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New York Times:
Hundreds of ISIS Supporters Flee Detention Amid Turkish Airstrikes — The attacks caused about 700 Islamic State families to escape. The American defense secretary said the U.S. would pull out about 1,000 troops from the area. — AKCAKALE, Turkey — Hundreds of relatives …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
U.S. forces say Turkey was deliberately ‘bracketing’ American troops with artillery fire in Syria — Turkish forces who launched multiple artillery rounds near a U.S. Special Operations outpost in northeastern Syria on Friday have known for months that Americans were there …
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CNN, The Guardian, American Greatness, UPI, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
U.S. troops withdraw from another Syrian town as Turkish forces block supply lines — BEIRUT — U.S. troops withdrew on Sunday from another town in Syria as Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper inside Syrian territory, seizing positions along a major highway that serves as the U.S. military's main supply route …
CBS News:
U.S. “preparing to evacuate” remaining troops from northern Syria, defense secretary says — Washington — The U.S. is “preparing to evacuate” about 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria “as safely and quickly as possible,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper told “Face the Nation” in an interview airing Sunday.
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NBC News
Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press:
IS supporters escape as Turkish troops near key Syrian town
IS supporters escape as Turkish troops near key Syrian town
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Political Wire
New York Times:
Syrian Arab Fighters Backed by Turkey Kill Two Kurdish Prisoners
Syrian Arab Fighters Backed by Turkey Kill Two Kurdish Prisoners
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The Guardian and Hullabaloo
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Mattis warns ISIS could resurge: ‘Enemy gets the vote’ after Trump's announced troop pullout
Mattis warns ISIS could resurge: ‘Enemy gets the vote’ after Trump's announced troop pullout
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Politico, New York Post, Telegraph, Axios, The Guardian and Task & Purpose
George Mesires:
A Statement on behalf of Hunter Biden, dated October 13, 2019 — Hunter Biden's business activities have received significant press attention. Since 2016, I have served as Hunter's lawyer. In recent weeks, I have received numerous questions about those activities, many of which have been shaped …
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Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg:
Hunter Biden Steps Down from Chinese Board as Trump Attacks — Democratic candidate's son releases statement through lawyer — Trump, Giuliani have accused him of unsubstantiated corruption — Hunter Biden is stepping down from the board of a Chinese-backed private equity company …
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RedState, Associated Press, Politico, Axios, Political Wire, Mediaite and The Hill
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Hunter Biden will step down from board of Chinese firm, his attorney says
Hunter Biden will step down from board of Chinese firm, his attorney says
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The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump's envoy to testify that ‘no quid pro quo’ came from Trump — The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, NBC News, Mediaite, The Hill and NPR
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New York Times:
12 Hours. 4 Syrian Hospitals Bombed. One Culprit: Russia. — The Russians saved Bashar al-Assad's government. A trove of Russian Air Force recordings obtained by The Times shows how bombing Syrian hospitals helped them do it. — The Russian Air Force has repeatedly bombed hospitals …
Jack Howland / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Woman killed in own home when Fort Worth officer shoots her, police and witness say — A white Fort Worth officer fatally shot a black woman inside her home early Saturday morning after police were called to the house to do a welfare check, according to police and the neighbor who called them.
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Washington Post, CNN, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Hill, Daily Kos, WFAA-TV, The Daily Beast, Occupy Democrats and New York Post
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BuzzFeed News:
A Fort Worth Cop Killed A Black Woman Inside Her Home After Her Neighbor Called Police Because Her Door Was Open — A black woman was shot and killed by police inside her own home early Saturday morning in Fort Worth, Texas, after her neighbor called a non-emergency police number for a wellness check on her.
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ABC News, UPI and New York Times
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Dems scramble to counter Trump with grassroots impeachment campaign — More than 100 Democrats gathered on a Wednesday call to get the party organized on an existential question: How to sell the public on impeaching Donald Trump. — For several years now, the impeachment push has been defined …
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The New Civil Rights Movement
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
2014 photo shows earlier ties between Trump and indicted Giuliani associate — A photograph of President Donald Trump posing with a recently indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani was posted online in March 2014, two years prior to what had been their first known interaction.
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and emptywheel
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Batya Ungar-Sargon / The Forward:
I Was Protested At Bard College For Being A Jew — When I was asked to speak at last week's conference on racism and anti-Semitism at Bard College's Hannah Arendt Center, I think my heart actually skipped a beat. — Arendt, the German-born political philosopher who fled the Nazis in the 1930s …
Mark Ballard / The Advocate:
Gov. John Bel Edwards to meet Eddie Rispone in runoff for Louisiana governor's race — Eddie Rispone (left) and John Bel Edwards (right) — Gov. John Bel Edwards supporters claps and celebrates with supporters at his /election party at the Renaissance Hotel Saturday night. — Buy Now
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Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
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Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
Louisiana election heads to runoff with Democrat Edwards to face GOP's Rispone
Louisiana election heads to runoff with Democrat Edwards to face GOP's Rispone
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Politico, The Week, The Hill and The New Neo
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
How ‘White Guilt’ in the Age of Trump Shapes the Democratic Primary — The changing racial attitudes of white liberals are changing how 2020 candidates try to win votes. — ANKENY, Iowa — When Donald Trump was elected, John Olsen felt enraged by the racial tension that fueled his rise …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Conservatives look to crack Biden's black-and-white coalition
Conservatives look to crack Biden's black-and-white coalition
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Fox News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Democrats ratchet up impeachment secrecy — A week ago, House Republicans complained that Democrats imposed excessive secrecy on interviews conducted as part of the drive to impeach President Trump. Now, the situation appears to have gotten worse. — Friday's interview of Marie Yovanovitch …
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Breitbart
Bob Hennelly / Salon:
Giuliani was always a fraud. Just ask the FDNY — As the image of “America's Mayor” was being rehabbed, 9/11 families saw how his malfeasance killed their loved ones — The anonymously sourced reports that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's global fixer …
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New York Times, CNN and Occupy Democrats
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
Defiant Dave Chappelle — In the face of critics bent on suppression, he tells it as he sees it — When Dave Chappelle's Netflix special Sticks & Stones came out in August, the overwhelming response from critics was that it was offensive, unacceptable garbage.
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Althouse