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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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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
White House Says Trump ‘Strongly Condemns’ Violent Video Attacking Media
White House Says Trump ‘Strongly Condemns’ Violent Video Attacking Media
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New York Post, Slate and TMZ.com
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Vile and horrific’: Fake video of Trump massacring media shown at his Miami resort draws backlash
‘Vile and horrific’: Fake video of Trump massacring media shown at his Miami resort draws backlash
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Occupy Democrats, The Hill, Mediaite, Raw Story and Variety
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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Military Times, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Slate and Reuters
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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 »
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Furious Republicans prepare to rebuke Trump on Syria
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
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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Townhall, The Hill, New York Post, Roll Call and CBS News
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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Trump's Former Russia Adviser Testifies As Part of Impeachment Inquiry
Trump's Former Russia Adviser Testifies As Part of Impeachment Inquiry
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Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, UPI, Axios and Breitbart
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
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 Daily Caller, The Hill and twitchy.com
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FIREHOUSE Strategies:
Exclusive Survey: Big Moves among Early State Democrats — This year, Firehouse Strategies has been partnering with the data analytics team at 0ptimus to learn more about what early state primary voters think about their presidential candidates and key issues.
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Axios, Washington Times, The Hill and 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.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Among the Witches Inside the Republicans' bunker.
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
ABC News Broadcasts Fake Syria Bombing Video That's Actually From a Kentucky Military Show in 2017 — ABC News aired a video on Sunday that host Tom Llamas said depicted a Turkish attack in northern Syria against Kurdish civilians. Turkey is indeed pushing into Syria and slaughtering Kurds along the way …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
ABC News ‘slaughter in Syria’ footage appears to come from a Kentucky gun range — Are you distrustful of the coverage of what is happening now in northern Syria between the Kurds and the Turkish army? You have good reason to be. — ABC aired supposedly shocking footage Monday morning purporting …
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Patterico's Pontifications, NB Blog and twitchy.com
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's private meetings with conservative pundits — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists, commentators and at least one Republican lawmaker in recent months to discuss issues like free speech and discuss partnerships.
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Axios, Political Wire, Gizmodo and NBC News, more at Mediagazer »
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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National Review, Breitbart, CNBC, Politico, Vanity Fair, Political Wire, Washington Post, The Week and Mediaite
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Elizabeth Warren, 70, flaunts her fitness as Democratic candidates' health becomes a debate issue — As hundreds of people gathered for a recent Elizabeth Warren rally in Rock Hill, S.C., the heat built so much that one woman in the crowd passed out before the event started.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Missing From Elizabeth Warren's 2020 Surge: Democratic Endorsements
Missing From Elizabeth Warren's 2020 Surge: Democratic Endorsements
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PJ Media Home
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
When Elizabeth Warren ducked and dodged on Medicare for All
When Elizabeth Warren ducked and dodged on Medicare for All
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Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and The Week
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
Michael McGovern / Innovation Ohio:
New Poll Finds Trump Underwater in Ohio, Trailing Generic Democrat — Columbus, OH - A new poll from Public Policy Polling and Innovation Ohio shows that Ohio is set to return to its traditional status as a battleground state in 2020. — A memo on the results and the cross tabs can be found on Innovation Ohio's website.
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Political Wire
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz ejected from closed-door impeachment meeting — A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee was ejected from a closed-door impeachment hearing. — Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida tried to enter a hearing Monday in which lawmakers from three different committees …
John Tamny / RealClearMarkets:
Elizabeth Holmes Is a Visionary, and We Need More Like Her — “It is a fact that man can't fly.” The Washington Post concluded the latter in an editorial published around the beginning of the 20th century. Few disagreed with the Post. Indeed, in his excellent biography of Orville and Wilbur Wright …
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Real Clear Politics
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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CNBC, Vox, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and NBC News
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David Siders / Politico:
‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal debate
‘Advantage Warren’ as Dems ready for pivotal debate
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Axios, The Hill, The Daily Beast and Political Wire
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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William J. Burns / Foreign Affairs:
The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy — Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow — In my three and a half decades as a U.S. Foreign Service officer, proudly serving five presidents and ten secretaries of state from both parties, I've never seen an attack …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
States are cutting university budgets. Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks — University campuses have abandoned their central mission in their pursuit of utopia. The American public has had enough. — CONNECT — Times are bad for higher education, and higher educators are beginning to notice it.
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 and One America News Network