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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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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Thought the Mueller Hearings Were Hilarious
Russia Thought the Mueller Hearings Were Hilarious
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Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
Washington Post Fact Checks Only Republicans During Mueller Hearings
Washington Post Fact Checks Only Republicans During Mueller Hearings
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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Conspiracy theories, excusing Russians, attacking Mueller: How low can Republicans go?
Conspiracy theories, excusing Russians, attacking Mueller: How low can Republicans go?
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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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Nicholas Wu / USA Today:
Trump appears in front of altered presidential seal saying ‘45 is a puppet’ — WASHINGTON - Speaking on Tuesday at a student activist conference hosted by the conservative advocacy organization Turning Point USA, President Donald Trump walked onstage in front of a presidential seal that …
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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Christina Prignano / BostonGlobe.com:
Ed Markey calls for Trump impeachment in Senate speech
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.
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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell blocks two election security bills — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked two election security measures on Thursday, arguing Democrats are trying to give themselves a “political benefit.” — The move comes a day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP blocks election security bills after Mueller testimony
GOP blocks election security bills after Mueller testimony
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Worst Part of the Mueller Hearings? Republican Conspiracy Theories.
Worst Part of the Mueller Hearings? Republican Conspiracy Theories.
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Sweeping budget deal passes House despite weak GOP support — The House with tepid Republican support passed a massive budget deal Thursday that would free lawmakers to hit the campaign trail next year without fretting about fiscal turmoil keeping them tied down in Washington.
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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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New York Times:
Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Report Finds — WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded Thursday that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, largely undetected by the states and federal officials at the time …
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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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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.
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 …
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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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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House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
Committee Approves Subpoena to White House for Emails Sent on Personal Accounts in Violation of Federal Law — Chairman Cummings issued the following statement on today's vote: — “The Committee has obtained direct evidence that multiple high-level White House officials have been violating …
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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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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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rubio cries ‘racist’ after being duped by a misleading tweet and video — “I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country, and so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe …
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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 …
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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