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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 — WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders, their patience clearly fraying, signaled this weekend to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outspoken top aide that his seeming efforts to lead an insurrection against more moderate Democrats …
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Hot Air and New York Post
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, Breitbart, The Week, The Times & The Sunday Times, Al Jazeera and Axios
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BBC:
New leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’ — Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador to the US. — Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday.
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Bloomberg
New York Times:
Power Restored to Manhattan's West Side After Major Blackout — A power failure plunged a stretch of the West Side of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday night, trapping people in subway cars and elevators for a time, leaving drivers to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals …
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twitchy.com, Outside the Beltway and Slate
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NBC New York:
Midtown Blackout Knocks Out Power to More Than 45K: ConEd — Firefighters were responding to reports of people trapped in elevators — A blackout across much of midtown Manhattan and part of the Upper West Side knocked out power to more than 45,000 customers on Saturday evening, Con Edison said.
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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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Daily Kos, The Guardian, Breitbart and ImmigrationProf Blog
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's threatened ICE raids could hearten his base, and terrify immigrants
Trump's threatened ICE raids could hearten his base, and terrify immigrants
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Washington Monthly, INDIVISIBLE VENTURA and ThinkProgress
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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Vox, ABC7, TalkLeft and Denver Post
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Attacker on Tacoma ICE Detention Center identified as “anarchist and antifascist” — Willem Van Spronsen attacked the center with incendiary devices before being shot dead. In an earlier 2018 protest outside the facility, Van Spronsen “was accused of lunging at a police officer's neck …
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The Week, Front Page Magazine, New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
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Mariel Padilla / New York Times:
Man Attacking ICE Detention Center Is Fatally Shot by the Police
Man Attacking ICE Detention Center Is Fatally Shot by the Police
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Geller Report News
Brian Contreras / The Seattle Times:
Armed man attacking Tacoma's ICE detention center killed in officer-involved shooting
Armed man attacking Tacoma's ICE detention center killed in officer-involved shooting
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Q13 FOX News, The Gateway Pundit, Geller Report News, Slate, UPI and Breitbart
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump trails Biden, Warren and Sanders in new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll — Joe Biden holds largest lead against Trump due to better performance among Independents and suburban voters. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump trails the top Democratic contenders in hypothetical matchups …
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The Atlantic
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Inslee says he'll ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be secretary of state — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state. — He said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference …
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Patterico's Pontifications and The Daily Caller
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Marianna Brady / BBC:
Megan Rapinoe: Can a pink-haired lesbian be an American hero?
Megan Rapinoe: Can a pink-haired lesbian be an American hero?
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The Guardian
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans ready to dive off a cliff on Obamacare — Republicans have no real plan to establish a new health care system if the courts strike down the Affordable Care Act before the 2020 election. But plenty of them are rooting for its demise anyway — even if it means plunging the GOP …
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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Washington Post, USA Today and Big League Politics
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Trump: Republicans like Paul Ryan are ‘weak, ineffective & stupid’ — President Donald Trump on Saturday broadened his attack on Paul Ryan, saying conservatives like the former speaker “almost killed the Republican Party” because they were “weak, ineffective & stupid.”
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New York Times
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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, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Verge
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Former Southwest Key leader who ran migrant child shelters for U.S. government earned $3.6 million in 2017 — The former leader of a nonprofit organization that shelters migrant children for the U.S. government resigned this year after it was publicly disclosed that he earned nearly $1.5 million in 2016.
Jackie Wattles / CNN:
Fallout over offensive Buttigieg article: Magazine's owner apologizes but a sponsor cuts ties — New York (CNN Business)The League of Conservation Voters is cutting ties with an upcoming forum on climate change after its co-host for the event, The New Republic, published an “offensive” …
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