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Politico:
Schiff: Pence aide provided new impeachment evidence — but VP's office classified it — A national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence submitted additional classified evidence to House impeachment investigators about a phone call between Pence and Ukraine's president …
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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.
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 …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Photo surfaces showing Eric Trump in Ukraine as investigations into the Trump Org intensify: report … 'I haven't had a personal cell phone for years': Trump demands retraction from CNN
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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Occupy Democrats, Fox News, IJR, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Law & Crime
Daily Mail:
Six Saudis are arrested over Pensacola naval base shooting including three who FILMED the attack by countryman who killed three and wounded eight before being shot dead - as FBI probes terror link — Sources identified the suspected gunman as Saudi Air Force aviation student Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
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NBC News, New York Times, The Western Journal, Geller Report News, The Last Refuge, Jihad Watch, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and ENM NEWS
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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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CBS News, Disrn, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, USNI News, CNN, Big League Politics, NB Blog, Jihad Watch, PJ Media Home, USA Today, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Mediaite
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, The Daily Caller, Townhall, FOX59, Law & Crime and The Hill
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 …
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New York Times, Raw Story, Twitchy, The Hill, Occupy Democrats, KDFX-TV, The Wrap and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Supreme Court halts subpoena to Deutsche Bank for Trump records — The Supreme Court on Friday granted President Trump's emergency request to temporarily block a congressional subpoena for his financial records from Deutsche Bank. — The court's order came just hours after the president's legal team asked …
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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The Guardian, The Stranger and Mashable
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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
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Medium:
Letter to Congress from Legal Scholars
Letter to Congress from Legal Scholars
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POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost, CNN, Law & Crime and Axios
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
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Buttigieg releases timeline of McKinsey work — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a timeline of his work at McKinsey & Co. on Friday amid criticism that he isn't sharing more details about his time at the consulting firm. — In a statement accompanying the timeline …
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Washington Post
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over
Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over
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Associated Press, Axios, Jezebel and HuffPost
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 New York 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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Boston.com
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, Law & Crime, The Hill, Hullabaloo, The Mahablog, Raw Story, Mediaite and KTVZ-TV, more at Mediagazer »
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump again accused of mishandling info, creating security threat
Trump again accused of mishandling info, creating security threat
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Vanity Fair
Washington Post:
Congress, White House near deal to create Space Force in exchange for paid leave for federal workers — Approval would come as part of defense authorization bill in Congress — Congressional lawmakers and the White House are on the verge of reaching a sweeping agreement that would extend 12 weeks …
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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
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Top Russian diplomat to visit Washington in first visit since 2017 Oval Office controversy, officials say — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to travel to Washington next week for his first visit to the United States since his controversial Oval Office meeting with President Trump in 2017 …
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
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.
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Nikki Haley: Dylann Roof hijacked meaning of Confederate flag — Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley said that shooter Dylann Roof hijacked the meaning of the Confederate flag when, in 2017, he attacked a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., in an interview with The Blaze.
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HotAir, PJ Media Home, Twitchy, Washington Post, Mother Jones and NBC News
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Nikki Haley Suggests Confederate Flag Meant ‘Sacrifice and Heritage’ Until Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ It
Nikki Haley Suggests Confederate Flag Meant ‘Sacrifice and Heritage’ Until Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ It
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The Root and Balloon Juice
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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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 …
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ENM 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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The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Politico, Slate, ITV and Bloomberg
CNN:
Independent lawmaker says he's ready to vote to impeach Trump — (CNN)Rep. Justin Amash said Friday that he is prepared to vote for three articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, ensuring that Democrats won't be the only ones to impeach the President when the historic vote hits the floor as soon as this month.
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The Hill, KTVZ-TV, New Jersey Globe, KDFX-TV and Mediaite
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Elizabeth Warren Tells Poor Parents to Fix Their Own Schools — The National Education Association, the most implacably anti-reform of the two major national teachers' unions, has released a series of candidate interviews. Senator Elizabeth Warren, making her case for NEA support …
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Reason, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon and Twitchy
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
Bernie Sanders campaign parts ways with staffer after report of homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets — (CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign has parted ways with a newly hired staffer after a conservative website unearthed a series of tweets allegedly from the staffer that contained anti-Semitic and homophobic language.
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Washington Free Beacon, PinkNews and ENM NEWS