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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
‘Surreal’: Ivanka Trump plays a prominent role in her father's historic Korea trip — Few Americans alive today have set foot inside North Korea, the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship sometimes called the Hermit Kingdom. — On Sunday, Ivanka Trump became one of them …
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Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson: Leading a Country ‘Means Killing People’ — 'You've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people,' Carlson said, while speaking to Fox & Friends from South Korea. — Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Sunday that part of “what it means to lead a country” is “killing people.”
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 …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump, ever the showman, delivers his greatest performance at DMZ: ANALYSIS
Trump, ever the showman, delivers his greatest performance at DMZ: ANALYSIS
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Rolling Stone, twitchy.com, Breitbart, Florida Politics, PJ Media Home, The Gateway Pundit, Big League Politics, Associated Press and Axios
Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Spotted at DMZ With Trump for Interview
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
'It's only fake news': Even on a historic day, Trump complains about media coverage
'It's only fake news': Even on a historic day, Trump complains about media coverage
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Politico, Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon and Outside the Beltway
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham roughed up by North Korean security guards
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham roughed up by North Korean security guards
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Daily Wire, Reuters and IJR
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sarah Sanders is exploring a book deal after White House departure
Sarah Sanders is exploring a book deal after White House departure
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Washington Times
The Independent:
Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un
Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un
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Daily Wire and Politico
Associated Press:
Wide grins and historic handshake for Trump, Kim at DMZ
Wide grins and historic handshake for Trump, Kim at DMZ
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Washington Post, Splinter, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Guardian and WPIX 11 New York
Lissette Rodriguez / ABC News:
‘Every American is entitled to health care’: Sen. Bernie Sanders
‘Every American is entitled to health care’: Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Metro.co.uk, Washington Press, NPR, Slate and The Daily Caller
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
‘Her ambition got it wrong about Joe’: Harris faces debate backlash — SAN FRANCISCO — Kamala Harris might be reveling in her sudden burst of attention after roasting Joe Biden over racial issues on the debate stage last week, but a backlash is already brewing.
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Axios
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CNN:
Biden's ‘gay waiter’ comment on LGBTQ rights falls flat in Seattle — Washington (CNN)People gathered at a 2020 presidential fundraiser for Joe Biden Saturday pushed back against the former vice president's claim that just a few years ago people in Washington state would have let a homophobic comment slide, saying “Not in Seattle!”
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Splinter, The Daily Caller and New York Post
Juana Summers / Associated Press:
Harris lands 2020 endorsement from 2 Black Caucus members — BALTIMORE (AP) — Two more members of the Congressional Black Caucus are backing Kamala Harris's bid for the presidency: Reps. Bobby Rush of Illinois and Frederica Wilson of Florida. — Endorsements from the caucus …
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Harris Stands by Decision to ‘Speak the Truth’ on Race Matters
Harris Stands by Decision to ‘Speak the Truth’ on Race Matters
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Axios
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Harris surges to third place in national poll after debate
Harris surges to third place in national poll after debate
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Washington Post and The Guardian
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Harris Surges After First Democratic Debates
Harris Surges After First Democratic Debates
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Slate, Mediaite and Washington Post
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Anti-Trump fever takes threatening turn — The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation's most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees …
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RedState, illegal immigration …, Daily Wire and Liberty Unyielding
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Living In an Age of Hate [Updated] — Byron York takes a dispassionate look at today's political/cultural landscape, which is beginning to resemble the one that preceded the Civil War: … Advocacy of incivility and violence isn't coming only from the zany far left.
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.
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The American Conservative
Zach Carter / HuffPost:
What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing? — House Democrats have lost their moral compass. — On Thursday morning, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) what her party planned to do about writer E. Jean Carroll's recent rape allegation against President Donald Trump.
Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's hands-off policy when it comes to Antifa protestors came under scrutiny on Saturday after journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by masked Antifa assailants. — Wheeler, who is also police commissioner …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Inside the Trump campaign's plan to re-energize evangelicals — President Trump's re-election campaign is developing an aggressive, state-by-state plan to mobilize even more evangelical voters than supported him last time, campaign officials tell Axios. — Why it matters …
Washington Post:
‘The enigma of the entire Mueller probe’: Focus on origins of Russian investigation puts spotlight on Maltese professor — Shortly after Joseph Mifsud's efforts to help connect a Trump adviser with the Kremlin were detailed in court filings, an Italian reporter found him at a university in Rome …
Steven Overly / Politico:
Facebook unveils plans to fight misinformation about census — Facebook on Sunday announced it's developing a plan to stop misinformation aimed at keeping people from participating in the 2020 census, the results of which will shape American political districting for a decade.
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Naomi Nix / Bloomberg:
Facebook to Ban Census Interference to Allay Undercount Worries
Facebook to Ban Census Interference to Allay Undercount Worries
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Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
How the first U.S. city with no daily newspaper will help Trump in 2020 — In the American Heartland, the white working class was riled up. They were angry about immigrants — so many of whom didn't even bother to speak English — and the economic advancement of African Americans.
Axios:
Report: U.S. is underestimating Putin's “grand strategy” for Russian dominance — A new report prepared for the Pentagon suggests that the U.S. is underestimating the scale of Russian President Vladimir Putin's “grand strategy” for dominance on the world stage, and that inaction in the face …
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Russia beating U.S. in race for global influence, Pentagon study says
Russia beating U.S. in race for global influence, Pentagon study says
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Federal judge: Let doctors into child migrant detention centers, quickly — Binford: ‘Stop politicizing migrant children’ — (CNN)A federal judge has ordered US Customs and Border Protection to permit health experts into detention facilities holding migrant children to ensure they're …
Detroit Free Press:
Former Gov. Rick Snyder named Harvard fellow — LANSING, Mich. — Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is headed to Harvard University to teach, study and write on subjects related to state and local government. — Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government announced that Snyder begins work Monday as a senior research fellow.
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