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The latest charge against Trump is as credible as Juanita Broaddrick's against Clinton — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York. — “Thank you very much for coming. These four very courageous women have asked to be here and it was our honor to help them.
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Major newspapers largely leave new report of sexual assault by Trump off their front pages — A new report of sexual assault committed by President Donald Trump has come to light, but several major newspapers didn't find the story important enough to place on their front pages.
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Mother Jones, Political Wire, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Caller News Foundation and The Cut

E. Jean Carroll Accuses Trump of Sexual Assault in Her Memoir
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Hullabaloo, Slate, abc7NY, fox5sandiego.com, Meduza.io, Wonkette and Conservative News Today


Trump says he will hold off on planned ICE raids for now — After the defending his plan to deport undocumented immigrants on Saturday, President Trump hours later tweeted that he “delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans …
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Splinter, ThinkProgress, UPI, Mercury News, Axios, PJ Media Home, The Guardian, Slate and POLITICUSUSA
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Trump Says He'll Delay Deportation Operation Aimed at Undocumented Families — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Saturday delayed plans for nationwide raids to deport undocumented families but threatened to unleash Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in two weeks if Democrats do not submit …


Nancy Pelosi called Trump Friday night asking him to call off ICE raids — Trump tweets he is delaying ICE immigration raids — Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Donald Trump Friday night and asked him to call off the Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation raids scheduled …
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RedState, Mother Jones and NPR


Trump Has Unexpectedly Postponed The Nationwide ICE Raids Targeting Immigrant Families — President Donald Trump suddenly canceled on Saturday a planned US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeting undocumented immigrant families from across the country that was set to begin in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday.
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The Daily Beast

‘We Have No Choice’: Acting ICE Director Defends Planned Immigration Raids
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Bloomberg and ImmigrationProf Blog


Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children — Hundreds of immigrant children who have been separated from their parents or family members are being held in dirty, neglectful, and dangerous conditions at Border Patrol facilities in Texas.
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ThinkProgress, Washington Press, Splinter, Rolling Stone, VICE and Lawyers, Guns & Money


I'm a Journalist but I Didn't Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy — I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I'm about to describe could happen to any American who travels internationally.


With Trump's approval, Pentagon launched cyber strikes against Iran — President Trump approved an offensive cyber strike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches, even as he backed away from a conventional military attack in response to its shoot …
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Engadget and Daily Caller News Foundation, more at Techmeme »
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Iranian hackers wage cyber campaign amid tensions with US
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Splinter


White House Unveils Economic Portion of Middle East Peace Plan — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Saturday that it hoped to raise more than $50 billion to improve the lot of the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors, releasing an economic plan titled, “Peace to Prosperity,” …
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Financial Times, Bloomberg and The Week
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A Profound Democratic Shift in New York: ‘We Seized the Moment’ — With Democrats in firm control in Albany, lawmakers carried out a progressive agenda that had long been thwarted. — ALBANY — When Democrats won control of New York's government last year, riding a national wave of liberal energy …
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Militia threatens shutdown of Oregon legislature following GOP walkout
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Associated Press and New York Times

“The State Police Superintendent just informed the Senate President of a credible threat …
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Newser and Washington Post


Clarence Thomas's Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor — A Mississippi prosecutor went on a racist crusade to have a black man executed. Clarence Thomas thinks that was just fine. — That's the message of an astonishing decision today from the Supreme Court.
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Daily Caller News Foundation, Vox and Quartz


Facing Intensifying Confrontation With Iran, Trump Has Few Appealing Options — President Trump's last-minute decision to pull back from a retaliatory strike on Iran underscored the absence of appealing options available to him as Tehran races toward its next big challenge to the United States …
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Mother Jones, Sputnik International, Al Jazeera, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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Trump's last-minute pullback on Iran strikes may have made crisis more perilous
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NPR, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and IJR

Trump's Slouching Toward War With Iran Is a Disgrace
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The American Conservative


Who Gets to Own the West? — A new group of billionaires is shaking up the landscape. — IDAHO CITY, Idaho — The Wilks brothers grew up in a goat shed, never finished high school and built a billion-dollar fracking business from scratch. — So when the brothers, Dan and Farris …


Democrats cut deal to hear from White House counsel office insider, source says — Burnett: Hope Hicks is as inner circle as it gets — (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee appears to have reached a deal with former White House aide Annie Donaldson that would allow her to not appear …
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Political Wire and The Slot


‘The only one that matters is me’: Trump backs Bolton amid Iran tensions — President Donald Trump on Saturday praised national security adviser John Bolton after the U.S. this week backed away from a potentially deadly confrontation with Iran. — “Yeah, I do,” Trump said when asked …


Pete Buttigieg Leaves Campaign Trail After Fatal Police Shooting. Reality Rears Its Head. — SOUTH BEND, Ind. — While his 2020 rivals mingled with large friendly crowds at a Democratic fish fry in South Carolina Friday night, Mayor Pete Buttigieg found himself somewhere very different …
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Vox, LGBTQ Nation and TheBlaze
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Marchers confront Pete Buttigieg, police chief with frustrations after South Bend shooting
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Mother Jones and Politico


Histrionics, Hysteria and Joe Biden — Will the Democratic Party banish its democratic instincts? — For several years I had a regular lunch date with an Iranian diplomat — I suspect his real profession was otherwise — who worked out of the Islamic Republic's mission to the United Nations.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Instapundit and Washington Post