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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Cheney won't respond to tweet about Biden, says she supports Trump's N. Korea policy — Rep. Liz Cheney, the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, refused to directly respond to President Donald Trump's Saturday night tweet praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's criticism …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sarah Sanders Says Trump and Kim ‘Agree in Their Assessment’ of Biden — President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, “agree” in their negative assessment of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Sunday.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
GOP Armed Services senator breaks with Trump: I find North Korean missile tests ‘very disturbing’ — Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Armed Services committee, broke with President Trump on Sunday over North Korean missile tests. — Speaking on CNN's “State of the Union …
Washington Post:
Trump climbs into a sumo ring to present a 60-pound 'President's Cup' in highlight of Japan trip — TOKYO — Finally, after a full day of matches, perhaps the biggest star of all — weighing in at 243 pounds, according to his most recent physical — climbed into the sumo ring.
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Axios:
Sarah Sanders defends Trump siding with Kim Jong-un on Joe Biden
Sarah Sanders defends Trump siding with Kim Jong-un on Joe Biden
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Sanders: Trump and Kim Jong Un agree on assessment of Biden
Sanders: Trump and Kim Jong Un agree on assessment of Biden
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Donald Trump defends dictator Kim Jong Un, bashes Joe Biden from Japan
Donald Trump defends dictator Kim Jong Un, bashes Joe Biden from Japan
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New York Times:
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects — WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.
Agence France-Presse:
Jews in Germany warned of risks of wearing kippah cap in public — Government commissioner says lifting of inhibitions and rise of uncouthness are factors behind rising incidence of antisemitism — Germany's government commissioner on antisemitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers …
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Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Why Trump's Stonewalling Legal Strategy Will Keep Failing — In the space of three days this week, two federal judges ruled decisively in favor of Congress' right to subpoena President Donald Trump's personal financial and business records. The speed of the decisions …
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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
An Indiana Man Who Vandalized A Synagogue With Nazi Symbols Admitted How Far-Right Figures Radicalized Him — An Indiana man who plead guilty to defacing a synagogue with Nazi symbolism detailed to federal agents his road to radicalization, including meeting with members …
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Red Painter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Jim Acosta: A Senior White House Official Told Me 'The President's Insane' — Jim Acosta's new book, aptly called “The Enemy of the People”, will pull back the curtain even farther on a dysfunctional White House and a dangerous President — Remember when Donald Trump flipped out on Jim Acosta …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
'The president's insane': book by CNN's Jim Acosta charts Trump war on press
'The president's insane': book by CNN's Jim Acosta charts Trump war on press
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace forces Lindsey Graham to watch old clips of himself calling for Clinton's impeachment — Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday confronted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with old video clips of himself calling for then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment.
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New York Times:
The Insults Trump Has Hurled at 2020 Democrats — Joseph R. Biden Jr. is “sleepy,” Bernie Sanders is “crazy” and Elizabeth Warren is “angry.” Since January, President Trump has attacked several of the Democrats competing for his job — some more than others. Here are the candidates Mr. Trump has insulted so far.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, No Longer the Front-Runner, Brings Campaign Home to Vermont
Bernie Sanders, No Longer the Front-Runner, Brings Campaign Home to Vermont
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump's tweets are losing their potency — President Trump's tweets don't pack the punch they did at the outset of his presidency. His Twitter interaction rate — a measure of the impact given how much he tweets and how many people follow him — has tumbled precipitously, according to data from CrowdTangle.
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Christian rightwingers warn abortion fight could spark US civil war — Wave of extreme bans seems to have amped up predictions of coming conflict — Prominent figures on the Christian right in the US ranging from religious magazines to authors to elected politicians have warned that the fight …
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Bloomberg:
Macron Chastened as French Voters Hand Narrow Victory to Le Pen — Le Pen set for second straight win in European election — French Greens come third as traditional parties fade away — French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a narrow defeat to Marine Le Pen's nationalist movement …
Justin Gomez / ABC News:
'It's a continuing horror show': Buttigieg sounds off on current state of Washington — Tensions between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are at an all-time high, with the party leaders in a war of words with each other and negotiations over infrastructure coming to a screeching halt this week.
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
John McCain Recited Names Of Dictators During Trump Inaugural, Senator Says — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, sat next to McCain during Trump's January 2017 speech. — DES MOINES, Iowa - Sen. John McCain repeatedly compared President Donald Trump …
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Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook's Dirty Tricks — This latest doctored video proves that Facebook as we knew it is over. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer. — So, Fakebook it is. — This week, unlike YouTube, Facebook decided to keep up a video deliberately …
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