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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Coordinated Posts Defend Connecticut Man Who Exchanged Ukraine Texts — Some of the pages describe themselves as representing groups of supporters of President Trump from different states — WASHINGTON—A network of several dozen Facebook pages is coordinating posts defending Robert F. Hyde …
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Washington Post:
Nunes aide communicated with Parnas about Ukraine campaign, messages show — House Democrats released new documents Friday evening showing extensive contact between an associate of President Trump's personal attorney and an aide to the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee regarding …
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The American Independent
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Why was Lev Parnas wearing a ‘Presidential Service Badge’ awarded to troops who serve in the White House? — Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman posted a fascinating update about a photo of impeachment figure Lev Parnas. — The photo shows Igor Fruman — who …
CNN:
Barr dropped into Giuliani meeting at Justice Department in previously undisclosed encounter — Lev Parnas describes multiple quid pro quos with Ukraine — (CNN)Attorney General William Barr briefly attended a meeting at the Justice Department last fall between top criminal prosecutors …
Politico:
House releases new impeachment evidence linking Nunes aide to Parnas — House impeachment investigators sought Friday to pull Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, deeper into the Ukraine scandal at the center of President Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial.
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Letters from an American, The Daily Beast and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Grisham Watch: What's the White House press secretary up to? — First in a regular series on the activities of White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. — Everyone knows what White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham isn't doing. Since assuming her post last summer …
NBC News:
Texts suggest Robert Hyde passed along details about Yovanovitch movements — They include screenshots of messages about the U.S. ambassador's movements that appear to have been sent to Hyde, who forwarded thems to Lev Parnas. — New text messages released by House Democrats …
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Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
New impeachment documents show more texts about possible surveillance of former US ambassador to Ukraine
New impeachment documents show more texts about possible surveillance of former US ambassador to Ukraine
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Washington Post and Daily Kos
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo breaks silence on alleged threats to envoy in Ukraine
Pompeo breaks silence on alleged threats to envoy in Ukraine
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The Daily Caller
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump — The large color photograph that greets visitors to a National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women's suffrage shows a massive crowd filling Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Trump's inauguration.
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump administration further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken another whack at former first lady Michelle Obama's signature achievement: Establishing stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches.
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CNN, POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Pro Level Trolling: Trump Admin Rolls Back Michelle Obama Lunch Rules On Her Birthday
Pro Level Trolling: Trump Admin Rolls Back Michelle Obama Lunch Rules On Her Birthday
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Washington Monthly
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump to roll back Michelle Obama's school lunch rules on vegetables, fruits
Trump to roll back Michelle Obama's school lunch rules on vegetables, fruits
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The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, The Guardian and Raw Story
Lola Fadulu / New York Times:
Trump Targets Michelle Obama's School Nutrition Guidelines on Her Birthday
Trump Targets Michelle Obama's School Nutrition Guidelines on Her Birthday
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cspinet.org, USDA, HuffPost and UPI
Axios:
Trump tells HHS secretary he regrets wading into “that f***ing vaping thing” — President Trump told his health secretary yesterday that he regrets getting involved in the administration's policy on vaping, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.
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Mediaite
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
‘Faithless elector’: Supreme Court will hear case that could change how presidents are chosen — A ruling could come in the spring — just as the 2020 presidential race is heating up. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up an issue that could change a key element …
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Townhall, Washington Post, Associated Press, One America News Network, The Hill and Axios
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Wall Street Journal:
Men Discussed Opening Fire at Pro-Gun Rally in Richmond, Officials Say — Other suspected members of white-supremacist group the Base arrested in Georgia — Three suspected white supremacists arrested in Maryland and Delaware this week had discussed opening fire from different positions …
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Reason, The Hill, Slate, Right Wing Watch and The Crime Report
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
The Sanders Campaign Researched Whether Warren Could Be Both Vice President and Treasury Secretary at Once — The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders has researched the question of whether the same person can serve as both vice president and treasury secretary, according to three sources on the campaign.
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Mediaite, Breitbart, The Atlantic, Jacobin and Vox
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Former N.Y. Rep. Christopher Collins sentenced to federal prison for insider trading — He pleaded guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit insider trading and lying to the FBI in October. — Former New York Congressman Christopher Collins was sentenced Friday to 26 months in federal prison …
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Fox News and Associated Press
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Chris Collins, First U.S. Lawmaker To Endorse Trump, Gets 26-Month Prison Sentence
Chris Collins, First U.S. Lawmaker To Endorse Trump, Gets 26-Month Prison Sentence
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CNBC
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
An anguished Chris Collins faces 26 months in prison
An anguished Chris Collins faces 26 months in prison
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Balloon Juice and UPI
NBC News:
Meet Trump's legal team for the impeachment trial — Trump's legal team has some high-profile members, including Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr. — WASHINGTON — The legal team for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate includes some high-profile names …
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The Daily Beast and Breitbart
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Alan Dershowitz Distances Himself From Trump Legal Team: 'I'm Not a Full-Fledged Member'
Alan Dershowitz Distances Himself From Trump Legal Team: 'I'm Not a Full-Fledged Member'
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Law & Crime, Media Matters for America, The Gateway Pundit, The American Independent, Roll Call, Townhall and Breitbart
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House managers' plans for next week's Senate impeachment trial
House managers' plans for next week's Senate impeachment trial
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Fox News
J.E. Dyer / The Lid:
‘Trump Effect’ Takes Over Iran As Regime Starts Covering Country With American And Israeli Flags — Avoiding The Flags Has Become Symbol Of Protest — Probably the most overlooked aspect of the “flags on the sidewalk” phenomenon in Iran is that, as the regime paints those flags everywhere …
Kansas City Star:
Trump tried to call Kris Kobach during his meeting with Roger Marshall, sources say — President Donald Trump initially tried to call Kansas Republican Kris Kobach while he was meeting in the Oval Office with Kobach's GOP rival Rep. Roger Marshall, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
ISIS leader dubbed ‘Jabba the Jihadi’ captured in Iraq — He put the fat in fatwa. — A morbidly obese ISIS fanatic dubbed “Jabba the Jihadi” has been captured by Iraqi forces — who loaded him onto a flatbed truck because he couldn't fit in a police car.
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Stars & Stripes, American Greatness and Task & Purpose
Martin Indyk / Wall Street Journal:
The Middle East Isn't Worth It Anymore — With few vital American interests still at stake there, the U.S. should finally set aside its grandiose ambitions for the chaotic region — Last week, despite Donald Trump's repeated pledge to end American involvement in the Middle East's conflicts …
Steve Vockrodt / Kansas City Star:
Kansas City radio station agrees to broadcast Russian-owned ‘propaganda’ program — A Kansas City area radio station can broadcast Russian state-owned media programming, the type that U.S. intelligence called a “propaganda machine,” for six hours a day through a lease agreement struck by a local radio operator.
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The Hill
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg is assembling a team of fundraising experts to recruit wealthy donors - but not to take their money — Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is creating a team of fundraising experts to recruit wealthy donors. But he doesn't want their money. He wants them to act as surrogates for his campaign.
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Vox, more at Mediagazer »
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
They ‘Would Love to See a Woman in Office,’ but It's Not Priority No. 1 — In the Trump era, some voters say the power of a symbolic first is overshadowed by anxiety about defeating him. — WINTERSET, Iowa — Almost exactly three years ago, Leila Schlenker marveled at the crowds …
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FiveThirtyEight
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Mueller Memos Part 4: FBI Documents That Congress Had To Fight To Get — BuzzFeed News sued the US government under the Freedom of Information Act for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller's team kept secret. Today we are publishing the fourth installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with key witnesses.
Nick Arama / Redstate:
Sounds Like Biden Thinks Beto Is Latino — As we reported earlier, Joe Biden told Politico that he might consider two of his former competitors as his running mate if he were to win the Democratic nomination for president. … He immediately followed that up.