Democrats running for the presidential nomination. An Iowa Starting Line/Change Research Poll of 615 likely Democratic caucus-goers …
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Washington Post:
The narrator in chief: Trump opines on the 2020 Democrats — and so much more
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump mocks Biden, says Obama took him off the ‘trash heap’
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Prosecutors examining tens of thousands of Trump inauguration documents — WH downplaying Trump inaugural committee subpoena — (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York are scrutinizing tens of thousands of documents relating to Donald Trump's inauguration in a sign that the investigation into the committee's finances is advancing.
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Talking Points Memo, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and The New Civil Rights Movement
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Here's How Much Money Fox News Hosts Have Made Off GOP Speaking Gigs — A new study reveals that many of the pro-Trump network's stars, including its ‘hard news’ anchors, have fattened their wallets by speaking at GOP events—an ethical no-no. — Boosting the Republican Party has paid off—quite literally—for many Fox News hosts.
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Media Matters for America, Raw Story and Shareblue Media
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Let Businesses Donate to Candidates — The U.S. Supreme Court declined an opportunity to give businesses broader rights to contribute money to political candidates and causes. — The justices, without comment Monday, refused to question a Massachusetts law …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Profanity President: Trump's Four-Letter Vocabulary — WASHINGTON — In modern times, presidents have rarely been church mice afraid of a little salty language. But President Trump has grown increasingly willing in recent months to say in public what most of his predecessors tried to keep behind closed doors.
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis — New data show they're in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover — American millennials are approaching middle age in worse financial shape than every living generation ahead …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The Koch network is reorganizing under a new name and with new priorities — THE BIG IDEA: The Koch network is getting a new name to reflect its shifting strategy. — The Seminar Network, which includes the constellation of groups funded by the billionaire industrialist Charles Koch …
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USA Today, Politico, The Root, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
IRS Audit Rate Drops Again as It Examines Fewer High-Income Households — Tax agency, shrinking after years of budget cuts, seeks funding boost from Congress — WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service audited just .59% of individual tax returns last year, marking the seventh consecutive annual decline …
Hen Mazzig / Los Angeles Times:
No, Israel isn't a country of privileged and powerful white Europeans — Along with resurgent identity politics in the United States and Europe, there is a growing inclination to frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of race. According to this narrative, Israel was established …
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
John Oliver Drags Meghan McCain: ‘The Most Embarrassing Child of a Prominent Political Figure’ — The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host also taunted her hotheaded husband Ben Domenech, publisher of the far-right blog The Federalist. — Marlow Stern — On Sunday evening, John Oliver dedicated …
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Vanity Fair, NB Blog and Fox News
Chris Jenks / Just Security:
Sticking It To Yourself: Preemptive Pardons for Battlefield Crimes Undercut Military Justice and Military Effectiveness — A couple of years ago a cell phone company aired a commercial featuring an executive boasting to a subordinate that a new cell phone plan was the executive's “little way of sticking it to the man.”
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Zoom Video:
Mueller Book Club Featuring Rep. Nadler — Tens of thousands of Americans are committing to read the Mueller report- cover to cover- together. Join us! — We're calling on Americans to start local reading groups across the country, and to join us for a once-weekly broadcast to discuss …
Ben White / Politico:
Dark clouds hang over Trump's trade war — President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to soften the economic blow of his trade battle with China, doling out billions of dollars in farmer bailouts and telling Americans that the Chinese are paying the tariffs he's slapped on U.S. importers.
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The Week, The Verge and Washington Times
Lesley Clark / Lexington Herald-Leader:
McConnell legislation to raise tobacco purchase age from 18 to 21 includes military — Members of the military would have to be 21 to purchase tobacco products, including vaping devices, under legislation U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will file Monday, aiming to extinguish what he calls a …
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Paul Thornton / Los Angeles Times:
SB 50 could have reshaped L.A., and readers were having none of it — Either SB 50 was the most unpopular piece of state legislation in years, or many L.A. Times letter writers live in tidy neighborhoods of historic single-family homes. — I say this because all but one of the nearly three dozen letters …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump: E-Verify Would Make It Too Hard to Hire Undocumented Workers — Since taking office, Donald Trump has revoked the legal status of roughly 1 million longtime U.S. residents, used the mass psychological torture of children as a means of deterring asylum seekers, overseen the deportation …
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