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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump's border wall — SAN DIEGO — Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads …
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Slate, Axios, POLITICUSUSA and News Breaking
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Killed That Wall! Smugglers Defeating Trump's New Replacement Border Fence with $100 Power Saws — President Donald Trump's replacement border barrier program — which includes zero miles of new barriers — isn't going so well, according to Washington Post reporting that drug smugglers are defeating the new design with power saws.
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
The Mueller Report's Secret Memos — BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret. Today we are publishing the first installment. — The 448-page report issued by then-special counsel Robert Mueller last March …
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The Gateway Pundit
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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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Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Critiques Mueller in New Book
Donald Trump Jr. Critiques Mueller in New Book
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CNN, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track — Speaker questions appeal of Medicare For All, Green New Deal — Ideas could repel voters in swing Midwestern states, she says — Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020 …
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Townhall, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Political Wire, Breitbart, Axios, Mediaite, Siena College Research …, Associated Press, PJ Media Home and New York Post
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
In Iowa, Biden confronts a growing threat: Pete Buttigieg — DES MOINES — Joe Biden dropped to fourth place in Iowa, according to a new poll released Friday, his worst showing to date in the pivotal early state. — A few hours later, at the largest gathering to date for any 2020 event, it was clear why.
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Des Moines Register, Breitbart, The Hill, CNN and Daily Mail
Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll
5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll
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DemCast, The Hill and Washington Times
New York Times:
In Trump's Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies — In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower. — It was typical for the anonymous account …
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Political Wire and Mashable
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New York Times:
How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets — With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught,” he wrote in October 2018, angry about a caravan of migrants from Central America.
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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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez's Mouth, Official Testified
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez's Mouth, Official Testified
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The Mahablog and Washington Post
Jesse Dougherty / Washington Post:
Sean Doolittle on declining White House invite: 'I don't want to hang out with somebody who talks like that' — Ever since Sean Doolittle was traded to the Washington Nationals in the summer of 2017, the reliever was often asked whether he would visit the White House after winning the World Series.
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New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, PJ Media Home, Fox News, Mediaite, Blue Virginia, Axios, The Hill, New York Post, The Nation, Sports Illustrated and DCist
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.
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John McDermott / New York Times:
Those People We Tried to Cancel? They're All Hanging Out Together — Depriving people of a platform works — in unexpected ways. — Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle. Then she published an article in The Stranger about trans people who halt or reverse transitions.
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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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Failed
Why Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Failed
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The Hill, New York Times, ABC News and Breitbart
Beto O'Rourke:
Thank you. — Our campaign has been about seeing clearly …
Thank you. — Our campaign has been about seeing clearly …
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New York Times, NB Blog, Dallas Morning News, The Gateway Pundit, Slate, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Breitbart, Off the Kuff, The Guardian, Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, Texas Monthly, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, Vox, Power Line, Hot Air, Variety, duluthnewstribune.com, The Week, Occupy Democrats, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed News, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Twitchy, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, HuffPost, NPR, Consequence of Sound, Roll Call, VICE, Patterico's Pontifications, Axios, fox8.com, Mediaite, Redstate and KXAN-TV
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Experts on Trump's conduct: ‘Plainly an abuse of power, plainly impeachable’ — Republicans may argue Trump's actions were not impeachable - but scholars say it's a solid example of a high crime — Was what he did really so bad? And even if it was bad - was it truly impeachable?
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
A Lawyer For Giuliani's Ukrainian Associate Tried To Argue He Was Not A Flight Risk. It Did Not Go Well. — A lawyer for Igor Fruman, one of the men who had been working with Rudy Guiliani in his Ukraine campaign, tried to argue Friday that his client was not a flight risk and didn't need …
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Everton Bailey Jr / Oregonian:
Baton attack during June protests in downtown Portland lands man in prison for nearly 6 years — June 29 2019 downtown Portland baton attack — A 24-year-old man who hit another man over the head with a baton in June during dueling downtown Portland demonstrations was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.
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Big League Politics and The Gateway Pundit
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Adam Neumann and the Art of Failing Up — WeWork's chief risk-taker found a kindred spirit with an open checkbook: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son. Now he's walking away from the wreckage with more than $1 billion. — Adam Neumann stood on the 57th floor of the Woolworth Building …
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Virginia Is On The Brink Of Cementing Its Democratic Status — Republicans risk losing their last footholds of power in the Old Dominion. — Democrats are poised to take control of both of Virginia's state legislative chambers on Tuesday, bringing the state under unified Democratic control for the first time in a quarter century.
Axios:
GOP worries banned political ads could upend Trump's 2020 campaign — Top Republicans are privately worried about a new threat to President Trump's campaign: the possibility of Facebook pulling a Twitter and banning political ads. — Why it matters: Facebook says it won't, but future regulatory pressure could change that.
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BuzzFeed News
Yahoo News:
Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party — WASHINGTON — A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.
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The Hill