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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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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
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 and Althouse
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 …
New York Times:
Kevin McAleenan Is Out as Acting Homeland Security Secretary — WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Friday the departure of Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security who spent his six-month tenure trying to curb a surge of asylum seekers …
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Kevin McAleenan resigns as acting homeland security secretary — (CNN)Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security since April and the fourth person to serve in that post since the Trump presidency began, submitted his resignation to the White House on Friday, a source tells CNN.
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Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is out, Trump says in tweet
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is out, Trump says in tweet
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Associated Press, Politico, Raw Story and KVOA-TV
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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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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The Week and Political Wire
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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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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Why Shep Smith finally walked out of Fox News for good — New York (CNN Buiness)Last month Shep Smith decided that he had simply had enough. — With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it, the Fox News star prided himself on anchoring …
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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:
Shepard Smith, Fox News Anchor, Abruptly Departs From Network
Shepard Smith, Fox News Anchor, Abruptly Departs From Network
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The Wrap, NewsHounds blog, The Guardian, The Last Refuge, Vanity Fair and CNN
Washington Post:
Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network
Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network
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The Hill, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, NewsHounds blog and LGBTQ Nation
Michael Calderone / Politico:
Trump target at Fox News announces his departure
Trump target at Fox News announces his departure
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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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Occupy Democrats, POLITICUSUSA, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Federal appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records
Federal appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records
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Sputnik International, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze, Althouse, Political Wire and Reuters
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 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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ABC News, RedState, Washington Post, The Guardian, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Law & Crime
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Thousands of US troops deploying to Saudi Arabia: Pentagon — The United States is deploying an additional 2,800 U.S. forces to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Iran's attack on Saudi oil facilities in September, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The deployment includes fighter squadrons …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Pence plan 11th-hour mission to save Kentucky governor — The White House is planning an 11th-hour push to stave off an embarrassing defeat for the Republican governor of Kentucky, with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence expected to make separate trips to the state in the runup to the Nov. 5 election.
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Political Wire
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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump rallies in Louisiana in last-minute push for governor's race
Trump rallies in Louisiana in last-minute push for governor's race
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David Priess / Washington Post:
The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think — The history of past acquittals isn't as helpful to Trump as naysayers believe — As the House of Representatives builds momentum to impeach President Trump, conventional wisdom holds that the constitutionally required …
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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 Supporting Donald Trump's Impeachment Much Faster Than They Did With Richard Nixon During Watergate
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Fox News and JONATHAN TURLEY
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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gen.medium.com and Raw Story
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
New York Times:
Those Foreign Business Ties? The Trump Sons Have Plenty Too — Last month, the Trump family business received approval from a local government in Scotland for a major expansion of its golf resort near Aberdeen, marking the largest real estate development financed by the Trump Organization since the 2016 election.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues. — One of the indicted men had worked with a Russian investor looking to get into the US pot business — When the US attorney for the Southern District of New York charged two associates of Rudy Giuliani …
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CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Roll Call and Associated Press
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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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 …