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Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Self-proclaimed white nationalist planned mass terror attack, government says.  ‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth.’  —  A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist has been arrested after federal investigators uncovered a cache of weapons …
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Dave Philipps / New York Times:   Coast Guard Officer Plotted to Kill Democrats and Journalists, Prosecutors Say
CNN:
Justice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, with plans for Barr to submit to Congress soon after a summary …
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Washington Post:
Justice Department preparing for Mueller report in coming days  —  Justice Department officials are preparing for the end of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and believe a confidential report could be issued in coming days …
Discussion: Raw Story
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump butters up Barr amid signs of Mueller conclusion  —  Facing the possible completion of a special counsel investigation that could upend his presidency, Donald Trump is lashing out at everything and everybody — except his new attorney general, Bill Barr.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
7 Scenarios for How the Mueller Probe Might ‘Wrap Up’  —  THE BREAKING NEWS hit a snowy Washington on Wednesday: Newly installed attorney general William Barr appears to be preparing to announce the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.  —  But what would “Mueller wrapping up” actually mean?
CNN:
Actor Jussie Smollett now a suspect in criminal investigation  —  “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been “officially classified” as a suspect in a criminal investigation for allegedly filling a false police report, according to a tweet from Chicago police communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi.
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Politicians use Jussie Smollett, while a 1-year-old boy shot in the head is set aside
CBS Chicago:
Video Shows Brothers Linked To Jussie Smollett Attack Buying Items Allegedly Worn In Assault
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“She Was Pitching Her Intimate Knowledge of the Mueller Probe”: Sarah Isgur Flores, Former Trumper, Talked to MSNBC Before Signing with CNN  —  The former Jeff Sessions spokesperson is now a power player at a network she once called the “Clinton News Network.”  How'd she close the deal?
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The Daily Beast:
CNN Assures DNC: Ex-Sessions Aide Sarah Isgur Won't Work on Democratic Debates
Shannon Young / Union-News:
UMass poll gives Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders edge in 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary  —  Although former Vice President Joe Biden has yet to enter the 2020 White House race, he continues to lead declared Democratic candidates among expected New Hampshire voters with less than one year …
Discussion: Hot Air, twitchy.com and Political Wire
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Why Sanders's money haul doesn't mean very much
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's second campaign: Strong start, big challenges ahead
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Bernie Sanders to sign ‘affirmation’ he will run as a Democrat in 2020
Brett Murphy / USA Today:
Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism  —  In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.  —  The old yearbook photos capture the lighthearted moments …
Discussion: Splinter
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Nicole Carroll / USA Today:
I became part of our story on racist images in college yearbooks.  I'm here to apologize for publishing that photo  —  The news is full of blackface pictures.  —  There can be no debate about whether or not such images are racist and hurtful.  They are.  —  It was recently brought …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Pelosi: House moving ‘swiftly’ to block Trump's emergency declaration  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi is throwing her muscle behind a legislative effort to block President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, the first formal step to counter Trump and squeeze Republicans on the border wall.
Discussion: Axios, Associated Press and Raw Story
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Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
Pelosi says House will vote on resolution opposing Trump's emergency declaration  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday night that the House will vote in the coming day on a resolution disapproving President Trump's emergency declaration to build his wall with Mexico …
Discussion: Political Wire
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
U.S. House Democrats move to block Trump's emergency declaration on border
NBC News:
Pentagon chief briefing irks lawmakers, draws expletives from Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  The episode highlighted Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's increasingly strained relationship with Capitol Hill two months after he replaced Jim Mattis.  —  Acting Defense Secretary and Sen. Graham spar over Syria policy
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan's Rocky Meeting in Munich: 'You've Just Lost the Senate'
Discussion: Vox
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Candidate's son warned father of N.C. political operative's alleged tactics  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — The son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris testified Wednesday that he warned his father repeatedly that he believed a political operative now at the center of an election-fraud investigation …
Discussion: Politico, Splinter and Political Wire
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Dutch professor exposes Tucker Carlson's fraud  —  “Tucker Carlson Tonight” is a binary production.  Here's how it breaks down: The host, Tucker Carlson, either welcomes a guest with whom he agrees, in which case the segment is a facile lovefest, or he welcomes a guest with whom he disagrees …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Former Trump Staffer Filed A Class Action To Invalidate All Of The Campaign's Nondisclosure Agreements  —  WASHINGTON — A former Trump campaign staffer filed a class action Wednesday seeking to invalidate all of the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that the Trump campaign required all staffers to sign.
Luke Thompson:
The Congresswoman Loves the Swamp  —  Her Wealthy Chief of Staff used a PAC to Pay Her Boyfriend  —  Luke ThompsonBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing  —  Last Friday, my mentions died for your sins.  I posted a screen grab of Riley Roberts's House Microsoft Outlook card, including his official house …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office sure looks swampy
Discussion: twitchy.com and checkyourfact.com
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's top lawyer believed Hillary Clinton should face charges, but was talked out of it  —  For most of the past three years, the FBI has tried to portray its top leadership as united behind ex-Director James Comey's decision not to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The Classicist Who Sees Donald Trump as a Tragic Hero  —  Many of the books written in support of Donald Trump's Presidency have been authored by Trump family hangers-on or charlatans looking to make a buck.  (Examples include “Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency …
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris shamed by Jamaican father over pot-smoking joke  —  Kamala Harris made headlines last week when she joked in a radio interview that of course she smoked marijuana in her younger years: “Half my family's from Jamaica, are you kidding me?”  —  But the crack didn't go over well with at least …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mathew Rodriguez / Out Magazine:
Trump's Plan to Decriminalize Homosexuality Is an Old Racist Tactic … The Trump administration is set to launch a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in dozens of nations where anti-gay laws are still on the books, NBC News reported Monday.  While on its surface …
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Trump Said He Ordered His Administration To Withhold Wildfire Aid To California.  FEMA Says He Never Did.
Ian Bremmer / TIME:
Americans Want a Less Aggressive Foreign Policy. It's Time Lawmakers Listened to Them
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
CNN Analyst David Gergen Calls Roger Stone a ‘Dandy’ Who May Be ‘Subject to Rape’ in Prison (VIdeo)
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
White House talks U.N. post with John James
Discussion: Fox News
Bree A. Dail / LifeSiteNews:
4D ultrasound in Times Square will show ‘image of God’ in unborn babies: Focus on the Family pres.
Discussion: RedState and Daily Wire
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Joni Ernst's approval rating hits new high as she readies for 2020 re-election bid
Discussion: Political Wire
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
The Obama Presidential Library That Isn't
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The Guardian:
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Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jared Kushner privately working on reshaping legal immigration
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Americans' ignorance of history is a national scandal
Sean Hannity:
MANUFACTURED CRISIS? Border Agents Seize $13 MILLION of Meth Hidden in Frozen Strawberries
Discussion: CNN
John Solomon / The Hill:
The family secret Bruce Ohr told Rod Rosenstein about Russia case