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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Stephen Miller's Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails — In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols …
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Slate, Vox, The Guardian, The Wrap, The Editorial Board, Right Wing Watch, Daily Kos, Yello, Mediaite, Raw Story, Occupy Democrats, CANNONFIRE, Little Green Footballs, Contemptor and Balloon Juice
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
Miller focuses on racial identity of killer with ‘alt-right’ beliefs
Miller focuses on racial identity of killer with ‘alt-right’ beliefs
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VICE
Noah Lanard / Mother Jones:
Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller's Unfiltered Anti-Immigrant Views
Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller's Unfiltered Anti-Immigrant Views
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Slate
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Group says Stephen Miller shared story ideas on race, immigration with Breitbart
Group says Stephen Miller shared story ideas on race, immigration with Breitbart
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HuffPost, Occupy Democrats, Southern Poverty Law Center and Eschaton
New York Times:
Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General — The president blames Michael Atkinson, whom he appointed, for finding the anonymous whistle-blower's complaint on his interactions with Ukraine to be credible. — President Trump has discussed dismissing …
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CNN, National Review, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats, Law & Crime, The Hill, Raw Story, Political Wire, Mediaite and Shareblue Media
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Appears Ready to Let Trump End DACA Program — The justices are considering whether the Trump administration can shut down a program that shields about 700,000 young immigrants from deportation. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday appeared ready …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court appears inclined to let Trump end DACA program
Supreme Court appears inclined to let Trump end DACA program
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Power Line, Axios, Remezcla, MSNBC, ImmigrationProf Blog and ABC News
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court refuses to block lawsuit against gun manufacturer brought by Sandy Hook families
Supreme Court refuses to block lawsuit against gun manufacturer brought by Sandy Hook families
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump opens door to DACA ‘deal’ if Supreme Court rules his way in landmark case
Trump opens door to DACA ‘deal’ if Supreme Court rules his way in landmark case
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One America News Network, Associated Press, The Hill, Reason, National Review, NBC News, Patterico's Pontifications and Politico
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Justices Seem Inclined to Let Trump Cancel DACA
Supreme Court Justices Seem Inclined to Let Trump Cancel DACA
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Los Angeles Times, Vox and New Yorker
Charles Whitaker / Medill:
Whitaker shares statement on The Daily Northwestern's coverage of campus events — “Journalists have a heady responsibility performing our role as the authors of the first rough draft of history, the term that the late Washington Post President and Publisher Philip L. Graham is credited with coining to describe our work.
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The College Fix, The Stranger, TheBlaze, Mediaite, Twitchy, CBS Chicago and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
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Dawn Rhodes / Chicago Tribune:
Daily Northwestern staffers apologized for recent coverage of Jeff Sessions visit. Then they drew the ire of other journalists. — The student journalists at the Daily Northwestern have come under fire twice in the past week. — First they were roundly criticized by fellow students angered …
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Boing Boing, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Reason, more at Mediagazer »
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Student Protesters for Reporting
The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Student Protesters for Reporting
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Washington Post, The Outline, Poynter, National Review and The Federalist
NBC News:
Senior Trump official embellished resume, had face on fake TIME cover — State Dept. official Mina Chang claimed to be a Harvard Business School “alumna” who ran a nonprofit that worked in 40 countries. — WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has embellished her resume …
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The Guardian, VICE, Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing, The Hill, Law & Crime, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
In private speech, Bolton suggests some of Trump's foreign policy decisions are guided by personal interest — The former national security director was especially critical of the president's handling of Turkey, according to multiple sources present for his remarks.
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Axios, Vanity Fair, Talking Points Memo, Shareblue Media, Breitbart, Politico and Raw Story
Polls:
Few Caucusgoers Tied to 2020 Choice — Buttigieg joins a crowded pack of front-runners; No groundswell of support for Bloomberg — West Long Branch, NJ - South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has joined former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Vermont …
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
On the campaign bus, Pete Buttigieg talks stress dreams, misconceptions, ‘just in case’ letter to parents
On the campaign bus, Pete Buttigieg talks stress dreams, misconceptions, ‘just in case’ letter to parents
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Washington Post, Mediaite and Breitbart
ProPublica:
Giuliani Was Close to a Podcast Deal With the News Outlet That Spread His Ukraine Conspiracies — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
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CNN:
Inauguration galas, an intimate dinner, and a White House party: Trump's 10 interactions with indicted Giuliani associates — (CNN)President Donald Trump has had at least 10 encounters with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani the President has adamantly claimed not to know.
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Salon
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump's Potentially Impeachable Offenses Include Bribery — Audio will be available later today. — With the House set to begin public impeachment inquiry hearings against President Trump on Wednesday, the man tasked with leading the Democrats' investigation …
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NBC News:
How to watch the Trump impeachment hearing: Schedule, witnesses and more — It's the first one in Congress in over 20 years and will allow the American public to hear the evidence for themselves. — The first public presidential impeachment hearing in over 20 years is set to be held …
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The Hill
Abbey Marshall / Politico:
Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020 — Hillary Clinton on Tuesday declined to rule out launching a future presidential campaign after her two failed bids, saying “many, many, many people” were pressuring her to enter the race.
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Political Wire and The Week
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Tells Crowd Ivanka Has Created 14 Million New Jobs — At a speech to the Economic Club of New York today, President Trump declared that his daughter, Ivanka, has personally created 14 million new jobs. The president announced this figure — so astonishingly ludicrous it would embarrass …
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Vox, Occupy Democrats and Boing Boing
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Juleanna Glover / Politico:
There's a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office — By most everyone's judgment, the Senate will not vote to remove President Donald Trump from office if the House impeaches him. But what if senators could vote on impeachment by secret ballot?
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Redstate, Reason, One America News Network, IJR, Daily Kos, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump advisers exploring tax proposal that would lower “middle class” rate to 15 percent — Plan remains in flux but would aim to set up sharp contrast with Democrats in 2020 — President Trump's economic advisers are exploring whether the president should campaign for reelection proposing …
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The Hill, IJR, Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Stone previewed WikiLeaks bounty to Trump campaign in April 2016 — Roger Stone first told one of Donald Trump's top aides in April 2016 that WikiLeaks had plans to dump information in the heat of the presidential race, kickstarting a scramble inside the campaign to take advantage of the expected releases.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC's Malcolm Nance: The Russians Compromised Trump as ‘Early as 1977’ — The former naval intel officer claimed that the president became a Russian asset as early as when he first got married to Ivana. — MSNBC analyst Malcom Nance, long one of the network's loudest voices when it comes …
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Political Wire and Mediaite
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford has dropped out of presidential race … Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff File … Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff
ACLU:
Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers' Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional — GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE REASONABLE SUSPICION OF DIGITAL CONTRABAND BEFORE SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THE U.S. BORDER — BOSTON — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court …
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Mother Jones, Fox News and Common Dreams, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Behind Trump's Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power — Informal relationships between family members help explain the course of diplomacy between the White House and Turkey's leader. — ISTANBUL — Behind President Trump's accommodating attitude toward Turkey is an unusual back channel …
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Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Arkansas Online:
Two hours after filing period ends, Democrat Josh Mahony drops out of U.S. Senate race — Josh Mahony, the only Democrat who filed to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. in 2020, announced on Twitter that he was dropping out the race just two hours after the filing period ended in Arkansas.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“I WOULD LOVE FOR THIS TO BE AS BIG AS POLITICO”: POLITICO'S FOUNDER IS LAUNCHING A TECH SITE—INTO A VERY CROWDED MARKET — With talent poached from Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, etc., and coverage written for “C-suite kinds of folks,” Protocol is Robert Allbritton's latest dream.
Joe Sonka / USA Today:
Thousands of Twitter ‘bots’ targeted Kentucky with fake news on election night — LOUISVILLE — As the final votes trickled in during last week's Kentucky gubernatorial election, a network of automated Twitter accounts suddenly sprang into action. — They spread misinformation about the election …
Axios:
GOP to argue Trump's “state of mind” on impeachment — Confronted with a mountain of damaging facts heading into tomorrow's opening of the public phase of impeachment, House Republicans plan to argue that “the President's state of mind” was exculpatory. — The state of play …
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Hot Air, Shareblue Media, Contemptor, Raw Story, Mediaite and Politico
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
In scathing manifesto, an asylum officer blasts Trump's cruelty to migrants — President Trump's requirement that asylum seekers remain in Mexico while they await hearings in the United States is creating a new humanitarian crisis. Yet it isn't generating nearly the outrage and media scrutiny that his horrific family separations did.
U.S. Embassy Kyiv / U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Op-Ed in Novoye Vremya by CDA Taylor: Ukraine's Committed Partner — Since I returned to Ukraine in June, one thing has been clear everywhere I've gone - from Lviv to Mariupol, from universities to military facilities, from government offices to NGOs' workspaces — Ukraine is brimming with energy and new ideas.
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Talking Points Memo and CNN
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson is loudly ignoring impeachment. It 'is not only dumb, it's boring.' — At some point during his nightly prime-time show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson usually asks the same question: “What's really going on here?” — He uses the query as a turning point …