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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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Axios, The Daily Caller, HuffPost, PJ Media Home, Mother Jones, Mediaite and New York Daily News, more at Mediagazer »
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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
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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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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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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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 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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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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Bloomberg
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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Front Page Magazine, New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Q13 FOX News, The Gateway Pundit, Geller Report News, Slate, UPI and Breitbart
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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Skift
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
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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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
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, The American Spectator and Big League Politics
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.
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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Hullabaloo, ABC News and New Yorker
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Anti-ICE protesters pull down American flag, raise Mexico flag, vandalize ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag — Authorities in Colorado restored an American flag to its place Friday evening after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled …
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Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
WATCH: Protesters Tear Down American Flag From ICE Facility, Replace It With Mexican Flag …
WATCH: Protesters Tear Down American Flag From ICE Facility, Replace It With Mexican Flag …
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RedState, PJ Media Home and The Gateway Pundit