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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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘Stop talking’: Trump advisers want Giuliani dumped — For weeks, prominent Republican advisers have been privately imploring President Donald Trump to sideline Rudy Giuliani after a barrage of inconsistent, combative and occasionally cringe-inducing media interviews, according to three people familiar with the conversations.
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Raw Story
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
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues.
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Raw Story
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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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.”
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Kevin McAleenan resigns as acting homeland security secretary
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POLITICUSUSA, KTLA, Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Trump says he is replacing McAleenan as acting homeland security secretary
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Outside the Beltway, Townhall, The Daily Caller and Roll Call
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.
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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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Reuters:
Iran offers to mediate between Syrian Kurds, Turkey — DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran offered on Saturday to engage Syrian Kurds, Syria's government and Turkey in talks to establish security along the Turkish-Syrian border following Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces.
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 …
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The Guardian and NBC News
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New York Times:
Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust — Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine after a long campaign against her by Rudolph Giuliani and his allies. Her boss told her she had “done nothing wrong.” — WASHINGTON — The State Department's …
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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 …
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Althouse, The Daily Beast and Instapundit
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy — with a Facebook ad
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Axios, Bloomberg, HuffPost, Engadget, Mediaite and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
James Comey Would Like to Help — The former F.B.I. director wants an end to the Trump presidency. And yes, he knows you might think he caused it. — James Comey slumps strategically in restaurants — all 6-foot-8 of him, drooping faux-furtively with his back to the room …
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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Mediaite, New York Times and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »
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The Daily Beast:
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News After Clashes With Colleagues
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Hollywood Reporter, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, twitchy.com, Washington Post and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »
Nancy Amons / WSMV-TV:
News4 talks one-on-one with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — NASHVILLE (WSMV) - The US Secretary of State visited Nashville on Friday and sat down for a one-on-one interview with News4 where he spoke about several issues, but there was one question he refused to answer.
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Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
Pompeo refuses to say if he met with Giuliani on February Warsaw trip
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Washington Monthly and Boing Boing
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To? — As she injects chaos into the 2020 Democratic primary by accusing her own party of “rigging” the election, an array of alt-right internet stars, white nationalists and Russians have praised her. — WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon …
Mathias Döpfner / Politico:
Never again ‘never again’ — One certainly cannot accuse Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of Germany's governing CDU party, of speaking in overly drastic terms. She sees Wednesday's attack in the city of Halle as a “wake-up call.” It is alarm clocks that send out wake-up calls.
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One America News Network
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 …
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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 …
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9to5Mac, Observer, Breitbart and VICE, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Favorite Impeachment Lawyer Is ...Trump Himself — President Donald Trump has slowly but surely bent the Office of the White House Counsel to his will. — On Tuesday, the Office of the White House Counsel delivered an eight-page letter to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Hot Air
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