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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Social Media Summit Mortifies White House, Enrages Far-Right Allies — No one who is invited to the summit has actually been banned from social platforms. — Donald Trump has invited personalities from across the right-wing internet to the White House on Thursday for a …
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump expected to announce executive action on adding citizenship question to census — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would have an announcement later in the day related to “the Census and Citizenship” and a senior administration official told ABC News the president was expected …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump expected to end his fight to add citizenship question to census, sources say — President Donald Trump is expected to announce later Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump expected to order citizenship question added to the census — Trump and A.G. William Barr have said they'd soon announce how the administration intends to ask the citizenship question as part of the census process. — President Donald Trump is expected to announce an executive action …
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NBC News:
Trump expected to back off census citizenship question, will collect data in other ways
Trump expected to back off census citizenship question, will collect data in other ways
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Townhall, Mediaite, The Week and New York Post
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump plans new move to force citizenship question on census
Trump plans new move to force citizenship question on census
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Associated Press
New York Times:
Trump Turns to Executive Action to Press Citizenship Question on Census
Trump Turns to Executive Action to Press Citizenship Question on Census
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Washington Post, electionlawblog.org, The Daily Caller and Politico
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney slams Trump, saying he ‘vilifies’ journalists
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney slams Trump, saying he ‘vilifies’ journalists
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The Daily Caller
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump to take executive action on citizenship question
Trump to take executive action on citizenship question
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ThinkProgress
Peter Suderman / Reason:
Trump Is Hosting a Very Weird Social Media Summit at the White House
Trump Is Hosting a Very Weird Social Media Summit at the White House
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Breitbart
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Hold News Conference on Census Citizenship Question
Trump to Hold News Conference on Census Citizenship Question
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Mother Jones and Political Wire
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump invokes social media platforms, 2020 Dems and Deutsche Bank in Twitter tear
Trump invokes social media platforms, 2020 Dems and Deutsche Bank in Twitter tear
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One America News Network, Bloomberg and twitchy.com
David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump to order citizenship question on census, despite Supreme Court ruling
Trump to order citizenship question on census, despite Supreme Court ruling
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ThinkProgress and Conservative News Today
New York Times:
Thousands Are Targeted as ICE Prepares to Raid Migrant Families — Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday, according to two current and one former homeland security officials, moving forward with a rapidly changing operation …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Judiciary approves subpoenas for 12 key witnesses, including Jared Kushner — The House Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to authorize subpoenas for 12 crucial witnesses as part of House Democrats' ongoing investigations targeting President Donald Trump.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
House panel votes to subpoena Kushner, former attorney general Sessions in investigation …
House panel votes to subpoena Kushner, former attorney general Sessions in investigation …
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Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House to vote next week on criminal contempt against Barr and Ross
House to vote next week on criminal contempt against Barr and Ross
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Axios
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Democrats Subpoena a Who's Who of Mueller Witnesses
House Democrats Subpoena a Who's Who of Mueller Witnesses
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
New book details how Republican leaders learned to stop worrying and love Trump — Few people have more power in President Trump's White House than Madeleine Westerhout, his executive assistant who controls access to the Oval Office, delivers the president's marker-scribbled messages …
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Republican campaign committee darkened Colin Kaepernick's skin for a fundraising ad — WASHINGTON—Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick did not look like himself in a fundraising email that was sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday.
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Mercury News, The Root, Mediaite and Daily Kos
New York Post:
NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins — Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days — and the NYPD says it's fine with that.
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Rachel Martin / NPR:
Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality — South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg got a really big boost to his campaign recently, announcing a staggering $24.8 million fundraising haul over the past three months. — But that hasn't changed one of the toughest realities …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
How Pete Buttigieg would fight systemic racism
How Pete Buttigieg would fight systemic racism
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Washington Post
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Buttigieg discusses his plan to tackle racism
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Ocasio-Cortez: I Wonder Why Pelosi's Attacking “Women Of Color”? Update: War — Oh yes — it's on, and both sides are playing for keeps. Nancy Pelosi scolded her caucus on disunity this week, and the frosh “Squad” didn't like it one bit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all but called Pelosi a bigot …
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Washington Post:
‘Outright disrespectful’: Four House women struggle as Pelosi isolates them
‘Outright disrespectful’: Four House women struggle as Pelosi isolates them
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren takes on Trump with immigration overhaul — Elizabeth Warren on Thursday unveiled her plan to reform the nation's immigration system amid a deepening crisis over detention at the southern border and a fraught debate across the country and within the Democratic Party on the way forward.
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System
A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System
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Jason Zinoman / New York Times:
Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old — The comic hasn't adjusted his material for the setting: he's still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets. — For those spending hundreds of dollars to see Dave Chappelle on Broadway, some advice: Don't leave your seats too quickly.
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
People Tell Us How QAnon Destroyed Their Relationships — We spoke to people who told us how the QAnon conspiracy theory ruined their marriage, turned their parents into completely different people, and otherwise made their lives miserable. — One of the most disheartening signs …
Los Angeles Times:
FBI investigating tattooed deputy gangs in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department — The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, multiple people familiar with the inquiry said.
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017
San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017
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David Choi / Business Insider:
Video appears to show Trump embracing a 2016 campaign staffer. She's now suing and claims he forcibly kissed her. — Alva Johnson, who worked for the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, is suing President Donald Trump over what she says was an unwanted attempted kiss “on the mouth.”
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The Daily Caller, Politico, PJ Media Home, Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. allies hold breakfast for departing British ambassador — and ‘the message is clear’ — In what one European diplomat called a subtle but “pretty clear” message of solidarity with departing British Ambassador Kim Darroch, his German counterpart hosted him and the French …
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The Week
Cassandra Sweetman / KFOR-TV:
Logan Co. man allegedly driving stolen vehicle filled with uranium, a rattlesnake, and Kentucky Deluxe — GUTHRIE, Okla. - Two people were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe.
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The Daily Beast:
Acosta's Epstein Excuses Are Nonsensical and Self-Serving — Three former prosecutors break down the labor secretary's explanation of the cushy plea deal he cut. — Alex Acosta took the podium Wednesday to try to put to rest a controversial plea deal he reached with accused child-sex …
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Breitbart
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
It Looks Like a Lake Made for Instagram. It's a Dump for Chemical Waste. — MOSCOW — The pictures seem to show a little piece of paradise in Siberia: a beautiful expanse of turquoise water, inflatable beach toys and women lounging in bathing suits. — The site, a lake in Siberia …
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