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New York Times:
Trump Needs a Target to Stay Interested in His Campaign. For Now, It's Biden. — WASHINGTON — Late at night, using his old personal cellphone number, President Trump has been calling former advisers who have not heard from him in years, eager to discuss his standing in the polls …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘Biden to Eviscerate Trump Today in Iowa Speech’ — CNN's New Day previewed an advance copy of a stump speech that Joe Biden plans to give during a campaign visit today in Iowa later on Tuesday, and according to the on-screen chyron, the former Vice President will “eviscerate” President Donald Trump.
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Bo Erickson / CBS News:
Biden: Trump is an “existential threat” to the U.S. — Joe Biden plans to call out President Trump as an “existential threat” to the United States, according to prepared remarks shared with CBS News. The bashing by the front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination …
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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Biden to take on Trump while both campaign in Iowa, to call him ‘existential threat to America’
Biden to take on Trump while both campaign in Iowa, to call him ‘existential threat to America’
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
NBC announces five moderators for first Democratic debate — The presidential primary face off, hosted by NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo, will take place in Miami on June 26-27. — NBC announced on Tuesday the five moderators for the first Democratic presidential primary debate, set for later this month.
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Trump made get-well call to Jerry Nadler in hospital — WASHINGTON — Putting aside his sharp political differences with one of his primary congressional tormentors, President Trump made a surprising get-well call to Rep. Jerry Nadler, who was briefly hospitalized in Manhattan in May, Yahoo News has learned.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pelosi-Nadler clash over impeachment intensifies — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, two longtime allies, are clashing over whether to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump — a sign of how toxic the split over Trump has become for House Democrats.
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Pia Deshpande / Politico:
Trump on impeachment and Nixon: 'He left. I don't leave.'
Trump on impeachment and Nixon: 'He left. I don't leave.'
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Donald Shaw / Sludge:
As He Blocks Election Security Bills, McConnell Takes Checks from Voting Machine Lobbyists — The bills McConnell is blocking would subject the voting machine vendors to new cybersecurity regulations and could reduce their overall sales to states. — EDITED BY
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
McConnell Is Blocking Any Plan to Prevent a Russian Election Attack in 2020
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
The Old School Grift of Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao
The Old School Grift of Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao
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New Republic, Vox and Washington Monthly
Haley Byrd / CNN:
Justin Amash leaves the conservative Freedom Caucus — (CNN)Rep. Justin Amash on Monday stepped down from the conservative House Freedom Caucus less than a month after becoming the first Republican member of Congress to say President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses.
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Linda Fairstein / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix's False Story of the Central Park Five — Ava DuVernay's miniseries wrongly portrays them as totally innocent—and defames me in the process. — At about 9 p.m. April 19, 1989, a large group of young men gathered on the corner of 110th Street and Fifth Avenue for the purpose …
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump campaign considering putting resources in Oregon — CNN gets rare look into Trump's re-election campaign — (CNN)The Trump campaign is considering putting resources into Oregon, CNN has learned, a state where Hillary Clinton beat the President by 11 percentage points in 2016.
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
Meet your new public editors — Last week at Columbia, CJR hosted more than three dozen public editors from around the world, gathered together for their annual meeting. Brazil, India, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, and South Africa were among the nations represented. And the official delegation from the United States?
Aaron Bastani / New York Times:
We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism — Asteroid mining. Gene editing. Synthetic meat. We could provide for the needs of everyone, in style. It just takes some imagination. — Mr. Bastani is the author of the forthcoming “Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto.” — June 11, 2019
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Washington Post:
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg reached out to Speaker Pelosi. She hasn't called him back. — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg reached out to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in recent weeks to discuss how his company handles viral misinformation, but she has not called …
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Pew Research Center:
Americans See Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse as an Ongoing Problem — Most U.S. Catholics say sexual misconduct is not unique to their church — More than 15 years after U.S. bishops pledged “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, reports of previously unpublicized misconduct continue …
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Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs chemical castration for child sex offenders law — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law a controversial bill that requires chemical castration for convicted child sex offenders before they are released from prison. — The bill, HB 379, requires convicted offenders …
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Dion Lefler / Wichita Eagle:
Democrats plan to try ranked-choice voting in 2020 primary to select Trump's opponent — If you're a Kansas Democrat or become one before the 2020 election, it will be a lot easier for you to help pick the party's presidential candidate. — Last week, the state party submitted its plan …
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Political Wire
Nick Gillespie / Reason:
Are Google and YouTube Evil? No, But Don't Let That Get in the Way of Your Feelings. — By now, you probably know that YouTube is pure evil. Or maybe just dumber than a box of rocks. Either way, get ready for major political and regulatory action against Google, which has owned …
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Marcus Harrison Green / The Seattle Times:
Seattle yoga teacher's ‘Undoing Whiteness’ class: Founded on deep purpose, it's triggered outrage — Laura Humpf braced herself for fresh salvos of death threats, rage-soaked slurs and indictments of “reverse racism” from media provocateurs. — The Seattle yoga instructor had endured it before …
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Haaretz:
New York Times to Cease Political Cartoons After anti-Semitic Depiction of Netanyahu — ‘Maybe we should start worrying,’ one cartoonist says — The New York Times announced on Monday that it will cease publishing political cartoons, weeks after the newspaper came under fire for publishing …
Project Veritas:
Tech Insider Blows Whistle on How Pinterest Listed Top Pro-Life Site as Porn, “Bible Verses” Censored — UPDATE: Pinterest REACTS. LiveAction.org is no longer on their “Porn Domain Blacklist” — UPDATE: Pinterest REACTS AGAIN. LiveAction's Pinterest Account has been permanently suspended.
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Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg:
Gun Seller That Bet Big on Hillary Clinton Getting Elected Goes Bankrupt — Inventory swelled ahead of anticipated 2016 Democratic victory — Wellspring, Prospect and Summit control more than 90% stake — Firearms distributor United Sporting Cos. loaded up on guns ahead …
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Splinter and Joe.My.God.
Christina Prignano / BostonGlobe.com:
Biden leading Warren among Democratic voters in Mass., poll finds — Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading the 2020 primary field among likely Democratic voters in Massachusetts, a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll has found. — Biden had 22 percent support in the survey …
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Political Wire
Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal:
North Korean Leader's Slain Half Brother Was Said to Have Been a CIA Informant — Kim Jong Nam, killed in 2017 attack in Malaysia, met with agency operatives, a person knowledgeable about the matter says — WASHINGTON—Kim Jong Nam, the slain half brother of North Korea's leader …
Bo Erickson / CBS News:
In the 1990s, Joe Biden said William Barr was “one of the best” attorneys general — In 1995, Sen. Joe Biden offered high praise for William Barr, the once and future attorney general who has been roundly criticized by Democrats for his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the 2016 election.
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Iyad el-Baghdadi / New York Times:
The Princes Who Want to Destroy Any Hope for Arab Democracy — Why Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are backing military leaders who are killing demonstrators. — Mr. el-Baghdadi is the co-host of the podcast “Arab Tyrant Manual.” — Since the Arab uprisings of 2011 …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Tariff Fight Reveals Republican Divisions in Up-For-Grabs Arizona — CHANDLER, Ariz. — President Trump's rancorous dispute with Mexico over tariffs and the border energized some Republicans and rattled others around the country last week. — But in few places were the stakes as high as in Arizona …
Kerry Howley / New York Magazine:
Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood Which may help explain why she's out of place in today's Democratic Party. And her long-shot 2020 candidacy. — The Poet — It was 1970-something, and Sina was not yet teaching at the University of Hawaii — a Samoan poet who had not yet become …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
GOP's Matt Gaetz attempts to corner John Dean — but his failed interrogation results in nothing but laughter — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) used his time in the House Judiciary hearing Monday to go on a bizarre rant that ultimately got him laughed at by the hearing room.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Buttigieg puts focus on foreign policy as he hammers Trump — Facing questions on the trail about whether his campaign has put forward enough big ideas, Pete Buttigieg plans to make one area his own: foreign policy. — The South Bend, Ind., mayor will give a major address on his national security …