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10:15 AM ET, February 9, 2020

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New York Times:
Republican Senators Tried to Stop Trump From Firing Impeachment Witness  —  A handful of senators reached out to the White House to warn the president not to dismiss Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union who testified in the House hearings.  But Mr. Trump went ahead anyway.
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Washington Post:
‘Not just chilling but frightening’: Inside Vindman's ouster amid fears of further retaliation by Trump  —  He had been publicly vilified by President Trump, marched out of his national security office across from the White House, so Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman wanted only to get his mind off politics …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Friday night massacre’ is just the beginning.  I fear what's to come.  —  “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”  So the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand supposedly said after the Bourbon kings were restored to power in 1814.  That is President Trump to a T.
CNN:
Major cuts to National Security Council staff expected as soon as next week, sources say
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Contemptor
CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Tracking Poll: Sanders And Buttigieg Lead Amid Signs Of Momentum For Klobuchar  —  BOSTON (CBS) — This wild, fluid New Hampshire primary just got a little wilder.  —  All week long, the story has been the rise of Pete Buttigieg to co-frontrunner status with Bernie Sanders.
Discussion: The Hill
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CNN:
Bernie Sanders holds lead in second release of CNN's New Hampshire tracking poll  —  Bernie Sanders holds lead in CNN's New Hampshire poll  —  (CNN)Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' lead in New Hampshire continues to hold, according to the second release from a tracking poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire for CNN.
Discussion: Axios, The Week, New York Post and KTLA
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Is Running Out Of Gas  —  The former VP has lost the plot, voters say.  And they're wondering if he will ever get it back.  —  Forty-five minutes before Joe Biden's first campaign event was supposed to start on Saturday, his crowd had grown restless.
Blair Guild / Washington Post:
The 2020 Fix  —  This is your 2020 fix.  —  Voters across the country turn to Iowa as the litmus test for what's to come from future primaries and caucuses, and who may be the eventual party nominee in the presidential election.  If Monday's contest taught us anything, it's that 2020 will be a bit bumpy.
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and Associated Press
New York Times:
Biden Slashes Into Buttigieg: 'This Guy's Not a Barack Obama!'
Discussion: ABC News and The Hill
The Boston Globe:
Sanders, Buttigieg lead; debate performance appears to lift Klobuchar
Discussion: WHDH-TV and Political Wire
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:   Joe Biden Frustrates Supporters With Debate Comment Writing Off New Hampshire
Washington Post:   No, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not ‘centrists’
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
Joe Biden Is Collapsing
Discussion: CNBC
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Nevada Democrats debut to volunteers new iPad-based ‘tool’ to calculate math on Caucus Day in the wake of Iowa fiasco  —  Democratic supporters cheer at the the Nevada Democratic Party election night event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.  (Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent)
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
After the meltdown at the Iowa caucuses, Democrats fear a repeat in Nevada
Discussion: Raw Story
Joseph Brean / National Post:
Jordan Peterson's year of ‘absolute hell’: Professor forced to retreat from public life because of addiction  —  The controversial author and professor is recovering from addiction to tranquilizers and near-death in Russia, his family says  —  SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK  —  We want to improve your reading experience
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa caucus 2020: Inside the Iowa Democratic Party's ‘boiler room,’ where ‘hell’ preceded the results catastrophe  —  At a brief training the Sunday before the Iowa caucuses, Iowa Democratic Party officials told the volunteers tasked with staffing a telephone hotline system to arrive Monday morning …
TMZ.com:
Trump's ‘Orange Face’ Photo Appears Edited to Show Stark Contrast … DT took to Twitter Saturday, writing ... “More Fake News.  This was photoshopped, obviously, but the wind was strong and the hair looks good?  Anything to demean!”  The black and white rendition of the pic was also posted by this Moon guy.
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Getty Images:
President Trump Arrives To White House From North Carolina
Discussion: Mediaite and BuzzFeed News
New York Times:
On Trump's To-Do List: Take Back The Suburbs.  Court Black Voters.  Expand the Electoral Map.  Win.  —  With impeachment behind the president, his re-election campaign wants to address political weaknesses exacerbated by his policies and behavior.  —  WASHINGTON — Buoyed …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World  —  A city council member in California took the dais and quoted from QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about “deep state” traitors plotting against the president, concluding her remarks, “God bless Q.”
Discussion: Associated Press
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
AIPAC apologizes for ads that called some Democrats ‘radicals’ pushing ‘anti-Semitic’ policies  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee apologized for and removed at least two Facebook ads that slammed “radical” Democrats in Congress, and altered a petition …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS News head calls threats against Gayle King reprehensible  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The CBS News chief called threats against journalist Gayle King “reprehensible” Saturday as backlash grew against rapper Snoop Dogg and others critical of King for an interview where she asked about a sexual assault charge against the late Kobe Bryant.
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Joe Biden has a few (actually many) things on his mind  —  For 20 minutes it was Joe Biden, live and unplugged.  —  Standing with a hand-held microphone, before a dozen TV cameras and scores of reporters, the former vice president held forth Saturday.  Not as someone whose decades-long political career …
WJXT-TV:
Police: Van drives through Republican's voter registration tent in Jacksonville  —  Lt. Larry Gayle says unclear if incident in East Arlington parking lot was politically motivated  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office are looking for a brown Chevrolet van …
Maya King / Politico:
With an avalanche of cash, Steyer surges in South Carolina  —  Tom Steyer has blanketed South Carolina in cash.  Over the past seven months, he's spent $14 million in TV and radio ads, spent over $100,000 on ads in black-owned newspapers, hired 93 staffers, an army of volunteers and assembled …
Discussion: The Week and Post and Courier
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Hidden Depression Trump Isn't Helping  —  The economy may get the president re-elected, but not everyone is sharing in its strength.  —  President Trump declared in his State of the Union address that “our economy is the best it has ever been.”  —  Put aside the Trumpian hyperbole …
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Election Night 2020 is going to be like Groundhog Day for Democrats  —  November 4, 2020.  Early morning.  The clock radio flips from 5:59 to 6:00.  And the radio plays, “I Got You, Babe.”  You know it's coming: the Groundhog Day election.  —  The Democrats are heading for a replay …
John Williams / New York Times:
All the Presidents Penned  —  Announce a political campaign, write a book.  This two-step is a national pastime.  In “Author in Chief,” Craig Fehrman dives deeper into the books that have been written by presidents, before or after they were in office, including Thomas Jefferson's …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Washington Post:
Trump's new budget proposal expected to show how far he has moved away from some 2016 campaign promises
Audrey McNamara / CBS News:
Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for the border wall
Discussion: Vox and Associated Press
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Ben Carson points to Mar-a-Lago to show that Trump is ‘not a racist’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
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CNN:
Two US service members killed in Afghanistan attack
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and UPI
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
The Castro's shame: Addiction and mental illness devastate iconic SF neighborhood
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
The Democratic Primary Is A Mess. Michael Bloomberg Is Taking Advantage.
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An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

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UnHerd:
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