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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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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem — They're niche candidates. — ROCHESTER, N.H.—Like last week's muddled Iowa caucus, tomorrow's New Hampshire primary may reveal as much about the limits of the leading Democratic candidates as it does their strengths.
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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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Joe.My.God., KTLA and The Week
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
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The Hill and Joe.My.God.
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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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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump's Senate acquittal — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday hinted that additional officials could be forced out of their roles following the ousters last week of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland …
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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
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing
Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing
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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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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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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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Redstate, Joe.My.God., Balloon Juice and Breitbart
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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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
New York sues Trump administration over Global Entry ban: It's ‘political retribution’
Erin Durkin / Politico:
New York suit says Trump travel restrictions are unconstitutional
New York suit says Trump travel restrictions are unconstitutional
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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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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.
Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him — Sanders has radical fringe skeletons dangling in closets without doors. He's destined to fail in a general election, perhaps in a 49-state rout. — The Iowa Democratic caucuses might have ended in fiasco …
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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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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Amazon wants to depose Trump in challenge over $10B Pentagon contract — Amazon wants President Trump and other officials to answer questions under oath after the administration decided not to award them a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with the Department of Defense.
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach — Disclosed in 2017, hack into the credit-reporting company compromised data on roughly 145 million Americans — WASHINGTON—Four members of China's military have been indicted by the U.S. government on charges of hacking …
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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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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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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.
CNN:
This man says he's stockpiling billions of our photos — If Hoan Ton-That is feeling the pressure, he isn't showing it. — Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That's startup, Clearview AI.