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New York Times:
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort — WASHINGTON — A video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents was shown at a conference for his supporters …
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The Daily Beast:
The U.S. Spoiled a Deal That Might Have Saved the Kurds, Former Top Official Says — Forsaken by the U.S. and under attack by Turkish troops, the Kurds are turning to Russia for help. The last time they tried to do so, the Americans worked to talk them out of it.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of the Trump bluff that kicked off Turkey's invasion — The big picture: Trump would tell Erdoğan that if he wanted to invade Syria he would have to own whatever mess ensued, according to these sources. Erdoğan would have to take care of ISIS …
CNN:
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen: 'There is blood on Trump's hands for abandoning our Kurdish allies' — Washington (CNN)A retired four-star Marine general on Sunday bluntly criticized President Donald Trump over the ongoing Turkish military offensive in northern Syria, saying …
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The Week and Power Line
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Followed His Gut on Syria. Calamity Came Fast. — All the warnings were there. But President Trump's reliance on his instincts, and his relationships, led him to ignore the consequences of a move that has emboldened Russia, Iran and the Islamic State.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and The Week
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Trump and Syria: the worst week for US foreign policy since the Iraq invasion?
Trump and Syria: the worst week for US foreign policy since the Iraq invasion?
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Al-Monitor, Occupy Democrats and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Botched Attempt to Hire Trey Gowdy — For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump's outside legal defense and a symbol of a streamlined effort …
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Law & Crime
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Former Trump Aide to Testify on Pressure to Oust Ambassador to Ukraine — WASHINGTON — Fiona Hill, President Trump's former top Russia and Europe adviser, headed to Capitol Hill on Monday morning where she is prepared to testify that she and other officials objected strenuously to the removal …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Document request to Trump's ex-Russia adviser lays out impeachment roadmap — Ahead of this week's subpoenas and depositions, new documents obtained by Axios show how Democrats are taking the impeachment inquiry in two tightly focused directions: Ukraine and obstruction of justice.
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Politico, National Review, Breitbart and The Hill
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Warren's Rise Hasn't Come At Biden's Expense — We've been busy the past few weeks tracking public opinion on impeachment, launching our new NBA metric (RAPTOR!) and dealing with about a million breaking news alerts a day. So I'm not going to give you one of those grandiose overviews of the Democratic primary.
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Axios:
Elizabeth Warren is still Trumpworld's dream candidate — President Trump's allies still fear a general election matchup against a banged-up Joe Biden more than a run against an invigorated Elizabeth Warren, people close to the president tell Axios. — Driving the news …
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Political Wire
David Siders / Politico:
‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal debate
Bloomberg:
China Wants More Talks Before Signing Trump's ‘Phase One’ Deal — China wants further talks as soon as the end of October to hammer out the details of the “phase one” trade deal touted by Donald Trump before Xi Jinping agrees to sign it, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
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BBC:
LIVEReaction after Queen outlines government's agenda — Follow us on Twitter @BBCPolitics and @BBCParliament - Read more: New laws on crime, health and environment planned and Brexit talks continue ahead of summit — Live Reporting — Queen's Speech in numbers
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The Atlantic
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Eleni Courea / Politico:
Queen's speech: Brexit top priority for UK government
Queen's speech: Brexit top priority for UK government
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GOV.UK, One America News Network and Outside the Beltway
Richard Bernstein / RealClearInvestigations:
Why China's Brightest Abroad Show Team Spirit for Beijing's Hardball — Ocotber 14, 2019 — The appearance at Columbia University last month by two leading Hong Kong pro-democracy activists was drawing to a close when, suddenly, students from mainland China arose from their seats …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Focus group: These Ohio swing voters are outraged over impeachment — YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Swing voters in this Rust Belt state are expressing a range of unease about impeaching President Trump, from fears it will hurt the economy to frustrations that House Democrats are more invested in going after Trump than in helping people.
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The Week, Townhall and PJ Media Home
Nadine Shubailat / ABC News:
Hunter Biden sits down for exclusive interview with ABC News — Hunter Biden sat down with ABC News anchor Amy Robach over the weekend at his home in Los Angeles for an exclusive interview, and no questions were off limits. — Tune in to “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” …
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Washington Post
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Trump claims China is already buying more U.S. farm goods
Trump claims China is already buying more U.S. farm goods
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One America News Network, CNBC, Raw Story and TheStreet
New York Times:
Fox News Is Trump's Chief TV Booster. So Why Is He Griping About It? — Fed up with the coverage on his favorite cable news station, President Trump decided late this summer that a direct intervention was needed. So he telephoned the chief executive of Fox News, Suzanne Scott, and let loose.
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
In a month, Trump has destroyed ‘America First’ — The uproar in Washington over President Trump's corruption in Ukraine and malfeasance in Syria has obscured a broader story. In little more than a month, virtually every other foreign policy initiative the Trump administration has pursued has imploded …
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Raw Story
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's plan to reshape corporate America, explained — US Senator from Vermont and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders addresses striking low-wage contract workers from the US Capitol | Bernie Sanders has a plan to give workers ownership at their companies.
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Common Dreams and ABC News
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Washington Post:
President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days — As President Trump approaches his 1,000th day in office Wednesday, he has significantly stepped up his pace of spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods.
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Political Wire
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The (Full) Case for Impeachment A menu of high crimes and misdemeanors. — The crimes for which impeachment is the prescribed punishment are notoriously undefined. And that's for a reason: Presidential powers are vast, and it's impossible to design laws to cover every possible abuse of the office's authority.
Axios:
Voters aren't buying Trump's promises of a health care plan — New polling shows that most of the public does not think President Trump has or will have a health care plan. — Driving the news: The Kaiser Family Foundation's next tracking poll will show that most Republicans are sticking with Trump …
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Political Wire
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Clinton Legacy: Impeachment Hurts the President — The 1998 trial damaged Democrats more than Republicans. — Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party suffered a big political penalty for impeaching Bill Clinton in 1998. But that's not quite right.