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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 …

Discussion: FRC and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: Shareblue Media, The Dispatch, New York Times, Breitbart, The Resurgent, National Review, twitchy.com, Mediaite, The Week, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy and Roll Call

Washington Post:
Turkey launches offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria

Discussion: New York Times, The Editorial Board, Patterico's Pontifications, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, UPI, Althouse, The Daily Caller and Al Jazeera

John McCormack / National Review:
Rand Paul on the Kurds: Then and Now

Discussion: Washington Post, The Week and TheBlaze

The Guardian:
Turkey launches military operation in northern Syria

Discussion: Common Dreams, Defense One and Bloomberg

Richard North Patterson / The Bulwark:
A Betrayal Too Far — Nothing captures the moral and geopolitical …

Discussion: BBC, The National Interest, LobeLog, CNBC and New York Times

Bill Chappell / NPR:
Turkish Forces Launch Military Attack Against Kurds At Syrian Border

Discussion: Breitbart, The Week, Bloomberg, Shareblue Media, Vanity Fair and Politico

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

Discussion: Law & Crime, Washington Post, NPR, The Root, Conservative Review, Roll Call, TheBlaze and American Military News

Noah Feldman / New York Times:

This Is a Constitutional Crisis. What Happens Next? — With a full-on confrontation between the House and the president, no simple resolution is available. — Mr. Feldman is a law professor. — For the first time since President Richard Nixon refused to turn over the White House tapes …

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Five facts that blow up the latest White House defense of Trump — President Trump has “declared war” against the House's impeachment inquiry, we're told, based on an eight page letter written by the White House counsel that openly declares a posture of maximal resistance, on the grounds that the inquiry is illegitimate.

Discussion: The Federalist, Just Security and New York Times

Sean Illing / Vox: Are we in a constitutional crisis yet?

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Obstruction Letter

Discussion: New Republic, ABC News and Law & Crime

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 …

Discussion: Breitbart, Variety, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Page Six, The Week, Vanity Fair, Splinter, Mediaite and Contemptor, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: The Black Cube Chronicles: The Double Agent

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Splinter and Daily Kos

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 …

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 …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story

Associated Press:
The Latest: Graham says Ukraine call has nothing impeachable

Discussion: Politico and Breitbart

New York Post:
Why can't Dems treat Trump as fairly as Republicans did Bill Clinton?

Discussion: Fox News

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 …

Discussion: National Review and ABC News

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Biden calls for Trump to be impeached

Discussion: ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Bloomberg and Political Wire

Sarah Mucha / CNN:
Facebook denies Biden campaign's request to remove false Ukraine ad by Trump campaign

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Peter Schweizer / New York Times:
What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal — And That's the Problem

Discussion: Breitbart

Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
Joe Biden's Case for the Presidency Is Collapsing

Discussion: Mother Jones and Townhall

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

Discussion: Vox, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Occupy Democrats, VICE, Splinter, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Week and Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: Political Wire, Law & Crime and Raw Story

Washington Post: Clinton email critics do a role reversal as Trump administration draws fire for private phone use

CNN:
First on CNN: Trump told Perry and State Department officials as early as May to talk to Giuliani about Ukraine

Discussion: Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Shareblue Media and Talking Points Memo

Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:

U.S. Intel Official 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 official has been arrested and charged …

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Breitbart

Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost: Defense Intelligence Agency Employee Arrested In Leak Case

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.

Discussion: Politico, CNN, HuffPost, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon, Axios, CBS News and Political Wire

VICE:

Germany Synagogue Shooter Denied Holocaust in Apparent Video Uploaded to Twitch — A Twitch spokesperson confirmed the link to the video has been taken down. … The gunman who killed two people near a synagogue in Halle, Germany, on Wednesday appears to have filmed his attack …

Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Germany synagogue shooting: Suspect ‘broadcast attack livestream on Twitch’ …

Discussion: UPI

Pete Kotz / City Pages:

Armed conspiracy group will defend Republicans at Minneapolis Trump rally … No one's expecting Donald Trump's Thursday rally in Minneapolis to go seamlessly. Some 20,000 mostly out-of-towners will descend on the Target Center. An even larger crowd of locals will be frothing outside.

Discussion: Raw Story, Townhall and WCCO | CBS Minnesota

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.

Discussion: Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog and Contemptor

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 …

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 …

Discussion: UPI and The Week

Eli Okun / Politico:

POLITICO Playbook PM: A small crack in Democrats' impeachment messaging — SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI has led a fairly unified Democratic charge toward impeachment. She's said consistently that Democrats don't need a formal vote to move forward, but a few cracks have started to show.

Discussion: BuzzFeed News and Wall Street Journal

Sarah McCammon / NPR:

With Abortion Rights On The Line, Planned Parenthood Announces 2020 Push — With abortion-rights activists playing defense from statehouses to the Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood is unveiling a new campaign push focused on the 2020 elections. — The organization is announcing …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood announces $45M campaign to defeat Trump, flip Senate

Discussion: NB Blog, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times and IJR

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.

Discussion: The Guardian and Althouse