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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Lev Parnas Dishes On Kushner, Maduro, and Soros — In an interview from his lawyer's office, the ex-Giuliani ally talked cannabis, conspiracies, and one very weird meeting with the lawyers of an indicted Ukrainian oligarch. — A dinner with Jared and Ivanka about cannabis …
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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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Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
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 Guardian, The Week and New York Times
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Sender Of Cryptic Messages About Yovanovitch Says They Were A Joke, Denies Spying On Diplomat — A Florida-based Trump supporter who sent text messages suggesting that he was surveilling former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in Ukraine is apologizing for the exchanges and says they were part of a …
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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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Raw Story, Letters from an American, The Hill and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Parnas pressure grows on Senate GOP — Pressure is growing on Senate Republicans to call Lev Parnas, an associate of President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, to testify in the impeachment trial. — Democrats are opening the door to hearing from Parnas as a witness at the impeachment trial …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Why was Lev Parnas wearing a ‘Presidential Service Badge’ awarded to troops who serve in the White House?
NBC News:
Texts suggest Robert Hyde passed along details about Yovanovitch movements
Texts suggest Robert Hyde passed along details about Yovanovitch movements
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
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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The Daily Caller, UPI, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and fox8.com
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.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump recounts minute-by-minute details of Soleimani strike to donors at Mar-a-Lago — (CNN)President Trump recounted minute-by-minute details of the US strike that killed Iran's top military commander during remarks to high-dollar Republican donors at his South Florida estate, according to audio obtained by CNN.
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The Hill and New York Post
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It — A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says. — Until recently, Hoan Ton-That's greatest hits included …
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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Sanders-Warren ‘feud’ and Ukraine revelations are nowhere near equal in importance. Try telling the media that. — If you asked a casual news consumer what the big Washington story was over the past few days, there's a decent chance you would hear about a supposed feud between …
BuzzFeed News:
“Why Are We Not Winning Them?”: Pete Buttigieg's White Supporters Are Baffled By His Lack Of Black Support — DES MOINES — The white voters who come to Pete Buttigieg's rallies just don't understand. — Many of them fell for the 37-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana …
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Daily Kos, Washington Post and CNN
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump's impeachment, starring Bill Clinton — President Donald Trump may be the one fighting in the Senate to keep his job, but on Capitol Hill and across the country, it can feel like someone else is still on trial: Bill Clinton. — Clinton's own impeachment trial, once a fading cultural artifact …
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Associated Press and UPI
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rod Rosenstein says he made call to release Strzok-Page texts — Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the release to the media of text messages between two highly placed FBI employees who exchanged criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign …
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
Ronald J. Daniels / The Atlantic:
Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins — When I served as the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto—Canada's most selective law school—I would be asked every so often by one of our alumni what preference their children would enjoy when applying.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
In Oval Office Meeting, Trump Expresses Regret on Vaping Policy — The president interrupted a meeting with campaign advisers to scold his health and human services secretary about the administration's ban on most flavored e-cigarettes. — President Trump upbraided the health …
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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 …
Associated Press:
3 more linked to neo-Nazi group arrested in Georgia — WASHINGTON (AP) — Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a militant anti-fascist group, police in Georgia announced Friday, a day after three other members …
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Talking Points Memo, HuffPost and VICE
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Molly Olmstead / Slate:
Neo-Nazis Allegedly Discussed Opening Fire at Virginia's Pro-Gun Rally Slated for Monday
Neo-Nazis Allegedly Discussed Opening Fire at Virginia's Pro-Gun Rally Slated for Monday
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal and American Military News
Spectator USA:
Tyranny of the minority … De mortuis nil nisi bonum, the Romans used to say: ‘Of the dead speak only good.’ We can speak nothing else of the friend and longtime Spectator contributor we lost in January. Sir Roger Scruton was a fearless and humane advocate for art, beauty, faith …
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
An anguished Chris Collins faces 26 months in prison — Former Congressman Chris Collins arrives at Federal District Court in Manhattan Friday where he was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for an insider trading scandal. (Photo by Jefferson Siegel)
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Townhall, Wall Street Journal, Balloon Juice and UPI
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Former N.Y. Rep. Christopher Collins sentenced to federal prison for insider trading
Former N.Y. Rep. Christopher Collins sentenced to federal prison for insider trading
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Fox News, The Week, Associated Press and Washington Post
Ashwin Phatak / Slate:
Trump Judges Are Playing Keep-Away With His Tax Returns and Other Financial Records — On Tuesday, Judge Trevor McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a surprising order further delaying any potential release of President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.
Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Pro Level Trolling: Trump Admin Rolls Back Michelle Obama Lunch Rules On Her Birthday — Sometimes you think something that happens is a coincidence but then you really think about and you wonder maybe...... Nahhhhhhhh — The Trump administration announced today that they were ending …
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit and ABC News
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