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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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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 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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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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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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New York Times:
Power Restored to Manhattan's West Side After Major Blackout — The failure affected 73,000 customers, trapping people in subways and elevators for a time and eerily dimming the lights in a swath of Times Square.
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twitchy.com and Slate
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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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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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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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
President Trump in Milwaukee says farmers are ‘over the hump’ as dairy farms continue to close in Wisconsin
President Trump in Milwaukee says farmers are ‘over the hump’ as dairy farms continue to close in Wisconsin
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Politico
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
House Republicans dismissive of Paul Ryan's take on Trump
House Republicans dismissive of Paul Ryan's take on Trump
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Hullabaloo, IJR, Daily Kos and Washington Press
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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Marianna Brady / BBC:
Megan Rapinoe: Can a pink-haired lesbian be an American hero? — She won the World Cup, was player of the tournament and top scorer, then stole the show at the ticker tape parade with both her swagger and her speech - but Megan Rapinoe is also a polarising figure who inspires anger as well as adoration.
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The Guardian
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
Armed man shot, killed after throwing incendiary devices at Washington ICE detention center
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PJ Media Home and The Gateway Pundit
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
Trump Is Poised to Sign a Radical Agreement to Send Future Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
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Breitbart, PJ Media Home and Hullabaloo
Aaron Mehta / Defense News:
Turkey has the S-400. The Trump administration is silent. — WASHINGTON — After months of threatening quick, severe action against Turkey should Ankara accept the Russian-made S-400 air defense system, the Trump administration has yet to react to the delivery of the weapon system.
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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Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
WATCH: Protesters Tear Down American Flag From ICE Facility, Replace It With Mexican Flag And Deface Blue Lives Matter Flag — Demonstrators at a protest outside an Aurora, Colorado Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Friday removed an American flag and replaced it with the Mexican flag.
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