Top Items:
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Dem, GOP senators want to check Trump's power to sell arms to Saudis — Sens. Murphy and Young want a resolution that would let Congress vote on last month's arms deal and block or restrict future weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. — WASHINGTON — Two senators plan to introduce a bill Monday designed …
Discussion:
Informed Comment and The American Conservative
RELATED:
Megan Specia / New York Times:
Saudi Teenager Faces Death Sentence for Acts When He was 10 — A Saudi teenager held for more than four years without charge faces possible execution for acts he is accused of having committed when he was as young as 10, according to human rights groups tracking his case.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senators make bipartisan push to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Senators make bipartisan push to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Discussion:
Splinter
Washington Post:
NRA money flowed to board members amid allegedly lavish spending by top officials and vendors — A former pro football player who serves on the National Rifle Association board was paid $400,000 by the group in recent years for public outreach and firearms training.
Discussion:
The Week, Splinter, Washington Press, Jacobin and ArkansasTimes
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer's Message Was a Clue for Mueller, Who Set It Aside — WASHINGTON — As the special counsel's investigators pursued the question of whether President Trump tried to impede their work, they uncovered compelling evidence — a voice mail recording and statements from a trusted witness — that might have led to him.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren, Booker stand out on chaotic Iowa stage — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In the early state where field organization has traditionally mattered the most, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have quietly and patiently concentrated their resources toward building grassroots machines designed to power them on caucus night.
Discussion:
Des Moines Register
RELATED:
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Warren's nonstop ideas reshape the Democratic presidential race — and give her new momentum
Warren's nonstop ideas reshape the Democratic presidential race — and give her new momentum
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, PJ Media Home, New Republic, Slate, Newsweek and Des Moines Register
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Has A Plan — And A Story
Elizabeth Warren Has A Plan — And A Story
Discussion:
The Week, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Washington Times
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says — $4,700,000,000. — It's more than the combined ticket sales of the last two “Avengers” movies. It's more than what virtually any professional sports team is worth. And it's the amount that Google made from the work …
Discussion:
Splinter, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Can newspapers be saved from Big Tech? This proposal aims to try — New York (CNN Business)When House members convene on Tuesday for the first of several hearings about the power of Big Tech, they'll be hearing multiple pitches for a bill called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.
Discussion:
Politico
Axios:
Why Trump is a Florida Man — We always think of Trump as a New York guy, or the president in the White House. But at heart, he's a Florida Man with a Trumpian Florida life: big mansions and big money. — Why it matters: At Mar-a-Lago, we're seeing a whole new form of lobbying.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists can't repeat their Watergate-hero act. The reasons should make us grieve. — The question from an audience member made the three network chiefs bristle: — Why aren't the news media holding the White House accountable like they did during the Nixon/Watergate era?
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
In Alabama — where lawmakers banned abortion for rape victims — rapists' parental rights are protected — When a young woman came to the Family Services of North Alabama office last year for help with trauma, saying she had been raped by her step-uncle when she was 15 …
Discussion:
The Mahablog and Progress Pond
New York Times:
People Are Trying to Figure Out William Barr. He's Busy Stockpiling Power. — Is he the operator who spun the then-secret Mueller report? Or the straight shooter who later disclosed portions that were damaging to President Trump? — WASHINGTON — Not long before Attorney General William …
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
Bill de Blasio Shrugs Off Not Registering on Important Iowa Poll: 'It's a Poll of 600 Iowans' — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shrugged off not registering on the recent CNN/Des Moines Register poll, saying the poll is of “600 Iowans” and “this is just the beginning of a very long process.”
Discussion:
New York Post
RELATED:
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Biden slumps, Buttigieg soars: 6 takeaways from benchmark Iowa poll
Biden slumps, Buttigieg soars: 6 takeaways from benchmark Iowa poll
Discussion:
CNN, One America News Network, Joe.My.God., Politico, Breitbart, Des Moines Register, Outside the Beltway and Townhall
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Business leaders urgently discuss strategies to claw back Trump's trade powers — President Trump has threatened and bludgeoned his way into an unwanted confrontation with the U.S. business community that could have far-reaching implications for the future of presidential power over trade.
Jonathan M. Katz / Los Angeles Times:
Call immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps — If you were paying close attention last week, you might have spotted a pattern in the news. Peeking out from behind the breathless coverage of the Trump family's tuxedoed trip to London was a spate of deaths …
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
A Million March in Hong Kong Over Eroding Freedoms, Organizers Say — HONG KONG — Hundreds of thousands of people filled the sweltering streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in an immense protest against fraying freedoms that culminated after midnight with the police firing pepper spray and striking participants with batons.
Discussion:
Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, Daily Wire, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Mother Jones, Vox, UPI, Outside the Beltway and Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
RELATED:
Jennifer Creery / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
Over a million attend Hong Kong demo against controversial extradition law, organisers say
Over a million attend Hong Kong demo against controversial extradition law, organisers say
Discussion:
Washington Post and Al Jazeera
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Conservative gains at Supreme Court leading to anger, frustration and ‘peeks behind the curtain’ — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court decided an Indiana abortion case last month with an unsigned, three-page compromise opinion that had something for both conservative and liberal justices to like.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Buttigieg's big accomplishment that he never mentions on the campaign trail — The South Bend mayor and presidential hopeful crafted a unique way to lend a hand to the city's undocumented immigrants. Why doesn't he talk about it? — SOUTH BEND, Ind. — It was 2016 and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a problem.