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New York Times:
Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher — Top military officials threatened to resign or be fired if their plans to remove Chief Gallagher from the SEALs were halted by President Trump, administration officials said. — The secretary of the Navy and the admiral …
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NBC News:
Navy secretary strongly considering resigning over Trump's meddling in SEAL case — Navy Secretary Spencer considered quitting over Trump's demand the Navy stop a probe of SEAL Eddie Gallagher. Military leaders lobbied Trump to reconsider. — WASHINGTON — Military leaders hoping to keep …
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Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection
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Navy Times and The Gateway Pundit
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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test
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Kristen Welker / NBC News:
Giuliani associate willing to testify Rep. Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official, attorney says
Giuliani associate willing to testify Rep. Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official, attorney says
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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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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’
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The Hill
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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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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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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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 …
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.
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Raw Story
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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Rebecca Ellis / OPB:
Oregon Supreme Court Bans Police Officers From Asking Random Questions During Traffic Stops — A recent ruling by the Oregon Supreme Court has banned a controversial policing practice: No longer can officers use a broken taillight or a failure to signal as a justification for scouting a driver's car for illegal guns or drugs.
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The Stranger
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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Crooked Timber
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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HuffPost:
Trump's Lawyers Argue Like They're Defending King Donald I — The president cannot be prosecuted and should not be sued or impeached, according to his legal teams. — WASHINGTON - The Oval Office's occupant is President Donald Trump, but his battalion of private and taxpayer-funded lawyers …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Fiona Hill: The Antidote to Trump — I've been in Britain, so it was tough to give this week's impeachment hearings the attention they deserve. But one obvious theme has emerged: the imperturbability, professionalism, and courage of the women who have testified.
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
McAuliffe hire suggests he is interested in a second bid for Virginia governor — RICHMOND — Former governor Terry McAuliffe is staffing up his political action committee, a move that suggests the Democrat is interested in another run for the Executive Mansion in 2021.
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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