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‘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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Balloon Juice, Mother Jones and YouTube
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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.”


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 …


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


'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

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham roughed up by North Korean security guards
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Daily Wire, Reuters and IJR

Sarah Sanders is exploring a book deal after White House departure
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Washington Times

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

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

‘Every American is entitled to health care’: Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Metro.co.uk, NPR, Washington Press, Slate, The Daily Caller and Denver Post


‘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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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


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 …


Harris Stands by Decision to ‘Speak the Truth’ on Race Matters
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Axios

Harris surges to third place in national poll after debate
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Washington Post, Slate, Mediaite, The Guardian and Morning Consult

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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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.


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


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.


‘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 …


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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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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Facebook and New York Post, more at Techmeme »
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Facebook to Ban Census Interference to Allay Undercount Worries
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Splinter


Billionaire Bernie Marcus to donate majority of fortune, support Trump for re-election — Billionaire Bernie Marcus has already given more than $2 billion to upwards of 300 organizations, and he said he plans to donate the majority of his fortune while he's still alive and support President Trump …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Conservative News Today and illegal immigration …


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 …


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.


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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Slate, more at Mediagazer »
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Russia beating U.S. in race for global influence, Pentagon study says
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One America News Network


Why Bill Barr Is So Dangerous — He is using the office he holds to advance his extraordinary lifetime project of assigning unchecked power to the president. — Buried behind our president's endless stream of lies and malicious self-serving remarks are actions that far transcend any reasonable understanding of his legal authority.
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Law & Crime


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 …
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Undocumented immigrants should get health care, Julián Castro affirms
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