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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 …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as DNI — President Trump announced on Twitter Sunday that he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, confirming Axios' earlier reporting that Ratcliffe was favored for the job.
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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
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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Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us — Nancy Pelosi spared moderate Democrats a floor vote on impeachment, but she has unleashed her committee chairs to do exactly what needs to be done. — CONNECT — Don't let anybody fool you …
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Washington Post and ABC News
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CNN's Stelter Bashes Fox News Over Trump's Cummings Attacks: Fueling POTUS's Racism With ‘Distorted View of the Country’ — CNN's Brian Stelter opened Reliable Sources on Sunday by dissecting the Donald Trump-Fox News feedback loop that led to the president's attacks on Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Mulvaney for Saying Trump's Baltimore Tweets Have ‘Zero to Do With Race’
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Mulvaney for Saying Trump's Baltimore Tweets Have ‘Zero to Do With Race’
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Daily Wire, The Week and BizPac Review
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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Axios, Washington Post and The Daily Beast
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments
Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments
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PJ Media Home, Townhall, Front Page Magazine, Axios, NB Blog, Washington Times, The Daily Caller, Sara A. Carter and RedState
Dan Rodricks / Baltimore Sun:
People who refuse to see or hear Trump's racism in attack on Baltimore are beyond reach, but here goes
People who refuse to see or hear Trump's racism in attack on Baltimore are beyond reach, but here goes
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Hullabaloo
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Bernie Sanders: 'It's unbelievable' Trump ‘attacks American cities’
Bernie Sanders: 'It's unbelievable' Trump ‘attacks American cities’
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Breitbart, fox8.com and Front Page Magazine
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
‘Everything that Donald Trump says is offensive to some people,’ Mulvaney says
‘Everything that Donald Trump says is offensive to some people,’ Mulvaney says
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BizPac Review, Breitbart, Slate and CNN
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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Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press:
Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade
Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade
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Foreign Policy, New York Times, Splinter, BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and The Week
Politico:
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers — Slower than Bernie Sanders, but more ambitious than Joe Biden: How Harris aims to achieve universal health coverage. — Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a plan to achieve universal coverage by growing Medicare …
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Washington Post, One America News Network and CNN
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Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All — There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care. I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer. And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …
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Bloomberg and BuzzFeed News
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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Hot Air:
Tapper To Rashida Tlaib: Why Do You Only Want To Boycott Israel And Not, Say, Egypt Or Pakistan Or Saudi Arabia? — I would happily boycott Egypt or Saudi Arabia for human rights violations, Tlaib insists, responding to Tapper's question. — Okay, he says. Then why don't you?
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, CBS San Francisco, CBS News, Mercury News and Splinter
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
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
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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The Daily Beast
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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