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Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border — WASHINGTON — The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished …
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Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims — Officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and aide Stephen Miller berated over border policy — Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an …
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Acting homeland security chief frustrated and isolated — even as he delivers what Trump wants at the border
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Now that there's an impeachment inquiry, what's going to happen to guns, the border and prescription drugs?
Now that there's an impeachment inquiry, what's going to happen to guns, the border and prescription drugs?
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Politico, CNN, Associated Press and KTLA
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Pompeo Pushed Out His Own Ukraine Rep to Squash a Growing Scandal — “Volker was the easier guy to let go,” said one former State Department official. “But just because it is an easy choice doesn't mean it is the right choice.” — When President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared …
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House Threatens to Subpoena White House for Ukraine Records — “I do not take this step lightly,” said Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. — WASHINGTON — The House threatened on Wednesday to subpoena the White House if it did not comply …
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State Dept inspector general requests ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing on Capitol Hill
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Pompeo Confirms He Listened to Trump's Call to Ukraine President
Pompeo Confirms He Listened to Trump's Call to Ukraine President
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
On Ukraine, Pompeo offered a master class in misleading the public using facts
On Ukraine, Pompeo offered a master class in misleading the public using facts
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Associated Press:
Pompeo acknowledges he was on Trump call at center of probe
Pompeo acknowledges he was on Trump call at center of probe
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pompeo: ‘I was on the phone call’ with Trump and Ukrainian President
Pompeo: ‘I was on the phone call’ with Trump and Ukrainian President
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Support for impeaching Trump hits new high — Support for impeaching President Donald Trump is growing. — A batch of recent polling confirms the Democratic impeachment push is gaining steam — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that shows for the first time that more voters support …
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POLITICO Playbook: What Republicans are saying privately about impeachment — WE'RE GOING TO LOS ANGELES!!!!! ... LET'S GO NATS! BEAT L.A.!!! — SIREN ... REPUBLICAN CONCERN RISING WITH TRUMP'S REACTION TO IMPEACHMENT ... ON TUESDAY NIGHT, a very seasoned and well-known GOP operative sent us …
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Bernie Sanders has surgery for artery blockage, cancels campaign events — 2020 contender Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Wednesday that he underwent surgery to insert two stents after blockage was found in an artery. — Why it matters: Senior adviser Jeff Weaver said the 78-year-old candidate …
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Sanders has heart stent procedure after chest discomfort
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Andrew Yang raises $10 million in third quarter
Andrew Yang raises $10 million in third quarter
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Axios, Outside the Beltway, New York Times and Political Wire
Maryalice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders hospitalized for blocked artery, campaign events canceled
Bernie Sanders hospitalized for blocked artery, campaign events canceled
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Eliza Collins / Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders Had Surgery to Insert Stents to Open Artery Blockage
Bernie Sanders Had Surgery to Insert Stents to Open Artery Blockage
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Splinter
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Donald Trump impeachment: President called Boris Johnson for help to discredit Mueller inquiry — President Trump personally contacted Boris Johnson to ask for help as he tried to discredit the Mueller investigation into possible connections between Russia and his 2016 election campaign, The Times understands.
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Trump Called Boris Johnson for Help Discrediting Mueller Inquiry: Report — President Trump called Boris Johnson to ask for help in discrediting Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, The Times of London reports. Trump is said to have called Johnson on July 26 …
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A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms — House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
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No Change in Trump Reelect Prospects — Warren and Biden lead Dem ‘beauty contest’ — West Long Branch, NJ - Recent events have not moved public opinion in either direction on whether President Donald Trump deserves a second term. His reelection bid remains underwater, with particular signs of weakness among critical voting blocs.
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Political Wire
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Ukraine's ex-president discussed investments with Giuliani — KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's former president said Wednesday he discussed investments with President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in 2017, but that he never discussed Ukrainian companies with any U.S. official.
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Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape From Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia Probe — The U.S. attorney general traveled to Italy to meet with Italian secret service agents—and, potentially, undermine the Mueller investigation. — Correspondent-At-Large
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
All Roads Lead to Mueller
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Why Black Voters Prefer Establishment Candidates Over Liberal Alternatives — Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton.
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Maya King / Politico:
Warren gets ‘dramatic shift’ in support from black voters
Warren gets ‘dramatic shift’ in support from black voters
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Putin jokes that Moscow plans to meddle in the 2020 election — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday appeared to revel in the ongoing political maelstrom in the U.S., jokingly admitting to plans for future election meddling. — When asked whether Russia would interfere in the 2020 election cycle …
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Political Wire
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Was There Another Cover-Up In Response to the Whistle-Blower? — The Justice Department should have shared a campaign-finance investigation with the Federal Election Commission. — Mr. Geltzer and Mr. Katyal are law professors at Georgetown. — One of the first things new prosecutors …
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Raw Story
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Donald Trump's Sons Have Sold More Than $100 Million Of His Real Estate Since He Took Office — There are big dreams, and then there are Trump-size dreams, ones that demand capital letters and tower over cities. They are what nudged Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich from Germany to New York …
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Will Trump Ever Leave the White House? — It's a loaded question — with no obvious answer. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. — Since 2015, we have been worrying about how much danger Donald Trump posed to democracy.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
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'It's a dumb thing to say': Critics blast Trump for calling his impeachment inquiry a ‘COUP’
'It's a dumb thing to say': Critics blast Trump for calling his impeachment inquiry a ‘COUP’
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With impeachment looming, the news media is growing a spine. It needs stiffening. — Scott Pelley of CBS pushed back hard Sunday when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to spin him on Sunday's “60 Minutes.” — So did Chris Wallace of Fox News when Trump aide Stephen Miller refused …
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The chances of Republicans deserting Trump are underrated — Upon dismissing his chief of staff in 1973, Richard Nixon said that he loved him “like my brother”. The line seems too easy until you remember that the US president had seen two of his own die young.
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Giuliani's Ukraine Work Tied to Firm Whose Website Has Vanished — Giuliani withdrew from event set by Kremlin-linked adviser — The website of the consulting firm that forged business contacts for Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine and Russia for more than a decade has suddenly vanished.
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Pass an Anti-Racist Constitutional Amendment — IBRAM X. KENDI — Ibram X. Kendi is a professor of history, director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University, and author of How to Be an Antiracist. — To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass …
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U.S. Slowdown Spurs Concern Economy Is Near Stalling — Stall speed estimates have declined as potential GDP eased — Slower growth leaves economy in fragile position to shocks — Explore what's moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast.
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Statement by the European Commission following President Jean-Claude Juncker's phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson — President Jean-Claude Juncker spoke to Prime Minister Johnson on the phone this afternoon. The Prime Minister informed the President about the contents …
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