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Andrew Hollinger / ushmm.org:
Statement Regarding the Museum's Position on Holocaust Analogies — Press Contacts — WASHINGTON, DC - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary.
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Sister Toldjah / RedState:
In Tweet Rebuking Steve King, AOC Accidentally Reminds People of Her Party's Tolerance for Anti-Semitism
In Tweet Rebuking Steve King, AOC Accidentally Reminds People of Her Party's Tolerance for Anti-Semitism
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Talking Points Memo, Newsweek and Breitbart
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Sunday Morning Talk Shows Largely Ignore Trump Rape Allegation — The “big five” — NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox — were all but silent on E. Jean Carroll's horrifying claim. — Acclaimed author E. Jean Carroll publicly alleged for the first time Friday that President Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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Salon, The Atlantic, USA Today, Daily Kos, Daily Wire, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, NPR, Lawyers, Guns & Money and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Is the Media Ignoring What E. Jean Carroll Says About Trump?
Is the Media Ignoring What E. Jean Carroll Says About Trump?
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Axios, New Republic, The Daily Caller, Human Events and Splinter
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Why is the big-shot media ignoring the latest rape allegation against Trump?
Why is the big-shot media ignoring the latest rape allegation against Trump?
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CNN, Mother Jones and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, escalating Democratic policy battle — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will propose on Monday eliminating all $1.6 trillion of student debt held in the United States, a significant escalation of the policy fight …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
‘Every one of the decisions is her decision:’ Inside Elizabeth Warren's policy factory — (CNN)In Washington, the political world was on edge as it waited for the long-anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation.
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
The Ivory Tower team of wonks behind Warren's policy agenda
The Ivory Tower team of wonks behind Warren's policy agenda
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Shakesville
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General? Find Someone Else Named Lee — Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs — The North East Independent School District in Texas was facing pressure to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School …
Project Veritas:
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam — Insider: Google “is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.” — Google Head of Responsible Innovation Says Elizabeth Warren “misguided” on “breaking up Google”
Associated Press:
Government moves migrant kids after poor conditions exposed — The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
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CNN, RedState, The Atlantic, The Week, ACLU, NPR and Outside the Beltway
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
These 3 lawmakers know the secrets in Mueller's report — The fate of Donald Trump's presidency may hinge on Congress' handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report — yet just three rank-and-file members of the House are allowed to view Mueller's confidential files.
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Sara Gideon for Maine:
Sara Gideon for Maine — Sara Gideon is running against Susan Collins for U.S. Senate in Maine. Get updates from the team here. Let's do this!
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Bloomberg, Bangor Daily News, Daily Kos, frontpagelive.com and The Daily Caller
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Judge: New Census Case Evidence Paints ‘Disturbing Picture’ Of Discriminatory Motives — A federal judge in Maryland on Monday explained why he wanted another look at potential racial animus behind the Trump administration's census citizenship question, with an opinion that said it …
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USA Today:
Supreme Court limits access to government records in loss for Argus Leader, part of the USA TODAY Network — Argus Leader will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court April 22. Here's why. — CONNECT — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court limited public and media access to government records Monday …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Suffers a Triple Fail on Iran, Mexico and Immigration — The president's solo initiatives on Iran, Mexico and immigrants were all abandoned before taking effect. Twitter bravado is a terrible way to govern. — LISTEN TO ARTICLE — 4:46 — SHARE THIS ARTICLE — Share — Tweet
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
Here is Why Trump ‘Wins’ When Facing Non-Friendly Interviews, and What Should Be Done About It — A large part of President Donald Trump's “genius” is that he understands the inherent advantage being able to lie with impunity provides the fabricator when going up against someone who cares about the truth.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Just ‘Disregarded’ The Law, Trump-Appointed Watchdog to Testify — In testimony to Congress, Henry Kerner, who Trump appointed as chief of the Office of Special Counsel, defended his decision to call for Conway's firing. — The Trump-appointed ethics official who called …
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Washington Press, Politico and Axios
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Pia Deshpande / Politico:
Conway says calls for her firing are efforts to ‘put a big roll of masking tape over my mouth’
Conway says calls for her firing are efforts to ‘put a big roll of masking tape over my mouth’
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Washington Post
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
‘Pete Has a Black Problem’: Top Black Leaders Say Buttigieg Is ‘Naive’ on Race — When asked in a private meeting about his support from African-American leaders in South Bend, the mayor couldn't think of one person, a source tells The Daily Beast. — NORTH AUGUSTA, South Carolina …
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The Federalist, Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Washington Free Beacon and Fox News
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Beto O'Rourke proposes ‘war tax’ as part of veterans' plan — Tapper presses Beto O'Rourke about low poll numbers — (CNN)Non-military households would pay a “war tax” to help cover the health care of veterans of newly-authorized wars under a plan Beto O'Rourke's campaign unveiled Monday.
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Beto For America, Washington Post, TheBlaze and UPI
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Ex-Fox Newser Carl Cameron takes his ‘unfinished business’ to progressive startup — When folks leave Fox News, they quite often pursue projects that align with the worldview of their former employer. They might launch a conservative talk show airing on Sinclair stations …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Gorsuch sides with liberals in shooting down tougher sentences for gun crimes — President Trump's two Supreme Court picks, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, were on opposing sides once again Monday in a case centering on whether a law that slaps harsher penalties on certain gun possession cases is unconstitutionally vague.
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Townhall
Jon Lerner / CNN:
Trump's Middle East plan is a refreshing change — Jon Lerner is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as deputy to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in 2017-18. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. — (CNN)In his recent CNN.com article …
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Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
The Wild Ride at Babe.Net The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website. — In the spring of 2018, I visited the offices of the millennial/Gen-Z-oriented website babe.net, a sunny loft space in Williamsburg, just around the corner from Vice.
Danny Danon / New York Times:
What's Wrong With Palestinian Surrender? — Knowing when to give up is often the first step to making peace. — Editorials — New York Lawmakers Showed How to Get Things Done — Congress could learn a thing or two. — Abdicating, Again, on Climate
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The Daily Caller
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's lies need to be exposed in real time — In an interview on “Meet the Press,” President Trump repeated a whopper of a lie. … The Post's fact-checkers back in April explained: “The Obama administration rejected a plan for family separations, according to Cecilia Muñoz, Obama's top adviser for immigration.
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Mediaite
Lyman Stone / The Atlantic:
The Boomers Ruined Everything — The Baby Boomers ruined America. That sounds like a hyperbolic claim, but it's one way to state what I found as I tried to solve a riddle. American society is going through a strange set of shifts: Even as cultural values are in rapid flux, political institutions seem frozen in time.
WRAL-TV:
Opposition mounting to legislation requiring sheriffs to hold people for ICE — RALEIGH, N.C. — Hours before the Senate was expected to pass legislation Monday that could force North Carolina sheriffs from office if they don't cooperate with federal immigration officials …
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Just-Promoted DCCC Official Has History of Homophobic, Racist Comments — Top committee staffer Tayhlor Coleman deletes tweets after Free Beacon inquiry — A Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official tapped last week to lead a new multimillion-dollar initiative to connect with …
CBS News:
Former Gen. Don Bolduc announces Senate run in New Hampshire as Republican — Retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc announced Monday that he would run for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire against Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen, setting up what may be one of the marquee congressional races of 2020.
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Political Wire
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Star-studded cast to perform play based on Mueller report — A star-studded cast — including John Lithgow, Alyssa Milano, Alfre Woodard, Annette Bening and many others — will perform in a play based on the Mueller report. — The performers will take the stage Monday for “The Investigation …
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CNN, Slate, Hullabaloo, Washington Free Beacon, Engadget and twitchy.com
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Treasury's Inspector General to Review Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Delay — WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department's internal watchdog has agreed to look into why designs of a new $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman will not be unveiled next year. — Senator Chuck Schumer of New York …
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CNBC and Political Wire
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Aide Jason Miller Leaves High-Powered Firm After Jerry Nadler ‘Fat F*ck’ Tweets — The departure, Miller tells The Daily Beast, was “by mutual consent.” — Jason Miller, a former top campaign aide and close adviser to Donald Trump, has left his job as a managing director at Teneo …