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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Robert Mueller could be subpoenaed in the next two weeks — House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told Democratic leaders at a closed-door meeting this week that he could issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller within two weeks if he is unable to reach an agreement to secure the former special …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Fox News Exclusive: Trump says Mueller made a ‘fool’ of himself
Fox News Exclusive: Trump says Mueller made a ‘fool’ of himself
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On Trump and impeachment, some Democrats fear a nightmare scenario
On Trump and impeachment, some Democrats fear a nightmare scenario
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Deceased Strategist's Files Detail Republican Gerrymandering in North Carolina, Advocates Say — When the hard drives of a deceased Republican strategist revealed new evidence last week about the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census …
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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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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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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 …
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NYPD formally apologizes for 1969 Stonewall raid
NYPD formally apologizes for 1969 Stonewall raid
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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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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
1998 Was a Seinfeld Election—Not an Impeachment Referendum
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste — The president and first lady have landed in Ireland. They have left the pomp and pageantry of England. Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat. The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates — Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage. — A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge — It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857. Perhaps more surprising, though, is how much has changed there in just the last two and a half years.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen's life behind bars — What prison life could be like for Cohen — (CNN)Michael Cohen was nervous about his new life behind bars. President Donald Trump's former fixer turned star government witness was worried that inmates who supported Trump might bring trouble when he arrived …
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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 …
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Christian Schneider / The Bulwark:
Just Because You CAN Defend Steven Crowder Doesn't Mean You HAVE To — It's easy to stick up for someone's right to say something, anything. But free speech is about more than owning the libs. — It may surprise you to learn that there is very little record of the Founding Fathers' debates …
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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 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 long-time attorneys.
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Washington Post:
How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA's disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports — After catastrophic floodwaters submerged wide stretches of southern Louisiana in 2016, displaced homeowners and officials criticized the federal recovery effort as dangerously slow, leaving thousands of people homeless for months.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Barack and Michelle Obama Sign Spotify Deal to Produce Exclusive Podcasts — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
The Obamas Ink Deal With Spotify to Produce, Host Podcasts
The Obamas Ink Deal With Spotify to Produce, Host Podcasts
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Washington Post:
‘These boys were on a holiday’: Trump family members promote themselves, and businesses, on European trip — As parties go, it's hard to top a state dinner with the queen of England, but President Trump's sons — Donald Jr. and Eric — tried to keep the revelry going during an impromptu pub crawl in Doonbeg …
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
The GoFundMe Border Wall Is Finished. It's Not Stopping Migrants From Coming In. — “Regardless of what they build, they're still coming in,” one resident said. “This is just political crap.” — Reporting From — Sunland Park, New Mexico — SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico …
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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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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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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Don Lemon Reveals He Was Called “F***ot” Recently While Filming Show — “I was doing a shoot in the park the other day and someone said, 'We built this country. I can't wait for CNN to fire your black ass,'” Lemon said. — At an industry conference on Thursday …
David Enrich / New York Times:
Senators Ask Federal Reserve to Review Trump's Deutsche Bank Transactions — A group of Democratic senators want top officials at the Federal Reserve to examine whether Deutsche Bank complied with anti-money-laundering and other laws after bank employees flagged transactions tied to President Trump as potentially suspicious.
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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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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’? — Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes. — In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …
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Washington Post:
A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel — In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Measure Of Public Mood Is ‘Most Liberal Ever Recorded,’ Political Scientist Says — The U.S. public's vision for the government's size and scope is “the most liberal ever recorded” in the 68-year history of what's known as the Public Policy Mood estimate, the estimate's creator James Stimson announced Wednesday.
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) …
SEIU:
SEIU passes resolution in support of Green New Deal — Minneapolis—Members of SEIU's International Executive Board passed a resolution in support of the Green New Deal at the union's board meeting in Minneapolis today. SEIU is the first national union to declare its support …
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Ken Schwencke / ProPublica:
New: You Can Now Search the Full Text of 3 Million Nonprofit Tax Records for Free — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
Ivana Hrynkiw / al.com:
Roy Moore's lawyer Trenton Garmon arrested on drug charges — Former Senate candidate Roy Moore's attorney was arrested Wednesday night for charges of driving under the influence and for possessing drugs. — Trenton Roger Garmon, 39, was booked into the Etowah County Jail around 8 p.m., according to jail records.
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