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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
On Tuesday, March for Impeachment — The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen. — Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised. During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …
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QU Poll:
Release Detail — December 16, 2019 - Trump Job Approval And Economy Rating Hit Highs, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; On Ukraine: 52 Percent Say Trump Pursued Personal Interest — Within days of a historic impeachment vote in the House of Representatives …
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USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term — Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY — WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: The nation remains divided on impeachment as House vote approaches — (CNN)The American public is about evenly split over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with the House of Representatives poised …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How far can the House go to stop a sham trial? — I am hardly alone in noticing that between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's “total coordination” with the White House and Republican Sen. Lindsey O. Graham's expression of open contempt for impeachment (I will NOT be fair!) …
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Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
McSally 'hasn't been convinced' Trump should be impeached — PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Sen. Martha McSally has not been convinced that President Donald Trump should be removed from office, her campaign manager said Monday after a recording surfaced of her suggesting to GOP activists that the president hadn't abused his power.
Edward B. Foley / Politico:
Here's One Surprising Way Congress Could Avoid an Impeachment Disaster — If the process plays out as everyone believes it will, impeachment will end with an acquittal in the Senate, and the House's efforts to protect the integrity of the 2020 election will have proved counterproductive …
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CNBC:
Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of changes in California gig economy laws — Hundreds of Vox Media freelancers will lose their jobs in the coming months. — Vox Media is preparing for a California law, Assembly Bill 5, which goes into effect in 2020 and forbids non-employees …
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John Ness / SBNation.com:
Thank You, California — This is a bittersweet note of thanks …
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Adam Entous / New Yorker:
The Ukrainian Prosecutor Behind Trump's Impeachment — How the efforts of Yuriy Lutsenko and Rudy Giuliani to smear Joe Biden led to a Presidential crisis. — Of all the names featured in the private depositions and public testimonies of the Presidential impeachment inquiry …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Rudy Giuliani: “I needed Yovanovitch out of the way”
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump team weighs ambassador pick for Ukraine as ties fray
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Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's sentencing set for Jan. 28 after judge rejects his attacks on the FBI, Justice Department — A federal judge on Monday rejected Michael Flynn's attacks against the FBI and the Justice Department, setting a long-delayed sentencing for President Trump's former national security adviser for Jan. 28.
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
SC's U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham to vote in favor of impeaching Trump — WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham said Monday he plans to vote in favor of both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, concluding after weeks of deliberation that Trump's conduct was “unacceptable.”
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Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah Rep. Ben McAdams will vote to impeach President Donald Trump
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Washington Post:
Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges — A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …
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William Webster / New York Times:
I Headed the F.B.I. and C.I.A. There's a Dire Threat to the Country I Love. — And President Trump and William P. Barr are wrong to say that it is. — Mr. Webster is a former federal judge and the former director of both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. — The privilege of being the only American …
Charles Homans / New York Times:
How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg — Last month, after polls showed Pete Buttigieg vaulting unexpectedly to the lead in Iowa's Democratic caucus, he aired an ad introducing his plan for higher-education reform: a proposal to make public-college tuition free for households earning …
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Des Moines Register
Medium:
HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP — President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president. Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
For party switch, Rep. NJ Jeff Van Drew owes voters an apology — and individual donors their money back — History is not going to remember Jeff Van Drew as a profile in courage. The freshman Democrat from Cape May won the New Jersey 2nd District seat in Congress as a part of the blue wave …
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Van Drew Party Switch Moves NJ-02 from Toss Up to Lean Republican
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Elissa Slotkin / Detroit Free Press:
Rep. Elissa Slotkin: How I reached my decision on impeachment — (Photo: Nick King/Lansing State Journal) — On September 23, I wrote in an op-ed column for the Free Press that I believed President Trump's actions regarding Ukraine, by his own admission, warranted the opening of an impeachment inquiry.
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Democratic Rep. Slotkin faces rowdy town hall after announcing support for impeachment
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Federal judge allows Georgia voter registration purge — A federal judge allowed Georgia election officials to cancel about 300,000 inactive voters as planned Monday night. — U.S. District Judge Steve Jones said Monday that he will further consider the issue Thursday …
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Ben Nadler / Associated Press:
Federal judge puts pause on Georgia voter roll purges
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Saira Asher / BBC:
Barack Obama: Women are better leaders than men — If women ran every country in the world there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes, former US President Barack Obama has said. — Speaking in Singapore, he said women aren't perfect, but are “indisputably better” than men.
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Vincent Wood / The Independent:
Erdogan threatens to recognise killings of Native Americans as genocide in response to Armenia resolution — ‘It is a shameful moment in US history,’ says Turkish president — Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to recognise the killing of Native Americans at the hand …
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New York Times:
There Are Economic Warning Signs for Trump in the Midwest — The American economy has found its footing after a summer recession scare. But much of the Midwest is still stumbling. — President Trump campaigned in 2016 on a pledge to restore jobs — manufacturing jobs, specifically …
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CNN:
Carly Fiorina says it is ‘vital’ Trump be impeached, but doesn't rule out voting for him in 2020 — Carly Fiorina: It is “vital” Trump be impeached — (CNN)Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said she thinks it is “vital” that President Donald Trump be impeached …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia's State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’ — Russian commentators note, rightly, that “sooner or later, the Democrats will come back into power,” and they're already joking about offering Trump asylum. — Sometimes a picture doesn't have to be worth a thousand words. Just a few will do.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sanders surges ahead of Iowa caucuses — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is rising in the polls ahead of Thursday's pivotal debate in Los Angeles, reestablishing his standing in the top tier of Democratic contenders with the Iowa caucuses less than 50 days away.
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Screenplay About Barron Trump Sabotaging Dad's 2016 Presidential Campaign Makes Annual Black List — Barron Trump could be coming to the big screen soon, in a wild scripted ride that imagines President Donald Trump's 10-year-old son attempting to thwart his presidential ambitions.
Stamford Advocate:
A tweet gave a journalist a seizure. His case brings new meaning to the idea of ‘online assault.’ — Kurt Eichenwald sat down at the desk in his Dallas home office and logged onto Twitter. The prominent journalist and author was used to Internet invective - especially then …
Katie Sanders / PolitiFact:
Lie of the Year 2019: Donald Trump's claim whistleblower got Ukraine call ‘almost completely wrong’ — President Donald Trump started the morning of Sept. 20 dismissing headlines about someone who blew the whistle on a phone call he had with the president of Ukraine. The call, he tweeted, was “pitch perfect.”
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD — These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD — Content warning: This article contains descriptions of graphic and disturbing content related to terrorism and crimes against children.
Australian / Daily Mail:
Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh prison (pictured above) which has housed some of the UK's most notorious prisoners — The WikiLeaks founder is set to fight extradition to the US, where he faces 18 charges, including conspiring to commit computer intrusion.
Willis Kliefoth / River News:
Potomac Conservancy denounces Tucker Carlson's claim that immigrants are making the Potomac dirtier — Statement from Hedrick Belin, Potomac Conservancy President — STATEMENT FROM HEDRICK BELIN, POTOMAC CONSERVANCY PRESIDENT — There's a time to speak truth against ignorance and to stand up for our values - and that time is now.
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Sebastian Smith / Agence France-Presse:
Impeachment hurts but Teflon Trump thrives — US President Donald Trump faces impeachment but conflict is what he thrives on — Washington (AFP) - Impeachment is about the worst thing that can happen to a president — unless that president is Donald Trump.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
A black woman faces prison because of a Jim Crow-era plan to ‘protect white voters’ — Lanisha Bratcher voted in the 2016 presidential election. Three years later she was arrested because she had broken a law she didn't know about. — The fight to vote is supported by — About this content
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Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Ally Says $1 Million From Russia Was Loan to Wife — Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani indicted on U.S. campaign finance charges, said a $1 million transfer into his wife's bank account from Russia was the proceeds of a loan — and not an attempt to conceal his assets.
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Favor Jail, Firing for Rogue Officials Who Targeted Trump — Voters are ready to jail or fire senior law enforcement officials who illegally targeted President Trump, but most think they are unlikely to be punished. — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey finds …
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