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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Campaign Ejects Bloomberg News Reporter From Iowa News Conference — President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer to approve credentials for the news organization. — Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It's Still Influencing What You Read. — DES MOINES — The Des Moines Register spiked its poll Saturday night, but by the next day it seemed most reporters here had seen the numbers — or something purporting to be the numbers.
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The Hill:
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great' — Joe Biden's campaign team is setting expectations low for the Iowa caucuses Monday night. — While some campaign aides were unsure how the results would turn out hours before the caucuses would begin …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues — About two-thirds of voters participating in the caucus said they would rather see the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who “can beat Donald Trump.” — By a decisive margin, Democrats attending Iowa's Democratic …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover
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Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform
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Lissandra Villa / TIME:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
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ABC News:
Iowa caucuses live updates: Results expected soon
Iowa caucuses live updates: Results expected soon
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Townhall, The Bulwark and Vox
Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem, and publicly chastises those who don't as disrespectful of the troops.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies — Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information. Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also... BY - GABRIEL SHERMAN — Person of Interest
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
That Last, Unreleased Des Moines Register Poll Of Iowa Really Did Show Biden In Fourth — If you're the sort of person who was glued to political Twitter on Saturday night — and God help you if you are — you would have seen a mass freak-out when it was announced that that the Des Moines Register …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
The five senators who might break with their party in Trump's trial — There will be no witnesses. The House managers and White House counsel have rested their cases. And President Donald Trump is going to be acquitted on Wednesday. But there's still drama left to the impeachment trial.
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Washington Post:
How the Senate can still hold Trump accountable — PRESIDENT TRUMP is on his way to acquittal in his Senate trial, but in one important respect the outcome is not what he wanted. Rather than describe his behavior toward Ukraine as “perfect,” a number of Republican senators — “lots and lots of us” …
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism
Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism
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Washington Post:
House managers argue that senators have a ‘duty’ to remove Trump from office; Sen. Manchin calls for censure
House managers argue that senators have a ‘duty’ to remove Trump from office; Sen. Manchin calls for censure
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Politico:
Here's what we learned at Trump's trial on Monday
Here's what we learned at Trump's trial on Monday
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’ — Discussing President Trump's economic success, Rush Limbaugh says Democrats — Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 27-million member audience Monday with the announcement he's been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.”
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David Matthews / New York Daily News:
Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars’ — Years before conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his show Monday that he'd been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he downplayed the health risks of smoking on his show.
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Washington Post:
Manchin calls for censuring Trump over pressuring Ukraine to investigate a domestic political rival — Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), a moderate who is friendly with the White House, on Monday asked his colleagues to consider censuring President Trump as the Senate moves toward votes on impeachment.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans say Trump has learned his lesson on impeachment. The evidence suggests otherwise.
Republicans say Trump has learned his lesson on impeachment. The evidence suggests otherwise.
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Politico, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Breitbart
Axios:
Scoop: Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne fired — Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne was fired Monday morning, three Trump administration officials tell Axios. The White House confirmed that Byrne is no longer with the administration. — Why it matters: The VA has recently been in inner turmoil.
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Andrea N. Goldstein / Jezebel:
‘He Was Implying I Was a Liar’: What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted at the VA
‘He Was Implying I Was a Liar’: What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted at the VA
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Washington Post:
Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus — The episode showcases social media's hands-off approach to disinformation and the possible perils ahead in a divisive election season — DES MOINES — The claims of electoral fraud were false …
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Poppy Noor / The Guardian:
Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist — A growing number of women are paying to confront their privilege - and racism - at dinners that cost $2,500 — Freshly made pasta is drying on the wooden bannisters lining the hall of a beautiful home in Denver, Colorado.
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Cards Against Humanity Bought ClickHole — Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased ClickHole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal, BuzzFeed News has learned. ClickHole's employees will become the majority owners of the site.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company — The two states, shall we say, are not exactly close to each other. — A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's foreign policy is a risk for Democrats against Trump — Bernie Sanders's foreign policy record poses an underappreciated risk for Democrats in a general election contest against President Trump. — For decades, the Vermont senator has bucked the foreign policy establishment …
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The Hill
BuzzFeed News:
Mueller Memos Part 5: Hundreds Of Pages Of FBI Witness Interviews Declassified — BuzzFeed News sued the US government under the Freedom of Information Act for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller's team kept secret. Today we are publishing the fifth installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with witnesses.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets — The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy. — The Washington Post's controversial decision to punish a reporter …
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Tom Piatak / Chronicles Magazine:
an arrogance justified by nothing — It was a revealing moment. Former GOP consultant turned Never Trumper Rick Wilson began ridiculing Trump supporters on CNN as “credulous Boomer rube[s]” who believe “Donald Trump is the smart one and y'all elitists are dumb.”
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
‘An unacceptable and upsetting environment’: 2020 Democratic Host Committee under investigation — The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.
Bloomberg:
Behind Amazon's HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk — When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed. In meetings, the Amazon.com Inc. chief expressed envy for how Musk had pitted five Western states against one another …