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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Drops Out of the Presidential Race — The former Texas congressman, who energized Democrats in a Senate race last year, began his White House run to great fanfare but failed to build significant support. — Former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas announced that he is dropping …
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Thank you. — Our campaign has been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly and acting decisively in the best interests of America. — Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Warren Leads Tight Iowa Race as Biden Fades, Poll Finds — Ms. Warren garnered 22 percent in a New York Times/Siena College poll, to 19 percent for Bernie Sanders. Pete Buttigieg has surged, while Mr. Biden's travails have put the race in flux. — Which of these Democrats would be your first choice in the Iowa caucuses?
Bloomberg:
Warren Derides Biden as Running in ‘Wrong Presidential Primary’ — Senator hits back over criticism of $21 trillion health plan — Warren-Biden rift comes as Democratic hopefuls descend on Iowa — Elizabeth Warren swatted back at Joe Biden's criticism of her $21 trillion Medicare …
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Daily Mail:
'He thinks he still has Mike Pence's job!' Joe Biden boasts in Iowa about tax credits ‘the president and I’ want as he sinks to FOURTH PLACE in the early caucus state — Biden said housing policy should include ‘what we propose, and I propose - what the president and I—’
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Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Harris laying off campaign staff in New Hampshire
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Testimony: White House lawyer told Vindman not to discuss Ukraine call — The senior White House lawyer who placed a record of President Donald Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's president in a top-secret system also instructed at least one official who heard the call not to tell anyone about it …
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Washington Post:
White House official who heard Trump's call with Ukraine leader testified that he was told to keep quiet — Several days after President Trump's phone call with the leader of Ukraine, a top White House lawyer instructed a senior national security official not to discuss his grave concerns …
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Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
'It's like nothing we have come across before': UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump administration's requests for help with counter-impeachment inquiry — As impeachment inquiries heat up, president's people are busy pursuing a counter offensive aimed at discrediting Mueller's findings that Russia interfered in 2016 election
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Isn't Ready for the Impeachment Hearings — He's always been more comfortable with chaos than teamwork and preparation. — After weeks of damaging testimony from current and former White House advisers and career diplomats, the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to publicly endorse …
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Washington Post:
As Trump moves to bully witnesses and derail impeachment, Democrats see obstruction
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Meghann Myers / Military Times:
How the Army officer who testified against Trump could end up in a court-martial
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Fox News:
Warren's $52T ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan revealed: Campaign still claims no middle-class tax hikes needed — EXCLUSIVE: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's long-awaited “Medicare-for-all” funding plan projects the government-run health care system would cost a staggering sum of …
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Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week:
Jeff Bezos would pay nearly $7 billion to Elizabeth Warren's Medicare-for-all tax
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes $20.5 Trillion Health Care Plan
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Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
Ending the Stranglehold of Health Care Costs on American Families
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CNN:
'I'm the best-paid interpreter in the world': Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas touted windfall from Ukrainian oligarch — New York (CNN)Earlier this year, Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, received a sudden windfall of money from a prominent Ukrainian oligarch …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources — NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co's $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly …
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Washington Post:
Growing number of GOP senators consider acknowledging Trump's quid pro quo on Ukraine — A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to acknowledge that President Trump used U.S. military aid as leverage to force Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his family …
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ThinkNow:
Progressive Latino pollster: 98% of Latinos do not identify with “Latinx” label — One of the greatest challenges facing marketing departments and political campaigns today is the inability to discern signals from noise. As a professional market researcher, I see this on a daily basis.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
How Deadspin Imploded — The last meeting for many of Deadspin's journalists took place on Wednesday in a conference room adorned with fake black cobwebs, a large spider and bloody handprints beside the words: “HELP US.” — The plea, it seemed, went unanswered.
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
The Mavening of Sportswriting — Deadspin staffers resigned …
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Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Trump refuses to defend Mick Mulvaney, heightening indications chief of staff on the way out — President Trump declined to defend embattled acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, an indication he is considering a change. — Asked during an Oval Office interview with the Washington Examiner …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Revealed: Trump wanted to build a megachurch — Of all the projects real estate mogul Donald Trump wanted to build, here's one that nobody saw. — According to his long-time personal pastor, Paula White-Cain, Trump, in 2006 was taking steps to build a glass cathedral.
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Expects Public Impeachment Hearings to Begin This Month — House speaker discusses inquiry with Bloomberg News after vote — Investigation becomes a battleground in the 2020 election — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she expects the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry …
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Apple Podcasts:
Apple Podcasts Preview — The impeachment of Donald Trump is one of the biggest political stories of our lifetimes. It's a test of whether accountability, election integrity, and the rules of our democracy can withstand the corrupt acts of powerful people. It's also a story that's unfolding at such a break-neck pace, it's absurd.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
'Why I'm Leaving New York,' by Donald Trump — When you have great and unmatched wisdom like me, it's not so hard to see the beginnings of things, and it is not hard to see the ends of things, either. Pretty easy, actually! Everything is easy for me because I have a great brain …
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Washington Post:
K Street's newest star built business on dubious claims of Trump ties — Since President Trump took office, the lobbyist Michael Esposito has been wildly successful, turning a family business that once focused on municipal transportation issues into one of the fastest-growing lobbying firms in Washington.
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
In His Dealings with Ukraine, Did Donald Trump Commit a Crime? — It's long been clear that Presidents can be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors” that are not actual violations of federal criminal law. In an oft-cited passage from Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton wrote …
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
2020 Meme Team, Assemble … A long time ago, on a different internet — where Photoshopped images of “God Emperor” Donald Trump riding atop a velociraptor were just a faint glimmer in a young meme lord's eye — the Republicans were in trouble. Barack Obama's 2008 win over John McCain was heralded as a digital over an analog.
Trent Spiner / Politico:
Kamala Harris shutters offices throughout New Hampshire — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Kamala Harris' campaign has almost completely shuttered its New Hampshire campaign, with no visible activity at any of her offices in the state. — The campaign confirmed it is largely abandoning New Hampshire …
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James Cusick / openDemocracy:
Johnson and Cummings under fire as police hand criminal evidence on Vote Leave to prosecution agency — Exclusive: After 16-month investigation, Met Police refer Vote Leave to the CPS for possible criminal charges. But will the timing of the election mean further delay?
New York Times:
The ‘Whimpering’ Terrorist Only Trump Seems to Have Heard — President Trump offered a vivid account of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “crying and screaming” in the final minutes before his death. The only problem: No one else knows what he's talking about.
Associated Press:
DHS official Wolf named acting head of Homeland Security — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has named Chad Wolf to be the next acting head of Homeland Security, the fifth person in the job for this administration. — While speaking to reporters Friday outside the White House en route …
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Brian Faler / Politico:
What Trump might gain as newest Florida Man — TALLAHASSEE — President Donald Trump's decision to become a resident of the nation's largest swing state took New Yorkers and Floridians by surprise — but maybe it shouldn't have. Trump announced his move in a series of Thursday night tweets …
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Ben Makuch / VICE:
Ghislaine Maxwell Was a Guest at Jeff Bezos's Secret Book Retreat — Motherboard has learned Jeffrey Epstein's alleged fixer attended the Amazon CEO's exclusive book retreat ‘Campfire’ last year. — Every fall, the elite of the literary world and Hollywood convene at a highly secretive …
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