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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘I feel bad that I left’: John Kelly warned Trump he would be impeached — SEA ISLAND, Georgia — John Kelly warned President Trump that hiring a “yes man” to succeed him as White House chief of staff would lead to impeachment and, in hindsight, regrets his decision to resign.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Catastrophically bad idea’: John Kelly criticizes Trump's Syria pullout — SEA ISLAND, Georgia — John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff, is calling President Trump's decision to remove American troops from northern Syria a “catastrophically bad idea” that is harming U.S. national security …
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The Hill, Political Wire and Raw Story
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘You can quickly get turned into a pretzel’: How a top Trump fighter escaped the spotlight in a critical month — Two days after House Democrats began their formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway went on national television to assure viewers her boss …
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
London trip photos show Giuliani with indicted associate at Yankees' game, Ukrainian charity event — Rudy Giuliani (center) speaks with New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone prior to a game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox in London in June 2019. Lev Parnas, a now-indicted associate …
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BuzzFeed News:
There's A Village In Ukraine Where Rudy Giuliani Is The Honorary Mayor. That's Not The Weird Part Of This Story. — ANATEVKA, Ukraine — Less than 20 miles outside of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, there's a little village inspired by Fiddler on the Roof that is playing an outsize role …
Josh Partlow / Washington Post:
Company with ties to Trump's brother Robert awarded $33 million government contract — A company in which President Trump's brother has a financial stake received a $33 million contract from the U.S. Marshals Service earlier this year, an award that has drawn protests from two other bidders …
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CNN, Axios, The Hill, Occupy Democrats and Political Wire
New York Times:
Rachel Maddow Confronts Her NBC News Bosses Live, on the Air — The MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow publicly confronted the leadership of her own network on Friday night, declaring live on air that she and other NBC News employees had deep concerns about whether the organization …
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MSNBC, Vanity Fair, Slate and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Official to Testify Pompeo Blocked Show of Support for Ousted Ambassador — Philip Reeker is latest State Department witness called in impeachment inquiry — WASHINGTON—A senior State Department official was set to tell House impeachment investigators Saturday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
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CNN, Diplopundit and Political Wire
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Key Witness in Impeachment Inquiry Asks Federal Court to Rule Over Testifying — The move raises new doubts about whether President Trump's closest aides will be able to cooperate with the inquiry. — WASHINGTON — A key witness in the impeachment investigation filed a lawsuit Friday asking …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Waiting for Bolton: A Capital Speculates on What He Will Say
Waiting for Bolton: A Capital Speculates on What He Will Say
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Raw Story, UPI and The Korea Times
New York Times:
Symbol of '80s Greed Stands to Profit From Trump Tax Break for Poor Areas — RENO, Nev. — In the 1980s, Michael Milken embodied Wall Street greed. A swashbuckling financier, he was charged with playing a central role in a vast insider-trading scheme and was sent to prison for violating federal securities and tax laws.
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Dan Spinelli / Mother Jones:
Trump's Impeachment Woes Grow In Latest Twitter Rant — Somebody is thinking about impeachment this morning. — President Donald Trump's latest weekend tweetstorm took aim at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) …
Nihal Krishan / Washington Examiner:
Two years in, Trump tax cuts not on course to pay for themselves — After two years, President Trump's tax cuts are not on track to pay for themselves, the latest Treasury data released Friday suggest. — Total federal government revenues ended up lower in 2019 than was projected before the passage of the GOP tax overhaul in 2017.
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Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Federal deficit increases 26% to $984 billion for fiscal 2019, highest in 7 years
Federal deficit increases 26% to $984 billion for fiscal 2019, highest in 7 years
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The Mahablog, Washington Monthly, HuffPost and Washington Post
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, an Iowa native, backs Elizabeth Warren for president — U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, a native Iowan and a rising star in the Democratic Party, confirmed to the Des Moines Register Saturday that she is endorsing U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president.
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USA Today:
Trump speaks at HBCU Benedict College as students are asked to stay in dorms — COLUMBIA, S.C. - In a way, what happened outside Benedict College's gates in the heart of downtown felt quite small. At its peak, the crowd covered less than 100 yards of the sidewalk.
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CNN:
Trump ordered Mattis to ‘screw Amazon’ on Pentagon contract, according to new book — (CNN) A new biography of former Defense Secretary James Mattis reports President Donald Trump personally got involved in who would win a major $10 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Pentagon …
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The Hill and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
Rick Wilson / gen.medium.com:
Is William Barr the Head of DOJ or QAnon? — John Durham's investigation of the Russia probe as a criminal matter is further proof that the Justice Department is a tool for Trump now — I warned you William Barr was the most dangerous man in America. — I warned you he would burn Washington to the ground.
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Washington Post, NPR and Fox News
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Maria Butina Receives Hero's Welcome in Moscow — Maria Butina is out of jail and Moscow is celebrating the convicted “spotter” for Russian intelligence. — Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty late last year to conspiring to act on behalf of the Russian government as a clandestine foreign agent …
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ICE, Talking Points Memo, BBC and The Hill
Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
Florida woman sets person on fire in Taco Bell, and then may have gone on arson spree, cops say — A Tallahassee woman may have went on a arson spree Wednesday and Thursday, starting at a Taco Bell where a woman was set on fire, cops say. — On Wednesday, Mia Williams …
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The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Pompeo Discusses Senate Race in Kansas with Koch — Secretary of State talked to billionaire Charles Koch during a visit to Wichita — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the U.S. Senate race in Kansas with billionaire Charles Koch and a top official from his namesake company during …
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Political Wire
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Civil rights leaders thought they'd figured out how to deal with Facebook. But now they are ‘livid.’ — As civil rights leaders prepared for a town hall event in Atlanta last month featuring Facebook's second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg, optimism ran high that company officials …
New York Times:
Thanks, Whistle-Blower, Your Work Is Done — White House transcript Statements by officials — Statements by officials Not proven yet — White House transcript Statements by officials — “Where is the Whistleblower, and why did he or she write such a fictitious and incorrect account …
New York Times:
The Global Protest Wave, Explained — It's not your imagination, and the last few months are not an outlier: Mass protests are on the rise globally. — They've been growing more common, year over year, since the end of World War II, now reaching an unprecedented level of frequency.
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Newsday:
Romney-Gabbard, Make America Decent Again — With the next presidential election only a year away, House Democrats are committed to impeaching President Trump. This should come as no surprise, as they have been talking about impeachment since before Trump even took office.
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Biden confident of prospects in South Carolina — FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden tells The Associated Press that he's confident his long ties in South Carolina will pay dividends in next year's Democratic presidential primary and plans no change in campaign strategy while rivals …
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Political Wire
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads, Let Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracies Slip Through — Legitimate health institutions are getting swept up in Facebook's algorithmic crackdown against anti-vaccine misinformation. — Facebook promised to institute a stricter policy on anti-vaccination misinformation …
Nell Irvin Painter / New York Times:
A Racist Attack Shows How Whiteness Evolves — An assault at a New Jersey high school football game had an unexpected cast of characters. — Dr. Painter is the author of “The History of White People.” — Two 17-year-old boys accused of harassing four African-American middle schoolgirls …
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The American Conservative
Reuters:
Turkey Will ‘Cleanse’ Syria Border if Russia Fails to Clear Kurdish Fighters, Erdogan Says — Under the Sochi agreement signed between Turkey and Russia, Syrian border guards are to clear YPG fighters from within 30 km of the Syria-Turkey border by Tuesday — Turkey will clear northeast Syria …