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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Giuliani associate Parnas says Trump ‘knew exactly what was going on’ — The indicted associate of President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in an interview that Trump “knew exactly what was going on.” — Lev Parnas tells Maddow ‘Trump knew exactly what was going on’
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Associated Press, Politico, The Week and Foreign Policy
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Politico:
Democrats release more Parnas evidence, including voicemails with Trump associates — House impeachment investigators released a new set of evidence that was obtained from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani — including voicemails …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Raw Story and Washington Post
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Trump Supporter Who Discussed Surveillance of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Has History of Stalking, Mental Health Issues — The man who relayed information about Marie Yovanovitch's location to Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian associates was a known stalker with mental health issues.
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Raw Story, CNN, Talking Points Memo and Hartford Courant
MSNBC:
Lev Parnas tells Maddow ‘Trump knew exactly what was going on’ — Lev Parnas is breaking his silence in an exclusive interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. He says, “President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani, or the President.
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Political Wire
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
State Department abruptly cancels briefings on Iran, embassy security — The State Department abruptly canceled two classified congressional briefings Wednesday that were supposed to focus on embassy security and the U.S. relationship with Iran, Capitol Hill aides said …
Washington Post:
Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani have demolished Trump's claims of innocence — New documents show why the president has been trying to hide evidence from Congress. — Americans who have been wondering why President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of trying to block every document …
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Redstate, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Week, Outside the Beltway, Cmte Intelligence (D) … and Fox News
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Republicans break with Robert Hyde, latest player in Ukraine drama — Congressional Republicans are distancing themselves from Robert Hyde, a controversial House candidate and GOP donor who has become the latest figure to get wrapped up in the Ukraine saga that led to President Donald Trump's impeachment.
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
How Giuliani's outreach to Ukrainian gas tycoon wanted in U.S. shows lengths he took in his hunt …
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Axios, Spectator USA, Mother Jones and NBC News
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
I Don't Think the Lev Parnas Texts Are the Last Hound to Be Unleashed
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CNN, HillReporter.com, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Mother Jones and Vox
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Four big takeaways from the explosive Lev Parnas documents
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CNN, New York Times, Slate and VICE
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Ukraine's top prosecutor went after Marie Yovanovitch, step by step
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Talking Points Memo, Slate and East Bay Times
New York Times:
Here Are New Details on That Warren and Sanders Post-Debate Exchange — Following a tense debate during which Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders clashed over a disputed remark, the two exchanged words, but did not shake hands. … NEWTON, Iowa — It was the most tense moment …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Warren accused Sanders in tense post-debate exchange of calling her a ‘liar’ on national TV — Sanders responded that it was Warren who called him a liar and said they should not talk about it right then. — When the CNN/Des Moines Register debate concluded …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Atlantic, Washington Post, New York Post, spiked, The Independent, The Federalist and New York Times
Washington Post:
Warren ‘came to raise a concern’ with Sanders after debate, his campaign manager says
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NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, CNN, The Hill, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Politico, The Week, Boston Magazine, Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Breitbart, BuzzFeed News and Vox
Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's agenda makes him the definition of unelectable
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Fox News
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The case for Elizabeth Warren
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New York Magazine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and New York Times
Aaron Feis / New York Post:
Pelosi quotes ‘Irishman’ before signing impeachment articles against Trump — Leave the articles of impeachment, take the cannoli. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday likened President Trump's request for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “do us a favor” …
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Los Angeles Times:
Schiff says new evidence against Trump is likely to emerge during Senate trial
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New York Times and The Root
Miami Herald:
Pelosi impeachment manager is calling for McConnell's recusal from Trump Senate trial
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Slate and PJ Media Home
Washington Post:
Eyeing swift impeachment trial, Trump's legal team aims to block witnesses and cast doubt on charges
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Associated Press, The Hill and NBC News
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Pelosi names impeachment managers, ending House delay
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New York Times, Washington Post and Alaska Public Media
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
New book portrays Trump as erratic, ‘at times dangerously uninformed’ — President Trump reveals himself as woefully uniformed about the basics of geography, incorrectly telling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “It's not like you've got China on your border.” He toys with awarding himself the Medal of Freedom.
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Vox, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Week, Mediaite and The American Independent
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Tess Owen / VICE:
Virginia Declares State of Emergency After Armed Militias Threaten to Storm the Capitol — In response to what he described as “credible intelligence” of threats of violence at an upcoming gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam has declared a state of emergency …
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Big League Politics, NPR and Common Dreams
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Aaron Gell / GEN:
Death Threats Are Sending the South's Only Socialist Lawmaker Into Hiding
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Washington Post
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Northam temporarily bans firearms, other weapons on Virginia Capitol grounds
Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:
As Virginia gun rally approaches, Alex Jones and his Infowars outlet hype prospect of violence
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, The Hill and Breitbart
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Lawsuit Claims Epstein Trafficked Girls in Caribbean Until 2018 — The attorney general of the Virgin Islands says Mr. Epstein and his associates used a database to track victims as young as 11 years old. — New evidence shows Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked hundreds …
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CNBC, The Daily Caller, The Sun, The Guardian, UPI, Sputnik News and New York Post
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
NPR's sanitizing of Trump's Milwaukee rally shows how he's broken the media — Trump at his rally in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images — In trying to be above taking sides, the mainstream media does Trump a favor by making order out of his chaos.
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PJ Media Home, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and New York Times
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This media failure really could help Trump politically — We constantly talk about the news media's failure to aggressively call out President Trump's serial lies. We talk somewhat less often about the media's failure to adequately convey just how deeply corrupt and absurd Trump's explicitly …
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Vox
Washington Post:
Virginia lawmakers pass Equal Rights Amendment in historic vote — RICHMOND — Both chambers of Virginia's General Assembly passed the Equal Rights Amendment Wednesday, fulfilling a promise that helped Democrats seize control of the legislature and marking a watershed moment …
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Axios, Constitution Daily, The Week, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Twitchy and Vox
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Timothy Williams / New York Times:
Virginia Approves the E.R.A., Becoming the 38th State to Back It
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The Hill, The Atlantic, Reason and Mother Jones
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Russian Premier Abruptly Quits Amid Swirl of Speculation on Putin — The unexpected move by Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev fueled speculation that President Vladimir V. Putin is maneuvering to stay in power when his term ends in 2024. — MOSCOW — Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev …
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Washington Post, NPR, Defense One, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, VICE and Althouse
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
John Bolton will speak in his book, if not at the Senate trial. — The Senate is still discussing whether it will hear witness testimony from John Bolton, the former national security adviser, who has said he would comply with a subpoena during the impeachment trial.
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Washington Post, The Week and Mediaite
Allison Donahue / Michigan Advance:
I tried to interview Sen. Peter Lucido. He told me a group of schoolboys ‘could have a lot of fun’ with me. — I waited outside the Michigan Senate chamber to ask Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Twp.) on Tuesday for a comment about the Detroit Metro Times' story reporting that he was a member of a violent …
Doug Palmer / Politico:
Here's what's in the U.S.-China trade deal — The U.S.-China trade deal that President Donald Trump and China's Vice Premier Liu He signed on Wednesday provides an escape clause for either country to withdraw if a dispute cannot be resolved through high-level talks.
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Trump ‘broke the Chinese Communist Party’ with phase one trade deal, says Steve Bannon
Politico:
‘Huge mistake’: Senators in both parties rip impeachment press access — The Senate is prepared to enforce strict measures on reporters' access during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, hoping to avoid the spectacle of senators being yelled at in the hallways as they were during …
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New York Times, Washington Post, Roll Call, HuffPost, Raw Story and The American Independent
Washington Post:
Days before Europeans warned Iran of nuclear deal violations, Trump secretly threatened to impose 25% tariff on European autos if they didn't — A week before Germany, France and Britain formally accused Iran of breaching the 2015 nuclear deal, the Trump administration issued a private threat …
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New York Times, Sputnik News, CNBC and Redstate
Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
Justin Amash Has a Decision to Make — ‘Is there any better time to have a president who might be not from either party?’ — Three weeks from the first votes of the 2020 election, the presidential race seems—finally—to be taking shape. Republicans, having blocked any serious attempts …
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