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Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Steyer Calls for End to Secret Hearings: Impeachment Update — Check here for live updates on impeachment fight developments — Secretary of State Pompeo calls inquiry ‘deeply troubling’ — House impeachment investigators ended a week of closed-door questioning in the inquiry …
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Axios and Political Wire
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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker responds to Mulvaney: ‘Are we trying to exculpate Russia?’ — Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) on Friday knocked unproven election interference allegations against Ukraine that have been floated by President Trump and his personal lawyer recently. — During an appearance on CNN …
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Associated Press
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Pentagon expert could reveal key details in Ukraine probe
Pentagon expert could reveal key details in Ukraine probe
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Daily Kos
Robert S. Litt / Lawfare:
The Whistleblower Should Not Have to Testify
The Whistleblower Should Not Have to Testify
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Washington Post, The Week and CAFE
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton suggests Putin has kompromat on Trump, Russia will back Tulsi Gabbard third-party bid — At Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) hit back at critics who charged she's too close to Russia. “This morning, a CNN commentator …
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Politico, Townhall, Fox News, Associated Press, Common Dreams, The Hill, Balloon Juice, The Week and TheBlaze
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton Appears to Claim Russians ‘Grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard to Run as Third-Party Candidate
Hillary Clinton Appears to Claim Russians ‘Grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard to Run as Third-Party Candidate
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National Review, Breitbart and VodkaPundit
Associated Press:
38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of private email and found violations by 38 people, some of whom may face disciplinary action.
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Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
State Department Concludes Clinton Email Review, Says It Found Nearly 600 Security Violations — State Department investigators probing Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state discovered nearly 600 security incidents that violated agency policy …
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Pompeo lashes out at impeachment inquiry — ABOARD THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S PLANE — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fiercely criticized the House impeachment inquiry, saying his department is being treated unfairly as Democrats seek to remove President Donald Trump from office.
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Talking Points Memo and The Federalist Papers
Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistake — Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate. — Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria is a grave strategic mistake. It will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Emolumental: Mulvaney and Trump Like Doral for a G-7 Quid Pro Quo — No financial conflict. No Constitution. No worry. — LISTEN TO ARTICLE — 6:56 — SHARE THIS ARTICLE — Share — Tweet — Post — Email — If you're wondering how the White House decided …
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Washington Post:
Trump says he'll host G7 summit at cost at his resort — but provides few details
Trump says he'll host G7 summit at cost at his resort — but provides few details
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Democrats, Outside the Beltway, Vox, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Hill and Vanity Fair
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump's decision to host G-7 at his golf club creates awkwardness for world leaders
Trump's decision to host G-7 at his golf club creates awkwardness for world leaders
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Above the Law, Salon, Hot Air and Fox News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mick Mulvaney's walkback doesn't pass the laugh test. Here's the timeline.
Mick Mulvaney's walkback doesn't pass the laugh test. Here's the timeline.
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The Daily Beast, CNN and Salon
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.”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Writes Unhinged ‘Legal’ Letter Demanding That CNN Pay Him Money — This week, right-wing hoaxster James O'Keefe launched the latest of his series of secretly recorded videos, which purport to prove various conservative conspiracy theories but fail. The new version involves …
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The Daily Beast
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 …
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New York Times, USA Today, BizPac Review, Shareblue Media, CBS News and ABC News
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Nina Burleigh / NBC News:
Trump's Nancy Pelosi ‘meltdown’ tweet was the perfect self-own. Here's why.
Trump's Nancy Pelosi ‘meltdown’ tweet was the perfect self-own. Here's why.
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Vox, Washington Post, Fox News and LifeZette
Heather Digby Parton / Raw Story:
The week Donald Trump's presidency crashed and burned — and Republicans noticed
The week Donald Trump's presidency crashed and burned — and Republicans noticed
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Salon, Washington Post and The Intercept
Andrew Kugle / Washington Free Beacon:
A Tale of Two Fingers — Media praise Nancy Pelosi …
A Tale of Two Fingers — Media praise Nancy Pelosi …
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NB Blog, RedState, BizPac Review and Liberty Unyielding
Bloomberg:
To Win Giuliani's Help, Oligarch's Allies Pursued Biden Dirt — Associates of a Ukrainian oligarch fighting extradition to the U.S. were working to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden last summer in an effort to get Rudy Giuliani's help in the oligarch's legal case …
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Raw Story
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 …
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Hot Air, Townhall, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Hill, ABC News, Reuters, Breitbart, LifeZette, naked capitalism, The Nation, CNN, The Week, KTLA, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, National Review, Washington Times, Axios, PJ Media Home, Instapundit and checkyourfact.com
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.
Ron DeSantis downplayed ties to Giuliani associates. Then we found them hugging.
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Political Wire and Raw Story
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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The Guardian, CNN, Shareblue Media, No More Mister Nice Blog, Foreign Policy, CBS News and Task & Purpose
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CNN:
Fact check: Trump parrots talking points from Putin, Erdogan on Syria
Fact check: Trump parrots talking points from Putin, Erdogan on Syria
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Occupy Democrats, Atlantic Council and Raw Story
Elena Becatoros / Associated Press:
Fighting in Kurdish-held Syrian town despite cease-fire
Fighting in Kurdish-held Syrian town despite cease-fire
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NBC News, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Defense One, Conservative Christian News, ABC News, Daily Kos, Mediaite, KTAR.com, The Week, Politico, France 24 and HuffPost
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Rudy Giuliani: “I Don't Worry About Propaganda” — Rudy Giuliani denied in an interview with BuzzFeed News Friday that he could have been manipulated by Turkish disinformation. — “I don't worry about propaganda,” Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a lawyer working for President Donald Trump …
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The American Conservative and Washington Post
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Turkish Trolls Working For Erdogan Hijacked American Right-Wing Media — And Rudy Giuliani's Brain
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats are zeroing in on Rudy Giuliani to impeach Trump
Democrats are zeroing in on Rudy Giuliani to impeach Trump
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HuffPost, FiveThirtyEight and Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
'Get the Hell out of Syria. It's Sand and Blood and Death': Inside America's Chaotic Retreat — President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops upended Middle East policy and empowered Washington's adversaries — America's humiliating exit from the war in Vietnam was marked …
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
First Republican calls for Rick Perry to answer House subpoena — Senior House Democrats say they won't let up on their demands for documents and testimony from outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry in the wake of his resignation announcement — and at least one Republican agrees with them.
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Associated Press, FOX News Radio, The Hill, Fox News and Outside the Beltway
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 …
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Law & Crime and Daily Kos
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 …
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The Hill, Fox News, New York Times, National Review, Axios, The Daily Beast and Bloomberg
Roxane Gay / gay.medium.com:
The Case for Checking a Bag — And other travel complaints — ravel is a chaotic, exhausting experience exacerbated by people who forget the social contract the moment they step foot in an airport. I travel constantly. I chase miles and have status on three airlines.
New York Times:
Boeing Pilot Complained of ‘Egregious’ Issue With 737 Max in 2016 — 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.
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Reuters, National Review, New York Post, The Points Guy, Breitbart and The Verge
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 …
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Politico and Law & Crime
Peter Baker / New York Times:
On Day 1,001, Trump Made It Clear: Being ‘Presidential’ Is Boring — If he acted “presidential,” Mr. Trump said Thursday night in Dallas, “everybody would be out of here so fast.” — DALLAS — At one point during one of his most unpresidential of days, President Trump insisted that he knew how to be presidential.
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.
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Raw Story
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will decide constitutionality of consumer watchdog bureau — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider whether the creation of the watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by Congress in 2010 was unconstitutional, something the Trump administration and even the bureau's director say they now believe.
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 …
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The Daily Caller