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Politico:
Dems unload ‘overwhelming’ impeachment case on the Senate — even as they press for more — And on the first day, Democrats unleashed the flood. — One by one, the seven House impeachment prosecutors seeking President Donald Trump's removal from office reconstructed a case against the president …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Adam Schiff's Moment — On Day 2 of the Senate impeachment trial, the House presents its case—and a senator has a cold glass of milk. — Leaving the Senate chamber on Wednesday afternoon for a short break, the Washington Post reporter Paul Kane called over to his colleague Dana Milbank, a Post columnist.
Discussion:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Week and The Hill
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How one top Democrat's impeachment fears came true
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CNN, Washington Post and NBC News
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
‘S.O.S.! PLEASE HELP ME!’ The world's greatest deliberative body falls to pettifoggery.
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Redstate, The Hill, Sputnik News and The Daily Caller
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump's lawyers are also on trial
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Raw Story, Breitbart and New York Times
Politico:
Trump disrupts Republican trial strategy
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The Hill, Associated Press, CNBC, The Dispatch and Breitbart
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Airs Brutal Bloomberg Ad Highlighting Trump's 'Erratic and Out of Control ‘Attacks’ on the Military — Fox News' Fox & Friends, often reported to be one of President Donald Trump's favorite shows, aired an attack ad on the president from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg …
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor London Breed endorses Mike Bloomberg for president — San Francisco Mayor London Breed endorsed Mike Bloomberg for the Democratic presidential nomination, boosting the billionaire's chances in a delegate-rich state where he got off to a late start but is now spending millions to try to win.
Axios:
Mike Bloomberg copies Trump to beat Trump — To beat President Trump, Mike Bloomberg wants to be candidate Trump. — The state of play: Axios visited Bloomberg's new campaign HQ in Times Square yesterday, and we were struck by how much his 1,000+-person team is learning from …
Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin ends cash bail for all criminal cases
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The Hill
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Mnuchin says Thunberg can tell us what to do ‘after she goes and studies economics in college’ — Speaking at a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mnuchin was asked whether the world's largest economy needed to completely and immediately divest from fossil fuels.
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Common Dreams and The Daily Beast
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Maria Cramer / New York Times:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Takes Jab at Greta Thunberg at Davos — At a Swiss economic forum, Mr. Mnuchin dismissed criticisms by Ms. Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist. — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dismissed criticisms by the climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday …
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Axios, Bloomberg, One America News Network, National Observer and Breitbart
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans, think about this carefully — We know virtually all, if not all, Senate Republicans will vote to acquit President Trump. They told us up front they were going to let him off, removing even the pretense of adhering to their oaths. They told us they were unserious about their oaths …
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The Hill
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Why Democrats owe a debt to Mitch McConnell
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Daily Kos, New York Times, Raw Story, CNN and NB Blog
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Senate Republicans Will Pay a Price for Helping Trump Conceal Evidence
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Mother Jones and Fox News
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday will finalize a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and other water bodies, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers …
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CNN, Associated Press, courthousenews.com, The Week, HuffPost, Axios, Common Dreams, Raw Story and The Guardian
HuffPost:
Trump's Doral Resort Spikes Its Room Rates Ahead Of His RNC Visit — The near doubling of rates may have increased taxpayer costs for housing Secret Service and other staff who traveled there ahead of the president's trip. — DORAL, Fla. ― The president's Miami golf resort that puts money …
Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
Sanders Widens Lead In N.H. In New WBUR Poll — With the New Hampshire presidential primary less than three weeks away, a new WBUR poll suggests Bernie Sanders might be peaking at just the right time. The survey of more than 426 likely Democratic primary voters finds Sanders in the lead …
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Reason, The Hill, Washington Times and FiveThirtyEight
Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
Ghislaine Maxwell's personal emails were HACKED sparking fears that damaging information about high-profile individuals linked to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case, including Prince Andrew, could be leaked — Lawyers for the British socialite revealed the hack while discussing …
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Fox News and Big League Politics
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
S. Carolina elected official now backing Sanders over Biden — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina elected official who endorsed Joe Biden last month is switching her allegiance to Bernie Sanders in the state's first-in-the-South presidential primary, saying she had viewed the former vice president …
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Common Dreams
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Impeachment trial is Dems' misdirection
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IJR, Washington Post and Jacobin
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders Once Compared Vermont Workers to Black ‘Slaves’ — As the leading member of a self-described “radical political party” in the 1970s, Bernie Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people. — In recent weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized his rivals …
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Sara A. Carter and Politico
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
University of Minnesota student jailed in China over tweets — A University of Minnesota student has been arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for tweets he posted while in the United States, according to a Chinese court document viewed by Axios.
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Bloomberg, New York Post and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
Trump promised his mileage standards would make cars cheaper and safer. New documents raise doubts about that. — Top Senate Democrat argues that revised rule “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel-efficient.” — President Trump has said his plan …
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Casually Confirms Medicare Is On the Chopping Block — From “I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid” to hell yes I'm coming for your social safety net. — Something you've probably noticed about Donald Trump by now is that the man is a full-fledged pathological liar.
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HuffPost, Breitbart, ABC News and The Daily Caller
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The Seattle Times:
1 dead and 7 injured, including 9-year-old boy, in mass shooting on downtown Seattle sidewalk — The area around Third Avenue and Pine Street has long been one of the grittiest in downtown Seattle, a grim reputation underscored Wednesday when gunfire erupted during the evening commute …
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The Week, Associated Press, KTLA, fox8.com and New York Post
BuzzFeed News:
Clearview AI Says Its Facial Recognition Software Identified A Terrorism Suspect. The Cops Say That's Not True. … Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it's amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point it offers up to police departments nationwide …
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San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times and FORWARD, more at Techmeme »
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
How Jeff Bezos' iPhone X Was Hacked — It most likely began with a tiny bit of code that implanted malware, which gave attackers access to Mr. Bezos' photos and texts. — SAN FRANCISCO — On the afternoon of May 1, 2018, Jeff Bezos received a message on WhatsApp from an account belonging …
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The Federalist, Associated Press, Financial Times, The Verge, The New Daily and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
USA Today:
In four top 2020 battlegrounds, it's not the economy, stupid. It's Donald Trump. — Our new polls show the star of the 2020 election will be Donald Trump. No matter who they nominate, Democrats would be wise to keep him center stage. — President Donald Trump recently tweeted: " …
Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian:
Sex is for married heterosexual couples only, says Church of England — Pastoral guidance also calls for Christians in gay or straight civil unions to be abstinent — The Church of England has stated that sex belongs only within heterosexual marriage, and that Christians in gay …
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
How Millennial Leaders Will Change America — Love 'em or hate 'em, this much is true: one day soon, millennials will rule America. — This is neither wish nor warning but fact, rooted in the physics of time and the biology of human cells. Millennials-born between 1981 and 1996-are already …
CNN:
Susan Collins sent note to dais before John Roberts admonished legal teams, source says — Chief justice admonishes discourse during impeachment trial — Washington (CNN)Sen. Susan Collins sent a written note early Wednesday morning during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial minutes …
Discussion:
Above the Law and FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV
Axios:
Facebook's big 2020 fear is a Democrat in the White House — One of Facebook's biggest headaches leading up to 2020 isn't election interference or fake news — it's worrying about what a Democrat in the White House could mean for the business. — Why it matters: The Obama administration's warm embrace …
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Here's how Mike Bloomberg is luring 2020 campaign staffers with lavish perks — Billionaire presidential long shot Michael Bloomberg is trying to poach staff from other campaigns with outsized salaries and fancy perks like three catered meals a day, an iPhone 11 and a MacBook Pro, according to sources.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Club for Growth works to defeat House GOP incumbent — The prominent conservative group Club for Growth is throwing its weight behind a primary challenge to veteran Rep. Kay Granger of Texas — a move that is likely to anger Republican leaders who've rushed to her aid.
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Buttigieg's Hollow Military Bragging — Imagine you heard that someone got a “direct diploma” from Harvard but didn't actually have to do four years of papers and tests. — The term “veteran” wields a strange talismanic power in American politics today; the military is almost the only institution …
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Redstate
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Corrupt Purposes’ Impeachment — Why the House logic is a danger to all future Presidents. — By The Editorial Board — As House managers make their impeachment case, many Americans will dismiss it all as a partisan effort that hasn't persuaded the country and will die in the Senate.
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Reason
Roger Parloff / Newsweek:
Reagan's solicitor general says ‘All honorable people’ have left Trump's Cabinet: ‘He is capable of doing serious damage’ — THE NEWSWEEK INTERVIEW — Charles Fried was a fervent, superior officer on the frontlines of the Reagan Revolution. As solicitor general of the United States from 1985 to 1989 …
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Political Wire and Digby's Hullabaloo
Christopher Bouzy / Lawfare:
Is There a Targeted Troll Campaign Against Lisa Page? A Bot Sentinel Investigation — “Homewrecker.” “Traitor.” “Tramp.” These are just some of the insults flung at Lisa Page—the former FBI lawyer whom President Trump has targeted for her text messages critical of him during the 2016 election …
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