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Release Detail — December 10, 2019 - Buttigieg Slips, While Biden And Sanders Gain In Primary, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Slightly More Than Half Of Voters Say Don't Impeach Trump — In the Democratic primary race for president, former Vice President Joe Biden …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Washington, Obama, and Trump, Oh My! — Biden, Sanders, Warren continue to jockey for 2020 pole position — West Long Branch, NJ - Most Americans agree that George Washington was a better president than either Donald Trump or Barack Obama - but there are some interesting partisan divisions in that opinion.
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Stamford Advocate, The Hill, Breitbart, Redstate, Politico, Fox News, Washington Post, One America News Network, IJR, Washington Times and CNN
Politico:
Biden claims he has the most diverse staff — but won't back it up
Biden claims he has the most diverse staff — but won't back it up
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Associated Press, BuzzFeed News and FiveThirtyEight
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Small group of Democrats floats censure instead of impeachment — A small group of vulnerable House Democrats is floating the longshot idea of censuring President Donald Trump instead of impeaching him, according to multiple lawmakers familiar with the conversations.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Giuliani says Trump asked him to brief Justice Dept. and GOP senators on his Ukraine findings — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, said Tuesday that the president has asked him to brief the Justice Department and Republican senators on his findings from a recent trip …
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Washington Post:
The case for impeachment — The House of Representatives is moving toward a momentous decision about whether to impeach a president for only the third time in U.S. history. The charges brought against President Trump by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday are clear …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Why Democrats sidelined Mueller in impeachment articles — On Dec. 2, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi was on a trip to a climate change conference in Spain, she held a conference call with about a dozen of the most vulnerable Democrats who delivered her the House. — Their message to Pelosi …
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Washington Post, Associated Press and The Hill
Gabriella Muñoz / Washington Times:
Progressive groups unhappy with articles of impeachment
Progressive groups unhappy with articles of impeachment
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The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press and ABC News
Simon Shuster / TIME:
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Washington Post:
Impeachment live updates: House Democrats unveil two articles of impeachment against Trump …
Impeachment live updates: House Democrats unveil two articles of impeachment against Trump …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
‘High crimes and misdemeanors’: Dems unveil impeachment charges against Trump
‘High crimes and misdemeanors’: Dems unveil impeachment charges against Trump
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NBC News:
Barr thinks FBI may have acted in ‘bad faith’ in probing Trump campaign's links to Russia — “I think our nation was turned on its head for 3 years based on a bogus narrative,” said the attorney general in an exclusive interview with Pete Williams. — WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Banana Republic stuff’: Experts tear Bill Barr to pieces for calling FBI a bigger threat than Russia to elections
‘Banana Republic stuff’: Experts tear Bill Barr to pieces for calling FBI a bigger threat than Russia to elections
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Law & Crime
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The ‘travesty’ is William Barr
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The ‘Russia Hoax’ Is a Hoax — If you are following mainstream …
The ‘Russia Hoax’ Is a Hoax — If you are following mainstream …
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YouTube, Washington Post and Raw Story
ABC News:
Officer, 3 civilians dead after massive gun battle breaks out in New Jersey — The New Jersey police officer was shot before the suspects fled to a store. — LIVE NOW — A New Jersey police officer and three civilians have died after a gun battle was prompted by what is believed …
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NBC New York:
Officer, 5 Others Dead in ‘Ambush’ NJ Active Shooter Situation — Suspects believed to have fired from inside store, law enforcement sources say; all public schools in Jersey City under lockdown into the evening — What to Know — One police officer was killed and two others …
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New York Times:
Jersey City Shooting Live Updates: 6 Killed, Including an Officer — Two shooters opened fire on Tuesday afternoon at a kosher market. There was “no indication of terrorism.” — RIGHT NOW The slain police officer was identified as Detective Joseph Seals, a longtime veteran and father of five.
David Porter / Associated Press:
6 killed in New Jersey gunbattle, including police officer
6 killed in New Jersey gunbattle, including police officer
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The Hill, The Daily Beast and TheBlaze
Steven Fulop / abc7NY:
Jersey City shooting: 1 officer killed, 3 others hurt; multiple dead inside grocery store
Jersey City shooting: 1 officer killed, 3 others hurt; multiple dead inside grocery store
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Breaking911, NPR, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mediaite and Jewish Journal
New York Times:
Trump to Sign Order Targeting Anti-Semitism on College Campuses — The president's action will define Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, and empower the Education Department to withhold money from institutions that tolerate anti-Israel movements.
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National Review and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
CNN:
Growing divide between Trump and McConnell over impeachment trial — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are both looking ahead to the Senate impeachment trial, but there is a growing divide between the two over what that trial should look like, CNN has learned.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What Pete Buttigieg Says He Did at McKinsey — Last month, a source emailed a colleague of mine with a complicated theory that, the source claimed, Pete Buttigieg had been in the CIA. “The American people have the right to know if he was ever an agent or officer,” the person wrote …
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Megan Cassella / Politico:
‘We ate their lunch’: How Pelosi got to ‘yes’ on Trump's trade deal — Nancy Pelosi sat Mexico's top trade negotiator and foreign minister down in her office and gave the two men an ultimatum. — It was late September, and Democrats feared Mexico was not going to implement labor protections mandated …
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Labor unions win, drug companies lose in new trade deal
Labor unions win, drug companies lose in new trade deal
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One America News Network
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Winners and losers in the final USMCA deal
Gordon Ahl / Lawfare:
Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Sues Justice Department and FBI — On Dec. 10, Lisa Page filed a complaint against the Department of Justice and the FBI for alleged violations of the Privacy Act related to the disclosure of information about her to the media. The document is available here and below.
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David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump pays $2 million in damages ordered by judge over misuse of charity funds, according to NY attorney general — President Trump has paid $2 million in court-ordered damages for misusing funds in a tax-exempt charity he controlled, the New York Attorney General said Tuesday.
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Associated Press, NY State Attorney General, NBC News and The American Independent
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden's baby mama Lunden Roberts has demanded he admit that he was employed by the Burisma, how much money he was paid by the Ukrainian company and that he also received money from a Chinese person or entity — The mother of Hunter Biden's baby has demanded that he admit …
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Yahoo News:
FBI warned six months ago about loophole Pensacola shooter used to obtain a gun — WASHINGTON — More than six months before the Dec. 6 shooting at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., where a Saudi gunman used a weapon obtained using a hunting license exemption, the FBI issued a report warning about precisely this loophole.
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New York Times, CNN and Summit News
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Greenland's ice losses have septupled and are now in line with its highest sea-level scenario, scientists say — That's according to 26 separate satellite measurements and 89 scientists who have produced them — The Greenland ice sheet's losses have accelerated so fast since the 1990s …
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Mic, UPI, New York Times and courthousenews.com
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
It's official: The dossier was malarkey — The new report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is an absolutely damning indictment of the Steele dossier. — The dossier, compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Trump plan to spend $3.6 billion in military funds on border wall — A federal judge in El Paso on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration's plan to pay for border barrier construction with $3.6 billion in military funds, ruling that the administration does …
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
US Border Officials Are Issuing Fake Court Notices To Keep Out Immigrants Who Have Won Asylum — On a November day just south of the Texas border, Francisco left the temporary shelter he'd been stuck in for four months to travel to a nearby port of entry in the US.
Mediaite:
Megan Rapinoe Calls Out Sports Illustrated's Lack of Diversity in Sportsperson of the Year Award Speech — USA Women's Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe was named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year on Monday, joining the likes of athletes and teams that have put on stunning displays …
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
The mystery of Rudy Giuliani's spokeswoman — The gatekeeper to the lawyer for the most powerful man in the world is a 20-year-old conservative activist with a thin resume, an inflated biography and an impossible job. — For the past three months, Trumpworld has been both abuzz and baffled …
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Raw Story
The Times:
MRP election poll: Tory lead narrows ahead of final election rallies — YouGov cuts likely Johnson majority to 28 — as Labour frontbencher says voters can't stand Corbyn — Boris Johnson is to launch a final assault on Labour's heartlands as a new survey shows that he can no longer be sure …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson's War With a GOP Megadonor Has an Ironic Twist — The long and entwined history between one of the nation's top donors and Fox News' prime-time host tells the story of Trump's GOP. — In mid-2011, Tucker Carlson's digital media outlet the Daily Caller was looking for money …
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