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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Scaling Wokeback Mountain — WASHINGTON — I was feeling on edge. Writing a column that sparks an internecine fight among the highest-profile women in the Democratic Party is nerve wracking. — So I went to the gym. Alex Toussaint, the digital Peloton instructor inside the little screen …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Top Ocasio-Cortez Aide Becomes a Symbol of Democratic Division
Top Ocasio-Cortez Aide Becomes a Symbol of Democratic Division
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Hot Air, New York Post and PJ Media Home
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway. — A strange thing happened when Jeffrey Epstein came back to New York City after being branded a sex offender: His reputation appeared to rise. — In 2010, the year after he got out of a Florida prison …
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BuzzFeed News, Washington Examiner and The Verge
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
Deflecting blame, Acosta pointed finger at others. Why they may have some explaining to do — On Oct 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Acosta's Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein's SDNY Prosecution
Acosta's Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein's SDNY Prosecution
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Conservative News Today and Fortune
Washington Post:
The pressure on a prosecutor: How Epstein's wealth and power steered Acosta toward lenient deal
The pressure on a prosecutor: How Epstein's wealth and power steered Acosta toward lenient deal
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CNN
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Jeffrey Epstein: how US media - with one star exception - whitewashed the story
Jeffrey Epstein: how US media - with one star exception - whitewashed the story
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Balloon Juice and CNBC
Wall Street Journal:
Immigration-Enforcement Raids Begin in New York — ICE agents attempt raids in at least two city neighborhoods; President Trump says roundups will focus on criminals — Federal immigration authorities attempted raids in at least two neighborhoods in New York City on Saturday …
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Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Cities prepare for showdown with Trump over ICE raids: You ‘have to come through us’
Cities prepare for showdown with Trump over ICE raids: You ‘have to come through us’
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Brian Contreras / The Seattle Times:
Armed man attacking Tacoma's ICE detention center killed in officer-involved shooting — Tacoma police said they shot at an armed man early Saturday who was attacking the Northwest Detention Center, the holding facility in Tacoma for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The man died at the scene.
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Armed man shot, killed after throwing incendiary devices at Washington ICE detention center — Police in Washington state say an armed man was shot and killed early Saturday after trying to attack a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
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PJ Media Home and Q13 FOX News
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Taught at Dalton. His Behavior Was Noticed. — Some students at the esteemed Manhattan prep school recall that Mr. Epstein, now charged with sex trafficking, was willing to violate norms in his encounters with girls. — In the mid-1970s, students at one of New York's …
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UPI, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Playlist, The Week, Althouse and Slate
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Guatemala: Leftist Opposition And Alleged Interference By U.S. State Dept Risk Immigration Agreement — The Guatemalan Constitutional Court placed an injunction against Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales ' government Saturday from signing the much anticipated 'Safe Third Country Agreement …
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Trump Is Poised to Sign a Radical Agreement to Send Future Asylum Seekers to Guatemala — Early next week, according to a D.H.S. official, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a major immigration deal, known as a safe-third-country agreement, with Guatemala.
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PJ Media Home, Hullabaloo and Breitbart
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
House Republicans dismissive of Paul Ryan's take on Trump — House Republicans are pushing back on former Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) criticisms of President Trump, with some arguing the Wisconsin Republican didn't yield as much power over the president's decisionmaking as the ex-lawmaker suggested in a new book.
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Tami Abdollah / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: New election systems use vulnerable software — WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania's message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems.
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Jared S. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:
OxyContin Made The Sacklers Rich. Now It's Tearing Them Apart. — A rash of lawsuits, which accuse its Purdue Pharma of helping fuel the addiction crisis, has exacerbated longstanding divisions — Jacqueline Sackler was fed up. HBO's John Oliver had just used his TV show to pillory her family …
Daily Mail:
Britain's Ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch claimed that Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal as an act of ‘diplomatic vandalism’ to spite his predecessor Barack Obama — Responding to Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu's incendiary claim that publishing the contents of the documents …
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CNN and Political Wire
Lloyd Green / The Guardian:
American Carnage: a masterful must-read on Trump's Republican takeover — Tim Alberta of Politico has written a compelling, alarming and scoop-heavy history of the fall of the party of Lincoln — Like the deity on the sixth day of creation, Donald Trump has recast the Republican party in his own image.
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Political Wire
Associated Press:
Trump Administration Gets Court Victory in Sanctuary Cities Case — SEATTLE — A federal appeals court on Friday gave President Trump a rare legal victory in his efforts to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, upholding the Justice Department's decision to give preferential treatment …
Mark Phillips / KNXV:
Arizona Dems want Ducey, AG to investigate child abuse allegations at Yuma Border Patrol facility — Arizona Dems want Ducey and AG to investigate child abuse allegations at Yuma border patrol facility — YUMA, AZ — Members of the House and Senate Democratic caucus sent a letter …
Siobhán O'Grady / Washington Post:
A Somali-Canadian journalist returned to Somalia to tell ‘uplifting’ stories. Then terrorists killed her. — Hodan Nalayeh spent the last days of her life doing what she loved most: sharing a side of Somalia rarely depicted in the West. On Twitter, she posted photos of young boys grinning …