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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mueller Testifies Russia Had Blackmail on Trump — The most interesting and newsworthy portion of Robert Mueller's six hours of testimony before the House yesterday came in the final two exchanges of the day, long after the narrative was set and the national media had grown bored.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP blocks election security bills after Mueller testimony — Senate Republicans blocked two election security bills and a cybersecurity measure on Wednesday in the wake of former special counsel Robert Mueller warning about meddling attempts during his public testimony before congressional lawmakers.
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Elie Mystal / Above the Law:
Imagine Mueller Just Said All That About A Black President — The mainstream media continues to botch the Mueller testimony. Maybe if they pretended Trump was a black man, they'd get it right. — Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller testified before the House Judiciary …
CNN:
Treasury pick Monica Crowley spread Obama smears: ‘Can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?’ — Trump security pick plagiarized in 2012 book — (CNN)President Donald Trump's pick for the top spokeswoman job at the Treasury Department repeatedly spread conspiracy theories …
Jerry Mitchell / ProPublica:
We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation. — OXFORD, Miss. — Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation …
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump appeared in front of this doctored seal and now a TPUSA aide is fired — (CNN)An audiovisual aide for conservative student group Turning Point USA was fired this week after President Donald Trump appeared on a stage in front of a parody image of the presidential seal at its Teen Student Action Summit.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Government to Resume Capital Punishment After Nearly Two Decade Lapse — Attorney General William P. Barr Directs the Federal Bureau of Prisons to Adopt an Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and Schedule the Executions of Five Death-Row Inmates Convicted of Murdering Children
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Margaret Harding McGill / Politico:
States talk tech antitrust concerns with AG Barr
States talk tech antitrust concerns with AG Barr
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Alexandra Svokos / ABC News:
Federal government resuming executions after 2 decades, names first 5 people to be killed
Federal government resuming executions after 2 decades, names first 5 people to be killed
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Washington Post, Fox News and Politico
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Actually, Robert Mueller Was Awesome — Former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony Wednesday has been described as “excruciatingly awkward,” “confused,” “struggling” and “a stammering, stuttering mess.” — I saw something completely different. From my perspective …
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Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
Adam Schiff's Hypocritical Lecture On ‘Morality’
Corey Brettschneider / Washington Post:
Mueller just showed why impeachment proceedings should begin soon
Mueller just showed why impeachment proceedings should begin soon
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft — Exclusive: Danielle Stella, reported to support baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, held twice this year over alleged shoplifting — A pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress who is aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar …
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
House passes sweeping budget deal after late Trump push — The House passed a massive $2.7 trillion, two-year budget deal that boosts Pentagon and domestic spending, in a win for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump.The deal, which also suspends the debt ceiling into 2021 …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
House approves two-year bipartisan budget and debt deal
House approves two-year bipartisan budget and debt deal
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CRFB Papers and Blog Posts, Townhall and Quartz
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Dems authorize subpoenas for senior White House aides' official communications
House Dems authorize subpoenas for senior White House aides' official communications
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Washington Post, Daily Wire, Axios, The Daily Caller and The Week
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured in NYC Jail Cell After Possible Suicide Attempt or Assault: Sources — One source says an assault has not been ruled out, and that another inmate accused of murder has been questioned — No Bail for NYC Financier Jeff Epstein
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Polls:
Biden Holds Large Edge — African American support boosts former VP — West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden is the clear front-runner among likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina in the first Monmouth University Poll here for the 2020 cycle.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Kamala Harris's Debate Bounce Is Fading
Kamala Harris's Debate Bounce Is Fading
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Jet-setter: Buttigieg leads 2020 Dems in private flights
Jet-setter: Buttigieg leads 2020 Dems in private flights
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google for $50 Million — Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the long-shot presidential candidate from Hawaii, said in a federal lawsuit that Google infringed on her free speech when it briefly suspended her campaign's advertising account after the first Democratic debate in June.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mueller didn't fail. The country did. — Being thousands of miles away from home in Portugal, a country that 45 years ago was in the grasp of a brutal dictatorship, gives me an interesting perspective on former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Wednesday testimony and on the now nearly forgotten …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Worst Part of the Mueller Hearings? Republican Conspiracy Theories. — There's nothing wrong with defending the president during a scandal. But denying reality helps no one. — Some things are so obvious that no one even bothers to mention them. So I want to be clear …
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley grossly mischaracterized the views of 4 academics in his ‘cosmopolitan elites’ speech — The GOP's wunderkind doesn't appear to do his homework. — In his recent keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) spoke about how a …
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Washington Monthly, New Republic and Daily Wire
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“She's Dangerous”: GOP Insiders Fear Kamala Could Be the Next Obama — Rattled by her deft vivisection of Joe Biden at the last debate, Republicans wonder how Harris might do against a real villain like Trump. “She doesn't come across as a nutjob,” worries one GOP operative.
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Booker and Biden are trading barbs, on a collision course for the debate stage
Booker and Biden are trading barbs, on a collision course for the debate stage
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Fox News, The Federalist and The Hill
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Will Trump's Racist Attacks Help Him? Ask Blue-Collar White Women. — Donald Trump's turn toward more overt racism in his “go back” attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color rests on an unspoken bet: that the women who are part of his core constituencies will respond to his acrimony as enthusiastically as the men.
Ilhan Omar / New York Times:
It Is Not Enough to Condemn Trump's Racism — The nation's ideals are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them. — Ms. Omar is a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota. — Throughout history, demagogues have used state power to target minority communities and political enemies, often culminating in state violence.
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Speaker Pelosi just laid out the roadmap to impeachment — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) just used a high-profile press conference with three top committee Chairmen to lay out a path to impeachment in the wake of today's Mueller hearings which revealed detailed evidence of impeachable offenses.
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Caroline Haskins / VICE:
Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement — The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company. — Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around …
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Graham: I Told Turkey They Can Avoid Sanctions If They Don't Activate Russian Radar — Sen. Lindsay Graham says President Trump asked him to make the call. — At President Trump's request, Sen. Lindsey Graham said, he called Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu with a simple pitch on Wednesday …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Elizabeth Warren Has a Radical Plan to Beat Trump at His Own Game — The professor-turned-senator worked inside the system for decades. Now she's stepping outside—way outside—and forcing Democrats to go with her. — Last fall, Elizabeth Warren got an email from Klaus Schwab …
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Politico and Political Wire
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Thought the Mueller Hearings Were Hilarious — Russian state television evaluated the content of the hearings more honestly than Republicans and their pet networks in the United States. — As Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, testified before Congress about the findings …
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Congressman Peter DeFazio:
Statement from Rep. Peter DeFazio on Opening an Impeachment Inquiry — WASHINGTON—Rep. Peter DeFazio today released the following statement on opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's offenses: — I believe that the time has come for the Judiciary Committee to open …
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