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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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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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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 …
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The Week
CNN:
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen: 'There is blood on Trump's hands for abandoning our Kurdish allies'
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen: 'There is blood on Trump's hands for abandoning our Kurdish allies'
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The Atlantic, Shareblue Media, Mediaite, The Week, Power Line and New York Times
Telegraph:
Kurds agree to Russian-brokered plan to allow Assad into their territory
Kurds agree to Russian-brokered plan to allow Assad into their territory
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Reuters and Foreign Policy, more at Techmeme »
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, Washington Post and Occupy Democrats
O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Biden says if he's elected in 2020, he will not pardon Trump — Former Vice President Joe Biden today said if he's elected president, he will build on what he called “the squeaky clean...environment” of the Obama White House and have a policy for his family's work that's different than President Trump's.
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Political Wire, The Hill and twitchy.com
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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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Progress Pond and NBC News
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Missing From Elizabeth Warren's 2020 Surge: Democratic Endorsements — Despite Ms. Warren's upward momentum in polls and fund-raising, she lacks the support of a single governor, big-city mayor or fellow senator outside Massachusetts. — WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren has built …
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PJ Media Home
David Siders / Politico:
‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal debate
‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal debate
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The Daily Beast
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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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Trump's Former Russia Adviser Testifies As Part of Impeachment Inquiry — House investigators are hearing testimony Monday from Fiona Hill, the former White House adviser on Russia, who is appearing in private and faces questions as part of Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Document request to Trump's ex-Russia adviser lays out impeachment roadmap
Document request to Trump's ex-Russia adviser lays out impeachment roadmap
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Politico, National Review, Breitbart and The Hill
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.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Among the Witches Inside the Republicans' bunker. — “It's hard to be worried when you don't really like the guy.” That's what one senior Republican Senate aide had to say when I asked how concerned conservatives are about Donald Trump's fate. — The truth is, Trump fatigue is a condition …
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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Fox News, The Daily Caller and Law & Crime
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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CNBC, Politico, Political Wire, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Week and Mediaite
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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CNN:
Bill Barr's meeting with Fox News chairman should be investigated — Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
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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 and PinkNews
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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
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump hands Putin another win with Syria pullout — THE BIG IDEA: Vladimir Putin has won so much these past three years that he may get tired of winning. — The U.S. intelligence community's January 2017 report on Russian interference in the previous year's presidential campaign sought …
Ross Douthat / National Review:
Joker: A Violent, Noxious Scorsese Rip-Off — There are pop-culture products that can't survive the current moment's agitations — young-adult novels canceled by the online mob, movies buried because they starred Louis C.K. or Kevin Spacey. But there are other products that successfully surf …
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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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
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