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CBS News:
Most Americans disagree with Trump's “go back” tweets — CBS News poll — The controversy around President Trump's tweets last week comes at a time when nearly nine in 10 Americans see a nation divided along racial lines, and most believe the parties each hold different ideas about what makes a person an American.
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Biden, Warren, Harris and Sanders top 2020 field — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — Joe Biden continues to be the first choice among Democratic voters across the 2020 primary states holding contests through Super Tuesday. However, rivals Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are gaining …
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
In 88 Trips to Capitol Hill, Mueller Grew Weary of Partisanship — Dozens of hours of Robert S. Mueller III's congressional testimony since 1990 reveal his complex relationship with legislators. — WASHINGTON — Days after he was appointed special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III visited …
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Axios:
Puerto Rico governor says he will not seek re-election amid mass protests — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Sunday that he will not seek re-election next year and will step down as president of the New Progressive Party, but stopped short of saying he will resign as governor before the end of his term.
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Politico, ABC News and One America News Network
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Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
I can't stop thinking about the little girl behind Trump and the hate she's being taught — I'm terrible at guessing ages, but if I had to guess I'd say she was about 12 or 13. She was wearing a bright summery top and a red “Make America Great Again” cap that looks to be a half-size too big …
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Washington Press, Splinter, Daily Kos and Mother Jones
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Jason Stanley / Newsweek:
Yes, ‘Send her back’ is the face of evil—I know fascism when I see it | Opinion
Yes, ‘Send her back’ is the face of evil—I know fascism when I see it | Opinion
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Daily Kos, Mother Jones and The Guardian
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
He Wasn't Seeking to Kill a Mob Boss. He Was Trying to Help Trump, His Lawyer Says. — In new court documents, the lawyer for Anthony Comello says he became obsessed by far-right QAnon conspiracy theories. — As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island …
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Law & Crime
Osita Nwanevu / New Yorker:
Conservative Nationalism Is Trumpism for Intellectuals — On the final night of this past week's National Conservatism Conference, Senator Josh Hawley—a graduate of Stanford and Yale and a former instructor at an English private school—warned the attendees gathered in the ballroom …
Charles Sykes / America Magazine:
Dante, Trump and the moral cowardice of the G.O.P. — One of John F. Kennedy's favorite quotes was something he thought came from Dante: “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.” — As it turns out, the quote is apocryphal.
Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
The demagogue and the Democrats: Trump spits in the face of American values; the opposition party has no clue how to respond — Like nearly everyone else to ever leave his homeland, I would like to go back to where I came from. I would like to have continued to live in my native Baku …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace burns down Stephen Miller over Trump's racist lies: He let ‘send her back’ chant ‘go for 13 seconds’ — Things did not go well for Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller when he appeared on Fox News Sunday morning.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Bolton Doctrine: Why the president keeps his hawkish national security adviser — President Trump made small talk with the Irish prime minister as they sat in the Oval Office in mid-March, accompanied by a handful of senior American and Irish officials.
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The American Conservative
Andy Newman / New York Times:
My Frantic Life as a Cab-Dodging, Tip-Chasing Food App Deliveryman — I had just started my lunch shift when the phone pinged: Uber Eats, pickup at Cocina del Sur on West 38th Street in Manhattan, five blocks away. Great! I pedaled down West 40th into congealing crosstown traffic.
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Althouse, more at Techmeme »
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Pitched a New Narrative. These Sites Published It. — After Jeffrey Epstein got out of the Palm Beach County jail in 2009, having served 13 months of an 18-month sentence resulting from a plea deal that has been widely criticized, he began a media campaign to remake his public image.
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Military studies ‘hyperfit’ women who pass grueling courses — ARMY SOLDIER SYSTEMS CENTER, Mass. (AP) — In the nearly four years since the Pentagon announced it was opening all combat jobs to women , at least 30 have earned the Army Ranger tab, two have graduated Marine infantry school …
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The Daily Caller
Holly Aguirre / Vanity Fair:
“THE GIRLS WERE JUST SO YOUNG”: THE HORRORS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PRIVATE ISLAND — Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long after his conviction for sex crimes—and authorities did nothing to stop him. “It was like he was flaunting it,” says an employee at the airstrip on St. Thomas.
Washington Post:
Hundreds of Islamic State militants are slipping back into Iraq. Their fight isn't over. — QAIM, Iraq — Islamic State militants who escaped the defeat of their self-declared caliphate in Syria earlier this year have been slipping across the border into Iraq, bolstering a low-level insurgency …
New York Times:
Trump Sets the Terms on Racial Division. Do Democrats Know What to Do? — GREENVILLE, N.C. — President Trump waited for 13 seconds, as the chants from the crowd of thousands grew louder. — “Send her home!” the North Carolina audience yelled, mimicking Mr. Trump's recent tweet attacking a Somali-born Democratic congresswoman.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Cory Booker says Trump is “worse than a racist” — 2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Cory Booker claimed on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Trump is “worse than a racist,” and that his rhetoric weaponizes race just as Gov. George Wallace — a staunch segregationist — did in his presidential campaigns.
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
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