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New York Times:
Impeach. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists — whose views are informed by expertise, It is separate from the newsroom. — In the end, the story told by the two articles of impeachment approved on Friday morning by the House Judiciary Committee is short …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
'I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here': Graham predicts Trump impeachment will ‘die quickly’ in Senate — Graham: I'll do all I can to make impeachment die quickly — (CNN)Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a close ally of President Donald Trump …
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Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill:
Is a trap being set for Trump in the Senate trial? — Can 20 U.S. Senators withstand the potentially irresistible temptation to reverse the results of the 2016 election and remove a president a number of them openly or privately dislike? — Since Donald Trump announced his intention to run …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Lindsey Graham invites Rudy Giuliani to Judiciary panel to discuss recent Ukraine visit
John Fritze / USA Today:
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani spotted at White House amid House Judiciary impeachment vote
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani spotted at White House amid House Judiciary impeachment vote
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The Daily Beast
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Sen. Graham: ‘Not trying to pretend to be a fair juror’
Sen. Graham: ‘Not trying to pretend to be a fair juror’
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
South Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew, impeachment foe, expected to become a Republican — WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeff Van Drew, the conservative South Jersey Democrat who has vocally opposed impeaching President Donald Trump, is expected to switch parties in the coming days …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties — Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a moderate Democrat who is strongly opposed to impeaching President Donald Trump, is expected to switch parties and become a Republican, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Washington Post:
Trump urges Rep. Van Drew, anti-impeachment Democrat, to switch parties — President Trump on Friday personally urged a vocally anti-impeachment Democrat, Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, to switch parties — a request he is now believed to be strongly considering.
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New York Times:
Representative Jeff Van Drew, Anti-Impeachment Democrat, Plans to Switch Parties — The freshman Democrat, who represents a New Jersey district where President Trump is popular, told aides he would announce his switch next week. — WASHINGTON — Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey …
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Nikita Biryukov / New Jersey Globe:
Van Drew party switch imminent — Pro-Trump Democrat's staff told about the move … A party switch by Rep. Jeff Van Drew is imminent. — According to several high-level sources with ties to Van Drew who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Van Drew's chief of staff has begun notifying …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ex-Trump Aide Is Expected to Return to White House — The aide, John McEntee, had been dismissed in 2018 on the orders of the chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly. — A close aide to President Trump who was dismissed last year by the White House chief of staff at the time is expected …
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The Hill
Jeremy Corbyn / The Guardian:
We won the argument, but I regret we didn't convert that into a majority for change — We must now ensure that the working class, in all its diversity, is the driving force within our party — We are living in highly volatile times. Two-and-a-half years ago, in the first general election …
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Toby Young / Quillette:
Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Lord Ashcroft Polls, The Guardian and Slate
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
What the U.K. Election Does (and Doesn't) Teach Democrats
What the U.K. Election Does (and Doesn't) Teach Democrats
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
The Top Democratic Candidates Are Urging The DNC To Change Its Debate Rules — Cory Booker has asked his fellow presidential candidates to sign a letter petitioning the Democratic National Committee to make its debate qualification rules less exclusionary. — All seven participants …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Cory Booker Leads the Charge to Change Debate Rules That Excluded Him
Cory Booker Leads the Charge to Change Debate Rules That Excluded Him
Elena Schneider / Politico:
DNC balks at effort to alter debate qualifications
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign aide Carter Page notches victory after inspector general hammers FBI for surveillance missteps — Carter Page fought the law, and the law lost. — The former Trump campaign adviser was one of the first four suspects identified by the FBI in the early days of its investigation …
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Otillia Steadman / BuzzFeed News:
Ivanka Trump Answered Questions From Her Own Spokesperson In An Interview In The Middle East — The announcement that Ivanka Trump would speak at the Doha Forum in Qatar prompted a wave of speculation from the foreign policy community about what the US President's daughter might be doing in the Gulf state.
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Nancy Jo Sales / The Guardian:
Why is the president of the United States cyberbullying a 16-year-old girl? — What it says to girls is: no matter what you do, no matter how much you achieve, powerful men will try to cut you down — The morning after election day 2016, I got a call from a girls' school in New York where I was scheduled to speak.
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Lydia X. Z. Brown / Washington Post:
Autistic young people deserve serious respect and attention — not dismissal as the pawns of others.
Autistic young people deserve serious respect and attention — not dismissal as the pawns of others.
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Twitchy
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Melania Trump's indefensible defense of her bully husband
Melania Trump's indefensible defense of her bully husband
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
US finally giving boot to official foot measurement — WASHINGTON (AP) — Change is afoot for the official measuring stick used to size up big places in America. — The reason? There are actually two different definitions of the 12-inch measurement known as a foot.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Is Pete Buttigieg Just Too Young to Be President? — The Constitution says no. Democrats are still deciding. — Finland just elected the world's youngest prime minister, Sanna Marin, who's 34. Time magazine named Greta Thunberg, 16, its youngest-ever “Person of the Year.”
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LGBTQ Nation
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David K. Li / NBC News:
Jill Biden says Trump is a bully and ‘afraid’ to run against her husband
Jill Biden says Trump is a bully and ‘afraid’ to run against her husband
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The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and MSNBC
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
GOP sees a political edge in talking about impeachment. Democrats want to discuss anything else. — Ahead of the House's historic impeachment vote, one party very much wants to talk about the constitutional clash and the other wants to discuss almost anything else. — And it's not who you would expect.
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Harry Reid / Salt Lake Tribune:
Democrats running for president need a plan for the Supreme Court — When I hear Democrats running for president talk about their ideas to address our country's urgent problems, I always find myself returning to the same question: What will you do to protect the Supreme Court of the United States?
NBC News:
Trump admin intends to announce withdrawal of about 4,000 troops from Afghanistan — Trump had made clear to his advisers earlier this year that he wanted to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by the November 2020 election. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration intends to announce …
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