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The Hill:
The Hill's review of John Solomon's columns on Ukraine — On Nov. 18, 2019, The Hill announced it was reviewing John Solomon's opinion columns on Ukraine after State Department diplomats criticized several of those columns during House impeachment hearings.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Bloomberg camp's “dire” warning: Bernie Sanders will soon be unstoppable — Mike Bloomberg's campaign is sounding the alarm that Bernie Sanders will soon amass an unsurmountable delegate lead if the Democratic field stays split — and took the extraordinary step of suggesting laggards should drop out.
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Associated Press
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bernie Could Beat Trump. Here's How. — The conventional wisdom says that Bernie Sanders can't possibly beat Trump. The convention wisdom is wrong. — 1. How Bernie Loses — I understand the Democratic panic about the possibility of Bernie Sanders winning their nomination.
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Raw Story
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is not just a garden-variety social democrat — The world of comic books, in which characters are constantly dying and being revived or reinvented for a new legion of fans, eventually had to invent a concept known as the “retcon” — short for “retroactive continuity.”
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Fox News, Marginal REVOLUTION and Project Syndicate
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Sanders takes double-digit lead in new national poll, as Biden crumbles and Bloomberg rises
Sanders takes double-digit lead in new national poll, as Biden crumbles and Bloomberg rises
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Politico, CBS News and The Nation
Savannah Behrmann / USA Today:
Bernie Sanders says he won't release full medical records
Bernie Sanders says he won't release full medical records
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The Daily Beast, The Week and CNN
The Daily Beast:
Trump Got Tons of Campaign Cash Before Handing Out Pardon — “I watched his wife on television,” Trump said of his decision to pardon Blago after seeing his spouse on Fox. The network seems to have influenced several of Tuesday's pardons. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted clemency …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Trouble with Donald Trump's Clemencies and Pardons — Authoritarianism is usually associated with a punitive spirit—a leader who prosecutes and incarcerates his enemies. But there is another side to this leadership style. Authoritarians also dispense largesse, but they do it by their own whims …
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HuffPost, New York Times, PJ Media Home, Althouse, New Republic, Rolling Stone and Daily Kos
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
I Covered Blago's Trial From Start To Finish. Trump's Commutation Isn't Crazy.
I Covered Blago's Trial From Start To Finish. Trump's Commutation Isn't Crazy.
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The Hill, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Trump is letting a corrupt Democrat out of prison
Why Trump is letting a corrupt Democrat out of prison
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Vanity Fair and The Week
Washington Post:
Sanders surges into national lead in new Post-ABC poll — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on the strength of his performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, has surged nationally and now holds a sizable lead over all of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Wall Street Journal:
China Expels Three Wall Street Journal Reporters — China's Foreign Ministry says move was punishment for a recent opinion piece published by the Journal — China revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters based in Beijing, the first time in the post-Mao era …
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CNN:
Top Pentagon policy official expected to depart administration — (CNN)The Pentagon's top policy official is expected to depart his post soon, according to two sources familiar with the matter. John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, lost support among senior …
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Politico and Foreign Policy
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Bloomberg:
Pentagon Policy Chief in Ukraine-Aid Case Exits Under Pressure — Under Secretary Rood said to have faced pressure to resign — Rood is latest in a wave of Trump administration departures — John Rood has stepped down as the top policy official at the Defense Department, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Veterans coalition condemns Trump's continued attacks on Army officer who testified against him
Veterans coalition condemns Trump's continued attacks on Army officer who testified against him
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Raw Story
Devan Cole / CNN:
Andrew Yang joins CNN as a political commentator — Washington (CNN)Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is joining CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Wednesday. — “I'm excited to join @CNN to help shed light on the election and the candidates' experiences …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Andrew Yang joins CNN as political commentator
Andrew Yang joins CNN as political commentator
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Associated Press:
AP source: Barr tells people he might quit over Trump tweets — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he's considering quitting his post after President Donald Trump wouldn't heed his warning to stop tweeting about Justice Department cases, an administration official told The Associated Press.
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ABC News:
Barr mulls resigning over Trump's tweets: Sources
Barr mulls resigning over Trump's tweets: Sources
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Big League Politics, The White House, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Deseret News and Talking Points Memo
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's pardon spree deepens crisis gripping American justice
Trump's pardon spree deepens crisis gripping American justice
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The Hill
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Why Elizabeth Warren Got Dropped From A Poll Question About General Election Matchups — Elizabeth Warren was left out of a national poll question Tuesday that pitted Democratic candidates against Donald Trump, angering supporters who have protested that the media has erased her candidacy …
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Instapundit, The Week, Daily Kos and New York Times
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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders takes wide lead in California primary, new poll finds — Bernie Sanders has opened a wide lead in California's Democratic presidential primary, and four rivals are virtually tied for a distant second place, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Julia Azari / Washington Post:
It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president — Julia Azari is an associate professor and assistant chair in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. This is the third op-ed in a series about how to improve the presidential nominating process.
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Townhall, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Ahead of 2020 election, a ‘Blue Wave’ is rising in the cities, polling analysis shows — NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Republican President Donald Trump seeks a second term in November, Americans' interest in voting is growing faster in large cities dominated by Democrats …
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Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign hires alum of controversial data company — President Donald Trump's campaign is bringing on an alum of the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica, a move likely to raise alarms among Trump critics and data privacy advocates who worry the president will push the technological envelope to get reelected in 2020.
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Raw Story and 20 Minutes into the Future
Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
Bloomberg would sell business interests if elected president — Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a campaign rally at the Buffalo Soldier Museum in Houston, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stands at right.
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Dan Desai Martin / The American Independent:
Trump has built just 1 mile of new border wall since taking office — The mile of ‘new wall’ is broken up over multiple locations along the U.S.-Mexico border. — Since taking office three years ago, Donald Trump has managed to build approximately 1 mile of new wall along the U.S.-Mexico border …
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The Daily Caller
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Klobuchar tries to explain forgetting Mexican president and mispronounces his name — Amy Klobuchar offered an excuse on why she couldn't name the Mexican president in an interview with Telemundo, clapping back at Pete Buttigieg, who has turned her blunder into a punchline on the campaign trail.
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The Hill
Washington Examiner:
Sorry, Pete Buttigieg, but South Bend hasn't prepared you to be president — We have nothing against South Bend, Indiana. In fact, two members of our opinion staff were born and raised in that city. But we all know that it's no proving ground for the presidency.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Emails: Burisma Consultant Linked To Hunter Biden Approached Top State Department Official To Arrange Ukraine Meeting — Newly released State Department emails from 2016 shed light on an effort by a consultant for Burisma Holdings to set up a meeting with a top State Department official regarding Ukraine.
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National Review and Instapundit
Kenneth S. Baer / The Atlantic:
The Debates Broke the Primary — With one caucus and one primary complete, Democratic insiders are worried. The number of Democratic candidates is working to President Trump's advantage, Senator Dianne Feinstein told Politico. A recent Wall Street Journal headline read: “Moderate Democrats Stress Over Crowded Center Lane.”
T.LaDuke / Redstate:
Dems Are Screwed for 2020 and Should Focus on 2024 Says Greg Gutfeld — That might be a lil' premature — to say 2020 is over but you have to admit they are getting super duper nasty with each other. — The one and only Greg Gutfeld, on his show “The Five” yesterday …
Leta Hong Fincher / The Intercept:
When Bloomberg News's Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out — I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg's company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements. The funny thing is, I never even worked for Bloomberg.
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Sanders Rises, But Socialism Isn't Popular With Most Americans — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is rising in the polls among Democrats, but questions about his electability against President Trump persist because he self-identifies as a democratic socialist.
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