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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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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 …
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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?
Is the Media Ignoring What E. Jean Carroll Says About Trump?
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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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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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Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
House panel reaches agreement to question former chief of staff to onetime White House counsel
House panel reaches agreement to question former chief of staff to onetime White House counsel
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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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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Oversight panel demands White House official testify on Trump-Putin docs
Oversight panel demands White House official testify on Trump-Putin docs
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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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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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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 …
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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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”
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.
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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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
“These People Are Ready To Bolt”: Elizabeth Warren Allies Plan To Target Joe Biden Voters — You won't hear Elizabeth Warren say it, but allies at a national progressive group working closely with her campaign will: Joe Biden supporters “are ready to bolt.”
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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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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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ThinkProgress, Task & Purpose, Political Wire, Washington Post, Variety, Talking Points Memo, FiveThirtyEight, The Week, Daily Wire, The National Interest, Shareblue Media, PJ Media Home, Washington Press, New York Post, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA, Deadline, Splinter, The Daily Beast and Hullabaloo
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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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Pete Buttigieg's Crash Course in Crisis
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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