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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Administration Refusal to Comply with House Subpoenas — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement when the White House asserted that the Administration will not comply with House Committee subpoenas as part of the impeachment inquiry …
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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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New York Post:
Why can't Dems treat Trump as fairly as Republicans did Bill Clinton? — Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a clear duty to call an immediate House vote to authorize an official impeachment inquiry — if she dares. — The White House informed her today that the Executive Branch won't play along with the lawless …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's burn-down-the-House plan — President Trump, while nervous about the historic stain of impeachment, is throwing everything he has into this fight: refusing all cooperation, running ads to profit politically, and torching every person who stands in opposition to him.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Obstruction Letter — Over the past few days, Democrats have been warning with more and more urgency that the Trump administration's response to an impeachment inquiry might represent obstruction of justice. — White House Counsel Pat Cipollone explained the administration's view yesterday …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: ‘There really is no appealing the process of impeachment,’ says ex-Clinton White House counsel
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Former SC Rep. Trey Gowdy joins Trump legal team
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Nancy Pelosi Calls Trump's Bluff: ‘You Are Not Above The Law’
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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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Lindsey Graham on Trump's Syria decision: “He's putting the nation at risk” — In an interview with Axios on Tuesday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) condemned President Trump in his harshest language yet for deciding to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, suggesting Trump is violating …
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Richard North Patterson / The Bulwark:
A Betrayal Too Far — Nothing captures the moral and geopolitical bankruptcy of Donald Trump's Hobbesian worldview better than his rank betrayal of the Kurds. — Once more, Turkey's President Erdogan—a knave, but not a fool—demonstrated his hypnotic powers over an American president who is both.
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Morgan L. Kaplan / Washington Post:
Trump's Syria announcement is a change of speed — not a change of direction
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Fahrettin Altun / Washington Post:
The world must support Turkey's plan for northeastern Syria
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Defense One:
'It Didn't Have to Be This Way': Just-Retired CENTCOM General
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Turkey Begins Syria Incursion, Targeting Militia Backed by U.S.
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Washington Post:
Pentagon won't take over Islamic State prisons if U.S.-allied Kurdish forces withdraw, officials say
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Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack
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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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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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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
The Black Cube Chronicles: The Double Agent — How a whistle-blower exposed Harvey Weinstein's attempts to suppress allegations of sexual assault and harassment. — This is the final installment in a three-part series. Read Part I here and Part II here. Support The New Yorker's award-winning journalism by subscribing here.
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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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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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Half of voters support impeaching and removing Trump — Half of voters support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. — The poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday, shows that 50 percent of registered voters surveyed …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘Render to God and Trump’: Ralph Reed calls for 2020 obedience to Trump — One of Donald Trump's most prominent Christian supporters will argue in a book due out before the 2020 general election that American evangelicals “have a moral obligation to enthusiastically back” the president.
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WSFA-TV:
Steven Reed makes history as Montgomery's first black mayor — MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed has defeated David Woods and will become Montgomery's next mayor. — He makes history as the city's first black mayor. — With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Reed had 67 percent of the votes.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump's Ukraine Call Was ‘Crazy’ and ‘Frightening,’ Official Told Whistle-Blower — The whistle-blower wrote a memo describing an official who heard the call as “visibly shaken” by it. — WASHINGTON — A White House official who listened to President Trump's July phone call …
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CNN:
First on CNN: Trump told Perry and State Department officials as early as May to talk to Giuliani about Ukraine — (CNN)President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and two top State Department officials to deal with his private attorney Rudy Giuliani when the Ukrainian President sought …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Whistleblower had tie to Democratic candidate — In an Aug. 26 letter, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, Michael Atkinson, wrote that the anonymous whistleblower who set off the Trump-Ukraine impeachment fight showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate.”
Sarah Mucha / CNN:
Facebook denies Biden campaign's request to remove false Ukraine ad by Trump campaign — CNN reporter debunks Trump's whistleblower claim — (CNN)Facebook denied a request from Joe Biden's campaign to take down a video ad by President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that falsely accuses …
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The Guardian:
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions — New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers — The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world's oil …
Ben Geman / Axios:
Elizabeth Warren targets environmental justice in new climate plan — 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to put environmental justice at the center of responding to climate change. — Why it matters: Her plan, which was unveiled Wednesday and focuses on addressing the disproportionate pollution burdens …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year — A new book-length study on the tax burden of the ultrarich begins with a startling finding: In 2018, for the first time in history, America's richest billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than the working class.
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Trump ally on Fox News calls whistleblowers ‘suicide bombers,’ accuses Democrats of ‘regicide’ — Former U.S. attorney Joseph E. diGenova turned to European history Tuesday night to describe the Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Trump, calling their efforts “regicide,” the act of killing a king.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Unpaid bills pile up in Trump rallies' wake — Donald Trump has raised record amounts of money as a presidential candidate. But he's still left a slew of unpaid bills in his wake. — In city after city, across the nation, Trump has failed to pay local officials who provide thousands …
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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
Joe Biden's Case for the Presidency Is Collapsing — Joe Biden is in trouble. It's not his actual campaign that's in truly dire straits. Although Elizabeth Warren has risen steadily, troubling donors already troubled by Biden's age, he's still first or second in most polls and shows few signs …
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Khashoggi's Murder Should Have Made Saudi Arabia A Pariah. 7 Men Made Sure That Didn't Happen. — Meet the key figures behind the scenes, from a journalist-turned-lobbyist to an evangelical writer, in the effort to preserve the kingdom's image after the killing.
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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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