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CNN:
Disparate group of Republican senators worry White House and GOP leaders ahead of impeachment trial — (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's high-profile push for witnesses to testify in the Senate's expected impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted attention and political pressure …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
McSally 'hasn't been convinced' Trump should be impeached
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Seth Meyers Goes Off on Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for ‘Rigging’ Trump Impeachment Trial
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
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Talking Points Memo and DNyuz
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How far can the House go to stop a sham trial?
How far can the House go to stop a sham trial?
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Althouse, NBC News, The Mahablog and Daily Kos
Politico:
Republicans scoff at Chuck Schumer's impeachment trial proposal
Republicans scoff at Chuck Schumer's impeachment trial proposal
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The Hill, Fox News and Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Edward B. Foley / Politico:
Here's One Surprising Way Congress Could Avoid an Impeachment Disaster
Here's One Surprising Way Congress Could Avoid an Impeachment Disaster
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Bangor Daily News, Redstate and U.S. Senate
New York Times:
We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated — The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet. — The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns. — Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection — NEW YORK (AP) — A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”
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The Hill
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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Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Redstate, Raw Story and CNN
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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 …
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Outside the Beltway, The Hill and The Resurgent
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal — Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion. — WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
IG Report Undercuts Credibility of Impeachment Manager Nadler — Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman who has drawn up articles of impeachment accusing President Trump of abusing his power, last year falsely accused a Trump campaign aide of being a Russian spy …
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Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive) — WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.
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The Hill, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post
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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 Guardian, Washington Post, HuffPost, Washington Times, The Hill, Axios, Contemptor and Raw Story
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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Louder With Crowder, Washington Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and The Hill
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs — Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects. That story led me to delve into this strange world. I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …
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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Reason, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Golden State Of Mind, SBNation.com, Twitchy, Mavs Moneyball and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
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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Disrn, Salt Lake Tribune, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Axios
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
The Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most — The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program. But more than a third of children don't receive it because their parents earn too little. — MONROE, La. — With two children and a third on the way …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Reach Late and Narrow Tax-Break Deal
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached — GOP Nebraska state Senator John McCollister this week fired back at President Donald Trump's assertion that the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry is a hoax by asserting that …
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The Hill
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever — The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.
Trump Is Forever — The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.
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DCReport.org and Raw Story
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time — The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.
Discussion:
New Republic, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Wall Street Journal:
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics — Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree — Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature — There were not enough votes in the State Senate to end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for all students. — The New Jersey Legislature, seemingly on the verge of passing one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation on Monday …
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New Jersey Online, The Hill and DNyuz
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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Columbia Journalism Review
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction — A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise. — The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling.
Daria Ovide / Newsroom:
LMU Workers and Sodexo Reach Tentative Contract Agreement — PRESS CONTACT: Maria Hernandez (623)340-8047 — Los Angeles, CA-Sodexo at Loyola Marymount University and their employees negotiated through Monday evening to secure a tentative contract agreement.
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Axios
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Lessons From the Tory Landslide — A vindication for the Burkean idea that nationalism can advance liberalism. — Last week's U.K. general election revealed two political dynamics that the rest of the world should study closely. — The first is very old: Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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Financial Times
Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Chao's team helped McConnell's state win its largest DOT grant — Kentucky's largest transportation grant application under the Trump administration benefited from a process that the government's top watchdog said lacked “the assurance of fairness,” raising questions about whether the Department …
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Raw Story
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Vulnerable House Democrats Announce Support For Impeaching Trump — Dozens of Democrats who could be elected out have decided to vote later this week to impeach the president on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. — WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Democrat Ben McAdams stepped …
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Associated Press and The American Independent
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge allows Georgia to purge 309K voter registrations overnight — About 309,000 names were set to be erased from Georgia's list of registered voters Monday night, a mass cancellation that a federal judge allowed to move forward. — A voting rights group, Fair Fight Action …
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Associated Press, BizPac Review, Fair Fight, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit