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Poll: Iowa caucuses are ‘up for grabs’ as Pete Buttigieg surges into top tier — It's a new three-way race in Iowa. — Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was initially seen as a long-shot presidential contender, has surged within striking distance of former vice president Joe Biden …
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Think Warren's too liberal? Biden's old news? Midwesterners Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar want to talk to you — Just when it looked like the Democratic presidential contest was becoming a two-person race, a pair of Midwestern pragmatists are betting they can still rise by speaking …



The Trailer: Amy Klobuchar says she's catching on at exactly the right time

After weeks of criticism, Warren says she will release a plan to pay for Medicare-for-all
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Elizabeth Warren Says She Will Release a Plan to Finance ‘Medicare for All’
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Why Trump Dropped His Idea to Hold the G7 at His Own Hotel — He knew Democrats would criticize him. When Republicans started doing so, he changed his mind. — He knew he was inviting criticism by choosing his own luxury golf club in Miami for the site of a gathering of world leaders …
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Trump reversed course on hosting G-7 at his club after learning that impeachment-weary Republicans were tired of defending him — President Trump was forced to abandon his decision to host next year's Group of Seven summit at his private golf club after it became clear the move …
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White House Moves Testing Republican Support for Trump — The House impeachment inquiry is reducing the president's margin for error with members of his party — WASHINGTON—President Trump faces increasing public and private scrutiny from his own party over a series of recent White House moves …
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Mick Mulvaney's bad week just got worse — Mick Mulvaney's week went from bad to worse on Sunday, as he again tried to explain why President Donald Trump and the administration had withheld aid to Ukraine for weeks — one of Democrats' central questions in their impeachment inquiry.


Don't praise Trump for reversing G-7 Doral debacle. It was an intolerable abuse of power.
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This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney's Secret Twitter Account (Update: It Is) — Earlier today, the Atlantic's McKay Coppins published a lengthy profile on Mitt Romney, apparently part of Romney's effort to set himself up as the noble Republican foil to an out-of-control president.
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Mitt Romney: Republicans keep quiet on Trump because they fear Elizabeth Warren
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Mitt Romney Admits to Having a Secret Twitter Account
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Justice Department Distances Itself From Giuliani — In an unusual statement, a spokesman said department officials would not have met with President Trump's personal lawyer had they known his associates were under investigation. — The Justice Department distanced itself on Sunday …
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Amid Ukraine scandal, Trump officials worry about Rudy Giuliani's financial motives
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Mark Zuckerberg Has Quietly Advised Pete Buttigieg on Campaign Hires — Facebook CEO, wife privately recommended hires to Democrat — Zuckerberg facing barrage of criticism in DC for bias, privacy — Facebook Inc. chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has privately recommended …
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Inside Trump's First Pentagon Briefing — Long before real planning for it began, and long before the first news stories about it, those of us in the top levels of the Pentagon heard President Donald Trump demand the military parade he would eventually get.
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Lindsey Graham does not rule out the possibility of Trump impeachment if new evidence emerges — (CNN)In another sign of the dangerous predicament facing President Donald Trump, his longtime ally Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said in an interview that aired Sunday night that he could not rule …
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Graham open to other evidence on impeachment
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Syria critic Lindsey Graham reverses stance, says Trump's policy could succeed
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Private Photos of Indicted Donor Depict Ties to Trump, Giuliani — Dating back to 2015, the private Instagram account of Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American indicted for illegal campaign donations, appears to show VIP access to President Trump and a close relationship with Rudy Giuliani.
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Russian cyberattack unit ‘masqueraded’ as Iranian hackers, UK says — A Russian cyber espionage unit has hacked Iranian hackers to lead attacks in more than 35 countries, a joint UK and US investigation has revealed. — The so-called Turla group, which has been linked with Russian intelligence …


Want Trump to Go? Take to the Streets — Another moment for public protest has arrived. — On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump's election, Obamacare looked to be doomed. Millions of Americans, it seemed, were going to lose their health insurance.
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What If Trump Wins? — President Donald Trump has a lot riding on 2020. If he loses, he won't just quietly resume his carefree snowbird lifestyle, albeit with millions of new Twitter followers. He'll be dogged by big legal bills as he fends off criminal investigations in multiple jurisdictions.


'It's too much': Democrats shudder at Trump's money machine — Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have raised more than $300 million this year for his re-election — more than any other sitting president in history at this point in the campaign.
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