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Wilborn P. Nobles III / Baltimore Sun:
Trump calls Baltimore ‘disgusting ... rodent infested mess,’ rips Rep. Elijah Cummings over border criticism — President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to demand an investigation into Maryland's 7th congressional district in a series of tweets criticizing U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Assails Congressional Critic, Calling His Majority-Black District a ‘Disgusting’ Rat-Infested ‘Mess’ — WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at a leading African-American congressman on Saturday, calling him “a brutal bully” who represents a Baltimore-based district that has become a …
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Baltimore Sun:
Better to have a few rats than to be one — In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland's 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a …
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Washington Post:
Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters — President Trump launched another broadside Saturday on a Democratic political opponent, calling a prominent black congressman's Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Spare Me the Purity Racket — WASHINGTON — After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps. — Then this week, lefty Twitter erected …
Oliver Carroll / The Independent:
Russia protests: Riot police violently break up Moscow demonstration as thousands take to streets in defiance of Kremlin — Hundreds arrested during protest calling for free elections — The arrests began even before the protest started. A woman was prised from a street bench.
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Jim Heintz / Associated Press:
Russian police arrest more than 1,000 in Moscow protest
Russian police arrest more than 1,000 in Moscow protest
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Washington Post:
Mueller's team told Congress his acuity was not an issue. Some lawmakers privately worry it was. — The whispers started in 2018, though where they originated remains unclear: Robert S. Mueller III, the taciturn Marine veteran leading an investigation of the president of the United States, might not be as sharp as he once was.
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New York Times:
The Roots of Boeing's 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight — SEATTLE — In the days after the first crash of Boeing's 737 Max, engineers at the Federal Aviation Administration came to a troubling realization: They didn't fully understand the automated system that helped send …
Dana Hunsinger Benbow / Indianapolis Star:
Dan Quayle: If Democrats ‘put up some total left winger’ Donald Trump will be re-elected — With Mike Pence's election as vice president, Indiana now has six veeps, second only to New York state. Here's a peek at the Hoosiers who have held the No. 2 position in the land. (Dwight Adams/IndyStar)
New York Times:
Anti-Gay Brutality in a Polish Town Blamed on Poisonous Propaganda — BIALYSTOK, Poland — The marchers at the first gay pride parade here in the conservative Polish city of Bialystok expected that they would be met with resistance. — But last week when Katarzyna Sztop-Rutkowska saw …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Washington Post columnist accuses McConnell of doing 'Putin's bidding' — Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday after the GOP leader blocked two election security measures this week. — In an op-ed published by The Post …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why the GOP retirements are a gut punch for the party — DRIVING THE DAY — WHILE WE WERE ALL watching ROBERT MUELLER and Democrats this week, here's what happened to House Republicans: Three popular and well-respected members of Congress decided they weren't going to run for reelection.
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln. — The two men were friendly and influenced each other — It was December 1861, a Tuesday at noon, when President Abraham Lincoln sent his first annual message — what later became the State of the Union — to the House and Senate.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
What Kamala Harris Believes — The Democratic candidate wants relevant policy, not “a beautiful sonnet.” Is that enough for voters? — LOS ANGELES — At her strongest, Senator Kamala Harris is forceful and pragmatic. She elates crowds in Iowa and South Carolina with her denunciations …