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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
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump again accused of mishandling info, creating security threat
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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
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren and Buttigieg take jabs at each other
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David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
How progressives are plotting to stop Pete Buttigieg's rise in the 2020 race
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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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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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Medium:
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
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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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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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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Nikki Haley Suggests Confederate Flag Meant ‘Sacrifice and Heritage’ Until Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ It
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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.
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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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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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Tlaib, Omar Reject Dem-Led Effort to Back Two-State Solution — Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) rejected an effort by their fellow Democrats to pass a resolution affirming the United States' support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump halts plan to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists — President Trump tweeted on Friday that the U.S. will “temporarily hold off” on designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. — The big picture: Trump's vow to re-label Mexican drug cartels in November prompted Mexico's president …
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Axios:
Scoop: Tensions among top Trump health officials led to outside probe — The Department of Health and Human Services took the extraordinary step of bringing in outside counsel earlier this year to investigate allegations of sex discrimination, Axios has learned — a sign of how badly …
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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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bellingcat:
Identifying The Berlin Bicycle Assassin: Russia's Murder Franchise (Part 2) … - In the previous part of this investigation, we identified the assassin of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili as Vadim Nikolaevich Krasikov, a 54-year old Russian citizen traveling with state-issued false identity papers.
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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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