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Vicky Ward / CNN:
Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden — (CNN)A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani tells CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee …
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Michael Wilner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Records show contact between Pompeo and Giuliani ahead of Ukraine ambassador's ouster — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had several phone calls with President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, toward the end of March, weeks before U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch …
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, the rogue actors are the real players — and the experts are increasingly irrelevant — Two years ago President Trump shared a version of his foreign policy philosophy with a Fox News interviewer who asked about widespread vacancies at the State Department.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Devin Nunes to Sue CNN, Daily Beast over Fake News Attacks
Exclusive — Devin Nunes to Sue CNN, Daily Beast over Fake News Attacks
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Amanda Teuscher / American Oversight:
State Department Releases Ukraine Documents to American Oversight — On Friday evening, the State Department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to American Oversight's lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
How Facebook's Embed in the Trump Campaign Helped the President Win — James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office in 2020 — After the 2016 presidential election, Republican Party officials credited Facebook Inc. with helping Donald Trump win the White House.
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Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection — HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said on Friday a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers weighing whether to oust him from the elite force …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test — The president's campaign against the Mueller report and its author is a road map of what is likely to lie ahead. — WASHINGTON — Over four decades in public life, President Trump has sought to bend business …
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden: Lindsey Graham will ‘regret his whole life’ doing Trump's bidding on Ukraine
Biden: Lindsey Graham will ‘regret his whole life’ doing Trump's bidding on Ukraine
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Privately Frets 'What's Going on With Drudge?' During Impeachment, Asks Jared Kushner to ‘Look Into It’ — One of the most powerful media organs in the conservative movement hasn't been kind to the president during impeachment. He's noticed. — As House lawmakers move quickly toward …
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine — Why the president must be impeached and removed. — Donald Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office. This isn't what I thought two months ago, when the impeachment inquiry began. I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act.
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: CEO of Ukraine State Gas Firm Preparing to Testify in Giuliani Probe — The CEO of Ukraine's state gas company, Naftogaz, is ready to give evidence in a U.S. federal investigation that is reportedly probing the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani, the CEO said in an exclusive interview on Friday.
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
In Three Touchstone Speeches, Elizabeth Warren Grounds Her Campaign in a History of American Protest and Movement Building — To launch her campaign, back in January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a number of locations to choose from. She could have started in Norman, Oklahoma …
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project — His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents. — The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named …
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Hong Kong activists urge UK to give ex-colony's residents ‘real citizenship’ — Their current status does not allow them the ‘right of abode’ in Britain. — HALIFAX, Canada — A delegation of Hong Kong democracy activists has accused Britain's prime ministerial contenders of abandoning millions …
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Washington Post:
Trump opens up Camp David as an ‘adult playground’ to woo GOP lawmakers during impeachment — President Trump, partial to gold and marble elegance, never took a shine to rustic Camp David. So acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pitched him on an unusual idea at the start of the House impeachment inquiry …
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HuffPost, Breitbart, New York Post, The Hill and Contemptor
Ta-Nehisi Coates / New York Times:
The Cancellation of Colin Kaepernick — “Cancel culture” has always existed — for the powerful, at least. Now, social media has democratized it. — Mr. Coates is the author of “Between the World and Me.” — We are being told of the evils of “cancel culture,” a new scourge that enforces purity …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Tuesday Afternoon Impeachment’ Is as Big as ‘Monday Night Football’ — TV's impeachment drama is drawing big ratings, but a Democratic debate on MSNBC sank to a viewership low. — On the third day that impeachment hearings blanketed American televisions, from morning talk shows to late-night monologues …
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Pence on surprise Iraq trip to reassure Kurds, greet troops — 1 of 4 — ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday in the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago.
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Tom Vilsack / USA Today:
Joe Biden has stood the test of time. He should be the next president — A former Iowa governor says Joe Biden can help heal our nation and return a sense of normalcy and decency to the White House. — In one of the early episodes of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS Masterpiece Theatre presentation …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bolton Claims White House Blocked His Access to Twitter Account — President Trump denies allegation regarding former national security adviser's handle — WASHINGTON—Former National Security Adviser John Bolton broke his silence on Friday with a claim that the White House blocked access …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bolton Teases a City Eager to Hear His Story
Bolton Teases a City Eager to Hear His Story
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