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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Draws Sharp Contrasts With Rivals in New Hampshire Speech — Ms. Warren, who has ramped up her criticism of her presidential opponents after months of avoiding conflict, issued another rebuke Thursday in a speech about the economy and corruption.
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Poll: Kobach Would Win Kansas Senate Primary, Unless Pompeo Jumps In — Internal Republican polling shows Kris Kobach trouncing the current GOP primary field for an open U.S. Senate seat Kansas, but losing by double digits to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, should he jump into the race.
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FiveThirtyEight, The Hill and National Review
Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Makes a Comeback as Elizabeth Warren's Poll Numbers Slip
Bernie Sanders Makes a Comeback as Elizabeth Warren's Poll Numbers Slip
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Tangle, Raw Story and New York Times
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Can You Spot the Fake? Hint: Look at the pundits.
Can You Spot the Fake? Hint: Look at the pundits.
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Washington Post
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Booker says he won't make stage at next week's Democratic primary debate
Eric Holder / Washington Post:
William Barr is unfit to be attorney general — Eric H. Holder Jr., a Democrat, was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015. — As a former U.S. attorney general, I am reluctant to publicly criticize my successors. I respect the office and understand just how tough the job can be.
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Washington Monthly, National Review, Breitbart, IJR, The Daily Caller, Fox News, CNN, The Hill, HuffPost, Law & Crime, Axios, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
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Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
Fact check: Was Devin Nunes ‘vindicated’ by report on FBI's Trump investigation? — Rep. Devin Nunes this week said he was vindicated by a new inspector general report that detailed the origins of the FBI's surveillance of President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign …
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Raw Story
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Of course the FBI spied on the Trump campaign — The great debate about whether the FBI spied on the Trump campaign continues. The question is why there is still any argument. The newly-released report from Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz shows that by any definition the FBI did indeed spy.
The Economist:
A plurality of Americans—but not of states—want Donald Trump impeached — The president continues to benefit from the constitution's pro-rural bias — Donald trump owes his presidency to America's quaint system of electing leaders. Despite losing the popular vote …
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CNN:
2 GOP senators say McConnell will move to acquit Trump, not merely dismiss charges — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to hold a final vote to acquit President Donald Trump should he be impeached, when a majority of senators believe his trial has run its course instead …
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Breitbart, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Nothing could be more conclusive proof of Trump's guilt
Nothing could be more conclusive proof of Trump's guilt
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Bloomberg and New York Times
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Report: Trump's Ukraine Extortion Scheme Was Financed by Russia — President Trump is facing impeachment primarily for abusing his power for political gain, extorting a foreign country to discredit his political rivals. The secondary aspect of the plot is that the target of his extortion is hardly random.
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Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Washington Post and New York Times
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Senate confirms State Dept official as ambassador to Russia — WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has a new ambassador to Russia after the Senate voted Thursday to confirm the No. 2 official at the State Department to the post. — Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan was confirmed by a 70-22 vote.
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Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Senate recognizes Armenian genocide over objections of Trump and Turkish government
Senate recognizes Armenian genocide over objections of Trump and Turkish government
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate passes Armenian genocide resolution
Senate passes Armenian genocide resolution
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Associated Press and Axios
David Smith / The Guardian:
Fox host lambasts Trump over ‘most sustained assault on press freedom in US history’ — Chris Wallace, admired for breaking ranks with some in the conservative network, drew applause with most stinging critique yet — A leading host on Fox News, a conservative network notorious for its loyalty …
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Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Raw Story, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and Deadline
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Inside the jockeying to prosecute Donald Trump's impeachment — Behind the scenes, House Democrats battle to influence Speaker Nancy Pelosi's picks for the team that will take the case to the Senate. — WASHINGTON — In furtive conversations with senior colleagues on the House floor …
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Republican lawmaker asks Lindsey Graham to ‘rethink’ Senate's impeachment strategy
Republican lawmaker asks Lindsey Graham to ‘rethink’ Senate's impeachment strategy
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Instapundit
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Pence rejects calls to declassify new impeachment testimony
Pence rejects calls to declassify new impeachment testimony
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The Hill, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The most depressing thing about Trump's attack on Greta Thunberg — Is there nothing too petty for this president? — Early Thursday morning, President Trump took to Twitter (where his current follower count is 67.5 million) to attack a 16-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome and tell her to “work on her Anger Management problem.”
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Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Paul Watson Throws Alex Jones Under The Bus In Sandy Hook Case — “This Sandy Hook stuff is killing us,” the far-right Infowars editor said in a 2015 email. — Far-right personality and longtime Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson warned Alex Jones to stop pushing the lie …
Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani's Partnership With Fraud Guarantee Revealed in Letter — A 2018 investor letter offers new clues about the work Rudy Giuliani was hired to do for Fraud Guarantee, a company founded by his now-indicted associates Lev Parnas and David Correia. The letter has been handed over to the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan.
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Raw Story
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
DOJ charges 10 former NFL players in alleged health care fraud scheme — The scheme involved over $3.9 million in false health care claims. — The Department of Justice announced charges Thursday against 10 former NFL players over an alleged scheme to defraud millions of dollars from the league's health care benefits program.
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Associated Press, DNyuz and One America News Network
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Christine Stapleton / USA Today:
Mongolian ambassador visited Mar-a-Lago before Trump Jr. got coveted permit to hunt rare sheep — PALM BEACH, Fla. - About four months before Donald Trump Jr. went to Mongolia in August, where he reportedly managed to get a coveted permit to kill a threatened-species of sheep after he shot …
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HuffPost, Daily Kos, The Guardian, VICE and ProPublica
Courier-Journal:
Bevin pardons include convicted killer whose brother hosted campaign fundraiser for him — The family of a man pardoned by Gov. Matt Bevin for a homicide and other crimes in a fatal 2014 Knox County home invasion raised $21,500 at a political fundraiser last year to retire debt from Bevin's 2015 gubernatorial campaign.
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NBC News, The American Independent, Raw Story and The Hill
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
If Trump Is a Unique Danger Why Aren't Democrats Acting Like It? — Crisis. An existential threat to our democracy. A mortal danger. A White Supremacist. Emergency — This is what President Trump's opponents on the left say they believe about the current administration.
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Politico, National Review and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact — Antitrust concerns lead agency to consider taking action against social-media giant as soon as January — WASHINGTON—Federal officials are considering seeking a preliminary injunction against Facebook Inc …
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Katherine Clarke / Wall Street Journal:
Lachlan Murdoch Sets L.A. Record by Paying $150 Million for a Château-Style Mansion — Once listed for $350 million, the Bel-Air estate of late media tycoon A. Jerrold Perenchio is the second priciest home ever to have traded in the U.S. — Lachlan Murdoch, media executive and son …
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Los Angeles Times, Fox News, FiveThirtyEight and Mediaite
John F. Harris / Politico:
What if Trump Weren't Nuts? — A moment when the president of the United States is on the verge of being impeached and also enacting a major bipartisan trade agreement is a good time to ponder the question: What if Donald Trump were not, um, you know ... what is the phrase we are groping for?
Mariko Paulson / Issues:
Senator Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax: Projected Budgetary and Economic Effects — Print to PDF Summary: Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) projects that Senator Warren's proposed wealth tax, if implemented in 2021, would raise between $2.3 trillion (including macroeconomic effects) …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, IJR and Fortune
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The False Romance of Russia — Sherwood Eddy was a prominent American missionary as well as that now rare thing, a Christian socialist. In the 1920s and '30s, he made more than a dozen trips to the Soviet Union. He was not blind to the problems of the U.S.S.R., but he also found much to like.
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
UK voters choose a new government to resolve Brexit impasse — LONDON (AP) — Britons who have endured more than three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate in the deeply divided nation.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Pastor Who Says Jews Are Going To Hell Speaks At Trump's Hanukkah Party — Robert Jeffress has also made inflammatory comments about Muslims, Mormons and Hindus. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at tackling anti-Semitism on college campuses on Wednesday ― …
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MSNBC, Vanity Fair, ABC News and The Root
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Hawaii GOP cancels presidential preference poll, commits delegates to Trump — Hawaii's Republican Party has become the latest state party to cancel a primary that would allow people to vote on GOP rivals to President Trump in 2020. — The Hawaii Republican party announced Wednesday …
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The American Independent
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Gaetz brings up Hunter Biden's past substance issues — and it immediately backfired — Debate surrounding the next amendment to be introduced quickly divulged into a tit-for-tat involving allegations of cocaine usage and driving under the influence charges.
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