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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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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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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Is the Media Ignoring What E. Jean Carroll Says About Trump? — The news media has been oddly quiet about a shocking accusation. Why? — I know there was a lot going on over the past few days. We still don't know exactly what President Donald Trump is up to in Iran.
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Mother Jones, CNN, New Republic, The Daily Caller and Human Events
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
E. Jean Carroll's Trump rape claim did not get enough coverage
E. Jean Carroll's Trump rape claim did not get enough coverage
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The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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”
CONGRESSMAN JIM HIMES:
Himes Calls for Impeachment Inquiry — The time has come for the House of Representatives to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — Washington, DC— Today, Representative Jim Himes (CT-04) called for the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump:
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Federal Judge Opens a Longshot Path to Striking Down Census Citizenship Question — A federal judge in Maryland found on Monday that the Trump administration's addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census might have been motivated by a desire to reduce the political clout of Hispanics …
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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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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.
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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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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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
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
The Ivory Tower team of wonks behind Warren's policy agenda — Behind Elizabeth Warren's trust-busting, Wall Street-bashing, tax-the-wealthy platform is a brain trust that extends well beyond the Beltway thinkers who often rubber stamp campaign proposals. — Instead, the former Harvard professor …
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Shakesville
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
“These People Are Ready To Bolt”: Elizabeth Warren Allies Plan To Target Joe Biden Voters
“These People Are Ready To Bolt”: Elizabeth Warren Allies Plan To Target Joe Biden Voters
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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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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.
Paul Demko / Politico:
Supreme Court agrees to hear Obamacare cases with billions of dollars at stake — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge from health insurers who argue the federal government owes them hefty Obamacare payments, stoking the possibility the Trump administration could be forced …
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CNN, Bloomberg, The Week and One America News Network
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to consider whether federal government owes billions to health-care insurers
Supreme Court to consider whether federal government owes billions to health-care insurers
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Politico
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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Outside the Beltway, Washington Free Beacon and Fox News
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Pete Buttigieg's Crash Course in Crisis
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, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Bangor Daily News and The Daily Caller
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 …
Axios:
Exclusive: Massive leak of Trump transition vetting documents shows “red flags” for top officials — Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to “Axios on HBO” identify a host of “red flags” about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Democratic voters not fully tuned in to 2020 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates have crisscrossed the country for six months selling their vision for the United States. But, on the eve of the first debates in the campaign …
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Front Page Magazine and Political Wire
Danny Danon / New York Times:
What's Wrong With Palestinian Surrender? — Knowing when to give up is often the first step to making peace. — Mr. Danon is Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. — The “economic workshop” in Bahrain this week, a summit of business leaders and political figures …
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The Daily Caller and Al Jazeera
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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The Atlantic, ACLU and Outside the Beltway
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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Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Breitbart:
Exclusive: Mexican Officials Confirm U.S. Warned Them About Suspected ISIS Terrorists Headed to Border — Mexican authorities are on high alert regarding three ISIS-linked terror suspects who are believed to be making their way from Central America to Mexico and potentially the U.S. border.
Elana Schor / Associated Press:
Medical groups warn climate change is a ‘health emergency’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for their first 2020 primary debate this week, 74 medical and public health groups aligned on Monday to push for a series of consensus commitments to combat climate change …
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Shakesville and Political Wire
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Targets Senior IRGC Commanders Behind Iran's Destructive and Destabilizing Activities — WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against eight senior commanders of Navy, Aerospace, and Ground Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
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The Guardian, Daily Wire and UPI
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
California governor: “Xenophobic” GOP will be 3rd party — California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told “Axios on HBO” that it's highly likely Republicans will wind up as a third party nationally in 10 to 15 years because of their “xenophobia” and “hyper-masculinity.”
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Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
Women And People Of Color Were Elected At Same Rate As White Men In 2018: Report — “There's a common assumption that white men are the more electable candidates ― but our research found the opposite,” the research group's director said. — A new report on the 2018 midterm elections found …
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