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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ordered Ukraine Ambassador Removed After Complaints From Giuliani, Others — Marie Yovanovitch dismissed after Trump allies said she was blocking Biden probe and bad-mouthing president, people familiar with the matter say — WASHINGTON—President Trump ordered the removal of the ambassador …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
‘Crazy to withhold security assistance’ to Ukraine for political purposes: Top US diplomat — In newly disclosed text messages shared with Congress, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine at the time writes to a group of other American diplomats that “I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
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Washington Post:
Giuliani was warned that Ukrainian claims of Bidens' misconduct were not credible, Trump's ex-envoy tells lawmakers — The former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told House investigators on Thursday that he warned President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
In May, Ukrainian oligarch said Giuliani was orchestrating a ‘clear conspiracy against Biden’ — Months before an intelligence community whistleblower accused President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani of digging for dirt on former vice president Joe Biden in Ukraine …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy
Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy
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CNN:
Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office — (CNN)A newly unearthed letter from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
CNN Refuses to Air Trump Ad Pushing Biden-Ukraine Claims and Bashing Network Anchors — The 30-second spot paints the president as a victim of Democrats and alleged “media lapdogs” like CNN. — In a move that is sure to ratchet up tension with the White House, cable news channel CNN …
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New York Times:
Trump Publicly Urges China to Investigate the Bidens — President Trump made a similar, but private, request of the president of Ukraine, an episode that has sparked an impeachment inquiry. — WASHINGTON — President Trump, already facing impeachment for pressuring Ukraine to investigate …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Irony is dead: The Trump sons are doing everything possible to make corruption a major 2020 issue — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump at a UFC event in Newark in August 2019. Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump really should sit this Hunter Biden thing out.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump keeps making it harder for supporters to defend him — As President Trump keeps talking, he makes it more and more difficult for his supporters to mount an actual defense of his underlying behavior. — Trump's pushback against impeachment efforts seemed to be gaining some traction …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Just Committed More High Crimes on the White House Lawn — Donald Trump is being impeached for using his office to pressure foreign countries to investigate his political rivals. It is not clear Trump understands that, because he simply continues committing this offense in broad daylight.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Biden warns Fox News against running Trump ad
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign to drop bomb on Biden in early voting states
Trump campaign to drop bomb on Biden in early voting states
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Mad King's Enablers
The Mad King's Enablers
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Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads
Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads
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Reuters:
Pence says Biden, son should be investigated for Ukraine dealings
Pence says Biden, son should be investigated for Ukraine dealings
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's request that China investigate the Bidens is his most brazen yet. It might also be the most problematic.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff slams Trump's call for China to investigate Bidens as “repugnant”
Schiff slams Trump's call for China to investigate Bidens as “repugnant”
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Washington Post:
IRS whistleblower said to report Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence — An Internal Revenue Service official has filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that he was told at least one Treasury Department political appointee attempted …
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Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior — The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Trump has committed impeachable offenses. The Constitution defines an impeachable offense as …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Perilous times for President Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over allegations related to Ukraine, poll finds — From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been cloaked in controversy and shadowed by investigations.
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's impeachment defiance spooks key voting blocs
Trump's impeachment defiance spooks key voting blocs
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House Floats Potential DOJ Investigation Into ‘Joe Biden and His Family’ — A tiny, largely unnoticed edit to a daily White House newsletter this week suggests the Trump administration is leaving open the possibility of siccing the Justice Department on Joe Biden.
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BuzzFeed News:
The New Way To Hack Democracy: The Political Operatives Who Fake Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments — Sarah Reeves sat on her couch in Eugene, Oregon, staring at her laptop screen in furious disbelief. She was reading the website of a government agency, where her mother appeared …
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Washington Post:
Bob Woodward interviewed the ‘She Said’ authors at a book event. Things got tense. Then there was heckling. — It seemed like the perfect combination of three Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists: The Washington Post's Bob Woodward interviewing the New York Times's Jodi Kantor …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Trump seized on a conspiracy theory called the ‘insurance policy.’ Now, it's at the center of an impeachment investigation. — Just months after Trump's inauguration, conspiracy theorists pushed a fanciful and unsubstantiated narrative in which the DNC framed Russia for election interference.
George T. Conway III / The Atlantic:
Unfit for Office — On a third-down play last season, the Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith stood in shotgun formation, five yards behind the line of scrimmage. As he called his signals, a Houston Texans cornerback, Kareem Jackson, suddenly sprinted forward from a position four yards behind the defensive line.
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Lee Drutman / FiveThirtyEight:
If Republicans Ever Turn On Trump, It'll Happen All At Once — In the House, Democrats are inching ever closer to impeaching President Trump. Some are even pushing for drafting articles of impeachment by Thanksgiving and, potentially, sending proceedings to the Senate by early next year.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
For the last time, Trump's every move is brilliant and calculated — “There are different ways to bake the cake, depending on what sort of cake you want. Different flavoring, different temperatures, different ingredients yield different types of cake, and the president as the master baker …
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Rick Perry Created AI Office Within Energy Dept. Despite Wife's Investments — On September 6, Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced the creation of an Office for Artificial Intelligence and Technology within the Department of Energy. According to Perry's 2019 personal financial disclosure …
Alex Moe / NBC News:
McCarthy calls for Pelosi to suspend impeachment inquiry — The speaker has “given no clear indication as to how your impeachment inquiry will proceed — including whether key historical precedents or basic standards of due process will be observed,” he wrote.
Agence France-Presse:
Deaf Islamic convert is named as Paris police HQ attacker: IT worker who fell out with supervisor ‘after he refused to deal with women’ slaughters four colleagues, including female officer, with a knife - as police arrest Muslim wife — A deaf civilian police worker who had recently converted …
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Trump's video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains — US president receives copyright censure over video that took aim at political rival Joe Biden — A video posted by Donald Trump has been removed from Twitter following a copyright claim by the rock band Nickelback.
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Tyler Whetstone / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Former Senator Bob Corker shows restraint, says ‘nothing’ about Trump, impeachment — CHATTANOOGA — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker has thoughts on President Trump and the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, but he didn't share them Thursday. — Through nearly an hour of speaking and then again …
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David Byler / Washington Post:
Why Elizabeth Warren is getting such good press — It seems like every day a new story breaks about how Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is climbing in the polls, releasing a new policy proposal, “winning” a primary debate or taking some other step toward becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Optimism about the economy falls to three-year low, CNBC All-America Economic Survey finds — CNBC's All-America Economic Survey shows just 23% of Americans believe the economy will improve in the next year, the lowest level of optimism in three years. — Fifty percent now disapprove …
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