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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Speaker Pelosi asks House to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she has instructed House Democrats to draw up articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump, saying he had abused his power.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Democrats have urgent new impeachment argument — Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Democrats are injecting an urgent new argument into their already fast-moving impeachment drive: President Donald Trump poses such a flagrant threat to American governance and democracy that there is no time to waste.
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New York Times:
Pelosi Says House Will Draft Impeachment Charges Against Trump
Pelosi Says House Will Draft Impeachment Charges Against Trump
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Associated Press, Patterico's Pontifications and ENM NEWS
Politico:
‘No choice’: Pelosi proceeds with articles of impeachment
‘No choice’: Pelosi proceeds with articles of impeachment
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The Hill, ABC News, Mother Jones and The Root
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi to deliver impeachment update at 9 a.m.
POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi to deliver impeachment update at 9 a.m.
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CNN, Talking Points Memo and National Review
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Pelosi to address impeachment process after Judiciary Committee hearing
Pelosi to address impeachment process after Judiciary Committee hearing
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Joshua A. Geltzer / The Atlantic:
The Legal Debate About Impeachment Is Over
The Legal Debate About Impeachment Is Over
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New York Times, POLITICUSUSA and Politico
Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Is Trump's impeachment rushed? Why Democrats need to ditch their current timeline
Is Trump's impeachment rushed? Why Democrats need to ditch their current timeline
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Raw Story, TheBlaze, Common Dreams and Townhall
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Impeachment hearings live updates: Pelosi asks committee chairs to proceed with articles of impeachment
Impeachment hearings live updates: Pelosi asks committee chairs to proceed with articles of impeachment
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Redstate, Vanity Fair, Politico and The Hill
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Blocked Key Impeachment Witnesses. Should Congress Wait?
Trump Blocked Key Impeachment Witnesses. Should Congress Wait?
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Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Vox, The Mahablog, National Review and KyivPost
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Warren and Biden lose ground, Sanders moves ahead in California's shifting 2020 Democratic race — The Democratic presidential contest in California remains extremely fluid — but not enough, at least so far, to provide an opening for Michael Bloomberg, who entered the race two weeks ago …
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Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Democratic Race: Biden 2020 as Romney 2012 — As one shaky frontrunner endures, we're reminded of another from the recent past — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Biden's endurance at the top of the Democratic race is reminiscent of Mitt Romney's endurance in the 2012 Republican race.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
The most consequential moment of the 2020 primary
The most consequential moment of the 2020 primary
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Axios
Washington Post:
Barr's handpicked prosecutor tells inspector general he can't back right-wing theory that Russia case was U.S. intelligence setup — The prosecutor handpicked by Attorney General William P. Barr to scrutinize how U.S. agencies investigated President Trump's 2016 campaign said he could not offer evidence …
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Josh Owens / New York Times:
I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. — I dropped out of film school to edit video for the conspiracy theorist because I believed in his worldview. Then I saw what it did to people. — On Election Day 2016, I sat in the passenger seat of Alex Jones's Dodge Hellcat as we swerved through traffic …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Infowars Staffer: We Made Up Shariah Law Threat Stories — YOU DON'T SAY — A former staff member at Alex Jones's far-right conspiracy site Infowars has admitted to making up stories for Jones about the threat of Shariah law within the U.S. Writing for The New York Times …
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Raw Story
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Republicans angry, concerned about Schiff release of phone records — House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff's decision to publish the phone records of the president's personal attorneys, a journalist, a fellow lawmaker, a National Security Council aide, and others has sent …
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Charles Sykes / Politico:
Democrats Are Speeding to Defeat on Impeachment — As the rough beast of impeachment races forward, Democrats need to pause for a quick reality check. No matter how compelling the evidence against President Trump may be—and it is quite compelling—they will not ultimately succeed in removing Trump from office.
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Why Devin Nunes's Phone Logs Aren't A Smoking Gun
Why Devin Nunes's Phone Logs Aren't A Smoking Gun
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Fox News and American Greatness
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here's how journalists can reach the undecided. — The diplomats have been inspiring, the legal scholars knowledgeable, the politicians predictable. — After endless on-air analysis and written reporting, pundit panels, and emergency podcasts, not much has changed.
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Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Rudy Giuliani Made A Surprise Visit To Kyiv And Nobody There Is Happy About It — KYIV — Rudy Giuliani has made a surprise visit to Kyiv — but the city isn't buzzing with his arrival, it's groaning. — Giuliani arriving with his shady band of conspiracy theorists …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani Teams Up With a Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorist to Save Trump
Rudy Giuliani Teams Up With a Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorist to Save Trump
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The American Independent, TheBlaze, Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Mediaite
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
Woman Who Alleged Affair With Trump Sues Fox News for Defamation — Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who sold her story to The National Enquirer, said Tucker Carlson made false claims about extortion that damaged her reputation. — A former Playboy model who has said she had an affair …
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Axios, Contemptor and Law & Crime
BuzzFeed News:
The Curious Case Of Joseph Mifsud's Lost Passport And Wallet — LONDON — While the world was looking for Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton's stolen emails to Donald Trump's campaign, his passport and wallet sat for 17 months in a lost and found office in a Portuguese airport.
YouTube:
Tucker Investigates: What is destroying rural America? … The influence of Wall Street hedge funds is slowly creeping into rural America. #Tucker #FoxNews — FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7 …
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New York Times:
Iran Is Secretly Moving Missiles Into Iraq, U.S. Officials Say — The buildup of a hidden arsenal of short-range missiles is the latest sign that American efforts to deter Iran have largely failed. — WASHINGTON — Iran has used the continuing chaos in Iraq to build up a hidden arsenal …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders release of ex-acting AG Whitaker's financial documents — The judge rejected DOJ's bid for a categorical rule allowing secrecy for draft financial disclosures. — Former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. — A federal judge has turned down the Justice Department's bid …
KHNL:
3 victims injured, gunman dead in shooting at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard — HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - At least three people were injured, two gravely, in an active shooter situation Wednesday afternoon at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. — Meanwhile, witnesses tell Hawaii News Now that gunman fatally shot himself.
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Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine President Holds Back on Probe Linked to Impeachment Inquiry — Politicians, officials say Volodymyr Zelensky wants to avoid getting country more caught up in U.S. politics — KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is withholding his support for a proposed parliamentary investigation …
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
A look inside Trump's anti-impeachment spin factory — On a recent Thursday morning, more than a dozen Trump administration officials watching television in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House spontaneously stood up and applauded.
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton drops biggest hint yet that she's mulling a 2020 presidential run — The strongest indicator yet that Hillary's mulling a 2020 run? She appeared Wednesday, for the first time ever, on Howard Stern. — There was hardly a pretense she was there to promote the book she co-wrote …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Uncovered: reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos — Groundbreaking research gives snapshot of world in which politics coverage is warped by social media algorithms and friendship groups — Ask the average 2019 voter where the problems with political news lie …
New York Times:
Florida Keys Deliver a Hard Message: As Seas Rise, Some Places Can't Be Saved — KEY WEST, Fla. — Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone can be saved.
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Washington Post and The Stranger
Phoebe Neidl / Rolling Stone:
The Traitors Among Us — Donald Trump likes to call his opponents traitors — but if he's looking for treasonous behavior, he should look within his own party — America once used the words “treason” and “traitors” only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation's most vital secrets or interests.
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Raw Story
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Inconvenient Murders — The global surge in Jew-hatred barely registers in the West. — Ms. Weiss is an Opinion staff writer and editor and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.” — Two years ago, a 27-year-old man named Kobili Traoré walked into the Paris apartment …
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The Daily Caller, New York Post, Fox News and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Working at Equinox: 'It's Very Hunger Games' — Working for the high-end gym chain seems glamorous, but for many trainers the schedule is unforgiving, the pay low and the turnover high. — Equinox, the high-end gym chain, calls its five-story facility on Greenwich Avenue in Manhattan a “fitness mecca.”
Hyung-jin Kim / Associated Press:
North Korea threatens to resume calling Trump ‘dotard’ — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea threatened Thursday to resume insults of U.S. President Donald Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using provocative language, such as referring to its leader as “rocket man.”
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
“The world is laughing at President Trump”: Biden video seizes on NATO leaders' hot mic — Former Vice President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign seized on video of world leaders seemingly chuckling about President Trump at the NATO summit by including the hot mic clip in an ad saying the “world is laughing at” Trump.
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