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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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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 …
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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Nancy Pelosi's next target: Mitch McConnell
Nancy Pelosi's next target: Mitch McConnell
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Political Wire, Politico and Mediaite
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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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Judges Say They Aren't Extensions of Presidents Who Appointed Them
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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National Review, Washington Examiner, Popular Information, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
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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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Washington Post, New York Post and Mediaite
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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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
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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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump lashed out at the media for reporting he would meet with Iran with ‘no conditions.’ He's said as much on camera twice. — President Trump lashed out Sunday night at the news media for reporting that he would meet with Iranian leaders with “no conditions” — something Trump has said on camera …
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Political Wire, Mediaite and The Week
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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Bloomberg, The American Conservative, Foreign Policy, Mediaite and BizPac Review
Bloomberg:
Attack on Saudi Arabia Demands a United Response
Attack on Saudi Arabia Demands a United Response
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Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and Washington Post
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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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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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
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 …
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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Los Angeles Times:
Climate change is already here. 2020 could be your last chance to stop an apocalypse — The world is drifting steadily toward a climate catastrophe. For many of us, that's been clear for a few years or maybe a decade or even a few decades. — But others have known that a reckoning was coming for much longer.
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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
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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Power Line
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Trumped Out? — The new post-Mueller media narrative is “weariness” and “exhaustion” with President Trump's tweets, his cul de sac Sharpie controversy, his ideas about buying Greenland, his unorthodox art-of-the-deal foreign policy that resulted in a plan to talk to Taliban leaders in the United States …
CBS News:
Transcript: Representative Ilhan Omar on “Face the Nation,” September 15, 2019 — The following is a transcript of the interview with Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota that aired Sunday, September 15, 2019, on “Face the Nation.” — MARGARET BRENNAN: Congresswoman, it's good to have you here.
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Ilhan Omar says she's controversial only because ‘people seem to want the controversy’
Ilhan Omar says she's controversial only because ‘people seem to want the controversy’
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New York Times:
All Was Quiet at the Birmingham Weather Office. Until a Trump Forecast Brought a Storm. — Tornadoes are the most challenging tempests that the National Weather Service workers in Alabama typically handle. But all that changed with a faulty Hurricane Dorian tweet by the president.
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Talking Points Memo
Douglas Schoen / The Hill:
Why populism is back in full force — Populism is on the rise around the world, stoking fear and panic within mainstream governments. Politicians are rushing to seek answers for the sudden rise in this often studied but misunderstood political paradigm. A new study shows not only the causes behind …