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Attorney General Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016 — Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes …
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Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry's Origins — The discussion was another instance of the president using American diplomacy for potential personal gain. — WASHINGTON — President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump may have lied to Mueller, House Democrats say — Lawyers for the House of Representatives revealed on Monday that they have reason to believe that the grand-jury redactions in special counsel Robert Mueller's report show that President Donald Trump lied about his knowledge of his campaign's contacts with WikiLeaks.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Floodgates Open on Trump — Shortly after eight this morning, the President of the United States, making maximal use of his “executive time,” wielded his smartphone to issue a legal threat against the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. It is worth reading the missive from @realDonaldTrump in full:
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New York Times:
Democrats' Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy — Proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have raised concerns from economists and business leaders who fear the plans would sap economic growth. — WASHINGTON — Progressive Democrats are advocating the most dramatic shift …
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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
Sanders sets high bar with $25.3 million Q3 haul, Buttigieg falls short of his Q2
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Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders's Campaign Gets Summer Funding Boost
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Sen. Bernie Sanders raised $25.3 million in third quarter, campaign says
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CNN:
Bernie Sanders announces massive $25.3 million third quarter fundraising haul
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Warren Versus the Petty Plutocrats
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook against critics and the US government — In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government. — July should have been a relief for Facebook.
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Favorite Democrat Will Not Budge on Impeachment — “It is not something to be taken lightly. You're disenfranchising voters, you're removing an executive from office,” Van Drew said. — In a U.S. Capitol hallway on the day that Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry …
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Release Detail — September 30, 2019 - Support For Impeachment …
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why Trump's impeachment inquiry will be more divisive than Nixon/Clinton
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Raw Story
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
The GOP's Texas problem — The retirement of six House Republicans from Texas at the end of this term shows their pessimism about winning back the House majority in 2020, GOP strategists tell Axios — and foreshadows bigger Republican fears in the nation's second most populous state.
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Joe, Hunter Biden seen golfing with Ukraine gas company exec back in 2014, photo shows — EXCLUSIVE: A photo obtained by Fox News' “Tucker Carlson Tonight” shows former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter golfing in the Hamptons with Devon Archer, who served on the board …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Who's Afraid of Rudy Giuliani?
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Intelligence Inspector General to GOP: You Know Nothing of My Work — Last Thursday, Sean Davis of the conservative news site The Federalist broke an explosive revelation. The Intelligence Community had secretly changed a requirement in its whistle-blower statute to allow whistle-blowers …
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fact check: Were whistleblower rules changed before Ukraine complaint?
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's false claim that the rules for whistleblowers were recently changed
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
There's another whistleblower complaint. It's about Trump's tax returns. — Hey, have you heard about this whistleblower complaint? — An unnamed civil servant is alleging serious interference in government business. If the allegations are true, they could be a game-changer.
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Kelsey Jukam / courthousenews.com:
Devin Nunes Sues Reporter, Hearst for Article About Family's Iowa Dairy — (CN) - California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.
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Miami Herald:
‘He conned us from day one’: Giuliani's Ukraine ally leaves trail of South Florida debts — Over the summer, Dianne and Michael Pues got an ominous phone call from the business partner of a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who owes the couple more than $500,000 over a movie deal gone bad.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP defenses for Trump's Ukraine call quickly collapse under scrutiny — Trump, his aides and select allies in Congress have feverishly sought to redirect a whistleblower's complaints toward Democratic adversaries. — Yet even cursory scrutiny of evidence that has emerged so far knocks …
David Enrich / New York Times:
Me and My Whistleblower — Deutsche Bank. North Korea. The Intelligence Committee's investigation of the president. Again and again, one man has taken his trove of secret documents — and uncanny nose for scandal — to the center of the news. — One sunny Wednesday in February …
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Raw Story
Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property — A fight among fossil hunters, a dubious documentary, and the conservative congressman from North Carolina. — Three years ago, the North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows sold a hundred-and-thirty-four-acre property in Dinosaur, Colorado.
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Hong Kong Police Shoot a Protester With a Live Bullet for the First Time — HONG KONG — The Hong Kong police on Tuesday shot a demonstrator with a live round for the first time during the city's monthslong protest movement, three pro-democracy lawmakers said, escalating the territory's political crisis …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump cranks up grievance machine — Donald Trump's campaign aides expected months ago that Democrats would try to impeach the president — and he needed a way to exploit it. — So this summer, Trump 2020 officials spliced news clips of Democrats discussing impeachment into a 90-second video montage …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump team scrambles to formulate an impeachment plan
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Asma Khalid / NPR:
How White Liberals Became ‘Woke,’ Radically Changing Their Outlook On Race — Jeromy Brown, a 46-year-old teacher in Iowa, considers President Trump a white supremacist. — “If the shoe fits, then say it, and the shoe fits him,” Brown said, while waiting in a “selfie line” at an Elizabeth Warren rally in August.
Washington Post:
Trump amps up attacks on whistleblower as some Republicans call for more strategic response to impeachment — President Trump continued to escalate his scorched-earth campaign against a whistleblower who accused him of pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
GOP squabbles as Louisiana governor nears reelection — BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a conservative Democrat dismissed by many Republicans as an “accidental governor” when he was elected in a major upset in 2015, may be on the brink of winning a second term next week.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Voter registration surges in Georgia ahead of 2020 elections — New voters have registered in droves in Georgia since last year's midterms, expanding the electorate ahead of the 2020 presidential election year when the state is expected to be a key political battleground.
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. — The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said. — Public health officials for years have urged Americans …
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