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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes — A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.
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New York Times:
Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job — WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Coats would step down as director of national intelligence after a fraught tenure marked by tension with the Oval Office, and he tapped one of his staunch defenders …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as DNI
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as DNI
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CNN, NPR, The Week, KTLA, New York Times, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Slate, RedState, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Hullabaloo and Splinter
Associated Press:
Coats out as national intel director, clashed with Trump
Coats out as national intel director, clashed with Trump
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FiveThirtyEight and Patterico's Pontifications
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
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The Atlantic, POLITICUSUSA and Vox
New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3 — At least three people were killed and 15 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said. — A suspect carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police …
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NBC Bay Area, Mercury News, CBS News, The Daily Beast and Splinter
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: 3 killed, 15 wounded, gunman dead — A gunman with an assault-type rifle opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening, killing three and wounding 15 others, some critically, before being killed by police, Gilroy police said. A 6-year-old boy was among the dead.
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CBS San Francisco, KFOR-TV, No More Mister Nice Blog, Fox News, New York Post, WPIX 11 New York and WNEP-TV
Justin Doom / ABC News:
At least 3 killed, including 6-year-old, in shooting at garlic festival in California — At least three people, plus a suspect, died after a shooting at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. — Among those killed on Sunday was a 6-year-old boy, his grandmother told ABC San Francisco station KGO.
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NBC News, The Daily Caller, PJ Media Home, ABC7, RedState, Townhall, Slate and fox8.com
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party — As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP. — Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.
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The Daily Beast, Common Dreams, POLITICUSUSA and Splinter
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Accuses Black Congressman and Allies of Being Racist, Deepening Feud
Trump Accuses Black Congressman and Allies of Being Racist, Deepening Feud
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Front Page Magazine, The Independent and Fox News
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
In Trump's America, the ‘basket of deplorables’ is overflowing
In Trump's America, the ‘basket of deplorables’ is overflowing
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Slate, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump attacked Baltimore. The city's newspaper wrote a scathing response.
Trump attacked Baltimore. The city's newspaper wrote a scathing response.
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Axios, New York Times, The Week, Baltimore Sun and twitchy.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
With Sunday surge, nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry — Four more rank-and-file Democrats called for opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Sunday, inching lawmakers closer to a significant symbolic milestone: a majority of all House Democrats.
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RedState, Common Dreams, Mediaite and Axios
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Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us
We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us
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Washington Post and ABC News
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers — Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a plan to achieve universal coverage by growing Medicare with the help of private insurers, an effort that splits the difference with her chief Democratic presidential rivals …
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Axios, Washington Post and CNN
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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
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twitchy.com
Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All — There is perhaps no more complicated …
My Plan For Medicare For All — There is perhaps no more complicated …
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CNN, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News, The Week and Washington Times
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny hospitalized with suspected poisoning, doctor says — A doctor for Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has suggested the activist has been poisoned after he was hospitalized Sunday after falling mysteriously ill in a Moscow jail.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Balloon Juice
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Gabriela Resto-Montero / Vox:
Russian police crack down on protesters during the largest demonstrations in a decade
Russian police crack down on protesters during the largest demonstrations in a decade
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CNN, New York Post and Foreign Policy
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop — Not long after his anemic performance in the first presidential debate, as his poll numbers began to slide, Joe Biden had conversations with nervous donors and personally assured them his campaign was on track.
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Rebecca Buck / CNN:
First on CNN: Booker reaches donor threshold for future debate
First on CNN: Booker reaches donor threshold for future debate
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Political Wire
Kevin M. Kruse / New York Times:
The Real Problem With Trump's Rallies — There are a lot of similarities between the president and George Wallace of Alabama. But there's also one big difference. — Mr. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton. — President Trump's political rallies are certainly a spectacle, but a spectacle we've seen before.
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Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate — The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him. — “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said. It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.
New York Times:
Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying — WASHINGTON — As Donald J. Trump was preparing to deliver an address on energy policy in May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speech's contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.
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Axios, Jewish Insider and The Daily Beast
Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
Kushner owns lots of Baltimore-area apartments. Some are infested with mice. — In a now-viral tweetstorm on Saturday, President Trump characterized Rep. Elijah E. Cummings's Baltimore-based congressional district as a “rodent infested mess” where “no human” would want to live.
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Talking Points Memo
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
When Epstein Was Cosmo's Bachelor of the Month — In July 1980, the predatory financier was featured as the magazine's “Bachelor of the Month” seeking a “cute Texas girl.” — Long before Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his billionaires-only client list—and long before his arrests …
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Law & Crime, Instapundit and Front Page Magazine
Washington Post:
Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise. — Backlash to Trump's rhetoric could offset any gains. — President Trump's “go back” tweets, directed at four congresswomen of color, elicited strong condemnation of both the president …
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Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Robert Mueller shielded Trump's budget deal — Before President Trump agreed to support a 2-year budget deal that would inflate the national debt and allow $320 billion in new spending, he monitored Fox News for signs of rebellion. But instead of bringing up fiscal responsibility and the national debt …
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