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John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘Witness intimidation in real-time’: Democrats see more evidence of Trump obstruction — House Democrats are calling Donald Trump's decision to attack Marie Yovanovitch mid-hearing on Friday a blatant example of witness intimidation, further building the case to charge the president …
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BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Has Suspended Several Accounts Responsible For Tweeting “I Hired Donald Trump To Fire People Like Yovanovitch” — The phrase “I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch” trended on Twitter on Friday morning as Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine …
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The Daily Caller, CANNONFIRE, Politico, The Hill and I Love My Freedom
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Marie Yovanovitch becomes a victim of Trump's thuggishness again in real time — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) began the second day of impeachment hearings calmly and methodically reviewing the career of former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, highlighting her anti-corruption credentials.
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HuffPost, New York Times, Townhall and Los Angeles Times
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Hannity Predicts Marie Yovanovitch Will Cry ‘on Cue’ at Hearing
Hannity Predicts Marie Yovanovitch Will Cry ‘on Cue’ at Hearing
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New Republic, Politico, Hot Air, The Hill, Occupy Democrats, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon, CNN and Contemptor
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Trump trashes former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during impeachment hearing
Trump trashes former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during impeachment hearing
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Redstate, Washington Post, Vox, Breitbart and Axios
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Key Takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch's Hearing in the Impeachment Inquiry
Key Takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch's Hearing in the Impeachment Inquiry
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NB Blog, The Week, The Mahablog, Daily Kos, Portland Mercury, New York Times and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Roger Stone Is Found Guilty in Trial That Revived Trump-Russia Saga — Mr. Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, obstructed one of Congress's Russia investigations and lied to lawmakers. — WASHINGTON — Roger J. Stone Jr., a former aide and longtime friend of President Trump …
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone guilty on all counts in federal trial of lying to Congress, witness tampering — A federal jury has convicted longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness about his efforts to learn about the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks release …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump's honesty was on trial in the Roger Stone case. The verdict was harsh.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
The devastating day Trump's presidency came into sharp focus — in Congress, the White House and court
The devastating day Trump's presidency came into sharp focus — in Congress, the White House and court
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Daily Kos
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani's Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects — Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates who also aided his efforts …
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The Week, Rolling Stone, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Spectator USA, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, Boing Boing, Law & Crime and Raw Story
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Impeachment and the Stone Verdict Show Trump Is Surrounded by Criminals
Impeachment and the Stone Verdict Show Trump Is Surrounded by Criminals
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Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Washington Post and Slate
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Transcript Shows WH Made Up Details of Trump's Zelensky Call — The transcript released on Friday doesn't even mention the word “corruption.” — The release of the transcript of President Donald Trump's first call in April with Ukrainain president-elect Volodomyr Zelensky was meant …
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Jackie Speier erupts at reporter for The Hill — Angered by the testimony of ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, California Rep. Jackie Speier upbraided a reporter for The Hill and ripped the outlet's publication of columns by John Solomon, the conservative journalist whose work is at the center …
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Washington Monthly, TheBlaze, Political Wire, Breitbart and The Daily Beast
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Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller:
Flashback: Obama Fired All Bush Appointed Ambassadors In 2008 — The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified Friday about President Donald Trump firing her amid an alleged “smear campaign,” but firing ambassadors appointed by former presidents is commonplace.
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Breitbart, Politico, The Daily Beast and NBC News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Why Fox News has gone wobbly on anti-Semitism — Circumstances have conspired to create a once-in-a-lifetime laboratory test for the integrity of Fox News. The results aren't encouraging. — Sample No. 1: In October 2018, Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch appeared on the Fox Business show …
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Manafort's Russian Fixer Surfaced To Say Some Choice Words About The Trump Impeachment Inquiry — “DC does not give a shit about Ukraine. It is a tool in their political fight. An object. A dildo with which Dems and GOP fuck each other,” Konstantin Kilimnik told BuzzFeed News.
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:
Pete Buttigieg's Work At McKinsey Is A Secret — A major piece of Pete Buttigieg's past remains a mystery to voters. — For nearly three years, he worked at McKinsey & Company, an elite management consulting firm with offices around the world. It was work that took him, he has said, to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Pete Buttigieg Touted Three Major Supporters of His Douglass Plan for Black America.
Pete Buttigieg Touted Three Major Supporters of His Douglass Plan for Black America.
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The Federalist, National Review, PinkNews, Slate and Eschaton
Wall Street Journal:
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results — The internet giant uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and an army of contractors to shape what you see — Every minute, an estimated 3.8 million queries are typed into Google, prompting its algorithms to spit …
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The National Interest, LifeNews.com, National Review, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
My First Term Plan for Reducing Health Care Costs in America and Transitioning to Medicare for All — I spent my career studying why families went broke. I rang the alarm bells as the costs for necessities skyrocketed while wages remained basically flat. And instead of helping …
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Axios, Bloomberg and Washington Free Beacon
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Warren details how she'd transition country to ‘Medicare for All’
Warren details how she'd transition country to ‘Medicare for All’
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New Republic, Slate and The Hill
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Deval Patrick pushed out officials who wanted to put his brother-in-law on sex offender registry — Deval Patrick's entry into the Democratic presidential contest has focused new attention on his 2014 decision as governor to push out two members of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board …
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HuffPost, The Hill, Political Wire, IJR and The Federalist
NBC News:
New Warren plan splits Medicare for All into two bills, preserves private plans at first — WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released her plan for transitioning the country to a Medicare For All health care system Friday, splitting the effort into two legislative pushes …
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New York Times, The Hill, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Associated Press, Slate and The Daily Iowan
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David Byler / Washington Post:
Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg aren't the disrupters some Democrats are looking for
Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg aren't the disrupters some Democrats are looking for
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Press Herald
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Officials Blast Stephen Miller Emails As “Sickening” And “Proof” Of A Racist Immigration Policy — “Not that it wasn't clear before — these emails just confirm what we all know,” a DHS official said. “I'm disgusted that my venerable agency has turned into his personal tool for hate.”
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New York Times
Washington Post:
Trump appeals to Supreme Court again, this time to block House committee's subpoena seeking his financial records — For the second day in a row, President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to protect his personal and business financial records from disclosure, this time to a congressional committee.
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Axios, NPR, Political Wire and Bangor Daily News
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Secret Service Records Contradict Trump's Claim on Doral G-7 — CREW received records from the United States Secret Service that, along with emails from Doral city officials, undermine President Trump's dubious claim that members of the Secret Service wanted the 2020 G-7 Summit to be hosted at Trump's Doral resort in Miami.
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HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill and Axios
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
‘No discipline. No plan. No strategy.’: Kamala Harris campaign in meltdown — BALTIMORE — Kamala Harris' campaign is careening toward a crackup. — As the California senator crisscrosses the country trying to revive her sputtering presidential bid, aides at her fast-shrinking headquarters …
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Donald Trump And Joe Biden Will No Longer Be Able To Run Ads On Twitter — “We're absolutely going to make make mistakes here. But we firmly believe that it's better for us to start getting it right and giving people ways to tell us how it's wrong.” — Twitter revealed a long-awaited …
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Twitter details political ads ban, issue ads allowed
Twitter details political ads ban, issue ads allowed
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Politico and One America News Network
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
Texas parole board recommends Greg Abbott delay Rodney Reed execution — The board's recommendation goes to Gov. Greg Abbott, who can reject or accept it. … The fate of death row inmate Rodney Reed has been placed in Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's hands.
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