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New York Times:
Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians — The claim by the associate, Lev Parnas, is being vigorously disputed. — Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani's journeyed to Kiev to deliver a warning …
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Andrew Gumbel / The Guardian:
Donald Trump Jr walks out of Triggered book launch after heckling - from supporters — Event at University of California is cut short amid anger at his refusal to take questions from the audience — Donald Trump Jr ventured on to the University of California's overwhelmingly liberal Los Angeles campus …
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Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Pete Buttigieg outlasts the pundits by emerging as the alternative to Biden — As other presidential candidates promise free healthcare, college debt relief and sweeping new taxes on the ultra-rich, Pete Buttigieg is drawing large crowds with a different angle.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Why Biden is crushing it nationally — but slipping in Iowa and N.H. — Joe Biden is the clear frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic race for president. — Or he's faltering, slipping into fourth place as he loses ground to Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and an ascendant Pete Buttigieg.
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley claims top aides tried to recruit her to ‘save the country’ by undermining Trump — NEW YORK — Two of President Trump's senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country,” former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Nikki Haley's Audacious Bet — The former South Carolina governor's new book is a gamble that the future of the Republican Party looks a lot like Trump. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — Nikki Haley, the bright hope of Trump-skeptical Republicans, has placed a big bet that the Republican future …
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CBS News:
Nikki Haley: I was asked by Cabinet members to take sides against the president — Nikki Haley, the one-time Republican governor of South Carolina and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is no longer in public life. But if a recent visit to a high school near her hometown is any indication, the public isn't done with her.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Contributor Causes Scene When She Names Alleged Whistleblower on Air — Host Howard Kurtz, clearly startled, immediately shot back that he didn't know if that person was actually the whistleblower. — Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway caused a scene on Sunday morning …
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
National Sec Adviser: Top Impeachment Probe Witness Will Be Removed From WH Council — On Sunday, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump's Ukraine scheme …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans admit they have no fact witnesses — and Trump did it — House Republicans acknowledged that they have no witnesses and no documents to dispute the main facts concerning President Trump's impeachable conduct: a demand from Ukraine for dirt on a political rival …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Bolton, a prolific note taker, is the impeachment inquiry's biggest wildcard — John Bolton is the impeachment inquiry's biggest wildcard. People around the president say they are worried about what notes Trump's former national security adviser has kept and when he might divulge them.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
You Must Never Vote for Bloomberg — His expansion of the notoriously racist stop-and-frisk program is a complete and nonnegotiable deal breaker. — With his filing of paperwork on Friday to put his name on the ballot for the Democratic primary in Alabama, the billionaire businessman …
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Steps Down — A leftist who had served longer than any other current head of state in Latin America, Mr. Morales lost his grip on power amid violent protests set off by a disputed election. — President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who came to power more than a decade ago …
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New York Times:
Close Election in Kentucky Was Ripe for Twitter, and an Omen for 2020 — A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump — The national media's shortcomings have been all too obvious in recent years as Donald Trump has gleefully thrown the norms of traditional journalism into a tizzy. — They've trafficked in false equivalence.
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Lindsey Graham Suggests Senate Can Declare House Impeachment ‘Invalid’ If It Doesn't Expose Whistleblower — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued that he will consider any impeachment “invalid” unless it exposes the identity of the whistleblower who outed Donald Trump's extortion of Ukraine. — Views:
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Graham on the impeachment inquiry: 'I made my mind up. There's nothing there'
Graham on the impeachment inquiry: 'I made my mind up. There's nothing there'
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Sonia Elks / Reuters:
Hillary Clinton says abuse of female politicians on social media is ‘viral’ — LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female politicians are facing a backlash over women's rights which has been fueled by social media that rewards abusive posts and conspiracy theories, former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday.
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court weighs fate of DACA, 700,000 young immigrants — More than 700,000 young immigrants, who came of age in America but have lacked permanent legal status, look to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold a program protecting them from deportation to countries they've never truly known.
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Madeline Osburn / The Federalist:
Schiff's Committee Published Name Of Alleged Whistleblower Last Week — Last Wednesday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, published the unredacted name of a man alleged to be the so-called whistleblower who helped launch …