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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Corbynism Can't Happen Here — Even though the polls always suggested the likelihood of Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in yesterday's British elections, his continued presence as the head of the Labour Party filled me with a great sense of foreboding. The local press excavated from Corbyn's …
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Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
This is a repudiation of Corbynism. Labour needs to ditch the politics of the sect — A 1970s hard-left clique led the party into a dead end - and it's the poor and vulnerable who will pay the price — We can skip the first stage of grief. A result like this leaves no room for denial.
NBC News:
Corbyn's UK defeat was bad news for Sanders, Warren and America's left — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — Always beware of drawing conclusions from one country's election to another.
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Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
How Labour Lost the Culture War
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Noah Rothman / Commentary:
Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
‘I really like you’: Iowa voters give Amy Klobuchar another look
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Populist nationalism is on the march. No one seems to know how to stop it. — Once upon a time — in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major — I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.
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BBC:
Election results 2019: Boris Johnson returns to power with big majority
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Severin Carrell / The Guardian:
Sturgeon demands Scottish independence referendum powers after SNP landslide
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden warns that Boris Johnson's victory shows dangers of parties leaning too far left
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Tom McTague / The Atlantic:
It's Boris Johnson's Britain Now
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Cristina Gallardo / Politico:
What Boris Johnson's victory means for Brexit
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Talking Impeachment to Death — A report from the House Judiciary Committee's epic markup. — The House Judiciary Committee approved House Resolution 755, a measure “impeaching Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors,” on Friday morning. After a long, acrimonious Republican defense …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Matt Gaetz proves there is no bottom — House Judiciary Committee members, before approving impeachment articles, debated points profound and trivial, relevant and extraneous, fair and phony. And then there was Matt Gaetz. — The Florida Republican thought he'd have some fun with Hunter Biden's drug and alcohol addiction.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
In unrelenting tweetstorm, Trump praises GOP anti-impeachment ‘warriors,’ hits Pelosi
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Panel Approves Impeachment Articles and Sends Charges for a House Vote
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump keeps making history — but not how he wants to
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Judiciary Committee to Vote on Articles of Impeachment
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McConnell's awful Hannity interview shows power of Fox News's disinformation — It has often been observed that one of President Trump's biggest allies in the impeachment battle is Fox News — that if Richard Nixon had enjoyed the benefit of such a powerful purveyor of propaganda, he wouldn't have been driven from office.
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New York Times:
For Trump, Impeachment May Be a Political Plus but Also a Personal Humiliation
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
McConnell's vow of ‘total coordination’ with White House on Senate impeachment trial angers Democrats
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
McConnell indicates he'll let Trump's lawyers dictate Trump's impeachment trial
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Just Having Fun’: Giuliani Doubles Down on Ukraine Probes — Trump's personal attorney escalates his push for investigations—the effort that helped spark impeachment inquiry — Some of Rudy Giuliani's friends told him to keep a low profile. — Instead, Mr. Giuliani is escalating …
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JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Trump has described the same conversation about Israel four times. Each time, the name of his Jewish friend changed. — Touting his accomplishments during a second Hanukkah reception at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump recalled a conversation he said he had with real estate developer Charles Kushner.
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Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Precinct closures harm voter turnout in Georgia, AJC analysis finds — Closures accelerated after Supreme Court invalidated Voting Rights Act provision, putting thousands farther from the polls. — Until her old concrete-block precinct shut down, Maggie Coleman lived about a mile from a place to cast her ballot in rural Georgia.
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders endorses a Californian who defends crude sex ratings of women — Bernie Sanders endorsed a California congressional candidate Thursday with a long history of making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.
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Daniel Desrochers / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Bevin pardons a KY man convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel — It's not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldn't tell which killed the mother of three first …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Democracy Grief Is Real — Seeing what Trump is doing to America, many find it hard to fight off despair. — The despair felt by climate scientists and environmentalists watching helplessly as something precious and irreplaceable is destroyed is sometimes described as “climate grief.”
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CNN:
White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since …
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Wall Street Journal:
FBI's Wray Acts Fast to Make Changes After Scathing Report — Move comes in response to Justice Department inspector general's criticism of how surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser was handled — WASHINGTON—FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered more than 40 changes …
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Axios:
Scoop: House Dems attend Trump's holiday party amid impeachment — Half a dozen House Democrats attended the White House Congressional Ball last night while their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee worked late into the night on articles of impeachment, according to two sources familiar with the event.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge hits Trump administration over census docs fight — The House Oversight Committee filed suit last month to try to force the administration to turn over the subpoenaed records. — President Donald Trump. Tasos Katopodis-Pool via Getty Images — A federal judge slammed …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
DOJ quietly posts internal legal opinions about immunity from congressional testimony
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Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas Rep. Colin Allred, a Democrat facing tough 2020 race, will vote to impeach Trump — The freshman Democrat had been one of the few Texas Democrats to not yet announce their position on impeachment — WASHINGTON - Dallas Rep. Colin Allred on Friday announced that he will vote …
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New York Times:
China Announces Initial Trade Agreement With U.S. — The agreement includes a commitment by China to buy more agriculture products and to strengthen laws protecting foreign companies operating there. — BEIJING — China announced on Friday that it had agreed on an initial trade deal …
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New York Times:
‘Bombshell’ Raises a Question: What's Megyn Kelly Up to Anyway? — A year after the anchor was ousted from NBC, Charlize Theron brings her back as someone who helped take on Fox News from the inside. — Megyn Kelly last appeared on NBC more than a year ago, trying to contain an uproar …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Facing catastrophic climate change, they still can't quit Big Oil — NUIQSUT, Alaska — The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking. Rising temperatures are thawing the once-frozen earth …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Judge's decision may shine light on secret Trump-Putin meeting notes — WASHINGTON — A district court judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered administration lawyers to explain why, for more than two years, the White House has refused to turn over to the State Department an interpreter's notes …
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