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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump's press secretary bruised after jostling with North Korea security over media, report says  —  New White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham was bruised Sunday in a scuffle between North Korean security and members of the U.S. press pool covering President Trump's meeting …
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Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Spotted at DMZ With Trump for Interview  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson was spotted with Donald Trump at the Demilitarized Zone on Sunday during the president's historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un.  The American contingent for the trip …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Associated Press:
Wide grins and historic handshake for Trump, Kim at DMZ  —  PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talks on the pariah nation's nuclear program.
New York Times:
Trump Steps Into North Korea and Agrees With Kim Jong-un to Resume Talks  —  SEOUL, South Korea — President Trump became the first sitting American commander in chief to set foot in North Korea on Sunday as he greeted Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone …
The Independent:
Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un
Discussion: Politico and Daily Wire
Lissette Rodriguez / ABC News:
‘Every American is entitled to health care’: Sen. Bernie Sanders
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump, Kim meet at Demilitarized Zone, face-to-face for first time since Hanoi
Associated Press:   Analysis: Trump's diplomacy puts relationships over results
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Harris surges to third place in national poll after debate  —  The number of Democratic primary voters who pick Kamala Harris as their first choice for president doubled after the first Democratic debates, vaulting the California senator into a third-place tie in a new poll.
Discussion: Morning Consult and Political Wire
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Unhappy With Their 2016 Coronation, the Democrats Start a 2020 Circus  —  MIAMI—Marianne Williamson narrowed her eyes and gazed into my soul, channeling some of the same telekinetic life force she'd used minutes earlier to cast a spell on Donald Trump in her closing statement of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democratic candidates veer left, leaving behind successful midterm strategy  —  A defining moment in the first set of Democratic debates came when one of the candidates barely registering in early polls, Julián Castro, launched a blistering attack on fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke …
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Undocumented immigrants should get health care, Julián Castro affirms
Discussion: Breitbart
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
2020 Democrats defend Kamala Harris after Donald Trump Jr. tweet about her race
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Times
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Kamala Shotguns Joe Sixpack  —  WASHINGTON — In January, a reporter contacted the nascent Biden campaign to request an interview.  She wanted to ask the former vice president about lingering criticisms that were bound to come up on the trail: how, as a senator, he failed Anita Hill …
Discussion: Althouse
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Axios:
Cory Booker says Biden can't talk “honestly” about his past mistakes on race  —  2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker addressed his recent criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden on NBC's “Meet the Press” Sunday, arguing that Biden's “inability to talk candidly” about mistakes …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:   Biden's Struggles Create an Opening for a Moderate Alternative
Stephen Kinzer / BostonGlobe.com:
Soros and Koch brothers team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy  —  BESIDES BEING BILLIONAIRES and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common.  They could be seen as polar opposites.
Michelle Malkin / gofundme.com:
Protect Andy Ngo Fund  —  Lovers of liberty and supporters of independent media,  —  My friend, Portland, Oregon-based journalist Andy Ngo, was beaten and robbed today by Antifa while covering the latest paroxysms of left-wing violence.  Andy has been singled out, doxxed …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Hey Dems, Take It From This Ex-Centrist: We Blew It  —  New Democrat ideas are past their sell-by date and old labels are meaningless.  Time to listen to voters.  —  As the first round of debates among Democratic candidates for president clearly showed, the intellectual vitality …
Bryan Bender / Politico:
Pentagon study: Russia outgunning U.S. in race for global influence  —  The U.S. is ill-equipped to counter the increasingly brazen political warfare Russia is waging to undermine democracies, the Pentagon and independent strategists warn in a detailed assessment that happens to echo …
CNN:
Why calling Bernie Sanders a ‘radical’ is nonsense  —  Sanders fires back at Trump over socialism  —  Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.  Vanessa Fajans-Turner is the director of SDG Finance at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
 
 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
The music industry is entering a cycle of consolidation, driven by a slowdown at the major labels, the growing market for independents, and the rapacity of PE

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