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Washington Post:
‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day. — President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars' worth …
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
My husband dumped me for Ilhan Omar, DC mom says in divorce filing — A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post. — Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett …
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
Alabama Republicans approve resolution calling for Omar to be expelled from Congress — Alabama's Republican Party is urging the state's congressional delegation to begin the process of expelling freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from Congress. — The state GOP supported a resolution calling …
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Nearly one of every three dollars spent on Ilhan Omar's campaign has gone to her alleged lover's firm — The New York Post reported Tuesday on a high-profile divorce. To be specific, a woman has claimed in court papers that her husband has been cheating on her, carrying on with married Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show — Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in “travel expenses” to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
‘Focus On The Present’: Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks With Esme Murphy About ‘Shaking Things Up’ In Washington
‘Focus On The Present’: Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks With Esme Murphy About ‘Shaking Things Up’ In Washington
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Tim Nelson / MPR News:
Divorce filing claims woman's husband left her for Ilhan Omar
Divorce filing claims woman's husband left her for Ilhan Omar
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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
A DC Woman Is Divorcing Her Husband After He Left Her For Rep. Ilhan Omar
A DC Woman Is Divorcing Her Husband After He Left Her For Rep. Ilhan Omar
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Washington Post:
Cheers! Barr books Trump's hotel for $30,000 holiday party — Experts say private, 200-person party adds to questions about attorney general's independence from president. — U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is planning a holiday treat for his boss.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Falwell steered Liberty University land deal benefiting his personal trainer — LYNCHBURG, Va. (Reuters) - Evangelical leader and prominent Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr personally approved real estate transactions by his nonprofit Christian university that helped …
David Karpf / Esquire:
I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day. — Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy. He knows this. I know this. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has a regular op-ed column in the — New York Times — . I am just some professor.
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Rebecca Fishbein / Splinter:
An Interview with the Man Whose Bedbug Joke Made Bret Stephens Lose His Mind
An Interview with the Man Whose Bedbug Joke Made Bret Stephens Lose His Mind
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Emma Pettit / Chronicle of Higher Education:
This Professor Compared a Columnist to a Bedbug. Then the Columnist Contacted the Provost.
This Professor Compared a Columnist to a Bedbug. Then the Columnist Contacted the Provost.
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Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money, BizPac Review, Talking Points Memo and Fox News
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
A Q&A With the Man Who Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug
A Q&A With the Man Who Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug
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New York Times:
Deutsche Bank Tells Court It Has Some Tax Returns Related to Trump Inquiry — Deutsche Bank told a federal appeals court on Tuesday that it was in possession of some tax returns sought by congressional subpoenas issued earlier this year to President Trump, his family and his businesses.
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Deutsche Bank all but confirms it possesses some of Trump's tax returns — Lawyers for Deutsche Bank all but confirmed on Tuesday that the German lender possesses some of President Donald Trump's tax returns and those of his family members. — The financial giant was responding to an order …
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Trump's bank has tax records Congress is seeking in subpoenas targeting the president's finances
Trump's bank has tax records Congress is seeking in subpoenas targeting the president's finances
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Deutsche Bank has tax returns but doesn't say publicly if they are Trump's
Deutsche Bank has tax returns but doesn't say publicly if they are Trump's
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The Stranger, The Week and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Biden: Racism in US is institutional, 'white man's problem' — WASHINGTON (AP) — Racism in America is institutional and it is a “white man's problem visited on people of color,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump …
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Biden Extols His Black Support: ‘I Think They Know Me’
Biden Extols His Black Support: ‘I Think They Know Me’
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Political Wire
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Joe Biden took questions from black reporters for 90 minutes. He did not disappoint.
David J. Kramer / Washington Post:
Trump wants Russia to join the G-7. Here's why that's a terrible idea. — David J. Kramer is a senior fellow in the Vaclav Havel Center for Human Rights & Diplomacy and director of European and Eurasian studies at Florida International University's Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs.
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Thoughts on the Impending Prosecution of Andrew McCabe — I confess that this story shocks me. — The New York Times reported yesterday that “Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe …
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The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, American Greatness and Townhall
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces details for climate crisis town hall — Washington (CNN)CNN on Tuesday announced the candidate lineup for its unprecedented prime-time event focused on the climate crisis. — Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls on Wednesday …
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NBC News:
Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border — Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department …
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Shannon Dooling / NPR:
Trump Administration Ends Protection For Migrants' Medical Care — Toggle more options — Dismaying immigrants and advocates, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has sent out letters saying the agency will no longer consider most deferrals of deportation for people with serious medical conditions, documents show.
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Business Insider:
‘I was working like a slave’: Exhausted Popeyes employees describe a harrowing situation amid chicken-sandwich chaos, including working 60-hour weeks and shifts with no breaks — Popeyes and Chick-fil-A engaged in a Twitter battle last week over which chain's chicken sandwich was superior …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Rep. Steve King jokes China should sterilize Uighur women and force the Muslims to eat pork — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) joked at a town hall in Audubon, Iowa, Tuesday about sterilizing Muslim women in China “so there's no more Uighurs to be born,” and “trying to force them to eat pork,” the Sioux City Journal reports.
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Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald:
Conservative trolls allied with White House looking to ‘kill’ the wrong messenger | Opinion — “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” — So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's “Henry VI, Part 2.” Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke …
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed News:
A Palestinian Harvard Student Said He Was Deported Because Of His Friend's Social Media Posts — A Palestinian Harvard freshman's student visa was revoked and he was deported after hours of questioning by immigration officials upon his arrival to the US, the university said Tuesday.
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Washington Post:
Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest — President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue …
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“ARE WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE A GAFFE-FEST OVER JOE BIDEN?”: HOW CLICKBAIT AND OUTRAGE PORN ARE HURTING READERS—AND ELEVATING TRUMP — Trump wants to drop a nuclear bomb into a hurricane, immigrant children are dying in U.S. custody, and the Amazon rainforest is burning.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is lying to farmers' faces, and they're finally getting angry about it — One of the worst habits among the D.C. commentariat is the tendency to treat President Trump's lies as if they possess magical qualities. We are constantly told that Trump's lying “works,” …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Farmers' Frustration With Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight
Farmers' Frustration With Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight
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