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Anna Palmer / Politico:
First in POLITICO Playbook: Mark Meadows to leave Congress, plus what McConnell will say on impeachment — “OBVIOUSLY, I'VE LOOKED AT THIS AS A TEMPORARY JOB,” Meadows told us in an interview Wednesday, speaking of serving in the House. “Endorsed term limits — never ran on a term-limit pledge.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pelosi threatens to delay Senate impeachment trial — Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to commit Wednesday to delivering articles of impeachment to the Senate, citing concerns about an unfair trial on removing President Donald Trump from office. — Senior Democratic aides said the House was …
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Kamala D. Harris / New York Times:
Will McConnell Let the Senate Hold a Fair Impeachment Trial? — Every one of my colleagues has an obligation to pursue the truth, regardless of the politics. — Ms. Harris is a Democratic senator from California. — Today the House of Representatives will vote on whether to impeach President Trump.
Washington Post:
Meadows, close ally of Trump, to retire from Congress — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), one of President Trump's closest allies and staunchest defenders in Congress, announced Thursday that he would not seek reelection next year but would instead stay “in the fight” with Trump in an unspecified role.
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Washington Post:
Inside the decision to impeach Trump: How both parties wrestled with a constitutional crisis — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat quietly at the head of the long table inside her ornate conference room early this month, listening as her deputies debated the last major decision in the impeachment of President Trump.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Pelosi says House may withhold impeachment articles, delaying Senate trial
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Mark Meadows, top Trump ally, to retire from Congress
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Republicans pray Trump won't tweet during trial
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Brian Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer:
Mark Meadows won't run for re-election, hints at work with Trump administration
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ally Mark Meadows Won't Seek Re-Election to House
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ABC News:
Donald Trump becomes 3rd president in US history to be impeached
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
How Trump's impeachment could trip up 2020 Democrats as they sprint towards Iowa
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Rep. Mark Meadows to retire in 2020
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Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
Articles of impeachment not headed to Senate imminently
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Impeachment day for Trump: A bruised ego, a Twitter eruption and a winding rally
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George T. Conway III / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Made His Own Impeachment Inevitable — As rare as impeachments may be, today's impeachment of Donald Trump, president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors was pretty much inevitable. — It was inevitable because of Trump himself, his very character …
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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Republican senators run the risk of being shamed by Trump himself — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC. — In his unhinged letter Tuesday, President Trump accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of having …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump is impeached and joins the ‘losers’ of presidential history
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Trump makes 'hell'-acious crack about deceased Rep. John Dingell, wife responds — The president spoke about the former lawmaker at a campaign rally in his home state of Michigan. — President Donald Trump made a macabre quip about late Democratic Rep. John Dingell at his rally in Michigan …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Rep. Debbie Dingell Responds to Trump Suggesting Her Late Husband is in Hell — As Donald Trump told a crowd in Battle Creek that the deceased Michigan Representative John Dingell might be in hell, his widow Debbie Dingell, who occupies his former seat, was back in Washington on the House floor as Democrats voted to impeach him.
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Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
Donald Trump takes shot at U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, her husband John Dingell at rally
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Associated Press:
Putin: Trump impeachment ‘far-fetched,’ Senate will acquit — MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called the U.S. impeachment process “far-fetched” Thursday, making a seemingly obvious prediction that Donald Trump will be acquitted in the Senate.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The House's Sad, Predictable, Partisan, and Historic Impeachment of Donald Trump — It was a sad day—on that, at least, everyone could agree. On her way to the House floor, soon after 9 a.m., to begin the historic debate on the impeachment of Donald Trump, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, told reporters that she felt “sad.”
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Envoy to Ukraine Was Asked to Step Aside Ahead of Pompeo Visit — Timing counters earlier suggestions that Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor's precise departure date was predetermined — Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor was instructed by a top aide to Secretary …
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Surveillance footage outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell during first suicide attempt is missing — Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his first suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Tulsi Gabbard Votes ‘Present’ in Impeachment Against Trump — The Democrat has missed nearly 90 percent of the votes held in the House of Representatives over the past two months. On Wednesday, she dodged the biggest vote of her career. — As the House of Representatives debated …
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New York Times:
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy — EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Joe Biden holds lead heading into December debate — (CNN)Joe Biden continues to hold a lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president and remains the candidate potential Democratic voters think has the best shot to defeat Donald Trump, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
2020 Dem candidates react to impeachment votes: ‘A sad moment’
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Paul Demko / Politico:
Court voids Obamacare mandate — but not the whole law — Lower court must now reconsider fate of the full statute — A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down Obamacare's individual mandate in a decision that immediately thrusts the health care law to the forefront of the 2020 elections.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Republican judges who were widely expected to kill Obamacare got cold feet
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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Battles New Sanctions on Russia — On Tuesday, President Trump claimed he was tougher on Russia than his predecessor. At the same time, his subordinates strongly opposed a bill imposing new sanctions on Moscow. — The Trump administration is quietly fighting …
Terry Spencer / Associated Press:
Chinese national arrested for illegally entering Mar-a-Lago — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Chinese national trespassed at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club Wednesday and was arrested when she refused to leave, police said, the second time this year a woman from that country …
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Andrew Woodcock / The Independent:
Boris Johnson to ‘stop tens of thousands voting’ by making photo ID mandatory by law at polling stations, Queen's Speech reveals — Pilots of scheme saw hundreds of voters without photographic ID turned away from polling stations — Boris Johnson has confirmed plans to press ahead …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
ANALYSIS: In impeachment vote, how Republicans got to zero — After rushed and intense proceedings into the Ukraine affair, the House has voted to impeach President Trump. The vote was 230 to 197 for the first article of impeachment charging the president with abuse of power and 229 to 198 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
In the End, Impeachment Was the Only Choice — When historians look back at this era, their curiosity will settle not on the question of why the House impeached President Trump, but why it impeached him for this particular offense. Trump has spent three years violating laws and norms …
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