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New York Times:
Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller's Grand Jury Secrets — In a petition to the court that oversaw the special counsel's grand jury investigation, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee say they need the information to weigh potential impeachment articles.
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Joshua Matz / Washington Post:
The House has already opened an impeachment investigation against Trump — Forget the political optics. As a matter of law, the Judiciary Committee's actions are clear. — Has the House of Representatives opened an impeachment inquiry? That question is starkly presented by a petition …
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Talking Points Memo and ThinkProgress
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
It's time for impeachment hearings on Trump. Here's how Democrats may proceed. — No matter how hard some observers work to minimize the importance of Robert S. Mueller III's testimony, here's the truth: It has increased the pressure inside the House Democratic caucus for launching an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Dems move closer to impeachment in strategy shakeup
Dems move closer to impeachment in strategy shakeup
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Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
‘There Is Constant Battling’: Nadler and Pelosi Are on a Collision Course
‘There Is Constant Battling’: Nadler and Pelosi Are on a Collision Course
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Washington Post, Splinter, Breitbart and CBS Boston
Nicole Goodkind / Newsweek:
Trump's former FBI head says it's time to start impeachment hearings
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judiciary Committee asks a judge to share Mueller's secret grand jury evidence
Judiciary Committee asks a judge to share Mueller's secret grand jury evidence
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Splinter and The Daily Beast
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Resistance Inc. — Column: Why impeachment isn't going away
Resistance Inc. — Column: Why impeachment isn't going away
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New York Times
Washington Post:
Nadler says he's going to court to enforce Mueller-related subpoenas, a step toward possible impeachment
Nadler says he's going to court to enforce Mueller-related subpoenas, a step toward possible impeachment
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Hot Air, Little Green Footballs, One America News Network and The First Street Journal
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dems launch ‘impeachment investigation’ with bid for grand jury info, insist Mueller delivered
Dems launch ‘impeachment investigation’ with bid for grand jury info, insist Mueller delivered
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NBC News, Breitbart, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Guardian
New York Times:
Mueller Testimony Deepens Democratic Divide on Impeachment
Mueller Testimony Deepens Democratic Divide on Impeachment
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National Review, RedState and Daily Kos
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2019 (Advance Estimate) and Annual Update — Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019 (table 1), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
Trump's 3% Growth Feat in 2018 Undone by Annual Data Revisions — Update shows U.S. economy expanded 2.5% last year — Revisions also boost savings rate, lower cellphone prices — President Donald Trump failed to achieve his much-ballyhooed 3% target for economic growth in 2018 after all.
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew by an Annual Rate of 2.1% in Second Quarter
U.S. Economy Grew by an Annual Rate of 2.1% in Second Quarter
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The Week
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar SPLITS with her husband and moves into luxury penthouse as she heads for SECOND divorce with father of her three children — Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband Ahmed Hirsi - the father of her three children - have split, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively
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Power Line, Big League Politics, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
DOJ's Russia probe review focusing on ‘smoking gun’ tapes of meeting with Trump aide: sources — CIA, FBI and DNI work with Attorney General Bill Barr to determine the origins of the Trump-Russia probe — The Justice Department's internal review of the Russia investigation is zeroing …
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RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Mueller Was Trying to Hide
What Mueller Was Trying to Hide
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NBC News:
What happened to the Republican outrage on Russia? — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — Two and a half years ago, it was easy to find Republicans who were outraged …
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Fox News, ThinkProgress, The Hill, Washington Post and Politico
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump knocks Fox News after poll shows him losing to Biden by 10 points
Trump knocks Fox News after poll shows him losing to Biden by 10 points
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Townhall and Washington Post
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The American System Is Already Failing — The Mueller hearings told us almost nothing that we didn't know already. We knew that the president welcomed assistance from a foreign power in order to win an election, and has fawned over his political patron in this endeavor, Vladimir Putin, since he became president.
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth — Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer's phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldn't figure out “why everyone was so alarmed.”
Zach Dorfman / Yahoo News:
Shadow force: The secret history of the U.S. intelligence community's battle with Iran's Revolutionary Guard — The hackers pretended to be professors, appealing to Achilles' heel of academics: their egos. Posing as admiring colleagues from other universities, they emailed their targets …
Josephine Wolff / Slate:
You Have a Moral Obligation to Claim Your $125 From Equifax — Help make sure that companies pay the consequences for data breaches. — Go claim your $125 from Equifax. Right now. Even if $125 isn't a sum of money that matters to you, even if you don't feel you were really directly affected by the breach.
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CBS Dallas, New York Post and The Verge
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Warren Fellowship Applicants: Campaign Program Was a ‘Great Scam’ — Two men accepted into the 2020 candidate's volunteer fellowship program described the process for entry as deceptive and at times exploitative. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has built much of her political career …
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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Scarborough calls McConnell ‘Moscow Mitch,’ says lack of action on Russian meddling is ‘un-American’ — MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Friday lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him “Moscow Mitch” over his inaction on legislation to address Russian election interference.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
What Were Robespierre's Pronouns? — The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today's Jacobins. — We often make historical parallels here. History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme, as clever people say. And sometimes it hiccups. Here is a hiccup.
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Windsor Mann / The Week:
How Pat Buchanan made President Trump possible — In 1991, television personality Pat Buchanan launched his first campaign for president. Twenty-five years later, he won. — “We will put America first,” Buchanan said in 1991. The previous year, he penned an essay for the National Interest titled …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Congressmen Took Your Cash. They Used It to Help the Saudis and the Qataris. — The contributions “add another dimension to the familiar but ever-expanding story of money, influence, and access in Washington,” the Campaign Legal Center wrote in its report.
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Is ‘Doing the Right Thing’ Worth Increasing the Risk of a Second Trump Term? — A new argument for impeaching President Trump has gained attention in the wake of Robert Mueller's testimony in the House on Wednesday, during which the special counsel confirmed his understanding that Trump …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The Extraordinary Humbling of John Hickenlooper — HANOVER, N.H. — Can John Hickenlooper interest you in a joke? — “What's the opposite of woe?” Mr. Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor and still-presidential-candidate, asked inside a hotel reception room last week …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
Washington Examiner:
UPDATED: CNN editor praised murder of ‘Jewish pigs’ in terrorist attack on Israeli bus — Social media posts from years ago by a CNN photo editor and writer reveal that he called Jews “pigs” and praised their deaths. — In a 2011 tweet, Mohammed Elshamy, 25, wrote, “More than 4 jewish pigs killed …
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The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Townhall and Washington Free Beacon
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Gillibrand Accuses Unnamed Democratic Rivals of Not Supporting Women Working ‘Outside the Home’ — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York accused some of her fellow Democratic candidates for president of not supporting women who work outside the home on Thursday, her most aggressive attempt yet …
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Washington Free Beacon, Washington Times, Iowa Starting Line and New York Post
New York Times:
How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria's Secret for Wealth and Women — In May 1997, Alicia Arden, a model in California, was introduced to a man who identified himself as a talent scout for Victoria's Secret. He invited her to his Santa Monica hotel room to audition for the brand's catalog.
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The Stranger, Mercury News, Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo, The Sun, Washington Post and The Daily Beast
YouTube:
Krystal Ball: How much damage has MSNBC done to the Left? … Krystal Ball's radar takes a look at the reaction to Mueller's 7-hour testimony from MSNBC. — About Rising: — Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside …
Media Matters for America:
Lies, damn lies, and media: Right-wing repetition of debunked narratives reshapes reality — On February 7, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the Green New Deal resolution in the House and Senate, respectively, and conservative media lost their collective mind.
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
We don't have 12 years to save the climate. We have 14 months. — Scientific reality makes clear that the only plausible way to preserve a livable climate — and hence modern civilization — starts with aggressive national and global cuts in carbon pollution by 2030.
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