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Arden Farhi / CBS News:
Read the whistleblower's memo about Trump's Ukraine call, as described to CBS News — Washington — CBS News has learned the full contents of what appears to be a memo written by the whistleblower one day after President Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump's Republican allies condemn president after ‘sickening’ Turkish incursion — Turkey's incursion into Syria on Wednesday is prompting fresh bipartisan condemnation of President Donald Trump's moves and more congressional threats to hamstring Turkey economically, with some Republicans calling …
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NBC News:
Donald Trump's longtime business connections in Turkey back in the spotlight — The president's decision to remove troops from Northern Syria has put renewed focus on his relationship with Turkish President Erdogan. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's sudden decision to pull U.S. troops …
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CANNONFIRE, NewsHounds blog, FRC and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Turkey launches offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria
Turkey launches offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Lindsey Graham on Trump's Syria decision: “He's putting the nation at risk”
Lindsey Graham on Trump's Syria decision: “He's putting the nation at risk”
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
How Trump just destroyed his own Syria strategy
How Trump just destroyed his own Syria strategy
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The Federalist, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
‘Pray for our Kurdish allies’: Lawmakers decry U.S. pullback as Turkey begins Syria military action
‘Pray for our Kurdish allies’: Lawmakers decry U.S. pullback as Turkey begins Syria military action
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John McCormack / National Review:
Rand Paul on the Kurds: Then and Now
Rand Paul on the Kurds: Then and Now
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Hot Air, Washington Post, The Week and TheBlaze
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow Strikes Again: A New Book Targets NBC News and How Harvey Weinstein May Have Leveraged Matt Lauer — In his first interview about the explosive ‘Catch and Kill,’ the journalist reveals fresh claims of secret payouts and how Lauer may have played a role in the network's decision …
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Variety:
Ronan Farrow Book Alleges Matt Lauer Raped NBC News Colleague — Ronan Farrow's new book “Catch and Kill” recounts his investigation of Harvey Weinstein; the hurdles his then-employer NBC News put in his way that caused him to publish the story in the New Yorker instead; and how Weinstein hired Black Cube …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Ronan Farrow exposes the rot at NBC News
Ronan Farrow exposes the rot at NBC News
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Variety, The Wrap and The Daily Caller
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
NBC probably fired Megyn Kelly for her Matt Lauer coverage
NBC probably fired Megyn Kelly for her Matt Lauer coverage
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Laurence Tribe / USA Today:
The time for waiting is over. The House must move on Trump impeachment articles now. — The Constitution makes clear the House can conduct its Trump impeachment inquiry however it wants. It should move fast. America has no time to spare. — CONNECT
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Five facts that blow up the latest White House defense of Trump
Five facts that blow up the latest White House defense of Trump
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Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Trump defends diplomat's wife who killed teenage Briton in crash: 'We've all done it' — Donald Trump has defended the wife of a US diplomat who killed a British teenager in a road accident, suggesting it is difficult to drive on the other side of the road and that “we've all done it”. — More follows...
Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Intel Analyst Charged With Leaking Classified Info to Two Journalists — The Justice Department says it appears Kyle Frese had a romantic relationship with one of two journalists he allegedly fed information. — A U.S. intelligence employee has been arrested and charged …
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Esquire:
Donald Trump Allegedly Hid Behind a Tapestry to Grope a Woman at Mar-a-Lago in the Early 2000s — tape was the opening salvo in the story of Donald Trump's transgressions against women, think again. In — All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Elizabeth Warren pregnancy smear shows how poisoned the media world is — A news report can be narrowly factual, and still plenty unfair. — And so it was with a “revelation” regarding one element of Elizabeth Warren's personal history, oft-told on the campaign trail …
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
People Get Fired From Their Jobs Without Being ‘Fired’ All The Time — Yes, this sort of discrimination happened in the 1970s, when Elizabeth Warren was a teacher. But it still happens today. — On Monday, a conservative news outlet published what some took to be damning evidence …
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Biden's Family Has Been Cashing in on His Career for Decades. Democrats Need to Acknowledge That. — Hunter Biden, left, and his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, attend the World Food Program USA's annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award ceremony on April 12, 2016, in Washington …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Biden calls for Trump to be impeached
Biden calls for Trump to be impeached
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Sarah Mucha / CNN:
Facebook denies Biden campaign's request to remove false Ukraine ad by Trump campaign
Facebook denies Biden campaign's request to remove false Ukraine ad by Trump campaign
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Lara Jakes / New York Times:
‘Nothing to See Here’: Diplomats Urged to Play Down Release of Ukraine Aid — A series of internal State Department emails reflect diplomats' frustration with the unexpected freeze on funding that Congress had already approved. — WASHINGTON — American diplomats who had pushed …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Mulvaney sidelined as Trump's impeachment crisis rages — Mick Mulvaney has gone noticeably quiet over the past week, just as the president's impeachment fight picks up. — The White House's acting chief of staff has not appeared on any major TV shows to defend President Donald Trump …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Matt Drudge, an influential figure in conservative media, sours on Trump as he faces impeachment — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump, facing an ever-deepening scandal that threatens to swallow his presidency, appears to have lost a key ally in conservative media: The Drudge Report.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Record support for Trump impeachment — Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday. — A new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Half of voters support impeaching and removing Trump
Poll: Half of voters support impeaching and removing Trump
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Paige Godden / Iowa Starting Line:
Joni Ernst Refuses To Condemn Soliciting Foreign Interference — Three times in a row yesterday, Sen. Joni Ernst dodged questions about whether it's appropriate for a president to ask a foreign power to investigate a political rival. — After a round of questions from a CNN reporter looking for a …
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BuzzFeed News:
Two Key Players In The Ukraine Controversy Spent Lavishly As They Dug For Dirt on Biden — For Lev Parnas, the Ukrainian American businessman who joined Rudy Giuliani in a back-channel campaign to unearth damaging information about Joe Biden, the money kept flowing.
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Eli Okun / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: A small crack in Democrats' impeachment messaging
POLITICO Playbook PM: A small crack in Democrats' impeachment messaging
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Salon
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
In Shift, Warren Will Forgo Big Money Events if Nominated. At Least Some of Them. — Elizabeth Warren seeks to find a balance — disavowing fund-raisers with the wealthy contributors while promising not to actually disarm in a potential matchup with President Trump.
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Melts Down And Falsely Claims Only 25% Want Him Impeached — Trump tweeted: … Trump's claim is flat out false. In the latest Washington Post poll, 58% support impeachment, and 49% support removing Trump from office. The 25% number that Trump quoted has been the number of Republicans …
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Sanders says he ‘misspoke’ about scaling back rallies after heart attack, vows ‘vigorous’ 2020 campaign — Sanders also pushed back at criticism that his campaign was not transparent about his health, saying it “acted appropriately” before disclosing he had a heart attack.
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