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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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CNN:
Rudy Giuliani tells CNN he's unaware he's under investigation for Ukraine involvement — Trump: 'I don't know' if Giuliani is still my attorney — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that he's not aware he's under investigation for his involvement …
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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, New York Post, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Sputnik International
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 NBC News
Washington Post:
Trump tells reporters he doesn't know if Giuliani is still his attorney
Trump tells reporters he doesn't know if Giuliani is still his attorney
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Politico, HuffPost, New York Times, News Agency UNIAN and The Root
Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash
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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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Kurdistan24:
Senior female Kurdish political leader killed in ambush in Syria — ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The Future Syria Party's Secretary-General, Hevrin Khalaf, was killed on Saturday when Turkish-backed groups tried to take control of a point on the international M4 road.
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New York Times:
Militants Backed by Turkey Kill at Least Two Prisoners in Syria — The killings of Kurdish prisoners by Arab rebels raised the specter of wider sectarian warfare as fighting in northwestern Syria escalates. — Turkish-backed militants fighting in Syria killed at least two Kurdish prisoners on Saturday …
New York Times:
Trump's Abandonment of the Kurds in Syria Has Other Allies Worried
Trump's Abandonment of the Kurds in Syria Has Other Allies Worried
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Foreign Policy and Raw Story
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Bloodied clothes and body bags: Kurds mourn dead in Syria
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Anatomy of the phone call now imperiling Trump's presidency — WASHINGTON (AP) — There were dozens of ears listening to President Donald Trump's 30-minute phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry , and as many eyes that saw what he said.
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Ex-Republican: Do we still agree on beating Trump? After your LGBTQ forum, I'm not sure. — I'm not asking you to betray your principles, but Republican culture warriors are lying in wait. Why let them divide us where we already agree? — CONNECT — Dear Democrats: — We've been together for a while now.
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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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TheBlaze
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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell tightlipped as impeachment furor grows
McConnell tightlipped as impeachment furor grows
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Impeachment has put Trump in a different place. He's showing it every day. — President Trump delivered a characteristic performance Thursday night in Minneapolis. His 100-minute rally speech was complete with scattered vulgarities, caustic attacks on political opponents …
New York Times:
A Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’ — Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit. — There were billionaires (Leslie Wexner and Leon Black) …
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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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Brent Staples / New York Times:
How Italians Became ‘White’ — Mr. Staples is a member of the editorial board. — Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it declared in 1790 that only “free white persons, who have, or shall migrate into the United States” were eligible to become naturalized citizens.
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, The Mahablog, Fortune and The Guardian
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Mattis warns ISIS could resurge: ‘Enemy gets the vote’ after Trump's announced troop pullout — The ‘enemy gets the vote’, we say in the military," Mattis said. “ And in this case, if we don't keep the pressure on, then ISIS will resurge. Former Defense Secretary James Mattis …
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Political Wire, CNBC and Washington Post
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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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
U.S. foreign policy is for sale. Who else is buying?
U.S. foreign policy is for sale. Who else is buying?
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Outside the Beltway
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
As Impeachment Divide Persists, More Voters Embrace an Inquiry — Americans are as divided over impeachment as they are over President Trump. But support for the Democrats' inquiry is building even in places Mr. Trump won, and among politically crucial independents.
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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