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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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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
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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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
New York Times:
Defying Protests, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico Refuses to Resign — SAN JUAN, P.R. — Facing an angry public uprising against his administration, Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced on Sunday evening that he would not seek re-election in 2020 …
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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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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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Miami Herald:
As Trump's reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president's swamp | Editorial — Witnessing Sen. Marco Rubio's pathetic response last week to President Trump's latest racist outrages, it is impossible now to believe that Florida's senior senator was once hailed as …
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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Breitbart
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.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Meet the woman who ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons — How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump? — People who know those involved said Epstein's connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.
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