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Trump Appeals to Nation for Wall: ‘This Is a Choice Between Right and Wrong’ — WASHINGTON — President Trump sought to go over the heads of Congress to enlist public support for his long-promised border wall on Tuesday night, raising the stakes of an ideological and political conflict …
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Raw Story, The Nation, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Vox, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Axios, Splinter and Outside the Beltway
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A growing number of Americans blame Trump for shutdown: Reuters-Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A growing proportion of Americans blame President Donald Trump for a partial government shutdown that will cut off paychecks to federal workers this week, though Republicans mostly support …
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The Week, Contemptor and IJR
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Trump Channels Hannity and Lou Dobbs, Fearmongers for the Wall — Much of the Oval Office address echoed usual Trump rhetoric: hyper-partisan at points, and dripping with nativism. But in a notable way, Trump blinked. — In the days before his Oval Office address on Tuesday night …
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Washington Post, The Week, NPR, BuzzFeed News, Just Security and Hit & Run
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Trump's Speech to the Nation: Live Updates and Fact Checks — President Trump will address the country tonight, on the 18th day of the government shutdown, about border security. Our reporters will cover his statements live. — President Trump will address the nation from the White House at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
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Washington Post and Hit & Run
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Trump's prime-time address on the border wall shutdown, annotated — President Trump delivered his first prime-time Oval Office address as president on Tuesday. It was about a ten-minute speech in which he addressed his demand for border-wall funding that has led to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government for more than two weeks.
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Fact Check: Trump's prime-time speech on the government shutdown — President Donald Trump is holding court front and center tonight to deliver remarks from the Oval Office in the hopes of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border.
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Axios, Breitbart, One America News Network and Washington Post
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Trump ratchets up plea for a border wall, calling it ‘a crisis of the soul’ — President Donald Trump on Tuesday night made a public plea for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, claiming that law enforcement officials are the ones demanding it, while blaming Democrats for the prolonged government shutdown …
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ImmigrationProf Blog, The Guardian, ABC News, Breitbart, Washington Post, Conservative Review, TalkLeft and Axios
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Poll: Voters blame Trump, GOP for shutdown — President Donald Trump faces a tall task in his Oval Office address on Tuesday night: convincing voters outside of his political base that there is an urgent crisis at the nation's southern border, that a wall along the border is necessary to solve it …
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Raw Story, Vox, Joe.My.God., TheBlaze and The Guardian
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Plurality of Voters Think There's a Crisis at the Border
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Manafort Accused of Sharing Trump Campaign Data With Russian Associate — WASHINGTON — As a top official in President Trump's campaign, Paul Manafort shared political polling data with a business associate tied to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing unsealed on Tuesday.
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Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian employee, according to court filing — Paul Manafort shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a former employee whom the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing.
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Jamie Dupree - AJC, emptywheel, CNBC, Boing Boing, Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and Little Green Footballs
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller believes Manafort fed information to Russian with intel ties
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“There Is No Endgame”: White House Aides Fear Trump Has Turned the Border Wall into His Alamo — “The president put himself in a box” as Trump tries to fight his way out, his new chief of staff already eyes the exits, and Giuliani worries about Mueller's possibly “horrific” report.
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Trump Invites TV Representatives to Lunch Ahead of His Prime-Time Speech
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a racist. The White House response may have proved her point.
Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a racist. The White House response may have proved her point.
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The Crisis at the Border — T — here is indeed a simmering crisis at our southern border. — It is not an influx of terrorists, and Trump administration representatives have tripped themselves up by trying to make the numbers show large numbers of suspected terrorists caught at the border.
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Trump Gets Instant Fact-Check From Fox News' Shepard Smith After Oval Office Speech — The Fox News anchor did not let the president get away with his lies to the American people Tuesday night. — Matt Wilstein — Donald Trump not only preempted regularly scheduled broadcast network programming Tuesday night.
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Broward Sheriff Scott Israel tells staff he's being suspended over Parkland response — It appears that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is preparing to pack up his office. — The two-term sheriff, the object of fierce criticism over BSO's handling of the Parkland massacre …
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On Capitol Hill, prime-time speeches only pushed parties further apart — Neither President Trump's televised Oval Office address arguing for his border wall nor the rebuttal from Democratic congressional leaders appeared to move either party any closer to ending the 18-day partial government shutdown …
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Political Wire
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Rosenstein expected to depart DOJ in coming weeks once new attorney general confirmed — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, multiple sources familiar with his plans told ABC News. — Rosenstein has communicated to President Donald Trump …
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Supreme Court turns down mysterious Mueller subpoena fight — The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a mysterious subpoena fight that apparently involved an unidentified foreign-government-owned company and special counsel Robert Mueller. — Last month, the unknown firm asked …
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Supreme Court Rejects Mystery Company in Case Linked to Mueller
Supreme Court Rejects Mystery Company in Case Linked to Mueller
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TSA Officers Are Already Quitting Over the Shutdown, Union Says — And longer lines at airport security checks could be just the beginning of the nightmare. — Airport security screeners, forced to work without pay during the government shutdown, have been calling out sick.
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Proud Boy Member Accused of Murdering His Brother With a Sword — Prosecutors say Buckey Wolfe was convinced his brother was a lizard. — A self-proclaimed member of the far-right Proud Boys group who also believes in the QAnon conspiracy theory allegedly murdered his own brother with a sword.
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KIRO and The Seattle Times
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Australians Have More Fun — What we can learn from “Canada in a thong.” — Ms. Weiss is a writer and editor in the Opinion section. — SYDNEY, Australia — When Mark Twain steamed into Sydney's harbor in September 1895, journalists peppered him with questions before he had even stepped off the S.S. Warrimoo.
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Rare Penny Found in Boy's Lunch Money Could Fetch Up to $1.7 Million in Auction — A rare 1943 copper Lincoln cent — found by a Massachusetts teenager in his change after he paid for lunch at a school cafeteria — is expected to fetch up to $1.7 million when it is auctioned off.
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Full text: Pelosi and Schumer respond to Trump's immigration speech — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's response to President Donald Trump's immigration speech, as delivered on Capitol Hill — Speaker Pelosi: Good evening. — I appreciate the opportunity …
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Highway and transit projects grind to a halt as the shutdown continues — Highway construction projects across the country have been jeopardized by the federal shutdown as state officials hesitate to authorize projects planned for 2019 without the assurance of federal funding.
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Gavin McInnes' Wife Threatens Neighbors Over ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ Signs — The Proud Boys founder's newest battleground is his neighborhood; his new enforcer is his wife, Emily McInnes. — Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes usually fights his own battles, by way of inciting his membership to commit acts of violence.
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“Immigrants are coming over the border to kill you” is the only speech Trump knows how to give — Most politicians know how to strike more than one note. Trump does not. — In retrospect, it's unclear why America should have expected anything from President Trump's Tuesday night primetime speech …
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‘Not a whole lot of red lights’: Beto O'Rourke leaning toward 2020 run — Beto O'Rourke is leaning toward running for president, according to four people who have spoken with him or his advisers in recent days. — But for a presidential contender, his radio silence is becoming increasingly awkward.
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Washington Post
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Right Privilege: Conservatism in the Age of Trump — By Timothy Shenk ▪ Winter 2019 — What do American conservatives believe? The answer used to be simple. You believed in the genius of capitalism, the importance of U.S. superpower, and the glories of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook — Galaxy owners take to Twitter to complain about permanent app — Pre-install deals are common, but privacy concerns are rising — Nick Winke, a photographer in the Pacific northwest, was perusing internet forums …
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Inside Facebook's ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time — More than a dozen former Facebook employees detailed how the company's leadership and its performance review system has created a culture where any dissent is discouraged.
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Every congressperson along southern border opposes border wall funding — Nine congressional representatives serve the districts that line the 2,000-mile southern border. They are men, women, freshman politicians and Washington veterans. The Democrats among them span liberal ideologies, while one of them is a Republican.
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Why Men Find the New Congresswomen So Frightening — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib aren't just radicals—they also have institutional power. — There's an extraordinary scene in the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex, in which crusading civil rights …
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As Government Shutdown Goes On, Workers' Finances Fray: ‘Nobody Signed Up for This’ — Tanisha Keller, a single mother who works for the federal Census Bureau, used to live paycheck to paycheck. Now, she is living nothing to nothing. — Payday would have come this week for Ms. Keller …