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Karina Bland / Arizona Republic:
Parents of Kayla Mueller grateful for death of ISIS leader who held their daughter hostage  —  Terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who the president said was killed during a special forces raid in Syria, had reportedly been the captor and rapistof Arizona's Kayla Mueller, who was taken hostage in 2013.
New York Times:
Trump's Syria Troop Withdrawal Complicated Plans for al-Baghdadi Raid  —  President Trump's abrupt decision to pull forces from northern Syria forced the Pentagon to press ahead with a risky night operation that killed the ISIS leader, military officials said.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump says he may release footage of Baghdadi raid
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:   Rot in Hell, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Baghdadi Is Dead. The War on Terror Will Create Another.
Scott Boeck / USA Today:
President Donald Trump greeted with boos at Game 5 of World Series  —  SportsPulse: This may be the most energetic World Series we've seen in a long time.  For both teams, their exuberance on and off the field has been propelled by the joy often seen in Latin baseball culture.  —  CONNECT
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Inae Oh / Mother Jones:
Enjoy These Deeply Satisfying Clips of Trump Getting Booed at the World Series  —  On Sunday, President Donald Trump made a rare public appearance at Game 5 of the World Series to root for the home team, the Washington Nationals.  Trump's attendance, his very first Major League Baseball game …
Washington Post:
Trump met with sustained boos when introduced at Game 5 of the World Series  —  President Trump was booed during Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday night when he made a rare public appearance in a luxury ballpark suite in Democrat-dominated Washington.  —  When the president was announced …
Mike Wise / WUSA:
Source: Nationals owners requested they not have to respond to request to sit with President Trump at Game 5  —  The principal owners of the Nats had a special request of the MLB last week: They had no desire to be put in a position of turning down a request to sit with Trump
Alaa Abdeldaiem / Sports Illustrated:
President Donald Trump Booed at Game 5 of World Series
Discussion: Townhall, Breaking News USA and Slate
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Rep. Katie Hill to resign amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers  —  Freshman Rep. Katie Hill is resigning from Congress after facing allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers in her office and on her congressional campaign.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What the booing of Trump says about his presidency  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NOBODY OUGHT TO BE SURPRISED that the president was booed at Nats Park, in a city where more than 90% of voters choose his opponent in 2016.  What was striking, though, was that the reaction came …
New York Times:
Moving Closer to Trump, Impeachment Inquiry Faces Critical Test  —  Investigators have been building their case rapidly.  But the closer they get to the president, the more complicated their work will become.  —  WASHINGTON — House impeachment investigators are speeding toward …
Discussion: CBS News
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Democratic Rep. Katie Hill messed up, but she should not have resigned
Discussion: Washington Post
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
After resigning, Rep. Katie Hill vows to battle revenge porn, which critics blame for her downfall
Discussion: RedState and NBC News
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) to resign from Congress amid ethics investigation
Washington Post:
‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump  —  Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Sen. Johnson, ally of Trump and Ukraine, surfaces in crucial episodes in the saga  —  Sen. Ron Johnson met in July with a former Ukrainian diplomat who has circulated unproven claims that Ukrainian officials assisted Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, a previously unreported contact …
Niels Rosenquist / The Bulwark:
The Cowardly Republicans  —  Republicans are afraid to criticize the president.
Discussion: Raw Story
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules  —  The Daily Wire, the right-wing website founded by pundit Ben Shapiro, is a cesspool of misogyny, bigotry, and misinformation.  Its toxic content is also fantastically successful on Facebook, with each story reaching more people than any other major media outlet.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Norah O'Donnell / CBS News:
Joe Biden defends his son Hunter's Ukraine dealings, answers for his gaffes in 60 Minutes interview  —  The former vice president also calls on President Trump to release his tax returns, and explains why his children won't have White House offices  —  Joe Biden spent eight years …
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden says Trump is ‘an idiot’ for calling Russian election interference a ‘hoax’
Discussion: Breitbart, Political Wire and The Hill
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Our Bankrupt Nomenklatura  —  Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left accusing him of being crazy.  But he already took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test.  It was a simple cognitive exam and he aced it, as would most people.
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Biden joins Warren, Sanders with Super Tuesday focus  —  Joe Biden is expanding his presidential campaign footprint in Super Tuesday states and a general election battleground in the latest sign that Democrats' top White House contenders foresee a potentially lengthy nominating process in 2020.
Discussion: The Hill
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Kamala Harris: “Of course” it's different to run for president as a black woman
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Biden: Kushner has no ‘credentials’ for White House post
Discussion: Political Wire
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Most Pressing Issue for Our Next President Isn't Medicare  —  The 2020 campaign is obsessed with the wrong issue.  —  When Bill Clinton became president, his top legislative priority was health care.  When Barack Obama became president, he first had to prevent a depression, but then he too turned to health care.
Discussion: Vox
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Sally Pipes / Fox News:   Elizabeth Warren misleads Americans on harm and costs of ‘Medicare-for-all’
The Daily Beast:
Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for Years  —  Dmytro Firtash's lawyers say his team had to investigate Joe Biden to defend their client.  One expert says Biden pushed reforms that cost the oligarch up to $400 million per year.  —  Indicted Ukrainian gas oligarch Dmytro Firtash spent …
Discussion: Raw Story
Elizabeth Drew / USA Today:
You don't have to break a law to be impeached.  Trump's defenders need a better argument.  —  The Founders made clear that an impeachable or convictable offense need not be a crime.  Hamilton said it applied to ‘the misconduct of public men.’  —  CONNECT
Financial Times:
Brexit: EU agrees extension as Boris Johnson looks to trigger UK election — latest news … Breathing space for Westminster  —  As eyes now turn to Westminster where the debate over when to schedule an election moves centre stage, here is a recap as to what this morning's development means …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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Politico:
France yields on January 31 Brexit extension
 
 
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