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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, Mediaite and Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Pelosi and Schumer take hard line with Trump on gun background checks
Pelosi and Schumer take hard line with Trump on gun background checks
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times and Rolling Stone
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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Talking Points Memo, National Review, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and Popular Information
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, ABC News, Reason, Commentary, Raw Story and The Crime Report
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, Politico, New York Post, Political Wire and Althouse
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
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RedState, The Federalist, Sara A. Carter, PJ Media Home, The Resurgent, Daily Wire, Patterico's Pontifications and Power Line
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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Raw Story, Mediaite, Political Wire 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, Foreign Policy, The American Conservative, New York Times 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 twitchy.com
Max Boot / Washington Post:
The Saudi oil attacks are signs of Trump's Mideast fiasco
The Saudi oil attacks are signs of Trump's Mideast fiasco
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The Week and U.S. Political News …
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
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, The Week, One America News Network and Axios
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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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren beefs up anti-corruption plan ahead of NYC speech
Elizabeth Warren beefs up anti-corruption plan ahead of NYC speech
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Axios
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 …
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him — One of Joe Biden's proudest childhood accomplishments was a five-minute speech to his all-boys Catholic high school in Delaware. — The assignment was routine — a public-speaking requirement for all students.
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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
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times:
Autoworkers' Union Goes on Strike Against G.M. — The United Automobile Workers union went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines on Monday morning. — With the two sides far apart in the talks …
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UAW, Associated Press, Common Dreams, CalMatters, Splinter and fox5sandiego.com
Washington Post:
Most American teens are frightened by climate change, poll finds, and about 1 in 4 are taking action — In a coastal town in Washington, climate change has a high school junior worried about the floods that keep deluging his school. A 17-year-old from Texas says global warming scares him so much he can't even think about it.
Michael McAuliff / New York Daily News:
Jerry Nadler tells Daily News he won't rush to impeach Trump without enough public support — WASHINGTON — Jerry Nadler knows the hopes and fears of millions of Americans are riding on him and his impeachment investigation of President Trump, but the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is not waking up in cold sweats over it.
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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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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
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
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Andrew Yang's campaign says over 450,000 people have entered debate contest — Andrew Yang's surprising debate gambit — giving away $120,000 to 10 families over a year to highlight his universal basic income proposal — helped the outsider candidate raise $1 million in the 72 hours since …
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The Week and Political Wire