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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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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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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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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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The Daily Beast:
Republicans to Trump: Shut Up About Your Impeachment — Veterans of past impeachment battles say the way to win them is to pretend that it's not affecting your job. Trump, by contrast, is obsessing over it. — As President Donald Trump navigates an impeachment process that is upending his presidency …
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New York Post:
Why can't Dems treat Trump as fairly as Republicans did Bill Clinton?
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Graham says Ukraine call has nothing impeachable
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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The GOP's impeachment strategy gets sharper
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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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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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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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The Guardian:
Turkey launches military operation in northern Syria
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Turkey Begins Syria Attack, Targeting Militia Backed by U.S.
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Turkish Forces Launch Military Attack Against Kurds At Syrian Border
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Fahrettin Altun / Washington Post:
The world must support Turkey's plan for northeastern Syria
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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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Morgan L. Kaplan / Washington Post:
Trump's Syria announcement is a change of speed — not a change of direction
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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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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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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
In Shift, Warren Says She'll Forgo Big Money Events if Nominated — Skipping fund-raisers has been a big part of her message as she has risen in the Democratic primary. She had previously said she would not unilaterally disarm against President Trump in a general election.
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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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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
Joe Biden's Case for the Presidency Is Collapsing
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Peter Schweizer / New York Times:
What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal — And That's the Problem
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Public Policy Polling:
Trump Trails Leading Democrats in North Carolina — PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds that Donald Trump continues to be unpopular and that voters in the state are evenly divided on the question of impeaching him. — 46% of voters approve of the job Trump is doing to 51% who disapprove of him …
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Ben Geman / Axios:
Elizabeth Warren targets environmental justice in new climate plan
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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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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Facebook's Hands-Off Approach to Political Speech Gets Impeachment Test
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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 …
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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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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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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Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
It Took A Long Time For Republicans To Abandon Nixon — On July 23, 1974, Rep. Lawrence Hogan, Sr., a Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, bought airtime on TV networks across his home state of Maryland. He had a big announcement to share: Hogan was the first Republican …
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 …
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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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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