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San Diego Union-Tribune:
Rep. Duncan Hunter to plead guilty in campaign finance scandal, leave Congress — Longtime congressman says he wants to spare his family the spectacle of a trial, which was to start Jan. 22 — After years of denials and claims he was the target of a political witch hunt, Rep. Duncan Hunter …
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KUSI Newsroom / KUSI-TV:
Congressman Duncan D. Hunter announces guilty plea on one count of misuse of campaign funds — SAN DIEGO - For 39 years, the Hunter family has represented San Diego in the 50th Congressional District, but that may come to an end next year. — Hunter is is charged with using campaign funds …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Rep. Duncan Hunter to plead guilty in campaign finance violations case — GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter is set to plead guilty in federal court on Tuesday after denying for more than a year that he had illegally misused campaign funds. — Hunter told TV station KUSI in San Diego, “Tomorrow …
Washington Post:
Barr doesn't accept key inspector general finding about FBI's Russia investigation — Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department's inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report — that the FBI had enough information …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
GOP impeachment report claims Trump did nothing wrong — President Trump committed “no quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, or abuse of power,” Republicans on the House committees investigating the Ukraine controversy have concluded in a 110-page report reviewed by Axios ahead of its formal release.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Democrats Ready Impeachment Report as Republicans Argue Trump Did Nothing Wrong — In a report intended to counter Democrats' impeachment case against President Trump, Republicans argued his efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his rivals had nothing to do with politics.
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Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Democrats Have Enough ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence For Impeachment?
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House Judiciary announces impeachment witnesses
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Washington Post:
The surprising second choices of Democratic primary voters upend political cliches — A war between ‘progressives’ and ‘moderates’? Voters don't see things the way pundits do. — To many observers, the Democratic presidential primary has highlighted the “profound ideological divides between …
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Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
California Gov. Newsom to campaign in Iowa for Kamala Harris
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Jacksonville Journal-Courier:
Poll says Biden keeps narrow lead in state, but Warren, Buttigieg gain in primary race
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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Young voter asks Elizabeth Warren emotional question about acceptance
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Senate panel look into Ukraine interference comes up short — With the impeachment inquiry charging forward, President Donald Trump's allies have defended his demand for political investigations from Ukraine by claiming that the government in Kyiv tried to sabotage his candidacy and boost Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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James Downie / Washington Post:
The useful idiot from Louisiana — A few weeks ago, I wrote about Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) showcasing the “typical shell game” of Republicans on impeachment: Eliminate the importance of the “quid pro quo,” muddy the waters of the president's motive and distort the impeachment process itself.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Assessing the Republicans' 10 ‘findings’ in their impeachment inquiry report
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
Giuliani Associate Lev Parnas Cleared to Comply With Impeachment Subpoena — MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal judge paved the way on Monday for Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas to comply with a House subpoena for information relevant to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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ABC News:
Giuliani associate asks court to release material for impeachment inquiry
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Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
U.S. ‘Likely’ to Bring New Charges in Giuliani-Allies Case
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Here Are The Latest Secret Memos From Mueller's Report — BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret. Today we are publishing the second installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with key witnesses.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Highlights from the newly released FBI Mueller investigation notes
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KDFX-TV
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin and a Divided Europe — 'I don't trust anyone at all'
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Politico:
Georgia governor set to buck Trump on Senate appointment — In defiance of Trump, Brian Kemp has begun informing fellow Republicans that he will appoint business exec Kelly Loeffler to the soon-to-be-vacant seat. — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been getting pressure about his prospective Senate pick.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kelly Loeffler to have powerful ally after she's tapped to Senate in Georgia — Kemp to formally announce Loeffler on Wednesday at 10 a.m. — When Gov. Brian Kemp announces on Wednesday that he's picked Kelly Loeffler for an open U.S. Senate seat, she'll have some powerful backup to help defend her new post.
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Regarding Brian Kemp and Kelly Loeffler
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Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Defiant Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook policy to allow false ads — Zuckerberg says ‘people should be able to judge for themselves the character of politicians’ and compares alternative to censorship — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has defended the company's decision …
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CBS News:
Facebook CEO on political ads: People should “judge for themselves the character of politicians”
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Zuckerberg on allowing political ads: ‘People should be able to judge for themselves’
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Republicans in turmoil as redistricting looms — The GOP group charged with winning state legislatures is in turmoil — sparking concerns that the party is at risk of blowing the next round of redistricting. — The Republican State Leadership Committee has seen an exodus of top staff in recent months …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
‘Free, Melania’ offers new details about the life of a private first lady — Adapted from Kate Bennett's “Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography” set for release Tuesday. — Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, like those before her, has battled the vast juxtaposition between public perception and private citizen.
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Elisabeth Egan / New York Times:
6 Takeaways From Melania Trump's Unauthorized Biography
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Carter Page loses appeal in defamation suit against media outlets — Carter Page, the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, suffered another court loss on Monday when a federal appeals court upheld a trial judge's decision to throw out his defamation lawsuit against a pair of media outlets.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court refuses to revive Carter Page lawsuit
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Dan Levin / New York Times:
‘OxyContin Just Started Showing Up’ — Purdue Pharma introduced its opioid painkiller, OxyContin, in 1996, when the Class of 2000 entered high school. Some students began experimenting, often combining prescription opiates with alcohol at parties. — For many, what started …
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Trump administration quietly releases Lebanon military aid — 1 of 3 — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has quietly released more than $100 million in military assistance to Lebanon after months of unexplained delay. — That's according to two congressional staffers …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wealthy Mercer family spent millions on conservative causes in 2018 as they distanced themselves from Trump — Republican megadonors Robert and Rebekah Mercer donated over $12 million to a variety of conservative causes last year despite distancing themselves from being associated with President Donald Trump.
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Warren's Son Attended One of Nation's Most Elite Private Schools — The Haverford School's leafy campus, arched doorways, and neatly uniformed boys would seem to denote the sort of class and privilege that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has decried on the campaign trail.
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court appears unlikely to hand victory to gun rights backers in 2nd Amendment case — “You're asking us to take a case in which the other side has thrown in the towel and opine on a law that's not on the books anymore,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. — Supreme Court finishes hearing first 2nd Amendment case in a decade
The Guardian:
Traditional ‘foreign policy’ no longer exists. Democrats are the last to know — Progressives need a new doctrine, championing the interests of the global 99% against a transnational oligarchy — There are few phrases as fundamental to US politics as foreign policy.
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