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Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order — President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order — President Trump said he was preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship in the United States, his latest attention-grabbing maneuver days before midterm congressional elections, during which he has sought …
Bloomberg:
Trump Plans Order Ending ‘Ridiculous’ Birthright Citizenship — President says he can change practice with executive order — Trump targets children of unauthorized immigrants born in U.S. — U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship …
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CNN:
Trump claims he can defy Constitution and end birthright citizenship — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump offered a dramatic, if legally dubious, promise in a new interview to unilaterally end birthright citizenship, ratcheting up his hardline immigration rhetoric with a week to go before critical midterm elections.
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution — Trump's attempt to undermine it is an impeachable offense. — On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yet, this week, as part of his ongoing campaign to divide …
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Associated Press:
Trump: End birthright citizenship for some US-born babies — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Don't fall for Trump's desperate, race-baiting birthright citizenship stunt — Having spent the past few weeks absurdly hyping the “caravan” of Central American migrants into a national emergency, President Trump is now rolling out a new stunt: He's claiming he intends to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's transparent, frivolous ploy on birthright citizenship
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New York Magazine:
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote — As told to , Rachel Bashein, Zak Cheney-Rice, Amelia Schonbek, and Emma Whitford — More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won't vote.
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Washington Post:
Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: ‘He was blaming the community’ — PITTSBURGH — A mourning family doesn't want to meet him. Top members of his own party refuse to join him. The mayor has explicitly asked him not to come.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
'I'm Dr. Cohen': The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Pittsburgh suspect echoed talking point that dominated Fox News airwaves
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Dave Goldiner / The Forward:
Mike Pence Gets Jews For Jesus ‘Rabbi’ To Pray For Pittsburgh Synagogue Victims
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Honoring Pittsburgh synagogue victims, Pence appears with ‘rabbi’ who preaches, ‘Jesus is the Messiah’
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Bloomberg:
Land O'Lakes Pulls Support for Iowa Congressman Steve King Over Racial Remarks — Dairy giant Land O'Lakes is set to announce Tuesday that it will no longer make financial contributions to Representative Steve King of Iowa after a gun-fueled massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue brought …
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Washington Post:
Congressional leaders decline to join Trump in visit to Pittsburgh after massacre — President Trump will visit Pittsburgh later Tuesday to pay tribute to the 11 victims of the mass shooting at a synagogue there — yet is traveling with no official public itinerary, little planning …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Local, national officials decline to appear with Trump in Pittsburgh — (CNN)Local and national officials are declining to appear with President Donald Trump on Tuesday when he visits a grieving Pittsburgh, where funerals for slain congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue are set to begin.
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
At a Pittsburgh Crime Scene, Jewish Volunteers Guard the ‘Bodies of Holy Martyrs’
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump complains of different news coverage of him compared to Obama after S.C. church massacre — President Trump complained Monday about the news coverage he has received related to the alleged pipe bomber, saying a different standard was applied to then-President Barack Obama …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Tom Steyer: 'The president's words matter dramatically'
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Sinema leads McSally in Arizona Senate race — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds a 6-point lead over Republican Martha McSally, fueled by leads among Latinos, Independents and women. — WASHINGTON — Fueled by advantages among Latinos, Independents and women, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds …
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Undermined Megyn Kelly Long After She Left for NBC — For 18 turbulent months at NBC, when Megyn Kelly stumbled, her former employer was lurking in the shadows. — For 18 turbulent months at NBC, when Megyn Kelly stumbled, her former employer was lurking in the shadows—eagerly waiting to kick her while she was down.
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Megyn Kelly, NBC Grapple Over Money and NDA in Exit Talks
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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Investigators Probe Roger Stone Conference Calls — Longtime Trump adviser spoke of WikiLeaks' plans to release emails ahead of 2016 election — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators are examining comments by Roger Stone—a longtime adviser to Donald Trump …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dem's Lead Inches Higher in CD19 — Challenger increases lead among women — West Long Branch, NJ - Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado has increased his lead over first-term Congressman John Faso in New York's 19th Congressional District race, according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
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Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
The Biggest Story of the Midterms Is One the Democrats Aren't Telling — Here's the real news of the 2018 midterm elections. One week out, Democrats appear poised to win big on two of the three big playing fields. They were never going to retake the Senate, if only because of the mix …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
We need to face these dead — Americans like to think of the military defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of death camps as their answer to the most murderous outbreak of anti-Semitism in history. It has become part of our national lore: American soldiers escorting German locals …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Making Pittsburgh shooting about Trump diminishes problem of anti-Semitism
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Kelly Magsamen / Defense One:
Secretary Mattis, Defend This or Resign — If Defense Secretary Mattis believes the migrant caravan is a not threat requiring 5,000 active troops deploying to the border, he should say so and quit. — Let's put this into perspective. Secretary of Defense James Mattis authorized …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House — MATTHEWS, N.C. — The Republican Party base has been electrified by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings and a campaign blitz from President Donald Trump. But the burst of enthusiasm has not reversed …
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost Canada:
Texas Congressman Won't Say Why He Labeled Opponent ‘Indo-American Carpetbagger’ — Republican Pete Olson also led supporters in a chant of “CNN sucks” at a recent event. — Rep. Pete Olson, a Texas Republican in a tough re-election battle, would not explain to a constituent why he recently called …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Instagram Is the Alt-Right's New Favorite Haven — Instagram hosts accounts from prominent right-wingers who have already been banned from Twitter and Facebook. — Alt-right social network Gab shuttered itself over the weekend after one of its users allegedly killed 11 people …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Barbra Streisand Can't Get Trump Out of Her Head. So She Sang About Him. — Her new album, “Walls,” is a rare instance of politics permeating her music, and in an interview, she could barely stop talking about her least favorite president. — Barbra Streisand has a new album …
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Kathleen Cairns / WBFF-TV:
Football league accused of racism after Reisterstown team ‘sidelined’ — REISTERSTOWN, Md. (WBFF) - The championships for the Carroll County Youth Football and Cheer league have not even kicked off and six teams with the Reisterstown Mustangs have been “sidelined.”
Marcy Wheeler / New Republic:
If Trump Fires Mueller — Here's what the post-midterms world might look like: Democrats control the House by a decent margin. But they pick up just one seat in the Senate, allowing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to exploit that more powerful legislative body to guard the White House.
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New York Times:
2 Sisters Were Found Dead in the River, Duct-Taped Together. Police Have Few Answers. — A person strolling through Riverside Park last Wednesday afternoon spotted something jarring on the riverbank and called the police. — There, below a small pier that juts out from the park at 68th Street …
Justin Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Man wearing KKK outfit shows up at Mississippi bar for costume party — He was wearing a pointy hat, white robe and waving a Mississippi flag, and the owners of a bar in Picayune didn't find his costume very funny. — On Saturday a man wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe showed …
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