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Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Associates Urged Ukraine's Prior President to Open Biden, Election Probes — Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman pushed then-president Poroshenko to announce probes in return for U.S. state visit — Months before President Trump pressed Ukraine's newly installed president to investigate Joe Biden's son …
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Washington Post, Washington Press, The Guardian, Slate, CANNONFIRE, Law & Crime, CNN, The Hill, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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CNN:
We read all 2,677 pages of impeachment inquiry testimony released to date. Here's what's clear. — (CNN)To President Donald Trump, the whole flap with Ukraine is over a “perfect” phone call. — “It's based on a single phone call of congratulations to the President of Ukraine …
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Washington Post, New York Times and Politico
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
NSC staffer denies having secret Ukraine conversations with Trump — Kash Patel, a senior National Security Council official accused of running a secret backchannel to President Trump on Ukraine matters, has categorically denied ever discussing Ukraine with the president.
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Washington Post, The Hill, NBC News, ABC News and Politico
The Daily Beast:
Vindman Burns Trump Booster John Solomon: ‘All the Key Elements’ of His Reporting ‘Were False’
Vindman Burns Trump Booster John Solomon: ‘All the Key Elements’ of His Reporting ‘Were False’
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Ukraine expert who listened to Trump's call says ‘there was no doubt’ …
Ukraine expert who listened to Trump's call says ‘there was no doubt’ …
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The Week, Raw Story, HuffPost, Political Flare, CNN, Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Washington Post:
Giuliani associates pressed past president of Ukraine to announce Biden investigation in exchange for state visit
Giuliani associates pressed past president of Ukraine to announce Biden investigation in exchange for state visit
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Raw Story
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Testimony from Alexander Vindman and Fiona Hill caps a devastating week for Trump
Testimony from Alexander Vindman and Fiona Hill caps a devastating week for Trump
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Occupy Democrats, Task & Purpose, Law & Crime and Shareblue Media
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Republicans are throwing Giuliani under the bus. But there's a problem.
Republicans are throwing Giuliani under the bus. But there's a problem.
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Contemptor, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Vox and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Why Pete Buttigieg Annoys His Democratic Rivals — His success, especially in Iowa, has grated on rival campaigns that say his record in government is not commensurate with the attention he's receiving. — WAVERLY, Iowa — Joseph R. Biden Jr. was mingling with a handful of mayors backstage …
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Althouse
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Nunes demands Schiff testify in private as part of House impeachment inquiry — EXCLUSIVE: The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has formally requested that the panel's chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., testify in a closed-door setting as part of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
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Washington Post, The Hill, The Week, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, War Room, The Gateway Pundit and Townhall
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Republicans want Hunter Biden, Ukraine whistleblower as impeachment inquiry witnesses — EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans plan to call Hunter Biden, the Ukraine whistleblower and a range of other witnesses to testify in the upcoming public Trump impeachment hearings, according to a witness list obtained exclusively by Fox News.
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NBC News, The Hill, Politico and National Review
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Whistleblower disputes boil over in impeachment interview
Whistleblower disputes boil over in impeachment interview
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Sara A. Carter and The Hill
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The United States is being run by a toddler — Most Americans don't care what Lutsenko said to Giuliani about Yovanovitch. And we rarely take interest in Kiev if it isn't preceded by “chicken.” — But if you take away the names and the Ukraine intrigue, what you're left with from the thousands …
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National Review and New York Magazine
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William Saletan / Slate:
The Ukraine Depositions Have Destroyed Trump's “Corruption” Defense
The Ukraine Depositions Have Destroyed Trump's “Corruption” Defense
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Reason
Tamara Keith / NPR:
The Whistleblower Complaint Has Largely Been Corroborated. Here's How. — When the House impeachment inquiry began more than a month ago, much of the focus was on a complaint from a whistleblower that drew attention to a July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
‘A Warning’ by ‘Anonymous’: 5 Takeaways — The book seems to be the product of a Republican with access to the White House who grew increasingly upset by President Trump. — For President Trump, leaks are maddening and anonymity infuriating. So the release of “A Warning,” the new book by …
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The Daily Caller and HuffPost
Joanna Weiss / Politico:
Trump Pokes Fun at Himself. Why Do Only Some People See It? — There's a common conception, among foes of Donald Trump, that the 45th president tweets every day in a kind of fevered state: alone by his bedroom TV set, wrapped in a smoking jacket or maybe a satin Snuggie, typing in fits of narcissism …
Washington Post:
Democrats debate presidential field on news of Michael Bloomberg's potential candidacy — Even for a party accustomed to an anxious donor and political class — a group of second-guessers that Obama adviser David Plouffe famously called the “bed wetters” — billionaire Michael Bloomberg's likely entry …
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Politico and The Boston Globe
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
How Seriously Should We Take Michael Bloomberg's Potential 2020 Run?
How Seriously Should We Take Michael Bloomberg's Potential 2020 Run?
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CNN, Washington Post, The Atlantic and New Republic
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Run, Mike, Run! — A Bloomberg-Trump contest would be one between a maker and a faker.
Run, Mike, Run! — A Bloomberg-Trump contest would be one between a maker and a faker.
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CNBC, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jeffery Martin / Newsweek:
Parents of teenager killed by U.S. diplomat's wife say Donald Trump offered to have the Treasury write them a check — While meeting with President Donald Trump, the parents of a British teenager who was killed in a traffic collision with the wife of a U.S. diplomat were offered money …
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HuffPost
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
This Is No Ordinary Impeachment — This is not just an impeachment. It's the endgame for Trump's relentless assault on the institutions, norms, and practices of America's liberal democracy for the past three years. It's also a deeper reckoning. It's about whether the legitimacy …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Trump to Appeal Ruling on Vance Subpoena to Supreme Court — If high court declines to hear case Vance may get returns soon — Appeals court rejected Trump's immunity claim in 3-0 decision — President Donald Trump's lawyers told a judge they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court next week …
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump intends to take tax return fight to Supreme Court
Trump intends to take tax return fight to Supreme Court
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Bloomberg and One America News Network
Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
With Medical Bills Skyrocketing, More Hospitals Are Suing for Payment — WISE, Va. — When a judge hears civil cases at the courthouse in this southwest Virginia town two days a month, many of the lawsuits have a common plaintiff: the local hospital, Ballad Health, suing patients over unpaid medical bills.
Eric Spracklen / Project Veritas:
ABC Insider: Why I, alone, released the Amy Robach Epstein tape. — Editors Note: Project Veritas is publishing the writing below at the request of the ABC news insider who gave us the Amy Robach tape. — This was submitted to us in light of the actions taken against those wrongfully identified …
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New York Times:
How Voters Turned Virginia from Deep Red to Solid Blue — Where Democrats Took Control — Democrats have gained about 20 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2015, especially in Northern Virginia and the Richmond area. — Republican win or lead Democratic win or lead — Northern Virginia
South China Morning Post:
Former Chinese trade envoy wants four more years of Trump. Here's why — The US president's daily tweets to 67 million global followers make him ‘easy to read’, said the former trade envoy and point man for China's WTO negotiations Trump is a transparent and realistic negotiator who is concerned …
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Political Wire
New York Times:
As Campaign Season Heats Up, Trump Has Turned the Official Into the Political — Previous presidents made an effort to make a distinction between the two and had their campaigns, not taxpayers, foot the bill for political events. — WASHINGTON — President Trump traveled on Air Force …
Andrew Nagorski / The Daily Beast:
The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Communism in Five Acts — The destruction of The Wall was a key symbolic act at the center of a much wider drama. — Most people know that the storming of the Bastille triggered the French Revolution, the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand …
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Politico, Associated Press and One America News Network
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trumpkins Accused Him of Being the Whistleblower. They Were Wrong. — A former Obama staffer has been erroneously accused by the pro-Trump internet of blowing the whistle on the Ukraine affair. He didn't. But now his life has been upended. — Former Obama White House staffer R. David Edelman woke …
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The Mary Sue and Raw Story
Anders Hagstrom / The Daily Caller:
Whistleblower Lawyer Claimed To Have Gotten Security Clearance For ‘Guys Who Had Child Porn Issues’ — Lawyer Mark Zaid, who is representing the whistleblower who submitted a complaint against President Donald Trump, claimed in 2018 to have gotten security clearances for men who “had child porn issues.”
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Big League Politics and The Gateway Pundit