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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column: The most noxious part of Ukraine-Biden whistleblower affair is Team Trump thinks we're all idiots — What offends me most about the whistleblower-Ukraine-Biden story isn't the obvious corruption of it all. It's the way members of Team Trump assume we're all idiots who won't notice they've abruptly shifted their narrative.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Blurts Out to Reporters That He Pressured Ukraine to Smear Biden — Over the past two days, President Trump has drained most of the remaining mystery from the world's least mysterious crime drama. In a series of comments to the media, the president casually revealed that yes …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Media Helped Trump Carry Out His Ukraine Smear — On May 1, the New York Times published a story that contained the most important facets of the Ukraine story. The Times reported that President Trump, through his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was pressing Ukraine's government to investigate Joe Biden.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too — I mentioned below that the key thing about this latest and most egregious Trump scandal is that his senior team was clearly in on it, aware of it, participated in it. One key person here is Vice President Mike Pence. Earlier this month Pence flew …
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Hullabaloo, emptywheel and Occupy Democrats
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Republicans Have Four Options on Trump and Ukraine. They're All Bad.
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Raw Story
David Vance / Common Cause:
DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Others for Illegal Solicitation …
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Washington Post, The Federalist, FiveThirtyEight and Just Security
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just inched toward spilling the beans on Ukraine
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RedState, New York Post, Raw Story, Political Wire and Wall Street Journal
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Graham urges Trump to release more details of call with Ukrainian president
Quint Forgey / Politico:
White House press secretary says daily briefings aren't coming back any time soon
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Axios, New Republic, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Political News …, Daily Kos and Breitbart
John Wagner / Washington Post:
GOP rival Bill Weld says Trump has committed ‘treason, pure and simple’
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Reason, Breitbart and Alaska Public Media
Caitlin Webber / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Says He Can't Guarantee That Trump Didn't Threaten Ukraine Aid
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Mother Jones
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Trump-Ukraine Story is a Stress Test
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Washington Post, Politico, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic and Washington Examiner, more at Mediagazer »
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How we'll know if the impeachment dam starts to break — Politico reports that the latest revelations about President Trump, Ukraine and the whistleblower are so bad that even House Democrats in difficult districts are now seriously thinking about backing an impeachment inquiry:
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi's Failure to Launch — The House speaker's hesitation on impeachment empowers a lawless president. — Elizabeth Warren on Friday evening sent out a series of tweets that, in addition to calling out Donald Trump for his criminality, rebuked Congress for enabling him.
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CNN, Breitbart, Splinter and Occupy Democrats
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
It's time, Speaker Pelosi — Let's imagine for the moment a hypothetical in which Nancy Pelosi continues along the current course, keeping it somewhat vague on her final intentions until, in the end, the drive to impeach President Trump concludes without the Speaker endorsing or allowing any full House vote on impeachment articles.
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CNN, U.S. Political News …, Daily Kos, Vanity Fair, Hot Air, New York Times and ABC News
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The strategic case for impeaching President Trump — Welcome to some zero-sum game theory. — The facts are dribbling out about President Trump's efforts to seek official foreign assistance to take actions that would harm his domestic political rivals. Those facts are rather appalling …
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Politico, Bloomberg, Slate, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, Althouse, The Independent, The Week, Common Dreams and Raw Story
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pressure on Pelosi grows as moderate Dems eye impeachment
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U.S. Political News …, The Week, Roll Call, Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, Townhall and Daily Kos
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Trump's Ukraine Scandal Is Our Last Chance to Get It Right
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Daily Kos, Political Flare and Slate
Rex Huppke / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Trump pulls ‘reverse-Nixon’ over Ukraine call: ‘I AM A CROOK!’
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Impeachment pressure escalates as Democrats demand release of whistleblower's Trump complaint
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Politico, Common Dreams and Fox News
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Donald Trump vs. the United States of America
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Hullabaloo and Raw Story
John Howard / Capitol Weekly:
Warren takes California lead in new CA120 tracking poll — The latest monthly tracking poll for California's March 2020 Democratic primary election shows Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren increasing her share of the vote, for the first time pushing former Vice President Joe Biden down to third place among likely voters.
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Political Wire
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’
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Politico and Common Dreams
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Elizabeth Warren's choice: ‘Medicare for All’ purity or a path to beating Donald Trump?
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DemCast and Iowa Starting Line
Mike Levine / ABC News:
FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network — The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network, planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group Azov Battalion …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage — The Democratic National Committee has slightly raised the bar to qualify for the November primary debate in a move unlikely to significantly reduce the number of participating candidates. — Candidates will need to clear 3 percent …
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Townhall, New York Times, Washington Post, Axios, Deseret News, The Week, Splinter and Political Wire
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Fernandeza / Democrats:
DNC Announces Qualification Criteria For Fifth Presidential Primary Debate
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The Federalist, Talking Points Memo, NBC News and Fortune
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Boris Johnson Faces a New Scandal, and ‘People See Blood in the Water’ — LONDON — On Prime Minister Boris Johnson's turbulent path to Downing Street, serial philandering and ethical sloppiness became part of his schtick, blots on a career so chaotic and beguiling that the British public always seemed to forgive the mistakes.
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Boris Johnson: Trump is the “one guy” to broker new Iran nuclear deal
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Politico and One America News Network
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Immigrant kids fill this town's schools. Their bus driver is leading the backlash. — WORTHINGTON, Minn. — It was the first day of school, so Don Brink was behind the wheel of his bus, its yellow paint glistening in the drizzling dawn. Wearing jeans and a John Deere cap …
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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
The “Cancel Culture” Con — On April 1, 1964, Herbert Ruhe, an ex-CIA agent formerly stationed in Vietnam, submitted a surveillance report to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney about a person of interest to city officials. On the basis of the material Ruhe had gathered the previous night …
Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Pete Buttigieg: College football is ‘problematic’ — The Notre Dame fan and presidential hopeful thinks the amateur model 'isn't fair anymore' — ELKADER, IOWA — Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he had moral qualms about being a college football fan and found it “problematic” on Monday.
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Washington Free Beacon
Alex M. Azar II / HHS.gov:
Remarks on Universal Health Coverage — U.N. General Assembly Press — We commend the United Nations and the Member States on the significant work done on the Universal Health Coverage Political Declaration, and for the high priority placed on expanding access to health care.
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Talking Points Memo, CNN, who.int and NPR
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul — E-cigarette maker facing several federal, state investigations into its marketing — Federal prosecutors in California are conducting a criminal probe into e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc., according to people familiar with the matter …
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The Week, The Verge and New York Post
Ott Ummelas / Bloomberg:
Police Begin Search After Danske's Ex-CEO in Estonia Goes Missing — Police in Estonia are looking for the man who used to run the Danske Bank unit now at the center of a money-laundering scandal that's triggered multiple criminal investigations. — Aivar Rehe, who was the chief executive officer …
Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
Two #MeToo Books Were Just Published. One Is Great. The Other Shows You What Not To Do. — Early in She Said, the new book by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on their investigation into Harvey Weinstein, the reporters describe the way that he-said/she-said dynamics prevent stories …
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CNSNews
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
NRA Board Retroactively Approved Transactions Benefiting Insiders — Audit committee gave OK after the fact to IT contract for friend of CFO, 10-year renewal of board member — The National Rifle Association's board retroactively approved numerous financial arrangements benefiting top officials …
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