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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Fans the Flames of a Racial Fire — WASHINGTON — President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pelosi announces resolution condemning Trump for racist tweets — House Democrats are drafting a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's racist tweets against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other high-profile freshman congresswomen, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
A tough time to be a Trump supporter — Conservatives who reluctantly support President Trump often try to pretend the daily outrage didn't happen, but yesterday's “go back” tweets were like his “both sides” comment on Charlottesville — a transgression that won't instantly fade, and can't be laughed off.
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
Trump Said His Racist Tweets Are Fine Because “Many People” Agree With Him — President Trump on Monday claimed his racist tweets attacking progressive congresswomen weren't racist, and he added that he's not concerned about backlash because “many people” hold his same views.
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David French / National Review:
Donald Trump's Tweets Were Malicious, and Republican Silence is Deafening — In 2016 Speaker Paul Ryan called Donald Trump's attacks on Judge Alonzo Curiel — Trump had called the American-born judge “Mexican” and claimed he was therefore too biased to preside over the Trump University litigation …
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CNN:
Trump denies racist tweets were racist — (CNN)President Donald Trump denied Monday that the inflammatory tweets he issued Sunday were racist. — Asked on the South Lawn during an event on American-made products if his tweets were racist, he said: “Not at all.”
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Republicans are quiet as Trump urges minority congresswomen to leave the country — A day has passed without prominent Republicans stepping forward to disagree with President Trump's notion that four minority congresswomen who have been critical of his approach to immigration enforcement should …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just denied his attacks are racist. He only confirmed the worst. — Ever since President Trump launched his candidacy by declaring Mexicans to be “rapists,” Trump's public racism has often included two additional important elements: An adamant refusal to apologize for it in the face of outrage …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Tiptoeing around Trump's racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
After years of decrying McCarthyism, Lindsey Graham accuses members of Congress of being Communists
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Meghan McCain knocks Lindsey Graham for defending Trump's tweets: ‘This is not the person I used to know’
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Graham declines to condemn racist Trump tweets and calls Democratic congresswomen ‘a bunch of communists’
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Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
Trump says his ‘go back’ remarks to lawmakers ‘not at all racist’ as outrage grows
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Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Ted Lieu: Trump a ‘racist ass’
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Insists Trump Was Probably Just Talking About Congresswomen's Districts
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
How news outlets are dealing with the ‘moral dimension’ of covering Trump and his racist tweets
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Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
RacistInChief Trends After Trump Tells Lawmakers to ‘Go Back’ …
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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Biden unveils health care plan: Affordable Care Act 2.0 — Democratic front-runner Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a health plan that's intended to preserve the most popular parts of Obamacare — from Medicaid expansion to protections for patients with preexisting conditions …
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Joe Biden / Joe Biden for President:
Health Care — “When we passed the Affordable Care Act …
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Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
The Border Patrol Hits a Breaking Point — Vice President Mike Pence's Friday visit to a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas didn't go according to plan. Meant to pressure Democrats to address the migrant crisis at the southern border, the visit instead appeared to horrify …
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BBC:
Italy seizes ‘combat-ready’ missile in raids on far right — Anti-terrorism police in northern Italy have seized an air-to-air missile and other sophisticated weapons during raids on far-right extremist groups. — Three people were arrested - two of them near Forli airport.
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Iga Lis / Politico:
Italian police seize missile in raids on far right
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NBC News:
Trump weighs ousting Commerce chief Wilbur Ross after census defeat — Some White House officials expect the Cabinet secretary, who has known the president for years, to depart as soon as this summer. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has told aides and allies that he is considering …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Turned To A Big Donor To Pay For The DNC Voter Database, Despite Her Fundraising Pledge — Elizabeth Warren relied on a multimillion-dollar Democratic donor to cover the cost of an expensive voter database — a move that risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Huge Turnout Is Expected in 2020. So Which Party Would Benefit? — Democrats typically gain from a broader electorate in presidential races, but that pattern is not assured in the Trump era. — The 2020 presidential election is poised to have the highest turnout in a century …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Obama officials say Trump administration hasn't delayed new $20 bill, despite Harriet Tubman firestorm — Congressional Democrats have been hammering the Trump administration for delaying the introduction of 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
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The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Had ‘Piles of Cash,’ Diamonds, Foreign Passport in Safe — Prosecutors are arguing he should be held without bail until trial because he's a flight risk. — FBI agents found “piles of cash,” dozens of diamonds and a expired foreign passport in Jeffrey Epstein's safe …
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Tim Alberta / Vanity Fair:
“You Crossed the Rubicon...There's No Going Back”: Karl Rove, Kellyanne Conway, and the Odd Couple Marriage Between Mike Pence and Donald Trump — He didn't like Rove (Trump: “I'll win New York”; Rove: “No, you won't"). Conway had worked for “Lyin' Ted Cruz.” And Pence was a choirboy, albeit a hyper-ambitious one.
Lizzie Presser / ProPublica:
The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It. — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Award-Winning Reporter to Counter-Sue Man Who Bankrolled Brexit for ‘Harassment’ — Award-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr hits back with countersuit against Brexit campaigners who are suing her for libel. — LONDON—The award-winning journalist whose investigations led to the collapse …
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