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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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Political Wire and Mediaite
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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Defense One, MPR News, Sputnik International, Balloon Juice and Althouse
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says U.S. Troops Have Quit Syria. It's Not True.
Trump Says U.S. Troops Have Quit Syria. It's Not True.
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Politico, Associated Press, One America News Network and Slate
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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Axios, USA Today, HuffPost, Fortune, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, The Atlantic, Washington Times, Associated Press and The Week
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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 Daily Caller, CNN, National Review, Politico, UPI, The Mahablog, Raw Story and Balloon Juice
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
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Senior adviser to Pompeo resigns
Senior adviser to Pompeo resigns
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Diplopundit, Hullabaloo, New York Post, CNN, The Week and Raw Story
Michael Calderone / Politico:
Reporters call out the State Department for ‘lockdown’ on Ukraine
Reporters call out the State Department for ‘lockdown’ on Ukraine
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The Week
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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Washington Post, Breitbart, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and Law & Crime
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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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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
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump Policy That Favors Wealthy Immigrants — An injunction prevents the administration from withholding green cards to immigrants who receive federal assistance like Medicaid, pending further legal review. — A federal judge in New York issued a nationwide injunction …
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Axios, The Week and ImmigrationProf Blog
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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 …
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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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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Shep Smith, Fox News Anchor, Abruptly Departs From Network
Shep Smith, Fox News Anchor, Abruptly Departs From Network
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The Last Refuge
CNN:
Pentagon announces new troop deployments to Saudi Arabia — Washington (CNN)The Pentagon will deploy about 1,500 extra troops to Saudi Arabia in answer to requests by the leading US military commander in the Middle East and, in part, because the US Navy is unable to send a relief aircraft carrier …
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, National Review, Vox, Reason, Hullabaloo, Hot Air, Political Wire, Bloomberg and American Military News
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon urges Turkey to halt incursion into Syria
Pentagon urges Turkey to halt incursion into Syria
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NPR, Politico, ABC News, Defense One and UPI
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
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 »
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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Daily Kos, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wall Street Journal and Politico
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.
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:
Jane Fonda arrested outside U.S. Capitol at climate change protest — Jane Fonda was arrested Friday as she protested climate change on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, CBS affiliate WUSA reports. The 81-year-old actress and a group of protestors were participating in her weekly “Fire Drill Friday” campaign.
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Jane Fonda arrested in climate change strike outside Capitol
Jane Fonda arrested in climate change strike outside Capitol
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Washington Post, twitchy.com, DCist, Page Six, HuffPost, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times
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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Townhall, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
2020 Presidential debate sites announced for general election — The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Belmont University in Nashville will host the 2020 presidential debates ahead of next November's general election.
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Politico, Associated Press and Axios
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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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Political Wire, twitchy.com, Mediaite and Contemptor
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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Washington Monthly, Politico, HuffPost, NewsHounds blog, Slate, Occupy Democrats, Sputnik International, Daily Kos, Al Jazeera and Axios
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Republicans stumbling over question at heart of impeachment — DENVER (AP) — A simple yes-or-no question keeps tripping up Senate Republicans: Should the president ask foreign countries to investigate political rivals? — A month ago the question was a legal and constitutional no-brainer.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump predicts senators will quash impeachment. His allies aren't so sure.
Trump predicts senators will quash impeachment. His allies aren't so sure.
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Vanity Fair and The White House
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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USA Today, The Daily Beast, The College Fix and The George-Anne