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The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim  —  The mayor was briefly accused of assaulting a young man.  A GOP source says right-wing operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman approached him to make similarly untrue accusations.
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New York Times:   As Buttigieg Builds His Campaign, Gay Donors Provide the Foundation
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden solidifies front-runner status with post-announcement bump  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden's announcement of a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination earned him an 11-point polling bounce, leaving him head and shoulders above the rest of the Democratic candidates.
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Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Biden, followed by Sanders and Buttigieg, leads among Democrats in N.H. survey
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden says Congress will have ‘no alternative’ but to impeach Trump if he blocks its investigations
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Biden, Now the Front-Runner, Gives First Speech as 2020 Candidate
CNN:
Bernie Sanders draws sharp contrasts between himself and Joe Biden
Discussion: The Week
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Joe Biden on handling of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearings: ‘I take responsibility’
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:   Trumps sue to quash Deutsche Bank, Capital One subpoenas
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One to block House subpoenas
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Fox News
Cristina Alesci / CNN:
Trump team sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to keep them from turning over financial records to Congress
Discussion: Raw Story
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Submits Resignation Letter  —  Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to President Trump on Monday, ending a tumultuous two years in which he tried to steady a rocky Justice Department and its relationship with the White House.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rod Rosenstein Quits, Thanking the President Who Trolled Him  —  The Deputy Attorney General was a frequent target of Trump's ire.  Rod Rosenstein thanked him for his “courtesy and humor,” anyway.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  Rod Rosenstein is ready to jump.  The deputy attorney general …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Rod Rosenstein Embodies the Republican Surrender to Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
David Mark / Washington Examiner:   Rod Rosenstein resigning from Justice Department post
CNN:
Graham calls Democrats ‘political hacks,’ says Trump should fight their subpoenas ‘like hell’  —  Conway: Trump might block McGahn testimony  —  (CNN)A defiant Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that President Donald Trump should ignore congressional subpoenas demanding the administration turn …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Chuck and Nancy head back to the White House
Discussion: AMN - Al-Masdar News
New York Times:
Asylum Seekers Face New Restraints Under Latest Trump Orders  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday ordered new restrictions on asylum seekers at the Mexican border — including application fees and work permit restraints — and directed that cases in the already clogged immigration courts be settled within 180 days.
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Washington Post:
Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge  —  President Trump ordered major changes to U.S. asylum policies in a White House memo released Monday night, including measures that would charge fees to those applying for humanitarian refuge in the United States.
Discussion: Shakesville and Axios
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Trump introduces sweeping changes to asylum in memo
Washington Post:   Poll: Percentage of Democrats who see border ‘crisis’ jumps 17 points since January amid spike in migrant families
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Breaking: Stacey Abrams won't run for US Senate in Georgia  —  Stacey Abrams said Tuesday that she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2020 but left open the possibility she could launch a presidential campaign.  —  The decision not to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue follows months …
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Vanessa Williams / Washington Post:
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will not run for Senate in 2020  —  Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who garnered national attention after narrowly losing her bid for governor last year, announced Tuesday that she will not run for Senate, despite a fierce lobbying effort by party leaders.
Washington Post:
What was Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale doing in Romania?  —  BRUSSELS — The day before special counsel Robert S. Mueller III submitted his report to the Justice Department last month, Washington was abuzz with what revelations it might contain about contacts between the 2016 Trump campaign and foreign officials.
Discussion: Raw Story
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Drops Syndication Service That Supplied Anti-Semitic Cartoon  —  A ‘Times’ spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively about the paper's decision to stop using syndicated cartoons, including those from the syndicator of the offensive cartoon.  —  Lloyd Grove
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Scott Smith / Associated Press:
Venezuela's Guaido takes to streets in military uprising  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed soldiers early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for the military …
Discussion: Reuters and Defense One
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Bloomberg:
Venezuela's Guaido Claims Military Support to Take Power in Caracas
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied …
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
‘Bizarre, Dangerous, and Insulting’: Baby Nurses Fed Up With Trump's Bogus Abortion Rants  —  They say his talk of executing babies distorts the palliative care they provide gravely sick infants.  —  President Trump's latest rant about babies being executed after birth is riling up neonatal nurses …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Abortion Incitement
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Adam Schiff to make criminal referral for Erik Prince to Justice Department  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told the Washington Post on Tuesday that his committee will make a criminal referral for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince to the Justice Department.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Joe Biden / YouTube:
America: Anything Is Possible … America is an idea.  An idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.  It's a place where ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Discussion: CNN and CBS News
Popular Information:
Facebook allows the Trump campaign to run false and misleading ads with impunity  —  To stay updated on this story, subscribe to the Popular Information newsletter at popular.info/subscribe.  —  I regret to inform you that Facebook and the Trump campaign are at it again.
Angelo Codevilla / American Greatness:
Why Are Clapper and Brennan Not in Jail?  —  The clearest of all the laws concerning U.S. intelligence is Section 798, 18 U.S. Code—widely known in the Intelligence Community as “the Comint Statute,” or “the 10 and 10.”  Unlike other laws, this is a “simple liability” law.
 
 
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Timothy / Media Matters for America:
New NRA President Carolyn Meadows chairs the board of directors for the largest Confederate monument in America
Discussion: Vox and Townhall
Sports Illustrated:
Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab and Burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Sen. Elizabeth Warren / Essence:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren On Black Women Maternal Mortality: ‘Hold Health Systems Accountable For Protecting Black Moms’
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
America Under Attack by White Supremacists Acting Like ISIS
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Rolling Stone
Windsor Mann / The Week:
What all of President Trump's ‘jokes’ have in common
HuffPost:
Poll: 30% Of Conservatives, 15% Of GOP Say They Won't Vote For Trump
Kelsey Snell / NPR:
House Democrats' Campaign Chief Says Focus On Kitchen Table Issues, Not Impeachment
Pew Research Center:
Many Across the Globe Are Dissatisfied With How Democracy Is Working
Discussion: Politico and Axios
 Earlier Items: 
David Brooks / New York Times:
An Era Defined by Fear
The Editorial Board:
Trump Injures America 10,000 Times
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Former U.S. Diplomats Lobby to Stop South Sudan War Crimes Court
BBC:
Indonesia's planning minister announces capital city move
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Pompeo defends US support for Saudis in Yemen as 'in America's best interest'
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Stephen Moore wants people to pay more attention to his economic policies. Challenge accepted.
Discussion: New York Times, Politico, Raw Story, CNBC and CNN
Sally Schindel / USA Today:
There's nothing funny about today's highly potent marijuana. It killed my son.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Why Vermont's single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it