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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump administration reveals it's blocking dozens of emails about Ukraine aid freeze, including President's role — Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to the President Donald Trump's involvement in the withholding …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Justice Department acknowledges 24 emails reveal Trump's thinking on Ukraine — Hours after the Senate voted against seeking new evidence in the impeachment case against President Trump, the administration acknowledged in a midnight court filing Friday the existence of two dozen emails …
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Bless Trump's Crimes: He Did It, Get Over It
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Raw Story, Senator Rob Portman, New York Times and The Guardian
New York Times:
Bloomberg Proposes $5 Trillion in Taxes on the Rich and Corporations — Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire presidential hopeful, is including more new taxes in his plan than his moderate rival Joe Biden but less than Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. — WASHINGTON — Former Mayor …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Offers Trillions in Tax Increases to Pay for His Agenda — Billionaire Democratic presidential candidate proposes raising taxes on high-income individuals, estates, corporations and other businesses — WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg …
Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Is Klobuchar Having A Last-Minute Surge In Iowa? — To quote Buffalo Springfield, “there's something happening here, but what it is ain't exactly clear.” What is clear, though, is that Sen. Amy Klobuchar's poll numbers are on the rise in Iowa — she's now at 10 percent …
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Axios, Revolving Door Project …, Politico and Iowa Starting Line
Brian Faler / Politico:
Bloomberg targets the rich with his tax plan, but more gently than some rivals
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Associated Press and The Hill
New York Times:
A Dishonorable Senate — Republican legislators abdicated their duty by refusing to seek the truth. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.
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Breitbart, Daily Kos, Balkinization, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic, Contemptor, The Daily Signal and Balloon Juice
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The two Senate trials — DRIVING THE DAY — IN CASE YOU'RE ON THE MARKET ... THE STATE DEPARTMENT is hiring for a “Senior Anticorruption Advisor” in Kyiv, Ukraine. The listing — BREAKING ... REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) raised a stunning $2.5 MILLION in the fourth quarter of 2019, a new filing showed.
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The Hill, New York Times and Washington Post
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Bernie backers unleash their anger at a folk concert in Iowa — COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — On Friday afternoon, Pete Buttigieg, the frontrunner in Iowa in November and December, made his closing pitch here to about 100 voters. Buttigieg has sunk 6 points to third place over the course of January.
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The Guardian, Jezebel and Common Dreams
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Major union flips support from Sanders to Biden — Joe Biden scored the endorsement Saturday of a major transit union that officially backed Bernie Sanders in 2016. — “Joe has been very supportive of the labor movement for the last 40 years. He stands for working families.
BuzzFeed News:
“HELP!!!” Internal #SharpieGate Emails Show Government Officials Freaked Out Over Trump's “Doctored” Hurricane Map — “HELP!!!” wrote one federal official. “Yep, crazy,” said another. — President Trump's fake hurricane map triggered panic, outrage, and an internal revolt among top officials …
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Washington Post:
New emails show how President Trump roiled NOAA during Hurricane Dorian — A trove of documents released on Friday evening provide the clearest glimpse yet into how President Trump's inaccurate statements, altered forecast map and tweets regarding Hurricane Dorian's forecast path rattled top officials along …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders for Not Working to Unite Democrats in 2016 — In a podcast interview on Friday, Mrs. Clinton also described the caucuses in Iowa, where Mr. Sanders leads in some polls, as “undemocratic.” — DES MOINES — Hillary Clinton said on Friday in a podcast interview …
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Mediaite, CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Nation, The Week, Michigan Advance and The Hill
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Tlaib boos Clinton at Sanders event, says ‘haters will shut up on Monday when we win’ Iowa
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Vox, Breitbart, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, Slate, IJR and Sean Hannity
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Rashida Tlaib boos Hillary Clinton at Bernie Sanders event in Iowa
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The Hill
The Daily Beast:
U.S. Officials Warn of ‘Real Security Consequences’ if Trump's Acquitted — Crimes, conspiracies, and off-the-book ops—that's just a taste of what an impeachment acquittal could usher in, U.S. officials and Senate Democrats fear. — Late into Wednesday's session of the Senate impeachment trial …
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Raw Story
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Senate impeachment trial was rigged! — In the end, they didn't even pretend to take their oaths seriously. — Senators were instructed “to be in attendance at all times” during President Trump's impeachment trial. But as the Democratic House managers made their last …
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Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Here's what we've learned from Trump's impeachment trial
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Washington Post, The Guardian, Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
FBI investigating border wall gun battle that left two wounded at California job site — A shootout at a border wall construction site near San Diego that wounded two Mexican security guards last summer is now under FBI investigation, according to private contractors and government documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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The Hill
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
How the House lost the witness battle along with impeachment — NBC host Chuck Todd recently asked guests if supporters of President Trump just want to be lied to. It is a question that many in the media would never ask about Democrats, even in the face of overtly false claims. This week is an example.
Ian McEwan / The Guardian:
Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done — The magic dust of populism has blinded reason, and damage and diminishment lie ahead — It's done. A triumph of dogged negotiation by May then, briefly, Johnson, has fulfilled the most pointless …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The Quiet Significance of NeverTrump — The hashtag isn't important. But the voters are. — Speak to enough voters who oppose Trump—which is, per polling, slightly more than half the country—and you will hear a strange resignation to the feeling that no matter what happens, President Trump is probably going to win re-election.
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Pro-Trump Blog Doxed A Chinese Scientist It Falsely Accused Of Creating The Coronavirus As A Bioweapon — A popular pro-Trump website has released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan, China, falsely accusing them of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon …
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James B. Comey / Washington Post:
Trump won't be removed. But we'll be fine. — James B. Comey is a former director of the FBI and deputy attorney general. — When I was a little kid, the United States seemed to be coming apart. The president was murdered in public. The first lady had his blood on her pink suit.
Jack Khoury / Associated Press:
Abbas Says Will Cut Security Ties With U.S., Israel, as Arab League Rejects Trump Plan — League says will not cooperate with U.S. to execute plan ■ Israeli officials hopeful that rejection will lead to U.S. green light for unilateral annexation — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas …
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Impeachment Is Virtually Over. What Did it Change? — Lasting marks are set to include deeper polarization, an ever-more powerful executive and a Republican Party inextricably joined to the president — No experience as searing as a presidential impeachment trial—dramatic …
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