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3:15 AM ET, October 12, 2019

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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Said to Be Under Investigation for Ukraine Work  —  Prosecutors are investigating whether the president's lawyer broke laws meant to prevent covert foreign influence on the government.  —  WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump's …
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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 …
Discussion: New York Post
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani's relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation: Sources
NBC News:   Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch, says official
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues.
CBS San Francisco:   Ukrainian Andrey Kukushkin, Linked To Giuliani Associates, Arrested In San Francisco On Campaign Finance Violations
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.
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Why Trump's Fourth Secretary of Homeland Security Just Resigned  —  When Kevin McAleenan became the acting Secretary of Homeland Security, in April, a D.H.S. official, who knew McAleenan personally, told me, “I'm not sure how he can finesse things with this Administration.”
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Washington Post:   Trump says he is replacing McAleenan as acting homeland security secretary
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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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Goodbye, America.  Goodbye, Freedom Man.  —  Under Trump, the U.S. becomes the world's fair-weather friend.  —  The time is the early 1980s.  The place is the South China Sea.  A sailor aboard the U.S.S. Midway, an aircraft carrier, spots a leaky boat jammed with people fleeing tyranny in Indochina.
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Associated Press:
The Latest: Pentagon says US came under fire from Turks  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S. reaction to Turkey's offensive into Syria (all times local):  —  The Pentagon says U.S. troops in Syria came under artillery fire from the Turks on Friday, in an area where Turkey knows Americans are present.
Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey
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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Foreign Policy:
Pompeo's State Department Reels as Impeachment Inquiry Sinks Morale  —  As the investigation grows, so, too, does the foreign service officers' legal defense fund.  —  The fast-moving impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump has dragged the State Department into the center …
Discussion: The Guardian and NBC News
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Washington Post:
Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her
Washington Post:
Trump tells reporters he doesn't know if Giuliani is still his attorney
Discussion: Political Wire, Axios and CNN
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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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace: For All the GOP Criticisms of Whistleblower, ‘The Basic Allegation Has Been Largely Confirmed’  —  Fox News' Chris Wallace spoke with Shepard Smith this afternoon and said that for all the Republican criticisms of the intel whistleblower, the basic allegation has been largely corroborated.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Newt Gingrich's Hypocrisy on Trump Impeachment: 'I Think I Remember …
Discussion: HuffPost
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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Washington Post:
Trump renews claim that he is immune from criminal investigation in effort to block Manhattan DA probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Appeals court rules against Trump in fight with Congress over president's accounting firm records
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 …
Discussion: HuffPost
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren's same-sex marriage quip captures what some find exciting — and others distressing — about her  —  About 90 minutes into Thursday's forum on LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles, a gay rights leader posed a question to Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How would she respond if a voter approached her and said …
Discussion: Instapundit
BuzzFeed News:
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China  —  We thought trade would bring Western values to China.  Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.  —  “Chinese netizens hail Apple's removal of app that aids HK rioters.”  —  That was how the Global Times …
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump rallies in Louisiana in last-minute push for governor's race
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
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.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Brian Fung / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy — with a Facebook ad  —  Zuckerberg says legal battles during a Warren presidency would ‘suck’  —  (CNN)A fresh series of Facebook ads this week by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren seeks to put the social media giant on the defensive — by telling a lie.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Raw, angry, uncensored: Welcome to Trump's impeachment-era campaign  —  LAKE CHARLES, La. — First he claimed the political establishment was rigging the 2016 election against him.  Then he accused special counsel Robert Mueller of overseeing an “attempted takeover of the government.”
Discussion: New York Times
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David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump announces partial trade deal with China, lifting hopes that tensions could ease
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
We Are All Ukrainians  —  Ironies pile up.  Both participants …
San Francisco Chronicle:
SF man indicted with Ukrainian associates of Giuliani wanted to open a huge marijuana ranch in Livermore
Politico:
UK ‘softens Brexit position’ in final push for deal
Ed Whelan / National Review:
D.C. Circuit Ruling on Subpoena of Trump Financial Records
Discussion: New York Sun
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Last Night, We Saw Fascism In the Streets [Updated]
New York Times:
Those Foreign Business Ties? The Trump Sons Have Plenty Too
 Earlier Items: 
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The Free Beacon Fired A Top Reporter For A “Financial Transaction” With Someone He Frequently Covered
David Priess / Washington Post:
The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Goes Down in Flames on ‘The View’: 'Don't Mansplain!'
Discussion: Mediaite and twitchy.com
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr, Trump's Hatchet Man, Is About to Become His Scapegoat
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