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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Here's how little Republicans were allowed to participate in the closed-door depositions — When a group of Republican legislators barged into a secure facility on Capitol Hill last month to register their opposition to impeachment inquiry depositions taking place behind closed doors …
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House Intel panel announces additional witnesses for public impeachment hearings — The marathon week of testimony will conclude next Thursday. — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images — The House Intelligence Committee announced a new slate …
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New York Times, Political Wire and Associated Press
CBS News:
Steve Bannon says Pelosi's impeachment strategy is “actually quite brilliant”
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The Hill
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Democrats' impeachment lawyer cut his teeth prosecuting mobsters, Wall Street cheats
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Most voters remain unmovable in impeachment views
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and Axios
Jenna Ellis Rives / The Hill:
Trump impeachment is blueprint to overthrow government from within
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Breitbart
NBC News:
How to watch the Trump impeachment hearing: Schedule, witnesses and more
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Politico, Townhall, The Hill, Deseret News, TheBlaze, Washington Post and CNN
Alayna Treene / Axios:
What to expect from impeachment
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Political Wire, The Guardian and The Hill
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: House committees request new testimony from U.S. official in Ukraine
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New York Times, Raw Story and Politico
mailchi.mp:
The White House isn't quite so organized. — Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney will not sue to quash his impeachment subpoena after all, and will just defy it outright, because criming is a way of life at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. these days. — Mulvaney and White House …
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Luke Darby / GQ:
White House Advisor Stephen Miller Just Got Outed for Explicit White Supremacist E-mails — The policies match the ideology. — In the Trump administration, where staffers come and go quickly, White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller has managed to stick around since the campaign days when he worked as a speechwriter.
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
It's high time for Trump to dump Stephen Miller — Less than a year into Donald Trump's presidency, Republicans came within inches of achieving their immigration dreams with a deal that would build a border wall and more detention facilities while curbing legal immigration and enacting E-Verify.
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Axios, The Week, Washington Post, Slate and HuffPost
Gabby Orr / Politico:
White House preps for impeachment show with an awkward chief-of-staff sideshow
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Stephen Miller privately promoted stories from white nationalist and fringe media organizations
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Washington Post, HuffPost, Mother Jones and Salon
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
What Trump Is Hiding From the Impeachment Hearings — The president's efforts to prevent the House from doing its job are just as worrisome as the Ukraine scandal. — Mr. Katyal is a former acting solicitor general and a law professor. — The public impeachment hearings this week …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
George Kent, State Dept. Official Who Described Trump's Actions as ‘Wrong for the Rule of Law’
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump impeachment hearings will echo through the ages
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The Week and Outside the Beltway
William Saletan / Slate:
The GOP's Impeachment Strategy Is Self-Refuting
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Salon, Washington Post, TheBlaze and Occupy Democrats
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
People died while Trump played games with Ukraine's military aid
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Power Line
CNN:
Trump invites GOP senators for unusual meeting with Erdoğan to ‘clear the air’ — Washington (CNN)A small group of Republican senators who traditionally focus on foreign policy issues have been invited to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump and Turkish President …
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Political Wire
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
White House to use webcams to create live feed of border wall construction — Jared Kushner and other senior Trump administration officials are planning to set up web cameras to live-stream construction of President Trump's border wall, going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump to face limits of his power in impeachment hearings
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Washington Post:
At donor dinner, Giuliani associate said he discussed Ukraine with Trump, according to people familiar with his account — The April 2018 dinner was designed to be an intimate affair, an opportunity for a handful of big donors to a super PAC allied with President Trump to personally interact with the president and his eldest son.
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New York Times:
The Man Trump Trusts for News on Ukraine — Who is John Solomon? His name popped up frequently in closed-door testimony in the impeachment query. He is a regular on Hannity. And his work helps shape how millions of Americans understand this moment. — WASHINGTON — In weeks …
Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for the Impeachment Defense — My client's call with the Ukrainian president was innocent, and the House inquiry is a travesty. — If your only sources of news the past two months have been CNN and MSNBC, you probably think President Trump has committed some heinous act …
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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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Fox News, Daily Kos, Raw Story, The Hill, Hot Air, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Occupy Democrats, Law & Crime, Contemptor, National Review, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
John F. Harris / Politico:
What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP — On December 19, 1998, the day House Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton, he recorded his highest-ever score in Gallup's presidential approval poll: 73 percent favorable. — That was 24 percentage points higher than Clinton's …
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Axios:
House Republicans might throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus to save Trump during impeachment
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Associated Press, Political Wire and Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell, GOP leaders say they won't be watching House impeachment hearing
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POLITICUSUSA, Patterico's Pontifications, Reason and Redstate
Devan Cole / CNN:
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan endorses Joe Biden — Tim Ryan on Biden's fitness and the Democratic debate field — Washington (CNN)Former Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tim Ryan endorsed Joe Biden's presidential bid Wednesday, saying the former vice president has the ability to win swing states President Donald Trump won in 2016.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rep. Tim Ryan endorses Biden in Democratic primary
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Washington Post and The Hill
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. inspector general invites witnesses to review draft of Russia report, signaling public release is close — The Justice Department inspector general has begun scheduling witnesses to review draft sections of his report on the FBI's investigation of President Trump's 2016 campaign …
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Raw Story, The Last Refuge and The Week
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
ABC scrambles to figure out identity of Amy Robach leaker, who goes by ‘Ignotus’ — ABC bigwigs are going potty to find the identity of the leaker behind the Amy Robach tape — after the alleged source posted a letter online slamming the network under the name “Ignotus,” a wizard from the “Harry Potter” franchise.
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Breitbart
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
University of Florida's student president faces impeachment after bringing Donald Trump Jr. to campus for $50,000 — After the University of Florida's student body president helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month to the tune of $50,000 …
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Tampa Bay Times and Raw Story
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
Plague Is Diagnosed in China, Prompting Fears of an Outbreak — Two cases of pneumonic plague, a fatal and highly infectious illness related to bubonic plague, were diagnosed in Beijing. — 阅读.体中 文.閱讀.體 中文.
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Slate
Brian Sharp / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
GOP seeks to strip powers from incoming county executive Adam Bello — One week after voters elected Adam Bello as the first Democratic county executive in nearly three decades, the Republican-controlled Legislature sought to significantly reduce the power of the office and increase their own.
MIX / The Next Web:
Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed — 3,072 — iPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you're scrolling your feed. — The issue has come to light after a user going by the name Joshua Maddux took …
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