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MJ Lee / CNN:
Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win, sources say — (CNN)The stakes were high when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren met at Warren's apartment in Washington, DC, one evening in December 2018. The longtime friends knew that they could soon be running against each other for president.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dem 2020 Race Continues to Shift — Support is firming up, but many still open to changing their support — West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren continue to top …
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders surges as progressives flock to him over Warren — IOWA CITY, Iowa — Something's happening with Bernie Sanders that looked unlikely to many a few months ago: Progressive leaders and organizations are lining up behind him, not Elizabeth Warren, in the lead-up to voting.
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NBC News:
Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions — The timing raises new questions about the Trump administration's stated justification for taking out the top Iranian general. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iranian …
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Cory Booker / YouTube:
Thank You … “It's with a full heart that I share this news—I've made the hard decision to suspend my campaign for president. — I've said throughout this race that this election is not just a referendum on Donald Trump. It's a referendum on who we are and who we must be to each …
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NBC News:
Cory Booker drops out of the presidential race — “I will carry this fight forward — I just won't be doing it as a candidate for president this year,” Booker told supporters in an email. — Sen. Cory Booker. D-N.J., announced Monday he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Cory Booker Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race
Cory Booker Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race
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ABC News:
Sen. Cory Booker suspends presidential campaign
Sen. Cory Booker suspends presidential campaign
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Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Booker Drops Out of Presidential Race
Booker Drops Out of Presidential Race
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Cory Booker Runs Out of Time
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed News:
Here Are 10 Headlines Comparing Meghan Markle To Kate Middleton That Might Show Why She And Prince Harry Are Cutting Off Royal Reporters — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (aka Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) didn't just shockingly “step back” as senior members of the royal family this week …
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Yahoo News:
Harry, William present united front ahead of royal crisis summit — Mathilde BELLENGER with Robin MILLARD in London — Prince Harry last year revealed that he had grown apart from his older brother William — Sandringham (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Prince Harry and his brother Prince William put …
Martin Robinson / Daily Mail:
THE HRH QUESTION — Harry and Meghan wish to continue …
THE HRH QUESTION — Harry and Meghan wish to continue …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
How Schumer might get the last laugh on impeachment trial — Chuck Schumer lost the first impeachment trial battle to Mitch McConnell. But the Democratic leader and his party insist they can still win the war. — While Senate Majority Leader McConnell has locked up enough Republican votes …
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Griff Witte / SFGATE:
McConnell walks impeachment tightrope
McConnell walks impeachment tightrope
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David Rohde / New Yorker:
William Barr, Trump's Sword and Shield — The Attorney General's mission to maximize executive power and protect the Presidency. — Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘four embassies’ claim utterly falls apart — The Trump administration has struggled to justify the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani from the jump. And now the one justification presented publicly by President Trump has utterly fallen apart.
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Joanne Rosa / ABC News:
Abby Huntsman departing ‘The View’ to run father's Utah governor campaign — Huntsman began co-hosting “The View” in 2018. — Abby Huntsman announced that she's leaving “The View” to help run her father Jon Huntsman Jr.'s campaign for governor of Utah. — The 33 year-old daughter …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court won't consider topless bans — A group with the motto “Free The Nipple” argued that the law violates the Constitution by treating men and women differently. — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not take up a challenge to a city ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.
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Simon Kennedy / Bloomberg:
Middle Age Misery Peaks at Age of 47.2, Economist Says — New study says ‘happiness curve’ exists around the world — Research has relevance because of focus on mental health — Middle age is miserable, according to a new economic study which pinpoints 47.2 years old as the moment of peak unhappiness in the developed world.
Devan Cole / CNN:
Bloomberg blasts role of early states in Democratic nominating process in CNN op-ed — Bloomberg: Trump would ‘eat alive’ other candidates — Washington (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg blasted his party's nominating system in a CNN op-ed for placing an outsized emphasis …
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Rick Sallinger / CBS Denver:
For First Time, A Colorado Judge Denies Confiscation Request Under Red Flag Law — (CBS4) - For the first time, a judge has denied a request to take away a man's guns under Colorado's new red flag law. A Limon woman claimed a man who she had a relationship with threatened her with a gun and filed the request.
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Van Drew's choice to run his campaign is now leading the charge to beat him — WASHINGTON — Josh Roesch is playing a major role in South Jersey's hot congressional race. But it's different than the one he thought he'd signed up for. — Roesch, who grew in Stow Creek …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
John Roberts may be leading the Senate impeachment trial, but this woman is shaping it — In a small Capitol Hill office after President Donald Trump had been impeached and official Washington bolted town for the holidays, a three-person team gathered to dig through musty old law books and congressional records.
New York Post:
Rep. Max Rose to endorse Michael Bloomberg in 2020 race — Democratic Staten Island Rep. Max Rose, who is facing a well-funded Republican challenge to his re-election, plans to endorse Michael Bloomberg's presidential bid, The Post has learned. — “He thinks Bloomberg will help with his re-election money,” a source told The Post.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Gigi Hadid Called to Potentially Serve as Harvey Weinstein Juror — The model, who appeared in court on Monday, told the judge she could be objective — despite having met the defendant and one of his alleged victims. — Since Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial on charges of sexual assault began …
BBC:
Hired by Weinstein to spy on celebrities — In 2016, Harvey Weinstein hired a private intelligence firm to spy on a long list of people - including those accusing him of sexual assault. — Seth Freedman was one of the operatives on that mission. — Posing as a journalist …
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:
UPDATING Oscar Nominations: Snubs Include JLo, Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, “1917” for Editing, No Women Directors, “The Farewell,” “Cats,” Just 1 African American Nominee — The 2020 Oscar nominations are here. Snubs include Jennifer Lopez for “Hustlers.” Eddie Murphy for “Dolemite” and everything for that movie.
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Bloomberg:
‘Government Sachs’ Reunites When Mnuchin Dines With Goldman Pals — Picture this: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at a dinner table in New York, surrounded by Hank Paulson, Jon Corzine and Gary Cohn, along with David Solomon. It's not a Bernie Sanders nightmare — just the Goldman Sachs alumni dinner.
Stamford Advocate:
The Republican case for Biden — It isn't easy to support a Democrat after an attachment to Republican politics that began when I watched the 1992 GOP convention at age 12. Eventually I worked on Capitol Hill as a Republican senior counsel for the House Financial Services Committee …
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Mass Panic: It's Not Clear That Colorado's Mystery Drones Even Exist — It all started on December 23 when the Denver Post reported on “a band of large drones” flying over Phillips and Yuma counties in northeast Colorado. Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott, as relayed by the Denver Post …
CNN:
James Fallows' thought experiment about Trump — James Fallows asks the audience to “try to think of a personality like the one who's currently in the White House in any other position of responsibility,” and asks, “would you want somebody with this kind of temperament to be in a position …
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