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2:55 PM ET, February 1, 2020

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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The two Senate trials
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Senate impeachment trial was rigged!
Discussion: HuffPost and Althouse
Wall Street Journal:   How Republicans Scotched the Idea of Witnesses in Trump's Impeachment Trial
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Once Skeptical, Senate Republicans Are All In on Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Slate
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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 …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Bloomberg targets the rich with his tax plan, but more gently than some rivals  —  Mike Bloomberg on Saturday proposed $5 trillion in tax increases, becoming the latest in a string of Democratic presidential contenders to call for stiff hikes on the rich.  —  Like his rivals …
Discussion: The Hill
Josh Boak / Associated Press:   Billionaire Bloomberg proposes tax plan aimed at wealthy
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.
Discussion: 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.
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Democrats return to leadoff Iowa for final pitch to voters
Discussion: Redstate, New York Post and The Hill
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Bernie's Angry Bros  —  The Sanders online army resembles President Trump's most ardent supporters in more ways than either side might care to admit.  —  Barbara Boxer minces no words when it comes to describing the people usually known as the Bernie Bros — a subset of Bernie Sanders supporters …
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Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Rashida Tlaib boos Hillary Clinton at Bernie Sanders event in Iowa
Discussion: 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.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:   When the impeachment trial ends, the Senate's reputation will be hopelessly in tatters
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘A permanent asterisk’: Acquittal at hand, Democrats sow doubt about Trump trial
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Campaign Against Reality in Iowa
New York Times:
2020 Democrats Went on a Spending Spree in the Final Months of 2019
Laura Miller / Slate:
What Have Book Publishers Learned From the American Dirt Controversy?
Discussion: Jezebel and Vanity Fair
Jack Khoury / Associated Press:
Abbas Says Will Cut Security Ties With U.S., Israel, as Arab League Rejects Trump Plan
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Forty percent of Ilhan Omar's campaign spending went to alleged boyfriend's firm
Nadeen Ebrahim / Reuters:
Egypt's population nears 100 million, putting pressure on resources and jobs
Benjamin Wood / Salt Lake Tribune:
Bill regulating fetal remains approved by Utah legislative panel
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
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Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Polling: Americans dissatisfied with the state of the union
CBS New York:
Arrests Made, No Injuries Amid Chaotic Protests In Grand Central, Subways
Discussion: Breitbart
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Dare we overturn the will of the voters by holding another election?
United States Department of State:
Live At State Briefing with Ambassador James Jeffrey
Discussion: Politico
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Author Mary Higgins Clark, ‘Queen of Suspense,’ dead at 92
James B. Comey / Washington Post:
Trump won't be removed. But we'll be fine.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Althouse
Miami Herald:
Opera singer danced on an SUV, then crashed through Mar-a-Lago barricades. Cops opened fire
Discussion: Redstate
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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