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‘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 …
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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.
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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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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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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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 …
Emma Pettit / Chronicle of Higher Education:
This Professor Compared a Columnist to a Bedbug. Then the Columnist Contacted the Provost. — David Karpf expected more likes on his pretty good but admittedly not great joke. — On Monday the associate professor in George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs read …
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David Karpf / Esquire:
I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day.
I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day.
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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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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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Washington Post:
A professor called Bret Stephens a ‘bedbug.’ The New York Times columnist complained to the professor's boss.
A professor called Bret Stephens a ‘bedbug.’ The New York Times columnist complained to the professor's boss.
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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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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 Harvard Crimson:
Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked — While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi '23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.
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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 …
Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
'I feel like I'm signing my son's death warrant.' Children at Boston hospitals face deportation — Severely ill immigrants, including children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other grave conditions, are facing deportation under a change in Trump administration policy that immigration advocates are calling cruel and inhumane.
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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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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Marissa Brostoff / Washington Post:
How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement — Last fall, speaking to a far-right Austrian magazine, the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King succinctly laid out his theory of Western decline. The problem, he suggested, was a demographic born at the nexus of reproduction and immigration.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Smearing Pro-Lifers, Especially J. D. Vance
Smearing Pro-Lifers, Especially J. D. Vance
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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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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.
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Exclusive: Log Cabin executive director resigns over Trump endorsement — The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans has resigned following a controversial decision by the organization's board to endorse President Trump, the Washington Blade has learned exclusively.
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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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Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Sanders: China has done more to address extreme poverty ‘than any country in the history of civilization’ — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) offered praise for China while stating in an interview that he believed the U.S. could have a positive relationship with the country, saying it had made …
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