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Newsweek:
Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake — A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria. — Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official …
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Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey — Escape comes after Trump cleared way for Erdogan to launch offensive on Kurds — Five Isis militants have broken out of a prison in northern Syria after Turkish shelling nearby, a spokesman in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has said.
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Foreign Policy Research …, Mediaite and Political Wire
CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims ‘we have no soldiers in Syria’
Fact check: Trump falsely claims ‘we have no soldiers in Syria’
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MPR News, GovExec.com, Sputnik International, Balloon Juice, Althouse and Defense One
New York Times:
ISIS Rears Its Head, Adding to Chaos as Turkey Battles Kurds
ISIS Rears Its Head, Adding to Chaos as Turkey Battles Kurds
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FDD's Long War Journal
Lara Seligman / Foreign Policy:
'Some of the Most Noble People I'd Ever Met'
'Some of the Most Noble People I'd Ever Met'
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Breitbart, Raw Story and The Syrian Observatory …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon urges Turkey to halt incursion into Syria
Pentagon urges Turkey to halt incursion into Syria
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump under pressure to respond to Turkey's offensive in Syria as death toll rises
Trump under pressure to respond to Turkey's offensive in Syria as death toll rises
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Washington Post:
Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her — The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whose abrupt ouster in May has become a topic of interest for House impeachment investigators said Friday that her departure came as a direct result …
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New York Times:
Trump Had Ukraine Envoy Removed on ‘False Claims,’ She Tells House Inquiry — Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine, she told impeachment investigators on Friday, despite a boss saying she had “done nothing wrong.” — WASHINGTON — Marie L. Yovanovitch …
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The Hill:
White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again — The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill …
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Political Wire and The Week
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani's relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation: Sources — The business relationship between President Donald Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the men charged Thursday in a campaign finance scheme is a subject of the ongoing criminal investigation …
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash — Aram Roston, Karen Freifeld, Polina Ivanova — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden …
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New York Post
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Indicted Giuliani associate attended private '16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump
Indicted Giuliani associate attended private '16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News — The anchor is one of the faces of the network's news division and one of its most important journalistic assets. — In a shocking turn of events that stunned the media industry, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith announced his departure from the network after more than 23 years on Friday afternoon.
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CNN:
Shepard Smith makes shocking announcement that he is leaving Fox News — New York (CNN Business)In a stunning announcement, Shepard Smith said on his Friday show that after more than two decades at Fox News, he was stepping down as chief news anchor, and leaving the network.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Shep Smith, Fox News Anchor, Abruptly Departs From Network — Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News, said on Friday that he was leaving the cable news network, an abrupt move that left some of his co-workers openly stunned. — Mr. Smith joined Fox News when the network started, in 1996.
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The Daily Beast:
More Potential Whistleblowers Are Contacting Congress — The first two officials who came forward about the president's pressure campaign on Ukraine seem to be just the beginning, according to Hill sources. — New potential whistleblowers are coming forward to the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors
Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Federal appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld a subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records from the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
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New York Times:
Trump Taxes: Justice Dept. Asks Judges to Block Subpoena — But the department did not agree with President Trump's lawyers that a sitting president is immune from criminal investigation. — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to stop the release …
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Political Wire
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump loses appeal to stop House subpoena of his tax documents
Trump loses appeal to stop House subpoena of his tax documents
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The Stranger and Common Dreams
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Kamala's Fake Lover: Jacob Wohl Told Me it Was for a Spike TV Show — The duo behind botched smears against Elizabeth Warren, Robert Mueller, and Pete Buttigieg have truly outdone themselves. — Inept conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman held another bizarre press conference …
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The Daily Dot
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judges Strike Several Blows to Trump Immigration Policies — Judges in three states ruled against a policy that would withhold green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance such as Medicaid. Another judge ruled on border wall funding. — Three federal judges issued injunctions …
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Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Americans Are Supporting Donald Trump's Impeachment Much Faster Than They Did With Richard Nixon During Watergate — Americans are getting on board with the idea of impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office much faster than the previously ousted occupiers of the White House, including fellow Republican Richard Nixon.
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Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
Pompeo refuses to say if he met with Giuliani on February Warsaw trip — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is doing “everything he can,” according to Andrea Mitchell, to avoid discussing Rudy Giuliani. Former CIA director John Brennan joins to discuss.
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Boing Boing
Rich McHugh / Vanity Fair:
“YOU ARE TO STAND DOWN”: RONAN FARROW'S PRODUCER ON HOW NBC KILLED ITS WEINSTEIN STORY — Rich McHugh recounts how top NBC brass, including news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim, bowed to Harvey Weinstein to quash the truth. — One year ago, I resigned from NBC News …
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Fox News and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Rosie McCall / Newsweek:
Greta Thunberg snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize by committee run by Norway, one of the world's biggest oil and natural gas exporters — The Nobel Committee has surprised oddsmakers by not picking 16-year-old Greta Thunberg to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. — The five-member Norwegian panel …
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Newt Gingrich's Hypocrisy on Trump Impeachment: ‘I Think I Remember’ His Push Against Clinton — Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called out former House Speaker and Trump ally Newt Gingrich on Friday for attacking the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry …
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
How Trump-Country Democrat Rep. Max Rose Got to Impeachment — Because this is a story about Max Rose, it has to at some point find him at Jody's Club Forest, a Staten Island bar he famously frequents, drinking pitchers of Bud Light. And because Max Rose is who he is …
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David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr, Trump's Hatchet Man, Is About to Become His Scapegoat — Trump's DOJ is arguing that Congress should never have heard Nixon's “smoking gun” tape and should be barred from reviewing any further evidence of Trump's criminality. — BEAST INSIDE — Since William Barr became …
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Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed News:
A Group Of Students Burned A Latina Author's Book Because They Felt Attacked For Being White — Jennine Capó Crucet spoke about “white privilege” at Georgia Southern University. The freshman audience said she attacked them for being white and privileged.
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Sputnik International, USA Today, The College Fix, The George-Anne and The Daily Beast
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Stunning in ugliness & tone’: Trump denounced for attacking Somali refugees in Minnesota — For roughly six minutes Thursday night, President Trump predictably singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his campaign rally in her home district of Minneapolis.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Goes Down in Flames on ‘The View’: 'Don't Mansplain!' — The Republican senator's flailing performance did not win over anyone on “The View” Friday morning. — Meghan McCain skipped out on Rand Paul's appearance on The View Friday morning—citing “personal reasons” …
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon was confused. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine had been appropriated in late 2018 by Congress, intended to help fend off aggression by neighboring Russia.
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden's son — Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn't drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. — “Can you imagine if I took 3 cents from the Ukraine or 4 cents from China?”