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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 …
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CNN:
Trump is removing US Secret Service director  —  (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.  —  President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
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.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen just revealed how Trump's pathologies and lawlessness will get worse  —  It has become a ritual of the Trump years: Each time President Trump parts ways with one of his top advisers or associates, that person then embarks on an effort to expunge the deep moral stain left behind …
Discussion: The Week
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  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns  —  Washington (CNN)White House senior adviser Stephen Miller wants to make sure that outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is only the first of a string …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as Trump's Homeland Security Secretary
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
CNN:
How border hardliners nudged out Nielsen
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 …
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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 …
NBC News:
Democratic candidates slam Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections  —  The Israeli prime minister was branded as a “racist” after he suggested annexing Jewish settlements on the West Bank.  —  Several Democratic presidential candidates had harsh words for Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli prime minister …
Discussion: Quartz
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.
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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.
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Kurzius / DCist:
Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says  —  For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW.  Until now.  —  Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS …
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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Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom  —  On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break.  While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.
Discussion: Political Wire
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David Siders / Politico:
Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff
Discussion: Fox News, The Week and Washington Post
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 …
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.
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 …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House GOP calls on Dems to bring in Mueller to testify
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 …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's convoluted, confused threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico
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 …
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: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A Middle Eastern-Studies Professor on His Conversations with Mohammed Bin Salman
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Bernie Sanders Says Fox News Is A Propaganda Arm Of Trump Administration  —  The 2020 presidential candidate also defended his decision to do a town hall with the network.  —  MUSCATINE, Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is standing by his decision to do a town hall on Fox News …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Real Clear Politics and Axios
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Jim Newell / Slate:   Can Bernie Sanders Finally Start Acting Like the One Thing He's Never Been: the Favorite?
ABC News:
Woman arrested for sending threatening letter to Maine Sen. Susan Collins: Authorities  —  Suzanne Muscara, 37, allegedly sent the letter to Collins in October.  —  A 37-year-old Maine woman has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening letter to Sen. Susan Collins, authorities said Monday.
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 …
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
Crime In Boystown / CWB Chicago:
Prosecutor in Foxx's office speaks out: Criticism “is not an attack on Ms Foxx's race, it is an attack on her ethics and her efficacy as State's Attorney”  —  On Saturday, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx appeared at Rainbow PUSH headquarters where she found some friendly faces …
Discussion: National Review, CNN and IJR
 
 
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Abrams Complains Race Was Stolen Through Voter Suppression, Boasts of Huge Turnout Increases in Same Interview
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Obama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times in one speech in Berlin
Kira Lerner / The Appeal:
Chicago is Tracking Kids With GPS Monitors That Can Call and Record Them Without Consent
Joshua Spivak / Washington Post:
The electoral college is a failure. The Founding Fathers would probably agree.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Spending now 13.7 percent higher than during Obama's last year
Adam Harris / The Atlantic:
The Death of an Adjunct  —  A bald eagle in flight is elegance to behold.
Mallory Pickett / The Guardian:
Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress
Discussion: Common Dreams
 Earlier Items: 
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“Then They Came For Me” — Here Is A Murdered Journalist's Last Column
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
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand's privacy commissioner