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Elizabeth Warren's surprising closing argument — Elizabeth Warren is often portrayed in media as a figure of the left-wing, locked in a battle with Bernie Sanders for the progressive base of the party. In fact, polling frequently shows she's the second choice not just of Sanders voters …
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Fox News Poll: Biden and Sanders vie for lead in Nevada, Biden tops Trump — Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders remain the top picks for the Democratic nomination among Nevada caucusgoers, while Elizabeth Warren fades and Tom Steyer gains momentum. In the general election contest …
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How Serious Is Tom Steyer's Polling Surge? — In a new survey, he's second in South Carolina and tied for third in Nevada. — There hasn't been much public polling in the Democratic primary race, and it hasn't offered too many surprises even on the few occasions when it has materialized.


Who Will Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination?
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'Don't tell me it doesn't matter': Impeachment trial hurts presidential campaigns
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Washington Post, Associated Press and Al Jazeera

Surging Steyer qualifies for Democratic debate
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Breitbart, Associated Press, Axios and The Hill

Fox News Poll: Biden ahead by 21 points among South Carolina Democrats
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New York Times and The Hill


Video Shows Ukrainian Plane Being Hit Over Iran — The New York Times has obtained video that shows the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran. — Video verified by The New York Times appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand …
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An Iranian general dies in U.S. attack, and innocents suffer — TORONTO (AP) — The worst had passed, it seemed, and the United States and Iran no longer appeared poised at the edge of war. — “All is well!” President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night, days after a U.S. drone strike killed Iran's …


Iranian Missile Accidentally Brought Down Ukrainian Jet, Officials Say, Citing Early Evidence


Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence. — A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results …
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Politico, Law & Crime, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, CNN and Raw Story


House passes war powers resolution condemning military action against Iran — The House voted 224-194 on Thursday in favor of a symbolic war powers resolution directing President Trump to halt the use of military force against Iran unless he obtains approval from Congress.
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Trump hits campaign trial in Ohio amid dampening Iran crisis
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The Atlantic, The Hill, Breitbart and IJR

House passes measure seeking to limit Trump's military actions against Iran
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The Hill, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Letters from an American, The Gateway Pundit, Vanity Fair, New York Post, Raw Story, Washington Post, Law & Crime and IJR


Trump Has Made Us All Stupid — The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber. — Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you'd think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we're not like him …


Black Britons Know Why Meghan Markle Wants Out — It's the racism. — Ms. Hirsch is the author of “Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging.” — The British press has succeeded in its apparent project of hounding Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, out of Britain.
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Going Rogue: Prince Harry and Meghan Caught the Palace Off Guard — The queen had yet to give her approval to their idea of becoming part-time royals, but word of the plan was about to leak. — LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, failed to get clearance from Queen Elizabeth II …
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Page Six, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, ITV and NBC New York


Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. and ‘Clowns’ Who Designed 737 Max — The company expressed regret at the embarrassing communications it sent to investigators on Thursday, which included a comment that “this airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys.”


College Professor Out After Joke Suggesting Iran List U.S. Cultural Targets — Asheen Phansey is no longer employed by Babson College after joking that Iran should target Minnesota's Mall of America and a home of the Kardashian family. — An adjunct professor is no longer on staff …
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The Hill, American Military News, WHDH-TV and Turtleboy
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Babson College abandons freedom of expression, fires professor over Facebook post criticizing Trump threat to bomb Iran cultural sites — At Babson College, the climate of freedom of expression feels like 2003 all over again. Today, the college announced its completion of a “thorough investigation” …
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The College Fix, New York Post, Fox News, Breitbart and Turtleboy


Army general denies request by officer pardoned by Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated — An Army general has denied a request by an officer pardoned in an open murder case by President Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated, setting up a potential showdown between senior defense officials and the White House.
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CNN, New York Times, Hullabaloo, Washington Times, Task & Purpose and Talking Points Memo


Surveillance video from Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt ‘no longer exists’ — Officials at the federal jail housing Epstein preserved video from the wrong floor due to a clerical error. — The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell …
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The Week, NPR, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Tensions with Trump over Iran expose concerns about the role of Congress in making war — The Trump administration's effort to minimize dissent and hold back information about the president's actions toward Iran has deepened tensions over the role of Congress in a military conflict.
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The Mahablog, Alternet.org and Daily Kos
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Kushner's Global Role Shrinks as He Tackles Another: The 2020 Election — Ivanka Trump's husband will now supervise her father's re-election campaign, but he continues to weigh in with advice to the president on a range of other matters. — WASHINGTON — When senior administration officials gathered …
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Raw Story


Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal — BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has told the U.S. secretary of state to send a delegation to Iraq tasked with formulating the mechanism for the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq, according to a statement released Friday.


Bill would ban cellphone use for those under 21 — MONTPELIER — A bill has been introduced in the state Senate that would make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to use or possess a cellphone. — The bill, S.212, would make such possession or use a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of a year behind bars and a $1,000 fine.
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The Daily Caller, The Sun US, New York Post, CBS Philly and CBS Sacramento


McConnell backs measure to change Senate rules, dismiss impeachment without articles — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing a resolution to change the Senate's rules to allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.


‘I left parts of my body in Iraq’: Duckworth rips into GOP rep who said Democrats ‘love’ terrorists — Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs serving in the Iraq War, on Thursday ripped into the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee …


Trump's New National Security Team Made Fast Work of Iran Strike — White House advisers were cohesive and less inclined than their predecessors to push back against the president's wishes — WASHINGTON—President Trump and his senior national-security advisers waited anxiously …
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Every new year of the last decade I set a personal challenge. My goal was to grow in new ways outside my day-to-day work running Facebook. These led me to learn Mandarin, code an AI assistant for my home, read more books, run a lot more, learn to hunt and cook, and get more comfortable with public speaking.
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CREW Sues DOJ for Failing to Release Whitaker's Financial Disclosures — Who is Matthew Whitaker? — Whitaker joined the Trump administration in October 2017 and served as Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to March 2019. — Prior to his tenure in the Trump administration …


The Supreme Court Should Step In To Rule This Impeachment Unconstitutional — Democrats' obsession from day one to impeach President Donald J. Trump, without regard to substance or process, led them to change the grounds for impeachment every couple of months.
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Fox News


Pete Buttigieg, Sane Democrat? — “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg has been touted as a favorite in the “sane lane” of the Democratic presidential chase, but there is good reason to question whether any such lane exists. Earlier today, Buttigieg blamed Iran's shooting down a Ukrainian passenger airplane on...President Trump:
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Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller


‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020 — The National Security Agency and its British counterpart issued an unusual warning in October: The Russians were back and growing stealthier. — Groups linked to Russia's intelligence agencies, they noted …