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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“I Do Hate What He Is Doing”: Adam Schiff on Trump, Impeachment, and What's Next — The chair of the House Intelligence Committee reflects on his still-open investigation of the President. — Just after 9 a.m. on Thursday morning, Nancy Pelosi made it official: the House of Representatives will vote to impeach President Trump.
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IJR, Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats, Fox News, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Law & Crime
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Washington Post:
As impeachment tide swirls around Trump, Giuliani drops anchor in Ukraine — Even as the House of Representatives began drafting charges against President Trump this week, his private attorney, who many believe is partly responsible for leading Trump on the path to his likely impeachment …
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Sputnik International and POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Trump still uses his personal cell phone despite warnings and increased call scrutiny — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has continued to use his personal cell phone to make calls, despite repeated warnings from his staff that the practice could leave him vulnerable to foreign surveillance, multiple officials told CNN.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
More than 500 law professors say Trump committed ‘impeachable conduct’ — More than 500 legal scholars have signed on to an open letter asserting that President Trump committed “impeachable conduct” and that lawmakers would be acting well within their rights if they ultimately voted to remove him from office.
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Daily Kos and Times of San Diego
Medium:
Letter to Congress from Legal Scholars — We, the undersigned legal scholars, have concluded that President Trump engaged in impeachable conduct. — We do not reach this conclusion lightly. The Founders did not make impeachment available for disagreements over policy, even profound ones …
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POLITICUSUSA, CNN, HuffPost, Law & Crime and Axios
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Photo surfaces showing Eric Trump in Ukraine as investigations into the Trump Org intensify: report
Scott Jennings / CNN:
Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him
Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Associated Press:
US official: Pensacola shooting suspect was Saudi student — WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the Florida Naval station shooting suspect was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia and authorities are investigating if the shooting was terrorism-related.
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NBC News, Disrn, USNI News, CNN, Breitbart, PJ Media Home, Big League Politics, USA Today, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, NB Blog, Jihad Watch, The Hill and Mediaite
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BuzzFeed News:
A Saudi Military Trainee Killed 3 People In Florida In The Second Shooting At A Navy Base This Week — Three people were killed and eight others injured when a trainee from the Saudi Arabian Air Force opened fire at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida early Friday.
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Law & Crime and The Hill
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump passes along Saudi king's ‘sympathies’ after Saudi national kills 3 at naval base
Trump passes along Saudi king's ‘sympathies’ after Saudi national kills 3 at naval base
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One America News Network
Keiko Morris / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Leases New Manhattan Office Space, Less Than a Year After HQ2 Pullout — Tech giant agrees to take 335,000 square feet in Hudson Yards neighborhood in deal without any financial incentives from city or state — Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to take new office space in Midtown Manhattan …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Giuliani just confessed to the crime. He also revealed something bigger. — Rudolph W. Giuliani just confessed to the crime in broad daylight — or, more precisely, in broad cyber-daylight. Yet he did so defiantly, with a middle finger unfurled in our faces, without the slightest concern …
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TheBL.com, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Law & Crime, Hullabaloo, The Mahablog, Mediaite, KTVZ-TV, The Atlantic and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Tactic on Impeachment: Turn Ukraine Allegations Against Biden — President Trump and his allies are pushing debunked claims of corruption by Mr. Biden as a counternarrative to impeachment. — President Trump's re-election campaign has run menacing and misleading ads …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump creates evidence faster than the House can draft impeachment articles
Trump creates evidence faster than the House can draft impeachment articles
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, Hullabaloo and National Review
Bloomberg:
Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review, Saying People Flush 10 Times — President complains about impact of water efficiency rules — He says hand washing is nearly impossible due to water flow — Donald Trump's latest target for deregulation is Americans' toilets.
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Mashable
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Kellie Mejdrich / Politico:
Justice Ginsburg temporarily halts Trump financial records subpoena — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg temporarily blocked a lower court ruling ordering two banks to release President Donald Trump's financial records to House Democrats. — Trump had asked Ginsburg to consider the emergency request earlier Friday.
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Townhall and Sputnik International
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over — Long-simmering tensions between Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, the two ascendant Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, burst into the open this week. — Warren and Buttigieg's campaigns each called the other out in a flurry …
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Associated Press, Axios, New York Times, Jezebel and HuffPost
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David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
How progressives are plotting to stop Pete Buttigieg's rise in the 2020 race
How progressives are plotting to stop Pete Buttigieg's rise in the 2020 race
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BuzzFeed News, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Louder With Crowder and Washington Post
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren and Buttigieg take jabs at each other
Warren and Buttigieg take jabs at each other
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Politico, ABC News and Boston.com
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Congress, White House Reach Tentative Deal Over Paid Parental Leave for Federal Workers — Agreement would provide paid parental leave to 2.1 million civilian federal employees — WASHINGTON—Congress has struck a tentative bipartisan agreement that would authorize 12 weeks of paid parental leave …
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Washington Post
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CNN:
Senior State Dept. aide once called Obama a Kenyan and Pelosi a Nazi whose Botox wore off — (CNN)A senior adviser at the State Department once said he thought then-President Barack Obama was a Kenyan and called House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi a Nazi whose Botox had worn off.
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Mediaite and Mother Jones
Charles T. Clark / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Issa says Trump clemency for Hunter could save imprisonment costs — DeMaio, another candidate for the congressman's seat, calls a pardon ‘the wrong message to the American people’ — On the day Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty to misuse of campaign funds in federal court …
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and The American Independent
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
On Telling the Truth When the Powerful Have Stopped Listening — One used to speak truth to power. Now, one speaks truth to nonsense. — Speak “truth to power”—this is how most people standing up to the constant disinformation and bullying of the Trump administration may have once reasonably described their task.
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Booker says he was ‘taken aback’ by Bloomberg calling him ‘well-spoken’ — Washington (CNN)New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said Friday he was “taken aback” by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calling him “well-spoken,” and said Bloomberg played into a tired trope about African Americans.
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CBS News, Axios, New York Post and Rolling Stone
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New York Times:
‘I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People’ — Multiple police officers in Brooklyn say they were told by a commander that white and Asian people should be left alone. — At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and New York Daily News
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN:
Senior British diplomat in US quits with tirade over Brexit ‘half-truths’ — Here's what you need to know about Brexit — (CNN)A senior British diplomat in the US has quit with a blast at the UK government over Brexit, saying she could no longer “peddle half-truths” on behalf of political leaders she did not “trust.”
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Politico, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, ITV, Slate and Bloomberg
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Kingmaker — Harry Reid may be the only person who can keep the Democrats from killing one another before selecting a nominee. But will he live long enough to do it? — LAS VEGAS—Swing past Caesars Palace; head up the Bellagio's driveway, where its famous fountains are erupting to an auto-tuned Cher hit.
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naked capitalism
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Sanders's 2019 support compares with his 2016 run
How Sanders's 2019 support compares with his 2016 run
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HuffPost, PJ Media Home and The Hill
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Nikki Haley Suggests Confederate Flag Meant ‘Sacrifice and Heritage’ Until Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ It — Haley also said that the national media at the time wanted to make the mass murder of black churchgoers about “racism.” — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley seemed …
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The Root and Balloon Juice
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Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Nikki Haley: Dylann Roof hijacked meaning of Confederate flag
Nikki Haley: Dylann Roof hijacked meaning of Confederate flag
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Washington Post, NBC News, Twitchy, PJ Media Home and Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Ukrainian Fugitive Who Claimed to Have Dirt on Biden Firm Is Arrested — Oleksandr Onyshchenko publicly claimed to have inside information about Hunter Biden just as the impeachment proceedings got underway. — A former Ukrainian member of parliament who has claimed to have dirt …
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Raw Story