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Jackie Calmes / Los Angeles Times:
New reporting details how FBI limited investigation of Kavanaugh allegations — As Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh prepares for his second year on the Supreme Court, new reporting has detailed how the limits ordered by the White House and Senate Republicans last year constrained the FBI investigation …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
New Book: Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Leland Keyser Doesn't Believe Her — “It just didn't make any sense,” lifelong friend Leland Keyser told New York Times reporters about Ford's allegations, adding “I don't have any confidence in the story.” — Buried at the end of their new book …
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NBC News:
Democrats call for Kavanaugh impeachment over new sexual misconduct claims
Democrats call for Kavanaugh impeachment over new sexual misconduct claims
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Fox News, ABC News, Quartz, twitchy.com, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, The Federalist and The Week
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
Calls for Kavanaugh's Impeachment Come Amid New Misconduct Allegations
Calls for Kavanaugh's Impeachment Come Amid New Misconduct Allegations
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Washington Post, Poynter, WGN-TV, The Crime Report, Althouse and PJ Media Home, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
2020 Democrats call for Kavanaugh to be impeached
2020 Democrats call for Kavanaugh to be impeached
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New York Post, Mediaite and Splinter
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Elizabeth Warren Joins Harris, Castro in Calling for Kavanaugh's Impeachment
Elizabeth Warren Joins Harris, Castro in Calling for Kavanaugh's Impeachment
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The Daily Beast, ABC News, CNN, The Daily Caller and Outside the Beltway
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
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The Federalist, National Review, The Resurgent, PJ Media Home, ABC News, Daily Wire, Patterico's Pontifications and Power Line
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The Kavanaugh revelations: Why the Supreme Court is broken
The Kavanaugh revelations: Why the Supreme Court is broken
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Washington Examiner, Popular Information, Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Week
Martha Raddatz / ABC News:
Iran fired cruise missiles in attack on Saudi oil facility: Senior US official — Iran launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory in the attack on a key Saudi oil facility Saturday, a senior Trump administration official told ABC News Sunday.
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Atlantic Council, The Week, Raw Story, Informed Comment, The American Conservative, Townhall and Bloomberg
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CNN:
Trump says US ‘locked and loaded depending on verification’ of attack on Saudi oil field
Trump says US ‘locked and loaded depending on verification’ of attack on Saudi oil field
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Foreign Policy, Mediaite, BizPac Review, NPR and WTKR-TV
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi oil
Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi oil
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One America News Network and Fox News
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ against attackers of Saudi oil facility ‘depending on verification’
Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ against attackers of Saudi oil facility ‘depending on verification’
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The Guardian, One America News Network, middleeastmonitor.com and Breitbart
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy — Purdue Pharma, the drug manufacturer accused of triggering the nation's epidemic of opioid addiction through its sale of the profitable but highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy Sunday.
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New York Times, One America News Network, The Week, Axios and The Crime Report
Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Russia carried out a ‘stunning’ breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil — On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the United States and was seizing …
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New Republic and The Crime Report
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren's first priority as president: ending government corruption — Warren's bold plan to crack down on corruption in Washington, explained. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) just previewed the first major piece of legislation she'd try to get passed through Congress if elected president …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Warren releases plan to tackle Washington corruption — NEW YORK — Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a new plan Monday to tackle corruption in Washington, part of the Democratic presidential candidate's ongoing promises to enact “big structural change” if elected.
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Politico
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Nancy Pelosi's next target: Mitch McConnell — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will escalate her caucus' anti-Mitch McConnell messaging this fall, testing a theory that this can be more effective than just continuing the party's anti-Trump rhetoric, Democratic leadership aides tell Axios.
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Political Wire, Politico and Mediaite
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Axios:
The 3 villains of Democrats' 2020 plan — Democrats plan to portray President Trump, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as the three villains defining the three branches of government for the 2020 campaign. — Why it matters: Each of these white men …
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
Steven Mnuchin's Mysterious Link to Creepy Epstein Model Scout — The treasury secretary's name shows up on official records for a company formed in the 1980s by Jeffrey Epstein's close friend, the model scout Jean-Luc Brunel. — In the late 1980s—before he was a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Shakes Up New Hampshire Operation — Senator Bernie Sanders has overhauled his New Hampshire state operations five months before the primary, as his campaign fights to maintain support in a state he won by more than 22 percentage points in 2016.
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Bernie Sanders shakes up campaign leadership in New Hampshire
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Why Trump is rallying in New Mexico — At a Trump rally back in February in El Paso, Texas, the campaign saw an unexpected pattern in the attendee data — a large crowd of New Mexicans crossed the state line to be there. — “That was our first glimpse into the idea that there might …
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Politico
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's Zombie Impeachment Memo That Could Help Fell Trump — A document Hillary Clinton helped write nearly a half century ago has returned from the dead to threaten the man she couldn't vanquish in 2016. — The bizarre, only-in-D.C. twist centers on a congressional report penned …
Tia Goldenberg / Associated Press:
Israeli PM vows to annex ‘all the settlements’ in West Bank — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to annex “all the settlements” in the West Bank, including an enclave deep in the heart of the largest Palestinian city, in a last-ditch move that appeared aimed …
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Politico and Political Wire
Streiff / RedState:
Babylon Bee Accurately Predicts a Snopes Fact Check Nine Months Before They Do It — A customer hold a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken outside a KFC restaurant, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, in Mountain View, Calif. Yum Brands Inc., which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, reports second-quarter results after the close of regular trading.
Thor Benson / The Daily Beast:
The Climate Crisis Is Poised to Make Huge Swaths of America Totally Uninsurable — “People are going to be trapped because once it's uninsurable, good luck selling the house,” one climate expert cautioned. — As climate change spurs increasingly destructive wildfires in California …
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Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Ilhan Omar says she's controversial only because ‘people seem to want the controversy’ — Rep. Ilhan Omar, reacting to outrage over a resurfaced video in which she appeared to compare migrant detention centers to the slave trade, said Sunday she's “controversial” only because “people seem to want the controversy.”
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CBS News:
Most Americans say climate change should be addressed now — CBS News poll — A majority of Americans think action needs to be taken right now to address climate change. Most consider it at least to be a serious problem — including more than a quarter who say it is a crisis.
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