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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Hillary Clinton in Full: A Fiery New Documentary, Trump Regrets and Harsh Words for Bernie: “Nobody Likes Him”  —  With four-part Hulu series ‘Hillary’ set to premiere at Sundance, one of America's most groundbreaking (and polarizing) figures opens up about Monica Lewinsky, her marriage …
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Cara Korte / CBS News:
Sanders apologizes to Biden for surrogate's op-ed alleging he has a “big corruption problem”  —  Des Moines, Iowa — Senator Bernie Sanders apologized to former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday for an op-ed written by one of his campaign surrogates that claimed Biden has a “big corruption problem.”
Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Maybe Hillary Clinton shouldn't sound like a character from a Maureen Dowd column  —  This is . . . not helpful: … I can understand Clinton's bitterness, and her assessment of the worst of the Bernie Bros is of course correct, but saying you're withholding judgment on whether you'll support Sanders …
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Says ‘Nobody Likes’ Bernie Sanders and Declines to Commit to Backing Him  —  Mrs. Clinton sharply criticized her former primary rival in a forthcoming documentary series, and stood by her comments in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.  —  Hillary Clinton …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Hillary Clinton Defends Harvey Weinstein Association: ‘How Could We Have Known?’
Discussion: Twitchy
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton points to alleged sexism in Bernie Sanders's campaign: 'It's part of a pattern'
Discussion: The Hill
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil  —  Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal investigation” that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald …
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on McConnell Cover-Up Resolution  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on Leader McConnell's resolution on rules for the impeachment trial of the President, which will operate on a greatly compressed schedule and rejects the need for witnesses and documents:
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Washington Post
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
McConnell Impeachment Rules Modify Clinton Precedent  —  The Senate Republican leader proposed impeachment trial rules that push the 1999 precedent toward President Trump's preferences.  —  WASHINGTON — For weeks, Senator Mitch McConnell sought to deflect charges that he was trying to stack …
NBC News:
Why aren't Democrats making life miserable for vulnerable Republicans on impeachment?
CBS News:
Impeachment trial: Senate proceedings set to begin with debate over rules
Discussion: Breitbart
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Impeachment trial rules seem written in the White House, not the Senate, Schumer says
Discussion: The Hill
Adam Keiper / The Bulwark:
12 Details from the Clinton Impeachment Trial That You Should Know
Discussion: Fox News
Axios:
GAO report poses evidence test in Trump impeachment trial  —  A Government Accountability Office report accusing President Trump of violating the law is taking on heightened importance at the start of his impeachment trial.  —  Why it matters: The key argument Trump's legal team plans …
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Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers, Senate GOP allies work privately to ensure Bolton does not testify publicly
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How Donald Trump's Unlikely Legal Team Will Try to Defend Him
Discussion: The Nation and The Atlantic
Sam Jones / Financial Times:
Swiss police suspect Davos plumbers of being Russian spies  —  Russian plumbers do not tend to summer in Davos.  Even those with diplomatic passports.  —  Five months before world leaders began their pilgrimage to the annual World Economic Forum this week — among them US president Donald Trump …
Discussion: CNBC, New York Times and The Week
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Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Doubles Down on Threats to Impose Tariffs on European Cars  —  U.S. president is attending World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland  —  DAVOS, Switzerland—President Trump said Tuesday that he is serious about imposing tariffs on European automobiles if he can't strike a trade agreement with the European Union.
Discussion: National Review and The Hill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A big tell in Trump's own legal brief exposes McConnell's coverup  —  Now that Mitch McConnell has rolled out the rules for President Trump's impeachment trial, the full dimensions of the Senate Majority Leader's efforts to cover up Trump's bottomless corruption are coming into view.
Discussion: Raw Story
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations …
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Parnas Lawyer Shares Pence Video After Vice President Denies Knowing Him  —  DO YOU REMEMBER?  —  Lev Parnas' legal team has shared a video of his client socializing with Mike Pence and his wife after the vice president vehemently denied that he knows Parnas.  Pence said during a CNN appearance last week: “I don't know the guy.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
The Liberal Media Totally Eats It With Their Fake News Coverage of VA's Pro-Gun Rights Rally  —  Virginia Citizen's Defense League had their Lobby Day yesterday.  Thousands attended.  It was probably the best turnout in years.  And that's the keyword here, folks: years.
Discussion: NBC News, Fox News, NB Blog and Dana Loesch
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Sacramento Bee:
Devin Nunes' Ukraine lies are a betrayal.  Voters in his district deserve better  —  Kiev, Ukraine, is nearly 6,200 miles from Tulare, Calif. That's a long way from home for Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, who now faces explosive allegations that he and his staff contacted shadowy Ukrainian figures …
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Kim Wehle / The Bulwark:
The New Evidence Against Trump Since He Was Impeached
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Supreme Court won't fast-track Obamacare case  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Democrats' plea to consider a high-stakes legal challenge that could kill Obamacare, punting a resolution in the politically fraught case until after the presidential election.
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:   U.S. Supreme Court lets Flint, Michigan residents sue over water contamination
Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Majority Support Allowing New Impeachment Evidence  —  But overall opinion of Trump and impeachment is virtually unchanged  —  West Long Branch, NJ - A majority of Americans say that House managers should be able to introduce new evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Will Weissert / ABC News:
Warren wants task force to investigate Trump administration  —  Elizabeth Warren says she'll create a federal task force to investigate corruption during the Trump administration if she's elected president  —  WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren says she'll create a federal task force …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Biden, Sanders, Social Security and Smears
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Third Year Sets New Standard for Party Polarization  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eighty-two percentage points separated Republicans' (89%) and Democrats' (7%) average job approval ratings of President Donald Trump during his third year in office.  This is the largest degree of political polarization …
Discussion: The Week and The Hill
The Boston Globe:
Sanders, Biden lead tight pack of front-runners in Suffolk/Globe New Hampshire poll  —  Senator Bernie Sanders has the slimmest of leads among a knot of four top presidential contenders, with Senator Elizabeth Warren dropping to the rear of the top tier amid significantly weaker support among men …
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Lev is talking.  So where is Igor?  —  Lev Parnas, Rudolph W. Giuliani's trusted fixer in the Ukraine saga, has dominated the airways on the eve of President Trump's impeachment trial, turning over eye-popping text messages to House lawmakers and pointing the finger at the president in prime-time cable interviews.
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
How Voters Grade Trump, Three Years Into His Presidency  —  Overall marks have stayed about the same since Trump's first year, but he's getting more A's on jobs, economy  —  President Donald Trump speaks during a Jan. 16 event in the Oval Office.  A new poll found voters are grading …
Brett Neely / NPR:
NPR Poll: Majority Of Americans Believe Trump Encourages Election Interference  —  Weeks before the first votes of the 2020 presidential election, Americans report a high level of concern about how secure that election will be and worry about the perils of disinformation, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.
Discussion: Vox and Mother Jones
Tim Pearce / Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden: 'I don't count drunk driving as a felony'  —  2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden said his administration would fire Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who arrest and deport illegal immigrants who are not guilty of felony crimes, adding that he doesn't “count drunk driving as a felony.”
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What the House impeachment response tells us
CNN:
Michael Avenatti might be in El Chapo's former jail cell — and it's freezing, his attorneys say
Discussion: IJR
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg shifts presidential ad campaign to focus on impeachment
Lisa Lambert / Reuters:
Trump lawyer Cipollone a material witness in impeachment trial: Democrats
Discussion: Daily Kos
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Peter Thiel's Latest Venture Is the American Government
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Banana Republic, American-Style: Angola Is Here
Laura Olson / Morning Call:
Pat Toomey's Senate ‘candy desk’ may prevent hangry lawmakers during impeachment
Discussion: New York Post
Martin London / TIME:
John Roberts Has More Power Than Mitch McConnell Would Like You to Think. But Will He Use It?
 Earlier Items: 
Ben White / Politico:
'He could have had it all. And he doesn't have it all.'
Discussion: Raw Story
Caroline Court / The Federalist:
How A Feminist Juror's Lies Could Get Harvey Weinstein's Conviction Tossed Out
David Catron / The American Spectator:
The Dems Still Don't Know Why Trump Won in 2016
Vivian Ho / The Guardian:
Mothers who occupied vacant Oakland house will be allowed to buy it
David Morgan / CBS News:
Former GOP Senator Jeff Flake on impeachment: Republicans are on trial with Trump
Discussion: NB Blog, Associated Press and The Hill
David Sharp / Associated Press:
Planned Parenthood endorses challenger to Sen. Susan Collins
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
We're Trying to Send a Refugee to Die to Make a Government Lie Seem True
Discussion: America's Voice and New Yorker
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Dershowitz on impeachment reversal: ‘I am much more correct right now’
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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