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Release Detail — February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Primary As Biden Falls, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Bloomberg Rises In Primary, Runs Strong Against Trump — In the wake of the Iowa caucuses and heading into the New Hampshire primary …
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CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third — BOSTON (CBS) - This New Hampshire primary has been a rollercoaster ride, with one last hairpin turn in the final night of the exclusive WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University tracking poll.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once? — One tracking poll shows big shifts toward Klobuchar and away from Buttigieg — On Friday evening, after an exhausting week in American politics, the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination met in New Hampshire …
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Politico, The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
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Washington Post and NBC News
CNN:
Bernie Sanders leads in final CNN New Hampshire tracking poll
Bernie Sanders leads in final CNN New Hampshire tracking poll
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Fox News, Joe.My.God., The Week and KTLA
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is right. We might have to impeach him again. — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC. — “So we'll probably have to do it again.” — So said the already-once-impeached President Trump on Thursday in the East Room …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC — President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council. — Officials confirmed that Trump …
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Redstate, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Big League Politics, Daily Kos, Newsy and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Tulsi Gabbard Defends Donald Trump Firing Alexander Vindman: ‘Whether People Like It or Not, There Are Consequences to Elections’ — In breaking with some of her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Tulsi Gabbard defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump's Senate acquittal
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump's Senate acquittal
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The American Independent, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, One America News Network, Breitbart and MSNBC
The Hill:
READ: Schumer's letter accusing Trump of ‘pattern of retaliation’ against whistleblowers
READ: Schumer's letter accusing Trump of ‘pattern of retaliation’ against whistleblowers
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Redstate, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Trump retaliation: After purge, House Democrats need to unleash a tsunami of oversight
Trump retaliation: After purge, House Democrats need to unleash a tsunami of oversight
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Washington Post, Just Security and The American Independent
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Prosecutors recommend Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison — Federal prosecutors recommended in a sentencing memo filed Monday that Trump associate Roger Stone serve 87-108 months in prison — or 7-9 years — for crimes that include obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone deserves 7 to 9 years prison for lying to Congress in Russia probe, U.S. says in sentencing recommendation for Trump confidant — Federal prosecutors on Monday said longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone deserves a sentence of 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to Congress and tampering …
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Palmer Report and Joe.My.God.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Prosecutors ask for 7 to 9 years in prison for Roger Stone
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that — President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a White House session with the state governors on February 10, 2020. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images — The president is either brazenly lying about his 2021 budget or doesn't know what's in it.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability
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Washington Post:
Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani's information on Bidens — Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged Monday that the Justice Department would evaluate material that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lindsey Graham Implicates William Barr in Massive Scandal, on Live Television — Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Face the Nation and blurted out an apparent confession of what, if true, would be a scandal of Nixonian proportions. Graham reported he had spoken with Attorney General William Barr that morning.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Considered How To Punish States That Deny Access To Driver Records, A Memo Says — The Trump administration drafted a slew of plans to consider not only circumventing state laws limiting the Department of Homeland Security's access to driver records, but to retaliate against states …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bernie Bros and the Internet of Beefs — What if Bernie Sanders' internet mobs are an asset, and not a liability? — 1. Bernie's Bros — I was reading the 417th piece about how Bernie supporters form online mobs that are basically the mirror-image of Twitter MAGA world. — It's this one, from CNN:
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Lee / The Mind Shield:
Republican leaders in SC, are urging GOP voters to vote for Bernie Sanders in the state's Democratic primary.
Republican leaders in SC, are urging GOP voters to vote for Bernie Sanders in the state's Democratic primary.
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Politico, The Atlantic and Bloomberg
Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him
Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him
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Patterico's Pontifications
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications …
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Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 100 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack - officials — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump world's latest attack on Romney: Tie him to Burisma — The MAGA machine is attempting to turn President Donald Trump's latest nemesis — Sen. Mitt Romney — into the next Hunter Biden. — Trump in recent days took a new turn in his attacks on the Utah senator, veering from assailing …
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New York Times, Raw Story, National Review and IJR
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
1 A Slow-Motion Looting — OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot. Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Michael Bloomberg's “be boring” campaign — Mike Bloomberg's campaign feels corporate. It's calm, orderly and punctual. His audiences clap politely, and you can't walk two steps without running into a paid staffer with talking points. Nobody whoops or yells.
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Dylan Brogan / Isthmus:
When money is no object — Billionaire Mike Bloomberg recruits …
When money is no object — Billionaire Mike Bloomberg recruits …
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The Hill
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
As Louisiana GOP censures Mitt Romney, David Duke laughs — The same Louisiana Republican Party that 30 years ago refused to censure former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke decided last Saturday to censure Sen. Mitt Romney. — The mind reels. The stomach sickens.
W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Exclusive: Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite, General Says — A pair of Russian satellites are tailing a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface, a top U.S. military commander tells TIME, underscoring a growing threat …
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SpaceNews.com and UPI
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake — The scene is one many of us have somewhere in our family history: Dozens of people celebrating Thanksgiving or some other holiday around a makeshift stretch of family tables—siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts. The grandparents are telling the old family stories for the 37th time.
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KCCI-TV:
Former Gov. Vilsack claims $150,000 Powerball prize — He never thought he would win, but it didn't stop him from playing. — Iowa Lottery officials said Monday that former Gov. Tom Vilsack has claimed a $150,000 Powerball prize Monday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.
Sophia Tareen / Associated Press:
Voter registration error risks deportation for immigrants — CHICAGO (AP) — The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver's license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal battles and eventually deportation.
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon budget shows what new Air Force One paint job will look like — The Pentagon on Monday revealed the final paint job plans for the revamped Air Force One presidential aircraft — a red, white and blue style reminiscent of the planes in President Trump's former airline.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
The Weirdest Subway Restaurant in America — The franchise is based inside an FBI training center called Hogan's Alley where the bank gets robbed at least twice a week — HOGAN'S ALLEY, Va.—America's worst neighborhood is a magnet for killers, thieves and drug smugglers.