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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 …


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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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


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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Daily Kos, Washington Press, Splinter and Mother Jones
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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


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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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.


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 …


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

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.


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 …


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 …


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


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 »


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 …


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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Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
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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.


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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