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2:20 PM ET, October 18, 2019

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Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Pompeo Calls Inquiry ‘Deeply Troubling’: Impeachment Update  — Check here for live updates on impeachment fight developments  — State, NSC, defense officials lined up to testify next week  —  House impeachment investigators ended a week of closed-door questioning in the inquiry …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Pentagon expert could reveal key details in Ukraine probe  —  WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2018, Congress allotted $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, part of a continuing effort to help the Eastern European nation defend itself against Russia.  Several months later,
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Impeachment inquiry shows Trump at the center of Ukraine efforts against rivals
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
How Did Gordon Sondland Think This Was Going to End?
Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News and Politico
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Forget Trump's “Meltdown”—Follow the Testimony
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Diplomat tells investigators he raised alarms in 2015 about Hunter Biden's Ukraine work but was rebuffed  —  A career State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy told congressional investigators this week that he had raised concerns in early 2015 about then-Vice President Joe Biden's son serving …
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Turkey is suspected of using white phosphorus against Kurdish civilians in Syria  —  Stop the burning, I beg you stop the burning, cries bombed boy  —  The burns on the screaming child brought into the Syrian-Kurdish hospital at Tal Tamir were enough to reduce even hardened medical staff to silence yesterday.
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Washington Post:
ISIS eyes breakout opportunity as Turkish forces batter Kurds
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
Trump's unmatched sleaze: Grifters, women, trampling Constitution and now G-7 at Doral  —  We've never had a president like Donald Trump.  He falls into every single sleaze category, from women to profiteering to attacking the Bill of Rights.  —  CONNECT  —  We've had presidents who were used …
Discussion: The Week and CREW
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Emolumental: Mulvaney and Trump Like Doral for a G-7 Quid Pro Quo
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
The guardrails are off the Trump presidency
Discussion: Politico and The Guardian
CNN:
Trump unhappy with Mulvaney's press briefing in which he acknowledged quid pro quo, source says
Dan Merica / CNN:
Hillary Clinton appears to suggest Russians are ‘grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run  —  Gabbard and Buttigieg spar over Trump's Syria withdrawal  —  (CNN)Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Friday the Russians are currently “grooming” a Democrat running …
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Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton Appears to Claim Russians ‘Grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard to Run as Third-Party Candidate
Discussion: National Review
Associated Press:
Attorney tied to controversial case to host Buttigieg event  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to attend a Chicago fundraiser that will be co-hosted by a former city attorney who vigorously tried to block the release of a video depicting …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and The Daily Beast
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
2014 photo of Trump and indicted Giuliani associate took place at Ivanka Trump hosted fashion show  —  2 Giuliani associates arrested as they tried to leave US  —  (CNN)A March 2014 photograph showing Donald Trump with a recently indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani appears to have been taken …
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis downplayed ties to Giuliani associates.  Then we found them hugging.  —  Florida's governor has shrugged off past donor controversies.  This time, there were photos.  Now it's not going away.  —  The pictures show Ron DeSantis leaning in to hug a heavy-set, middle-aged man amid a sea of onlookers.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
Oleg Deripaska-Linked Firm Was Raided for Undisclosed U.S. Inquiry  — Filings in U.K. reveal ‘live and ongoing’ U.S. criminal probe  — Laundering investigation grew out of Robert Mueller's work  —  U.S. prosecutors are seeking records from a company associated …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Daily Kos
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign to sue CNN over pro-impeachment bias, demands ‘substantial payment’  —  Outraged by secretly-taped anti-Trump comments attributed to CNN President Jeff Zucker and others at the cable network, President Trump's campaign is vowing to sue the company for “a substantial payment of damages.”
Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
3 Art Experts Analyze That Historic Nancy Pelosi vs. Donald Trump Photo  —  Some see Renaissance influences; others, hints of Norman Rockwell.  Have you noticed the Benjamin Franklin bust in the background and the clock on the mantle bisecting the frame?  The instantly iconic photo of Speaker …
David Brooks / New York Times:
If It's Trump vs. Warren, Then What?  —  A hard but necessary choice to save the country.  —  This is a memo for the politically homeless.  It's a memo to those of us who could never support Donald Trump but think the Bernie-Squad-Warren Democratic Party is sprinting too far left.
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:   Would Warren's Ideology Weaken Her as Democrats' Nominee?
Washington Post:
'Had I not been there, I wouldn't have met Rudy': The tale of the Arabian princess and the Trump International Hotel  —  For two years, the Emirati princess had been battling her estranged husband in Qatari courts for custody of their young son.  She was running out of options.
New York Times:
Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Problem With 737 Max in 2016, Messages Show  —  A Boeing pilot working on the 737 Max said in messages from 2016 that a new automated system was making the plane difficult to control in flight simulators, more than two years before it was grounded following two deadly crashes.
Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Elijah Cummings died protecting democracy.  Now Democrats must finish his fight.  —  The Maryland lawmaker will be remembered as a hero in our American story.  And he will be missed.  —  I'll never forget one of the first times Elijah Cummings spoke to me.
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Dave Philipps / New York Times:
The Navy Wants to Push Out Problem SEALs.  But Trump May Get in the Way.  —  A push to strengthen discipline in the SEAL teams has been stymied by one sailor's support in the White House.  —  Spiking drinks with cocaine, shooting Iraqi civilians, strangling a Green Beret …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Why Republicans should be worried about their chances of retaking the House  —  Democrats are building a financial bulwark around their House majority that's going to be tough for Republicans to breach in 2020.  —  Thirty-three of the 44 most vulnerable House Democrats have stashed …
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump's decision to host G-7 at his golf club creates awkwardness for world leaders  —  BRUSSELS — Trump's decision to host next year's Group of Seven summit at the struggling Trump National Doral Miami golf resort has created an awkward situation for the world leaders who will have to channel …
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
The Unraveling of Donald Trump  —  The country is entering a new and precarious phase, in which the central question about President Donald Trump is not whether he is coming unstrung, but rather just how unstrung he is going to get.  —  The boiling mind of Trump has spawned a cottage industry …
CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims Texas ‘made a fortune’ on Hurricane Harvey at Dallas rally  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump made at least 26 false claims in his 87-minute rally speech in Dallas on Thursday, including an inaccurate declaration that Texas had somehow profited …
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Filmmaker Pulls Out Of Women's Conference Because Kirstjen Nielsen Will Be Speaking  —  Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit “should not be giving Kirstjen Nielsen a platform to rehabilitate her image,” says dream hampton.  —  Award-winning filmmaker, author and activist dream hampton …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mitt Romney marches alone: 'I don't believe I'm leading a wing of the party'  —  A conservative group accuses him of being a secret Democratic asset.  President Donald Trump calls him a pompous ass and the president's son says he may be “colluding to bring down our president.”
Discussion: Breitbart
Bill Nemitz / Press Herald:
A Maine senator, a constituent and a failure to communicate  —  It started as an airport chat between Sen. Susan Collins and a ‘rude’ constituent.  Now it's the stuff of full-page newspaper ads.  —  A constituent told her she lacked courage.  U.S. Sen. Susan Collins thought that was rude.
Christopher Donato / ABC News:
Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis roasts Donald Trump: ‘I earned my spurs on the battlefield’  —  Former Defense Secretary James Mattis roasted his former boss at the Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York City on Thursday night.  —  Mattis took the stage at the annual dinner …
Emma Dumain / The State:
Trump to attend 2020 candidate forum at historically black South Carolina college  —  President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to participate in a forum focused on improving the criminal justice system in the United States.  —  His participation will bring him to a historically black college …
 
 
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Turkish Trolls Working For Erdogan Hijacked American Right-Wing Media — And Rudy Giuliani's Brain
Reuters:
Blasts collapse roof at Afghan mosque, killing at least 62 at Friday prayers
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP braces for impeachment trial ‘roller coaster’
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Impeachment is too important to leave to Congress — it's going to take mass mobilization
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
“Everybody Is Freaking Out”: Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law
Discussion: MIT Technology Review
 Earlier Items: 
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
No, This Charter Bus Company Did Not Sabotage the Trump Rally
Discussion: Raw Story
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Ex-VA chief Shulkin's new book decries ‘toxic, subversive’ culture in Trump's Washington
Discussion: CNN
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Democrats' internal impeachment polling memo
Discussion: Vox, Breitbart and The Hill
Borzou Daragahi / The Independent:
Erdogan says Turkey will take necessary steps against Trump's ‘disrespectful’ letter
Otillia Steadman / BuzzFeed News:
Porn Stars Are Fed Up With Instagram Wrongly Taking Down Their Accounts
The Daily Beast:
Nunes Tries to Use Steele Dossier to Defend Trump During Closed-Door Hearing
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Blair Miller / TheDenverChannel.com:
New poll shows majority of Coloradans support impeachment inquiry, Hickenlooper leads Gardner
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

 
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