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Robin Opsahl / Des Moines Register:
U.S. Rep. Steve King: If not for rape and incest, ‘would there be any population left?’ — U.S. Rep. Steve King told the Westside Conservative Club Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest throughout human history. — “What if we went back through all the family trees …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Steve King says humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest
Rep. Steve King says humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest
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Jennifer Araoz / New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Raped Me When I Was 15 — Now I'm suing his estate and accomplices. — Ms. Araoz has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. — The first time I stepped into Jeffrey Epstein's mansion on the Upper East Side in the fall of 2001, I noticed his security cameras.
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Daily Mail:
Ghislaine Maxwell has been living in mansion outside of Boston — Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, has been living with tech CEO Scott Borgerson, 43, at his secluded $3M oceanfront property in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, DailyMail.com can reveal.
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Did Jeffrey Epstein have painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue DRESS and red heels and lounging in the Oval Office inside his Manhattan mansion? Visitor reveals bizarre image inside pedophile's $56m lair — Jeffrey Epstein had a painting which appeared to be Bill Clinton wearing …
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz sues Ghislaine Maxwell, 3 other Epstein staffers
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz sues Ghislaine Maxwell, 3 other Epstein staffers
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Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Main yield curve inverts as 2-year yield tops 10-year rate, triggering recession warning — KEY POINTS — The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was at 1.623%, below the 2-year yield at 1.634%. — The last inversion of this part of the yield curve was in December 2005 …
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Ben White / Politico:
Trump's recession risk rises — NEW YORK — Wall Street hoisted another hurricane warning on the economy on Wednesday as fear continues to rise that a recession could arrive by next year, potentially crashing into President Donald Trump's attempt to win a second term.
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Laura Curtis / Bloomberg:
Stocks Slide, Bonds Flash Warning After Weak Data: Markets Wrap
Stocks Slide, Bonds Flash Warning After Weak Data: Markets Wrap
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
When Their Book Deal Blew Up After Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Glenn Thrush Kept His Advance. Maggie Haberman Had To Pay Hers Back. — The first two years of the Trump presidency were a boom time for political books, and one of the boomiest was the deal announced in September 2017 …
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Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Biden keeps large lead in SC's 2020 Democratic presidential primary — COLUMBIA — Despite two shaky debates and some recent misstatements, South Carolina Democratic voters still prefer former Vice President Joe Biden in the South's first presidential primary.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
JUST IN: Elizabeth Warren Surges to Statistical Tie With Joe Biden in New National Poll — Results of a new poll show Sen. Elizabeth Warren surging into a statistical tie with former Vice President Joe Biden. — The poll, conducted by YouGov for The Economist, shows Biden earning 21% support compared …
Project Veritas:
Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul” — HUNDREDS of Internal Google Documents Leaked to Project Veritas... news blacklist, “human raters,” YouTube CEO video... Google Insider Wants More Insiders to Blow Whistle …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Max Boot's Dishonesty — He intentionally misconstrues what others write and then lies about it, knowing that no one will bother to uncover his distortion. — Before yesterday, my primary criticism of the Washington Post's Max Boot was political in nature.
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Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:
Satellite photos: Chinese armored vehicles near Hong Kong — BEIJING (AP) — Satellite photos show what appear to be armored personnel carriers and other vehicles belonging to the China's paramilitary People's Armed Police parked in a sports complex in the city of Shenzhen …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Waning of American Power? Trump Struggles With an Asia in Crisis
Waning of American Power? Trump Struggles With an Asia in Crisis
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
‘Retake Hong Kong’: A Movement, a Slogan and an Identity Crisis
‘Retake Hong Kong’: A Movement, a Slogan and an Identity Crisis
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Foreign Policy, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why. — It was kind of like Christmas — except it was August, the only presents were vintage television sets, and Santa had a TV on his head. — Residents of more than 50 households in Henrico County …
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BizPac Review, Law & Crime and The Daily Caller
Joe Walsh / New York Times:
Trump Needs a Primary Challenge — The case for a contender from the right. — Mr. Walsh is a former Republican member of Congress from Illinois. — There's a strong case for President Trump to face a Republican primary challenger. I know a thing or two about insurgencies.
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Windsor Mann / The Week:
Everyone will eventually turn on Trump. Even Steve Doocy. — It's too soon to say when Donald Trump's presidency will end, but it's not too soon to say how it will end. It will end in disgrace. And when it does, Trump's defenders will turn on him. — Some already have.
New York Times:
Why a Banking Heiress Spent Her Fortune on Keeping Immigrants Out — Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda. — She was an heiress without a cause …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Advisers Are Wary as President Considers Gun Proposals — Following mass shootings, Trump is interested in exploring legislation with new gun restrictions, but his aides are divided on the right approach — WASHINGTON—President Trump's public push for gun-control measures …
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Laura Hughes / Washington Post:
Montana's GOP wants to make it impossible for local governments to enact gun control
Montana's GOP wants to make it impossible for local governments to enact gun control
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Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg:
Overstock Tumbles 36% Since CEO Byrne's ‘Deep State’ Statement — Overstock.com Inc. shares fell for a third day Wednesday as investors reacted to statements by Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne that he was a part of federal investigations related to the 2016 election.
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Stacey Abrams Says She's Open to Being Vice President for Any Democratic Nominee — Ms. Abrams, who announced this week that she would not run for president, told The Times she would be ‘honored to be considered.’ — Stacey Abrams made it official this week that she would not seek …
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke to deliver campaign reset speech Thursday — DALLAS — Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke plans to deliver his first major, written address on Thursday, offering a reset of his presidential campaign, a new focus and a fresh strategy for going forward in the wake of a mass shooting …
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David Siders / Politico:
O'Rourke plots return from 2020 sidelines
O'Rourke plots return from 2020 sidelines
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Why the Secret Service spent thousands at a Trump hotel — Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, flew to Canada for one of his regular visits to the Yukon mountains to hunt stone sheep with friends. He was accompanied by Secret Service agents on that August 2017 trip …
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Penny Nance / The Federalist:
My Son's Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda — Now that I have witnessed college propaganda firsthand, I refuse to ignore the indefensible and discriminatory behavior of the liberal campus bullies anymore. — Are taxpayers funding academic institutions to indoctrinate our kids?
Greg B. Smith / The City:
Anti-New York White Supremacist Hate is Rising, NYPD Says — When white nationalist Garrett Kelsey discovered an internet video castigating Nordic neo-Nazis, he allegedly turned his fury on the Manhattan-based Jewish group that posted it. — From his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa …
Wall Street Journal:
Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents — Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
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Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Latest Proposal Would Let Businesses Discriminate Based On LGBTQ Status, Race, Religion, And More — The Trump administration on Wednesday formally proposed a new rule to let businesses with federal contracts cite religious objections as a valid reason to discriminate against their workers …
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
Ken Cuccinelli: Statue Of Liberty Poem About ‘People Coming From Europe’ — Trump's citizenship and immigration chief followed up his earlier comments about the famous Emma Lazarus poem with a racist clarification. — Ken Cuccinelli, the Trump administration's acting head of U.S. Citizenship …
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
‘Keep the Hasidic Out’: A Small-Town Housing Showdown — Developers say local leaders in the Hudson Valley are blocking a housing project in order to keep out Hasidic Jews. — CHESTER, N.Y. — In a peaceful corner of the Hudson Valley, a broad expanse of land sits at the ready for hundreds …
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One — Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true. … My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard.
Rasmussen Reports:
Americans Say Murder More Likely Than Suicide in Epstein Case — Americans aren't buying that disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in jail last weekend. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 29% …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Don't tell me Trump's words don't matter — President Trump's apologists express outrage when his affirmation of white supremacist themes (e.g. “an invasion") is linked to mass shootings by white supremacists. (Try to imagine them taking that position if President Barack Obama had echoed radical Islamist themes.)
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Unaware Of Blago Case Details When IL GOPers Called To Change His Mind — At least two key Illinois Republicans called President Trump last week to try to talk him out of commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence, CNN reported Wednesday.
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