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New York Times:
Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border — WASHINGTON — The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished …
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Vincent Wood / The Independent:
Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims — Officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and aide Stephen Miller berated over border policy — Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Acting homeland security chief frustrated and isolated — even as he delivers what Trump wants at the border — Nearly six months after taking over the Department of Homeland Security as acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan has guided the United States out of a crisis at the southern border …
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HuffPost, ImmigrationProf Blog and Political Wire
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Pompeo Pushed Out His Own Ukraine Rep to Squash a Growing Scandal — “Volker was the easier guy to let go,” said one former State Department official. “But just because it is an easy choice doesn't mean it is the right choice.” — When President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared …
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
State Dept inspector general requests ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing on Capitol Hill — The State Department's inspector general is expected to brief staffers from several House and Senate committees on Wednesday afternoon about documents obtained from the department's Office …
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Associated Press:
Pompeo acknowledges he was on Trump call at center of probe
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Fortune, Talking Points Memo and KTLA
Wall Street Journal:
State Department Draws More Scrutiny in Trump Impeachment Probe
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Poll: Only 4 in 10 Republicans think Trump mentioned Biden on Ukraine call even though he acknowledged doing so — WASHINGTON - A new poll shows that only four in 10 Republicans believe President Donald Trump talked to the Ukrainian president about investigating political rival Joe Biden, even though Trump has acknowledged doing so.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pompeo: ‘I was on the phone call’ with Trump and Ukrainian President — (CNN)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted Wednesday that he was on the July 25 phone call in which President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Political Wire and KTLA
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Support for impeaching Trump hits new high — Support for impeaching President Donald Trump is growing. — A batch of recent polling confirms the Democratic impeachment push is gaining steam — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that shows for the first time that more voters support …
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American Prospect, Ipsos, Yahoo News, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Jake Sherman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Republicans are saying privately about impeachment — WE'RE GOING TO LOS ANGELES!!!!! ... LET'S GO NATS! BEAT L.A.!!! — SIREN ... REPUBLICAN CONCERN RISING WITH TRUMP'S REACTION TO IMPEACHMENT ... ON TUESDAY NIGHT, a very seasoned and well-known GOP operative sent us …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
If Trump Goes Down, He's Taking Everyone With Him
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Daily Kos and Washington Post
Catherine Philp / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Donald Trump impeachment: President called Boris Johnson for help to discredit Mueller inquiry — President Trump personally contacted Boris Johnson to ask for help as he tried to discredit the Mueller investigation into possible connections between Russia and his 2016 election campaign, The Times understands.
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Political Wire
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape From Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia Probe — The U.S. attorney general traveled to Italy to meet with Italian secret service agents—and, potentially, undermine the Mueller investigation. — Correspondent-At-Large
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Lee Smith / New York Post:
Dems, media aim to squash Barr's probe of Russia-collusion hoax
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Associated Press
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr are increasingly implicated in the impeachment inquiry
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Raw Story
Maya King / Politico:
Warren gets ‘dramatic shift’ in support from black voters — One element of Elizabeth Warren's surge in the polls is likely to strike fear in her top Democratic rivals — her rising support among African-Americans. — After struggling to win over black voters in the early stages of the primary …
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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Do Black Democrats Usually Prefer Establishment Candidates? — Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton.
Anita Kumar / Politico:
A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms — House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
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Raw Story
Will Wilkinson / New York Times:
Trump Has Disqualified Himself From Running in 2020 — The president's brazen attempt at cheating has taken “decide it at the ballot box” off the menu. Impeachment is imperative. — “I think the American people are going to have a chance to decide this at the ballot box in November 2020 …
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Janan Ganesh / Financial Times:
The chances of Republicans deserting Trump are underrated
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New York Times:
Was There Another Cover-Up In Response to the Whistle-Blower? — The Justice Department should have shared a campaign-finance investigation with the Federal Election Commission. — Mr. Geltzer and Mr. Katyal are law professors at Georgetown. — One of the first things new prosecutors …
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Virginia police officer suspended after turning in suspected undocumented immigrant over to ICE — A Virginia police officer was suspended after allegedly turning over a suspected undocumented immigrant to federal authorities following a traffic accident last month.
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RedState, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
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NBC News:
Giuliani turns on ‘honest’ Ukrainian prosecutor who says Bidens did nothing illegal — Rudy Giuliani had nothing but praise for Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko — until he didn't. — WASHINGTON — For much of this year, Rudy Giuliani was counting on Ukraine's former chief prosecutor …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Will Trump Ever Leave the White House? — It's a loaded question — with no obvious answer. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. — Since 2015, we have been worrying about how much danger Donald Trump posed to democracy.
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump's Sons Have Sold More Than $100 Million Of His Real Estate Since He Took Office — There are big dreams, and then there are Trump-size dreams, ones that demand capital letters and tower over cities. They are what nudged Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich from Germany to New York …
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Georgia abortion law — ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Georgia's restrictive new abortion law from taking effect, following the lead of other judges who have blocked similar measures in other states.
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Maya T. Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Federal judge blocks Georgia anti-abortion law
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Alan Dershowitz's new book will counter the #MeToo movement — Alan Dershowitz — who has been mired in controversy over his taking on Jeffrey Epstein as a client and over his friendly ties to the late sex predator — is about to stir things up again with a new book, “Guilt by Accusation …
New York Times:
Boeing Engineer, in Official Complaint, Cites Focus on Profit Over Safety on 737 Max — A senior Boeing engineer filed an internal ethics complaint this year saying that during the development of the 737 Max jet the company had rejected a safety system to minimize costs …
Morgan Simon / Forbes:
GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector — I write about money and social justice. — All of the existing banking partners to private prison leader GEO Group have now officially committed to ending ties with the private prison and immigrant detention industry.
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Matthew Choi / Politico:
How Joe Biden would address gun violence — Former Vice President Joe Biden has an ambitious pitch for curbing gun violence, and he's centering his strategy on fighting domestic abuse and focusing on daily gun violence in urban areas. — Biden revealed his plan Wednesday …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Joe Biden's 2020 gun safety plan would reinstate assault weapons ban
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘A presidency of one’: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump — The president's personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss's obsessions.
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Corey Lewandowski Hurls Incendiary Charge at Sanders, Warren: They Want ‘Illegal Aliens to Come Across This Border and Kill Americans’ — Donald Trump's former campaign Corey Lewandowski confirmed his reputation as a ferocious attack dog for the president, hurling a toxic …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Bennet raises $2.1 million in 3rd quarter, pledges to stay in until New Hampshire — (CNN)Sen. Michael Bennet raised $2.1 million in the third quarter of 2019, his campaign tells CNN, a sum that will likely make him one of the lowest-fundraising Democrats in the 2020 presidential field.
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Associated Press:
North Korea fires missile days before resuming US talks — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile from the sea on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, a suggestion that it may have tested an underwater-launched missile for the first time in three years ahead …
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