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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: White House pulls nomination to lead ICE head  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday sent paperwork withdrawing the nomination of longtime border official Ron Vitiello to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to three people with knowledge of the move.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Homeland Security Staffers Were Warned Not To Leak Information Or Face Legal Consequences  —  Department of Homeland Security employees were warned Thursday not to disclose “nonpublic information” or potentially face criminal, civil, or administrative consequences, a senior agency official …
Discussion: American Greatness and Raw Story
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:   Trump To Skip ‘Boring’ White House Correspondents' Dinner and Hold MAGA Rally Instead: Dinner ‘Too Negative’
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:   Trump says economy would take off like ‘a rocket ship’ if Fed cut rates, ending tightening policy
CNN:
Trump suddenly pulls ICE nominee to go with someone ‘tougher’
Discussion: Bloomberg
BuzzFeed News:
In New Documents, Cohen Says Trump “Instructed” Him To Lie  —  WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former fixer, submitted documents to lawmakers Thursday night accusing Trump and his team of lawyers of instructing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Sofie Karasek / Washington Post:
A photo of me and Joe Biden went viral.  I want him to take ownership for his actions.  —  Sofie Karasek is a survivors' rights advocate and progressive organizer.  —  Two days before my photograph was taken with then-Vice President Joe Biden, as I stood on the 2016 Oscars stage with Lady Gaga …
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New York Times:
Trump Asked That Confirmation of I.R.S. Counsel Be a Priority  —  President Trump earlier this year asked Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, to prioritize a confirmation vote for his nominee to be the chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, indicating that it was a higher priority …
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Washington Post:
White House maneuvers to block release of Trump's tax returns  —  The White House could attempt to block the release of President Trump's tax returns to Democrats, senior officials signaled on Thursday, an unprecedented step that might lead to a constitutional challenge and catapult the issue into federal court.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
How Trump Conspired with the Freedom Caucus to Shut Down the Government  —  It was as if Mark Meadows were watching a political car crash in slow motion.  In November 2018, when House Republicans lost their legislative majority, it rendered him a bit player in Donald Trump's Washington.
Discussion: Washington Times and The Hill
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Elizabeth Warren Issues Her Strongest Indictment of the Filibuster Yet
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts.  Stop pretending he's in control.  —  Because so many of us got it so wrong in 2016, there's a tendency among many commentators to reflexively assume President Trump possesses some kind of hidden sway over the political environment that we're all missing.
Discussion: Politico
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Norman J. Ornstein / New Republic:
Jerry Nadler Was Born to Battle Trump
Discussion: CNN
John Solomon / The Hill:
Note to Team Mueller: If you don't indict, you can't incite  —  View Latest Opinions >>  —  I've covered the Justice Department for three decades, and seldom have I seen a story like the one published in the New York Times this week under the headline, “Some on Mueller's Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed.”
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Barr invited to meet DoJ officials on day he submitted memo critical of Mueller  —  Revealed: The attorney general, then a private lawyer, called the special counsel's obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump ‘fatally misconceived’  —  William Barr was invited to meet justice department officials …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Donald Trump reacts to Barbara Bush quotes  —  President Trump said he was not surprised by former first lady Barbara Bush's attacks on him, as posthumously quoted in a new biography.  —  “I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be.  Look what I did to her sons,” …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Already Plotting His Post-White House Tell-All Memoir  —  The president is ‘excited’ about penning a dishy book.  So much so that he keeps talking about the scores he plans to settle.  —  As he navigates turbulent domestic and international affairs, President Donald Trump …
Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
Saudi Arabia arrests more activists, including 2 US citizens  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia detained eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in a new round of arrests in the kingdom targeting individuals supportive of women's rights and those with ties to jailed activists …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Tamara Qiblawi / CNN:
Two US citizens arrested in first Saudi arrest sweep since Khashoggi killing, sources say
Discussion: TheBlaze
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
If Biden Runs, They'll Tear Him Up  —  The old Democratic Party was warm, like him.  The new one rising is colder, less human and divisive.
Angry Grammarian / Philly.com:
The unspoken Barr memo travesty: Using two spaces after a period |  The Angry Grammarian  —  The attorney general of the United States has just executed a cover-up so brazen, so grotesque, so audacious, that it was done in plain view.  Right under our noses.  —  He put two spaces after his periods.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politico
James Arkin / Politico:
Stacey Abrams torn between running for president, Senate  —  The Georgia Democrat met Thursday with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who continues to recruit her for a Senate bid.  —  Stacey Abrams is doing everything a would-be presidential candidate would do: a nationwide book tour …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin weighs bid for West Virginia governor in 2020
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Critical Carlos reads ‘Healthy Holly’  —  Inside the children's book that has landed Baltimore's mayor in a political scandal  —  Hi, I'm Critical Carlos, and I want you to read books like I do!  Reading is good for your brain and helps us all learn.  If you read enough books, then one day …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's next possible Fed nominee can't understand basic policy issues  —  Nein, nein, nein.  —  That should be the Senate's response if President Trump actually nominates his friend Herman Cain, the former pizza magnate turned failed Republican presidential candidate, to the Federal Reserve Board, as Trump said he plans to do.
New York Times:
Is de Blasio Running for President?  Sure Looks Like It  —  He has traveled to three early presidential primary states, held $5,000-a-plate events for donors and hired a small-dollar fund-raising consultant.  —  He spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group …
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Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
For Democrats, all paths to the White House run through the House of Sharpton
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
David Margolick / New York Times:
That Noise?  The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone  —  The extremely loud and incredibly expensive renovations that have shattered a formerly quiet residential block in Manhattan.  —  In the middle of West 69th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue …
Samuel Adkisson / USA Today:
So Yale Law School endorses anti-religious bigotry now?  —  What starts in the ivory tower of academia — including blatant discrimination against religious groups and students — won't stay there for long.  —  CONNECT  —  What happens at our nation's elite law schools rarely stays there.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
What the heck does Steve King do all day?  —  Shunned by his party's leadership, bounced from congressional hearings, removed from key parts of the legislative process, and serving in the House minority — the Republican from Iowa has less to do than any congressman in recent history.
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
How a $230,000 debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China  —  Kevin Mallory went years without a steady job, making him a ripe target for recruitment, court documents say.  —  Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer, was $230,000 in debt and months behind on his mortgage in early 2017 …
Ashe Schow / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Reaps the #MeToo Whirlwind  —  'It's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent,' he told college men in 2011.
Discussion: Instapundit
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Donald Tusk floats 1-year Brexit ‘flextension’  —  Britain can have another year to think on Brexit — provided it joins the European Parliament election next month, a senior EU official said.  —  European Council President Donald Tusk raised the idea after hours of meetings and consultations Thursday …
Dustin Gardiner / Arizona Republic:
Report: David Stringer on child sex trafficking, 'I don't like to demonize it'  —  Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer made disturbing comments about child sex trafficking and his interactions with children within the past few years, two Prescott women told ethics investigators.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:
People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Insurance Constantly  —  Nancy Pelosi said this about Medicare for All yesterday:  —  The bolded part is probably the most dishonest argument in the entire Medicare for All debate.  It implies that, under our current health insurance system …
Discussion: Washington Post and Splinter
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
In Iowa, O'Rourke Says Some Trump Rhetoric Echoes Nazi Germany  — He slams the administration for separating families at border  — The former congressman spoke to crowd at a college in Iowa  —  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke told a crowd in Sioux City, Iowa …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
He bought the fencing coach's house.  Then his son got into Harvard  —  NEEDHAM — It was a modest house by this town's standards, a center-entrance colonial, three bedrooms and a two-car garage on a quarter-acre lot.  The inside hadn't welcomed a renovator in many, many years, and the outside didn't wear its age particularly well.
 
 
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