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New York Times:
Senate Republicans Warn White House Against Mexico Tariffs  —  WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump's plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him.
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Use of emergency declaration to impose tariffs on Mexico is legally questionable, scholars say
Politico:
Republicans threaten revolt, may block Trump's Mexico tariffs
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Senate Republicans defy Trump this time? Will it matter?
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Washington Post:
GOP lawmakers warn White House they'll try to block Trump's Mexico tariffs
Eric Boehm / Reason:
Trump's Trade War Turns 1. Here's What We've Lost.
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Beto O'Rourke calls for term and donation limits in new voting rights plan  —  O'Rourke: Call to impeach Trump isn't a rushed decision  —  (CNN)Beto O'Rourke is proposing term limits for Supreme Court justices and members of Congress and far-reaching new restrictions on donations …
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Democrat O'Rourke unveils voting rights plan to get 35 million more to the polls
Discussion: Political Wire
Li Zhou / Vox:
Poll: a growing number of Democratic voters are prioritizing gender-related issues
Discussion: Political Wire and Slate
David Siders / Politico:
O'Rourke proposes new term limits, electoral reforms
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and The Week
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Russian trolls who interfered in 2016 U.S. election also made ad money, report says  —  Some accounts were set up months in advance.  And some trolls used fake accounts to make money, researchers found, with one perhaps generating $1 million.  —  WASHINGTON — The effort …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Tim Starks / Politico:
Russia's manipulation of Twitter was far vaster than believed  —  Russia's infamous troll farm conducted a campaign on Twitter before the 2016 elections that was larger, more coordinated and more effective than previously known, research from cybersecurity firm Symantec out Wednesday concluded.
Gillian ClearySenior / Symantec Blogs:
Twitterbots: Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign
Discussion: UPI
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Governor Asked Officials To Hunt For Noncitizen Voter Records Before Botched Purge  —  New emails show the governor's office put in an “urgent” request to identify noncitizen voter records shortly before the 2018 midterm elections.  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pushed officials …
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RealClearInvestigations:
Policing Noncitizen Voting: What We Have Here Is a Failure of Data  —  The downfall of Texas Secretary of State David Whitley began in January with the blockbuster announcement that tens of thousands of noncitizens might have voted illegally in recent Texas elections.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Guillermo Contreras / ExpressNews.com:
Emails show Texas governor requested the voter purge that used flawed data
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A right-wing YouTuber hurled racist, homophobic taunts at a gay reporter.  The company did nothing.  —  Carlos Maza, a video producer for the news site Vox, said the harassment began about two years ago.  —  Steven Crowder, a right-wing commentator and comedian, had begun to call …
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Detroit News:
Biden, Sanders other Democrats lead Trump in Michigan poll  —  Lansing — While most Michigan voters don't want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump, a majority said they would vote against him if the election were held today, according to a new statewide poll.  —  More:Potential Amash bid could hurt Biden in Michigan
Discussion: Washington Times
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Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Potential Amash bid could hurt Biden in Michigan
Discussion: Political Wire
Joe Perticone / Business Insider:
Joe Biden's climate plan appears to directly copy multiple lines from other organizations — but his campaign says it was a mistake … - Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a climate change proposal on Tuesday.  — In at least three instances …
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Washington Post:
Joe Biden's campaign acknowledges lifting language from other groups for its policy plans
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Joe Biden's long evolution on abortion rights still holds surprises  —  As a senator from Delaware, he once supported stripping exceptions for rape and incest from federal funding.  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden's decadeslong evolution on abortion rights has in many ways mirrored …
Discussion: The Hill, National Review and Splinter
ProPublica:
How Payday Lenders Spent $1 Million at a Trump Resort — and Cashed In  —  At the Trump Doral outside Miami, payday lenders celebrated the potential death of a rule intended to protect their customers.  They couldn't have done it without President Donald Trump and his latest deregulator, Kathleen Kraninger.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Marla Was Under Duress”: Revealed in His Marla Maples Prenup, Donald Trump's Draconian Art of the Marriage Deal  —  She only got $1 million.  Trump called himself a billionaire, but likely wasn't.  Child support would cease if Tiffany joined the Army or the Peace Corps.  And other secrets of the Trump-Marla prenup.
Diane Smith / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Board votes to fire teacher over tweets, but she remains employed pending possible appeal  —  An English teacher whose Twitter posts against immigration sparked a backlash on social media was recommended for termination by the Fort Worth school board over her use of racially insensitive language.
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private
Lauren Chadwick / euronews:
Noa Pothoven: Raped girl, 17, dies by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands  —  A teenager who said she was raped by two men died by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands, it's emerged.  —  Noa Pothoven made a “sad last post” to social media last week in which she announced she would “die within 10 days”.
Discussion: Washington Post and twitchy.com
Chris York / HuffPost UK:
Trump Interview: 7 Takeaway Moments From Piers Morgan's ITV Sit-Down  —  From his controversial comments on the NHS and Meghan Markle to climate change, nothing was off limits on Good Morning Britain.  —  In what appears to now be a tradition, Donald Trump has given his only TV interview …
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer's.  Why didn't it tell the world?  —  A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company's blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease by 64 percent.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House passes immigration bill to protect ‘dreamers,’ offer a path to citizenship  —  The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would offer a path to citizenship to more than 2 million undocumented immigrants, including “dreamers” who were brought to the United States as children.
OpenSecrets.org:
World of influence: A guide to Trump's foreign business interests  —  Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump continues to make money from properties and licensing deals in nearly two dozen countries around the world, fanning the flames of concerns that the Trump administration is subject …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Censure rather than impeach?  Hell no, Democrats — that's inexcusable cowardice  —  There's a push to censure Trump instead of impeaching him.  Do Democrats actually want to look like waffling wimps?  —  The clamor to impeach Donald Trump is growing in the wake of the damning report …
Discussion: Hot Air, Pirate's Cove and The Hill
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I., Pushing to Stop Domestic Terrorists, Grapples With Limits on Its Power  —  EVERETT, Wash. — Dakota Reed's mind brimmed with thoughts of mass murder.  In November, he wrote on Facebook, “I am shooting for 30 Jews.”  —  The next month, he uploaded a video of himself in his bedroom …
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
De Blasio says anti-Semitism is strictly a ‘right-wing movement’  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that anti-Semitism is a “right-wing movement” — while rejecting a claim that the left plays any role in discriminating against Jews.  —  “I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
‘It was a political lynch mob’: Steve King pledges to fight GOP over his exile  —  Rep. Steve King, hellbent on making a congressional comeback, is vowing to fight the GOP and force his way back on to the committees from which he was exiled.  —  But the Iowa Republican is finding little support …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge OK without public release of Flynn-Kislyak transcript  —  A federal judge reversed course on Tuesday and absolved the Justice Department of a demand to make public transcripts of recorded phone calls between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and a Russian official.
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Phone poll pits lobbyist with Trump ties against Kansas congressman for Senate race  —  An anonymous telephone poll has been asking Kansas GOP voters whether they would back a prominent lobbyist with ties to President Donald Trump over a western Kansas congressman in next year's primary for an open Senate seat.
CNN:
How Donald Trump for years used the royal family to gin up publicity for his properties  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump was all smiles on Monday as he attended a state dinner at Buckingham Palace hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.  But the royal family has for years batted back stories that its members …
 
 
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Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
Spies Are the New Journalists  —  There are two sets of laws in the United States today.
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
New Palestinian Premier Warns of a ‘Very Hot Summer’
Discussion: Lawfare
Politico:
Manfred Weber reelected EPP leader in European Parliament
Billy Binion / Reason:
San Francisco Police Got a Warrant to Monitor a Journalist's Phone Before Raiding His Apartment
New York Times:
Cory Booker's Housing Plan Offers Tax Credit to Millions of Renters
Discussion: Axios
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Times:
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Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Missouri's new abortion ban has Nicole Galloway leaning toward campaign for governor
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump to hit Biden as globalist on trade issues
Discussion: Washington Post
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump joins world leaders to commemorate 75th anniversary of D-Day
John D. Sutter / CNN:
Feds are still trying to stop the ‘climate kids’ lawsuit
Discussion: American Greatness and Splinter
Edward Fitzpatrick Globe / BostonGlobe.com:
Make that four political parties for Lincoln Chafee
Discussion: Splinter and Front Page Magazine
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Tennessee prosecutor: Gay people not entitled to domestic violence protections
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Talks Between Democrats and Justice Dept. in Doubt Over Barr Contempt Vote
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Republicans ready to quash Cuccinelli
Discussion: Mediaite
Susan Page / USA Today:
Harry Reid changes opinion, says Pelosi-led House should open Trump impeachment inquiry
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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