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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Top Judiciary Republican demands Schiff testify in impeachment hearing — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the first witness Republicans will attempt to call in the upcoming impeachment hearing is House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
President, lawyers should participate in impeachment hearing: Demings, McClintock — Reps. Val Demings, D-Fla., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., said on ABC's “This Week” that they think having President Donald Trump or his lawyers participate in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Intelligence Committee to begin circulating draft Ukraine report Monday — Members of the House Intelligence Committee will begin reviewing a report Monday on the panel's investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his Democratic adversaries …
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Trump faces two deadlines as U.S. Congress ramps up impeachment focus — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump faced two deadlines in Congress this week as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from fact-finding to the consideration of possible charges …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Long Before Trump, Impeachment Loomed Over Multiple Presidents
Long Before Trump, Impeachment Loomed Over Multiple Presidents
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Chuck Todd to GOP Senator: You're Selling the Same Argument as Putin! — Chuck Todd was left gobsmacked by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) when the GOP lawmaker said the ex-Ukrainian president “actively worked” for Hillary Clinton. — A week after claiming that he didn't know whether Russia …
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Axios, The Hill and Hullabaloo
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why the Democratic nominee might ultimately be chosen at the July convention — Democrats say a very realistic scenario now calls for Pete Buttigieg to win Iowa, Elizabeth Warren to win New Hampshire, Joe Biden to win South Carolina and Bernie Sanders to win Nevada.
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Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case for Bernie — The Democrats need a unifier.
The Case for Bernie — The Democrats need a unifier.
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis isn't on Donald Trump's TV anymore. That's on purpose. — Once the president's top defender on Fox News, Florida's governor has disappeared from Trump's favorite network. — There was a time when President Donald Trump could turn on Fox News at any given hour …
Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
Revealed: Six of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan's fellow Stock Exhange bomb plotters have also been freed from prison since 2012 — Six of the eight terrorist plotters who were jailed along with London Bridge attacker Usman Khan in 2012 have also been freed from prison, it has emerged.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
In America, the law is the law* (*if you're poor, undocumented or nonwhite) — You raise your child to grow up to be a man like Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma. The Honduran native — married, raising a 10-year-old son in New Orleans — supported his family by working construction.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Justice's election-year conundrum: How to probe team Trump — The Justice Department is in another election-season jam — faced with politically loaded decisions over how aggressively to investigate President Donald Trump and his allies in the heat of the 2020 campaign.
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New York Times:
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion — Miscalculations, and an unexpected victory by President Trump, have put abortion access at its most vulnerable point in decades, and the left on the defensive. Now it is trying to recover. — ATLANTA — The pin was small, and rusted on the back.
New York Times:
Trump's Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon's Tolerance — Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher's case pits a Pentagon hierarchy committed to enforcing longstanding rules of combat against a commander in chief with no military experience but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.
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Ryan Fahey / Daily Mail:
Jeremy Corbyn's most loyal supporters are more likely to be anti-Semitic than those of other party leaders, YouGov poll reveals — Loyal supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are more likely to agree with statements deemed to be anti-Semitic than supporters of other political leaders, a poll has revealed.
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Assange to Testify on Being Recorded in Embassy in London — Recordings have emerged of private conversations that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, had while living in the Ecuadorean Embassy. He and a Spanish prosecutor blame the United States. — MADRID — This much has become clear …