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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult on indicted associate's firm — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week …
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New York Times:
Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’ — WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser …
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Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Scrutinize Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine Business Dealings, Finances — Trump lawyer's bank records have been examined; witnesses are questioned about work for a Ukraine mayor, efforts to oust U.S. ambassador — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining Rudy Giuliani's business dealings …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Suspects a Spiteful John Bolton Is Behind Some of the Ukraine Leaks — Trump fears the leaks are now coming from the people he chose to serve—and that only increases the paranoia currently infecting the West Wing. — At a critical juncture in his presidency, facing …
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Washington Post:
‘Disruptive diplomat’ Gordon Sondland, a key figure in Trump impeachment furor, long coveted ambassadorship — Gordon Sondland was streaking over the West Coast in his Learjet in 2016 when the bad news came. Jeb Bush's campaign was on the phone. He was bowing out of the race for the White House.
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NBC News:
White House tried to limit what former Russia aide Fiona Hill could say to Congress, letters show
Axios:
House Democrats' sprawling Ukraine investigation is spilling across the Trump administration
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New York Times, Political Wire, NBC News and Washington Post
Danny Hayes / Washington Post:
A new poll shows Elizabeth Warren leading the Democratic field, with 28 percent — That's 7 percent ahead of Sanders and 10 percent ahead of Biden. — As the Democrats prepare for their fourth debate Tuesday night, former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are hoping to turn …
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Political Wire, HuffPost, Vanity Fair and ABC News
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Ericka Andersen / New York Times:
Why Are Democrats Jilting G.O.P. Voters Who Want to Like Them? — Candidates are leaving potential Republican converts without options. — Ms. Andersen is a freelance writer in Indianapolis. — Under President Trump, a small slice of America's electorate seeks a reason to call the Democratic Party home for the very first time.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Week
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Poll: Warren faces high expectations ahead of debate
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Political Wire and The Hill
Dan Merica / CNN:
Buttigieg puts money behind digital ad knocking ‘Medicare for All’ Democrats by name
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Political Wire
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
FPU-Herald Poll: Michelle Obama would enter NH primary as frontrunner
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Progressives fume at Buttigieg, warn him not to attack Warren at debate
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Victoria Thompson / ABC News:
Exclusive: ‘Hiding in plain sight’: Hunter Biden defends foreign ventures but concedes political ‘mistake’ — As President Donald Trump continues to fill his Twitter feed and campaign speeches with attacks on Hunter Biden over his foreign business deals, the former vice president's son defended …
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Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Biden's Rivals Are Utterly Perplexed at the Timing of Hunter's Interview — “I wouldn't have put Hunter on the air,” former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, a top surrogate for Biden, told The Daily Beast. — After months of staying silent amid an avalanche of attacks by President Trump and his team …
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New York Times:
Hunter Biden Denies Any ‘Ethical Lapse’ in His Ukraine and China Work — In an interview with ABC News, the former vice president's son rejected as “ridiculous” President Trump's suggestions that he and his father had engaged in wrongdoing. — WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Hunter Biden …
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Washington Post:
Russia patrolling between Turkish and Syrian forces after U.S. troops withdraw — ISTANBUL — Russia announced on Tuesday that its units were patrolling between the Turkish and Syrian militaries near the northern Syrian town of Manbij, in a sign that Moscow, a key ally of the Syrian government …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Trump Just Did Irreparable Damage to America's Standing in the World. It Wasn't an Accident. — By turning his back on the Kurds, the president has done irreparable damage to America's standing in the world. That's by design. — President Trump didn't make a “mistake” …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump's betrayal of the Kurds is sickening to U.S. soldiers
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Daily Kos
Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
With Turkey's invasion of Syria, concerns mount over nukes at Incirlik
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New Republic
Newsweek:
Exclusive: U.S. Cedes Syrian City to Russia in Battlefield ‘Handover’ as Turkey Tries to Take It
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The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone
Lara Seligman / Foreign Policy:
Turkish-Backed Forces Are Freeing Islamic State Prisoners
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Dan Wolken / USA Today:
LeBron James undermines values he's espoused in most disgraceful moment of career — On behalf of the 327 million American citizens who generally believe that freedom is good and authoritarian regimes are less good, let me apologize to LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Nick Gillespie / Reason:
The New York Times, NBC, and Other Outlets Don't Trust You To Handle the Truth — In the original Planet of the Apes movie (1968), the most-fascinating character is Dr. Zaius, the elitist, orangutan in chief who alone possessed the secret knowledge that (spoiler alert!) apes descended from humans.
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NBC News:
Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson charged with murder — The booking came just hours after Aaron Dean resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department. — Texas woman shot and killed in own home by police officer — The Fort Worth, Texas …
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Scott Rasmussen:
Weekly Update: 50% Favor Impeachment And Removal of President Trump; 38% Oppose — The latest ScottRasmussen.com poll found that 50% of voters nationwide now believe President Trump should be impeached and removed from office. — That's up two points from a week ago, four points from two weeks ago …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
‘Everything becomes a conspiracy theory’: Trump leans into spurious claims for impeachment defense — A president who rose to political prominence on birtherism — and then won the White House obsessed with Hillary Clinton's emails — is latching onto scraps of conspiracy theories to build his political defense against impeachment.
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
The transformation of Elizabeth Warren — She faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston — HOUSTON — Elizabeth Warren hadn't stepped foot on the University of Houston Law Center campus in nearly 15 years, not since she'd left her first full-time teaching job there.
BBC:
British holidaymakers ‘traumatised’ after arrest at US border — A British couple say they have been detained in the US after accidentally crossing the border from Canada. — David Connors, 30, and his wife Eileen, 24, say they are being held in Pennsylvania with their three-month-old baby and are “traumatised”.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ronan Farrow: National Enquirer shredded secret Trump documents — American Media, Inc. and the National Enquirer shredded sensitive Donald Trump-related documents that had been held in a top-secret safe right before Trump was elected in 2016, according to fresh allegations made in a new book by journalist Ronan Farrow.
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