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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 …
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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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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Talking Points Memo, PBS NewsHour, The Hill, Slate, The Week, Fox News, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Balloon Juice
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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CNN, Joe.My.God., No More Mister Nice Blog, courthousenews.com and Raw Story
Evan Semones / Politico:
Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely — The top Democrat on the House armed services committee said Saturday that Republican Rep. Devin Nunes is likely to face an ethics investigation over allegations he met with an ex-Ukrainian prosecutor at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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Joe.My.God., CNN, The Week, Raw Story and Associated Press
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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Vox and Crooks and Liars
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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Mother Jones, The Hill, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, TheBlaze, Slate, Joe.My.God., The Week, The Daily Wire, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Gatekeeper Put Rudy in Touch With Pompeo: Emails
Trump's Gatekeeper Put Rudy in Touch With Pompeo: Emails
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Political Wire
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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Raw Story
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
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's GOP support hardens despite damning impeachment testimony — After two weeks of extraordinary open hearings that Democrats envisioned as their best opportunity to shape public opinion on impeachment, President Trump claims to be impervious to the cascade of damaging revelations …
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LevittownNow.com, Political Wire, The Texas Tribune and PEN
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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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Raw Story
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 …
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.
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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Bad News, Raw Story and The Federalist
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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.
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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.
Discussion:
Crooked Timber
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Tells Democrats, 'We've Got to Stop This Circular Firing Squad' — Former vice president campaigns in Iowa as recent polls in the state have shown him losing ground to South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg — DES MOINES, Iowa—Former Vice President Joe Biden is warning Democrats to halt a …
Discussion:
Political Wire
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
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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Agri-Pulse Communications … and The Hill