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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
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 …
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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 …
New York Times:
Moving Closer to Trump, Impeachment Inquiry Faces Critical Test
Discussion: CBS News
New York Times:
Watching the Raid Was Like a Movie, the President Said.  Except There Was No Live Audio.  —  Surveillance video provided a dramatic portrait of action outside the al-Baghdadi compound, but could not show what happened in an underground tunnel where the ISIS leader died.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump says he may release video of al-Baghdadi raid  —  President Trump said Monday that he is considering releasing portions of the video of the U.S. military raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend.  —  “We're thinking about it.
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.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump says he may release footage of Baghdadi raid
Discussion: Raw Story
Ahmed Rasheed / Reuters:   Exclusive: Baghdadi's aide was key to his capture - Iraqi intelligence sources
New York Post:   Rot in Hell, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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 …
Discussion: Reason and Wall Street Journal
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, Breitbart and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants Impeachment Defense Based on Substance, Not Process  —  President also backs Giuliani ahead of new week of depositions in probe  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said he has encouraged his Republican allies to defend him on the substance of the impeachment probe …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
Former US Senator Kay Hagan dead at 66  —  Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan died Monday.  She was 66.  —  Hagan, a Democrat, served a single term after beating Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008.  She lost to Republican Thom Tillis in 2014.  —  “We are heartbroken to share …
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.
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
What's Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford.  —  “It's dreadful,” Anna Wintour said in early October, looking out the south-facing windows of her 25th-floor office in One World Trade Center …
Ethan DeWitt / Concord Monitor:
Capital Beat: A four-judge Supreme Court for the foreseeable future  —  The fire and fury have faded.  Months since the day the Democratic majority on the Executive Council rejected his nomination, the fight to place Gordon MacDonald on the state Supreme Court is all but over.
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Alex Swoyer / Washington Times:   ‘Crisis of confidence’: John Roberts' impeachment role prompts recusal rumblings
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Barr defends Durham probe, rips Comey FBI for ‘failure of leadership’  —  EXCLUSIVE — Attorney General Bill Barr, in an interview with Fox News, defended the independence and integrity of the politically contentious probe being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the handling of the Russia investigation …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
‘Lock him up’ chant highlights the debate we need about Trump's lawlessness  —  What do we do when the White House's explicit position is that the president may abuse his powers in any way he sees fit, and that no form of accountability of any kind constraining his conduct is legitimate?
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
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's used his NYPD security detail to take his son to Yale: sources  —  Mayor de Blasio ordered his NYPD security detail to repeatedly take his son back and forth from Yale University during his first years at school, the Daily News has learned.
Discussion: National Review
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.
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Re-election runway: What U.S. airports can tell us about Trump's 2020 chances  —  Analysis: A high-altitude way of looking at America's political divide and what it means for Dems.  —  When protesters swarmed major airports like Dallas-Fort Worth, JFK and San Francisco International …
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
 
 
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Defense One:
Syrian Women Helped Find Baghdadi, Beat ISIS, Will Face ‘Tough Time’ Ahead, Leader Says
Russ Read / Washington Examiner:
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Niels Rosenquist / The Bulwark:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
President of Major U.S. Union Accused of Sexual Harassment
NBC News:
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