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Inside Jerry Nadler's private push to open up impeachment inquiry — Nadler: Mueller clearly demonstrated that Trump is lying — (CNN)At a frank meeting this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler again lobbied to win Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Backs Off Holding Barr in Contempt in New Resolution — WASHINGTON — After weeks of pledging to hold Attorney General William P. Barr and the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II in contempt for defying subpoenas, House Democrats appear poised to pursue an alternative path to try to force them into sharing information.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
House Democrats To Make It Easier To Find Trump Aides In Contempt, Bring Them To Court — The House will also more forward with enforcing subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and ex-White House counsel Don McGahn. — WASHINGTON — House Democrats are set to vote next week …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
DOJ, Commerce reject Dem subpoenas for census docs
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POLITICUSUSA, Washington Press and Common Dreams
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Robert Mueller could be subpoenaed in the next two weeks
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Joe Biden reverses course on Hyde abortion amendment — ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is reversing course and declaring that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden says he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment, reversing his long-held position
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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Joe Biden reverses stance on Hyde Amendment
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Key figure that Mueller report linked to Russia was a State Department intel source — In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence. — But hundreds of pages …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
New Files From GOP Operative's Hard Drive Suggest N.C. Republicans Lied in Court to Maintain Racial Gerrymander — The latest bombshell from the formerly secret files of the GOP's top gerrymandering guru emerged on Thursday, and it's astounding: Voting rights advocates claim to have evidence …
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Washington Post:
Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers — U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give …
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The Hill:
Trump plans to declare new national emergency to impose tariffs — President Trump is planning to declare a new national emergency in order to implement sweeping tariffs on Mexico over the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S., according to a draft document of the declaration reviewed by The Hill.
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Media Matters for America:
Two of Fox News' most vitriolic hosts just lost a major advertiser: Bayer — The multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer has dropped Tucker Carlson's and Laura Ingraham's Fox News prime-time shows, Judd Legum reported in his Popular Info newsletter. — Bayer's departure is a devastating blow …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Bayer stops advertising on Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham
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Stacy Perman / Los Angeles Times:
No, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was not misquoted in Nieman Lab — There is the word. And then there is Twitter. — An interview with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance in Nieman Lab about the 162-year-old publication's efforts to include …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Promises $500 Million to Help End Coal — WASHINGTON — Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, will donate $500 million to a new campaign to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas, his foundation said Thursday.
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Renato Mariotti / Politico:
How Trump Could Be Prosecuted After the White House — With Congress enmeshed in a fraught debate over whether to impeach President Donald Trump, Robert Mueller's brief and dramatic news conference provided a sharp reminder that impeachment is not the only option for addressing the president's alleged misdeeds.
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Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Rudy Giuliani plans to leave Trump legal team — unless needed
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Fox News Exclusive: Trump says Mueller made a ‘fool’ of himself
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges — Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his longtime attorneys.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. commander says American forces face ‘imminent’ threat from Iran — Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says he believes the Iranians or their proxies may orchestrate an attack at any moment. — BAGHDAD — The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he believes the Iranians …
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Sean Hannity
Aiden Pink / The Forward:
DC Dyke March Bans Jewish Pride Flag — A gay pride parade in Washington, D.C. has been criticized by Jewish and LGBTQ groups for banning Jewish and Israeli symbols from its Friday event. — The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Automakers Tell Trump His Pollution Rules Could Mean ‘Untenable’ Instability and Lower Profits — WASHINGTON — The world's largest automakers warned President Trump on Thursday that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken tailpipe pollution standards …
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David French / National Review:
Social-Media Censorship Is the Product of Culture and Commerce — Free choice has created a challenge the law can't overcome. — If you pay any attention to conservative Twitter, you're aware of this week's incident in social-media censorship. YouTube has “demonetized” conservative comedian Steven Crowder's YouTube channel.
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Christian Schneider / The Bulwark:
Just Because You CAN Defend Steven Crowder Doesn't Mean You HAVE To
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
A Dutch Teenager's Death Was Wrongly Reported As “Legal Euthanasia” Across International Media. Here's How They All Got It Wrong. — Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the pope appeared to tweet about it.
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Brady McCombs / HuffPost:
Trump Supporter Arrested After Allegedly Threatening To Kill Members of Congress — Scott Brian Haven of Utah is accused of making over 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol over a three-year period about Democrats threatening Trump's presidency. — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment — Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president. — It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis staff shakeup prompts competing narratives — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis has lost as many as seven aides in the past 24 hours, some of whom have been with him since the start of his campaign, according to a person with direct knowledge of the turnover.
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Splinter
New York Times:
Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion — New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …
politics.theonion.com:
Media Urged Not To Release Names Of Any More Presidential Candidates In Effort To Prevent Copycats — WASHINGTON—Warning that the promise of publicity and notoriety is often exactly what motivates a run for the White House in the first place, media ethics groups called on news outlets Thursday …
Matthew Adams / Dallas Morning News:
Should women who have abortions go to jail? ‘Absolutely,’ says Arlington Rep. Ron Wright — WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, said on a video released by an abortion rights group that women commit murder if they have an abortion and should “absolutely” be punished.
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Talking Points Memo and The New Civil Rights Movement
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Please, My Wife, She's Very Online — It might have begun with “Borat.” In that Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary, from 2006, which was subtitled “Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the protagonist has a particular way of saying “my wife,” which …
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New York Times
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
For many black voters, 2020 isn't about pride or making history. It's about beating Trump — Catrena Norris Carter is a bundle of conflicting impulses. — As a black woman, she's delighted with Kamala Harris' presidential bid. As a liberal activist, she's thrilled …
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The Root
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