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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 …
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New York Post
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
New York Times:
Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust
Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust
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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 — (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.
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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
Trump says he is replacing McAleenan as acting homeland security secretary
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The Daily Caller and Roll Call
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is out, Trump says in tweet
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is out, Trump says in tweet
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Breitbart, One America News Network, Raw Story, Politico and KVOA-TV
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.
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Politico
New York Times:
ISIS Rears Its Head, Adding to Chaos as Turkey Battles Kurds
ISIS Rears Its Head, Adding to Chaos as Turkey Battles Kurds
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Common Dreams, FDD's Long War Journal, Occupy Democrats and CNN
Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey
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Mediaite, Foreign Policy Research … and CNN
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 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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One America News Network and The Week
Kerry Picket / Washington Examiner:
Adam Schiff has 2 aides who worked with whistleblower at White House
Adam Schiff has 2 aides who worked with whistleblower at White House
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Liberty Unyielding, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, RedState, NB Blog and Herman Cain
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
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy — with a Facebook ad
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HuffPost, Engadget, Mediaite and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
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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CNN:
Shepard Smith makes shocking announcement that he is leaving Fox News
Shepard Smith makes shocking announcement that he is leaving Fox News
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Washington Post:
Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network
Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network
The Daily Beast:
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News After Clashes With Colleagues
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News After Clashes With Colleagues
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Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, twitchy.com, Washington Post, Bloomberg and Hot Air
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News
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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 …
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 …
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Newt Gingrich's Hypocrisy on Trump Impeachment: 'I Think I Remember …
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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.
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Washington Monthly and Boing Boing
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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 »
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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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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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.”
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