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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups  —  As President Donald Trump roils the capital over illegal immigration, his influential aide Stephen Miller is playing a more aggressive behind-the-scenes role in a wider administration shakeup.
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NBC News:
Trump has for months been urging administration to reinstate child separation policy  —  A senior administration official said they believe Trump is convinced that family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum seekers.  —  President Donald Trump has for months urged …
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as Trump's Homeland Security Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, resigned on Sunday after meeting with President Trump, ending a tumultuous tenure in charge of the border security agency that had made her the target of the president's criticism.
Axios:
Behind the scenes: Kirstjen Nielsen sacked by tweet  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen brought her resignation letter with her when she met President Trump in the White House residence yesterday afternoon, top sources tell Axios.  —  Inside the room: She wasn't intent on quitting but was prepared to, sources tell us.
CNN:   Stephen Miller wants Trump to oust more senior leaders at Homeland Security
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen just revealed how Trump's pathologies and lawlessness will get worse
Discussion: The Week
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Who is Kevin McAleenan, Trump's acting Homeland Security chief after Kirstjen Nielsen leaves?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times and Vox
Washington Post:
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen leaving Trump administration amid surge of migrants
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Biden still leads but Abrams, Buttigieg join front-runners in new SC 2020 primary poll  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to hold a large lead in early polling for the 2020 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, but it's another politician who has not entered the race …
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Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders finds himself in a new role as front-runner  —  DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is quieting critics who questioned whether he could recapture the energy of his upstart 2016 campaign, surpassing his rivals in early fundraising and establishing himself …
Discussion: National Review and Axios
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Buttigieg to Pence: If you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is with my creator
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and The Guardian
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Face it: Biden and Bernie are too old to be president
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
‘A kind of war’: Buttigieg describes struggle with sexual orientation in emotional speech
Discussion: The Week
The White House:
Statement from the President on the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization  —  Today, I am formally announcing my Administration's plan to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including its Qods Force …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: US labels Iran's Guard a terrorist organization  —  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Trump administration's stance on Iran (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says the U.S. has designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” …
ABC News:
Trump administration designates Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a ‘foreign terrorist organization’
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
New York Times:
Trump Designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a Foreign Terrorist Group
Discussion: NPR, Associated Press and The Week
Washington Post:
Trump plans to designate Iranian military unit as a terrorist group
Discussion: CNN, Shareblue Media and Military Times
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
To Get Trump's Tax Returns, N.Y. Democrats Try a New Strategy  —  ALBANY — In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Trump's tax returns.
Axios:
Scoop: Former White House counsel Don McGahn off the record  —  Don McGahn, who has kept his head down since leaving as White House counsel, shared some off-the-record thoughts on Thursday in a lunch with about 40 senior Republican Senate aides.  —  Details: “I spent the last couple …
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy's story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later  —  It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Fla. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Federal Watchdog Probes Trump Admin Push for Saudi Nuke Deal  —  In 2017 Team Trump worked to clinch a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia—and an independent investigative agency wants to know what happened behind closed doors.  —  One of the government's top investigative agencies has looked …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A Middle Eastern-Studies Professor on His Conversations with Mohammed Bin Salman
Kyle Korver / The Players' Tribune:
Privileged  —  PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES  —  W  —  hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.  —  When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Few Americans think they're getting a Trump tax cut: NBC/WSJ poll  — Just 17% of people believe their own taxes will go down, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds.  —  No wonder the 2017 Republican tax cut remains so unpopular — the vast majority of Americans don't think they got one at all.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Trump's health care brain trust says no thanks  —  President Donald Trump promised a new plan to replace Obamacare.  But the four Senate Republicans he tapped for the job aren't jumping at the opportunity.  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says any new plan has to come from the White House …
Discussion: Splinter, VICE News, CNBC and CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats crafting Mueller response if report drops during recess  —  Attorney General William Barr is likely days away from issuing a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, but Washington may be a ghost town when he does.  —  The House leaves for the week …
Washington Post:
Trump seeks to campaign on problems he promised to fix  —  President Trump is ratcheting up his attacks on immigration — making and then rescinding a threat to close the nation's southern border in response to a problem that has worsened on his watch.  He's reviving his assault …
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
How the NYU School of Medicine is going tuition-free  —  One of the top medical schools in the United States is going tuition-free.  Lesley Stahl reports on how and why they're doing it  —  Going to medical school today takes more than ambition, good grades in biology in college, and an appetite for hard work.
Discussion: Mother Jones
David Siders / Politico:
Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Between the prom proposal from a young admirer, the long lines for photographs and the conservative tracker recording his every word, Beto O'Rourke had all the hallmarks of a top-tier candidate during his latest swing through Iowa.
Discussion: The Week and Washington Post
Mallory Pickett / The Guardian:
Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress  —  Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’  —  Scientists and officials around the US have told the Guardian that the Trump administration …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand's privacy commissioner  —  John Edwards calls out social media giant after Christchurch attack for refusing to accept responsibility for harm  —  New Zealand's privacy commissioner has lashed out at social media giant Facebook in the wake …
 
 
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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Spending now 13.7 percent higher than during Obama's last year
Hansard Society:
Audit of Political Engagement 16
Discussion: Breitbart
Adam Harris / The Atlantic:
The Death of an Adjunct  —  A bald eagle in flight is elegance to behold.
Jessica Valeriani / Eagle-Tribune:
Cory Booker talks policy with voters in Londonderry
Jim Newell / Slate:
Can Bernie Sanders Finally Start Acting Like the One Thing He's Never Been: the Favorite?
Natalie Obregon / NBC News:
Sunday service unites parishioners after three historic black churches go up in flames
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Crime In Boystown / CWB Chicago:
Prosecutor in Foxx's office speaks out: Criticism “is not an attack on Ms Foxx's race …
Discussion: National Review
Lasantha Wickrematunge / BuzzFeed News:
“Then They Came For Me” — Here Is A Murdered Journalist's Last Column
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
William Barr's Mueller cover-up reveals America's delusional dreamland about democracy
Discussion: Herman Cain and Washington Times
Eliza Collins / USA Today:
How Nancy Pelosi is leading divided Democrats through political turmoil, Trump's administration
Discussion: Washington Times and POLITICUSUSA
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Democratic freshmen already posting huge fundraising numbers
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
All the Progressive Plotters
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trumpism Extols Its Folk Hero
Discussion: Althouse
politicallyshort.com:
Flynn Leaks and Ignatius Hypocrisy