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Politico:
Trump's trial may hinge on Lamar Alexander — If you want to know how President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could play out, keep your eye on Lamar Alexander. — On the most important question of the trial — whether to subpoena witnesses — the 79-year-old Tennessee Republican senator is a wild card.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Jerry Nadler ‘stunned’ Susan Collins into writing a note to John Roberts — Sen. Susan Collins was “stunned” by Rep. Jerry Nadler's late-night diatribe this week against what he deemed a “cover-up” by Senate Republicans for President Donald Trump — so much so that she wrote a note to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
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BuzzFeed News, The Hill, Daily Kos, Washington Post and CNN
David Brennan / Newsweek:
Senator Marsha Blackburn Criticized for Mid-Impeachment Trial Fox News Interview: ‘No One...can Be Treated As Above the Law’ — Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has been accused of breaking Senate rules by giving a live television interview while proceedings for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial were still ongoing.
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The Root and New York Daily News
Politico:
Dems mount preemptive strike on Trump's defense
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NBC News, Associated Press and The Week
Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
What's at stake for Sens. Sasse, Ernst, both of whom face reelection after impeachment vote
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
ABC News:
Trump impeachment trial live updates: Democrats make ‘abuse of power’ case
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NBC News, Associated Press, Washington Free Beacon, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, Balloon Juice, Breitbart, Law & Crime, The Week, IJR, The Guardian, Redstate, National Review and Daily Kos
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Republicans complain about the impeachment trial's lack of new evidence while blocking new evidence
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The Moderate Voice and Vanity Fair
New York Times:
Seeing a Bloomberg Ad on Fox News, Trump Takes the Bait — The president's advisers have urged him not to pay attention to the low-polling Democratic presidential candidate. But as Michael Bloomberg poured cash into attack ads, he became harder to ignore.
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Raw Story, Politico, Vanity Fair and Mediaite
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Airs Brutal Bloomberg Ad Highlighting Trump's ‘Erratic and Out of Control’ Attacks on the Military
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Fox News, IJR and Contemptor
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Trump Goes Off on ‘Mini Mike Bloomberg’ After Fox & Friends Airs Attack Ad
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The Hill and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Said to Be Weighing an Endorsement of Joe Biden — The move, which would be unlikely to happen until after the Senate impeachment trial, could enhance her chances of becoming vice president but could also anger liberals in California. — Senator Kamala Harris is weighing …
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JustOneMinute and The Hill
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Why Biden's rivals can't break his lock on black voters
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WBUR, Washington Post and New York Times
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Biden leads, while others gain momentum in bid for 2020 nomination: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Hill
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group — The white supremacist group the Base has been a target of FBI raids and its members accused of planning a race war. The Guardian can now reveal the identity of its secretive leader
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Regime Critic Says Saudis Tried to Kidnap Him on U.S. Soil — Abdulrahman Almutairi is a Saudi social-media influencer who criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. If not for the FBI, he says, he might've met Jamal Khashoggi's fate. — A suspected agent of the Saudi government attempted …
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Axios, Washington Post, Raw Story and Slate, more at Mediagazer »
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PBS NewsHour:
From Judy Woodruff: Longtime PBS NewsHour Anchor and Co-Founder Jim Lehrer Has Passed Away — Washington, DC (January 23, 2020) — It is with great sadness that I share the news that co-founder and longtime anchor of the PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died today, Thursday, January 23, 2020, peacefully in his sleep at home.
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PBS NewsHour:
Remembering Jim Lehrer — PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85. — For Jim, being a journalist was never a self-centered endeavor. He always told those who worked with him: “It's not about us.”
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The Daily Caller, UPI and The New Daily, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Senate GOP uses Trump's executive privilege threat as rallying cry against subpoenas — See what GOP senators think about evidence against Trump — (CNN)A growing number of Republicans are pointing to President Donald Trump's threat to invoke executive privilege in order to make their case …
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Washington Post:
Trump, Democrats keep their distance as GOP moderates face crucial impeachment votes — They are the most closely watched senators of President Trump's impeachment trial — the moderate Republicans who might vote with Democrats to call new witnesses and subpoena unseen documents.
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The Bulwark
Greg Sargent / Associated Press:
Schiff asked GOP senators a tough question. The answer is awful.
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Slate, Vox, Washington Post, The Mahablog, New York Times, Raw Story, Washington Monthly and No More Mister Nice Blog
CNBC:
George Soros rips Trump and Xi, says the ‘fate of the world’ is at stake in 2020 — Liberal billionaire George Soros slammed Trump and China on Thursday at his annual dinner on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. — Soros' fresh criticism of Trump and the Chinese …
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Fox News, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. concedes it had ‘insufficient’ cause to continue monitoring former Trump campaign adviser in Russia probe — The Justice Department secretly acknowledged last month that it had “insufficient predication” to continue monitoring a former Trump campaign adviser during …
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TheBlaze
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Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's Senate impeachment trial — What does it take to remove a president? — I don't blame President Trump for his angst and bitterness over his impeachment by the House of Representatives. In his mind, he has done “nothing wrong” and not acted outside …
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POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost, Raw Story and Mediaite
Victoria Bekiempis / Vulture:
Annabella Sciorra Testifies That Harvey Weinstein Raped Her: 'I Couldn't Fight Anymore' — At 9:48 a.m., Sopranos star Annabella Sciorra entered a packed Manhattan courtroom through a side door, walked toward the witness stand, and sat calmly behind the microphone.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
John Roberts comes face to face with the mess he made — There is justice in John Roberts being forced to preside silently over the impeachment trial of President Trump, hour after hour, day after tedious day. — The chief justice of the United States, as presiding officer, doesn't speak often …
Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS forgets to renew Trump's opioid emergency declaration — For nine days, the nation's opioid crisis was no longer considered a “public health emergency” after the Trump administration failed to renew a two-year-old declaration that expired last week. — An HHS spokesperson on Thursday night said that the lapse had been corrected.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump administration finalizing Medicaid block grant plan targeting Obamacare
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Senators Battle a Persistent Impeachment Foe: Their Own Restlessness — Lawmakers, required to sit through the trial in silence and without their phones, have grown increasingly comfortable testing those rules as the trial wears on. — WASHINGTON — As President Trump's Senate impeachment trial stretched …
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Burr is giving senators fidget spinners to stay busy during trial
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The Daily Caller, Slate, Sputnik News, Breitbart and The Week
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Trump's defenders double down on double standards — On matters Ukrainian, President Trump's defenders repeatedly make logically contradictory assertions. Their attempts at spin are dizzying to the point of nausea. — For example, they blast the impeachment case for consisting …
Emma Loop / BuzzFeed News:
A Law Required The US's Top Intelligence Official To Turn Over A Report On Jamal Khashoggi's Killing. He Blew The Deadline. — WASHINGTON — The country's top intelligence official has failed to turn over to Congress a report on the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, sources said, flouting a law passed last month.
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The Hill and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun-Times:
Lightfoot presidential endorsement: Likely not Sanders, Warren or Biden — Mayor Lori Lightfoot flanked by Illinois Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin and other Illinois mayors. Photo courtesy of Sen. Dick Durbin's office — On Friday, Chicago's mayor will boycott Trump's White House meeting …
James Crowley / Newsweek:
National debt increased by $3 trillion during Donald Trump's three years as president — Nearly four years after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would eliminate the federal debt in eight years, the deficit has since risen by more than 16 percent under his presidency.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A GOP senator traffics in flimsy allegations to impugn Alexander Vindman — again — Republicans have repeatedly argued that the impeachment evidence against President Trump is thin. They've said it is based upon “hearsay” that wasn't corroborated by people more intimately involved with the Ukraine effort …
Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
Trump appears to confuse the Kurds of Syria and Iraq in a meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan — President Trump met with Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan, on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Defense One
Associated Press:
China confirms 1st death outside epicenter of viral outbreak — BEIJING (AP) — China's National Health Commission says the number of cases of a new respiratory virus has risen to 830 with 25 deaths. — The update Friday morning also confirmed the first death outside the central province of Hubei.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Republicans aren't serving the country, or even the president. Just themselves. — It is another of President Trump's dubious achievements to turn the ultimate constitutional check on presidential abuses of power into an utter farce. Watching Republican senators complain that there is …
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Raw Story
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez hit back at JPMorgan CEO over comments on socialism: 'That's funny' — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) each took shots at Jamie Dimon this week after the JPMorgan Chase CEO derided socialism as something that leads to “eroding society.”
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