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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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The Guardian, The Week and Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
America Exports Its Corruption to Ukraine — Once upon a time, we spread ideals of democracy and rule of law. Now? We send Giuliani. — KIEV, Ukraine — In 2014, Ukraine's wildly corrupt president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled to Russia after mass protests on the Maidan, Kiev's central square.
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News Agency UNIAN and Deseret News
Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash
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New York Post
NBC News:
Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch, says official
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The Daily Caller
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Raw, angry, uncensored: Welcome to Trump's impeachment-era campaign
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New York Times
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 …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Military leader of Syrian Kurds tells US ‘you are leaving us to be slaughtered’ — (CNN)The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, “You are leaving us to be slaughtered,” demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything …
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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.
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Newsweek:
Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake
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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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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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Brian Fung / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy — with a Facebook ad
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Financial Times:
China makes few concessions in trade truce with US — After five months of constant escalations in their long-running trade war with the US, Chinese officials on Friday finally secured a respite. — In return for a series of modest concessions, most of which had been offered …
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South China Morning Post, Des Moines Register, Fortune, Political Wire and The Guardian
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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 …
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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
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Harry Reid warns Democrats: Trump is a ‘very, very smart man’ who won't be easily beaten in 2020 — Harry Reid: How Democrats can beat Trump in Nevada — Watch the full interview on “The Axe Files” Saturday at 7 p.m. on CNN. — Washington (CNN)Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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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 …
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
He who must not be named: How Hunter Biden became a conversation-stopper — Hunter Biden: The mere mention of his name seemingly triggers the vapors among cable-TV hosts and their guests. — When President Donald Trump turned to the Bidens and Ukraine in a speech, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace cut off …
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Reuters, American Greatness and Herman Cain, 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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emptywheel, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Boing Boing and Hot Air
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
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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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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