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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Company part-owned by Jared Kushner got $90m from unknown offshore investors since 2017  —  Overseas investment flowed to Cadre while Trump's son-in-law works as US envoy, raising conflict of interest questions  —  A real estate company part-owned by Jared Kushner has received $90m …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats hope some presidential candidates drop out — and run for Senate  —  Democrats facing a steep uphill climb to win back the Senate want Beto O'Rourke to reconsider his long-shot bid for president and take another look at running for the Senate in Texas, especially if his White House bid fails to pick up momentum.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Can't Make Senate Republicans Do Anything  —  But he still can stall them when he wants to.  —  At the same time that Republican senators are sticking with Donald Trump over his scandals, they're showing less and less loyalty to him in other ways.  In the last few weeks:
Discussion: Washington Post
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans whistle past the ‘legislative graveyard’  —  The Senate is going to get back to good ol'-fashioned legislating any day now.  Republicans swear it.  —  Mitch McConnell's Senate has been almost entirely focused on confirming President Donald Trump's personnel and judges and has little …
Sharon Nunn / Wall Street Journal:
The South's Economy Is Falling Behind: ‘All of a Sudden the Money Stops Flowing’  —  Policies that once drove the region's growth have proven inadequate in an economy shaped by the forces of globalization  —  Seth Herald for The Wall Street Journal  —  NATCHEZ, Miss.—The American South spent …
Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Chao created special path for McConnell's favored projects  —  The Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao designated a special liaison to help with grant applications and other priorities from her husband Mitch McConnell's state of Kentucky, paving the way for grants totaling …
Washington Post:
NRA money flowed to board members amid allegedly lavish spending by top officials and vendors  —  A former pro football player who serves on the National Rifle Association board was paid $400,000 by the group in recent years for public outreach and firearms training.
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
New Yorkers would pick Gillibrand over de Blasio in 2020 — if forced to choose  —  It's no contest if New York Democratic voters had to choose just between the two home town candidates running for president — Mayor Bill de Blasio or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
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Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
Bill de Blasio Shrugs Off Not Registering on Important Iowa Poll: 'It's a Poll of 600 Iowans'
Discussion: New York Post
Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats buzz about AOC primarying Chuck Schumer
Discussion: Political Wire
CNBC:
President Trump to CNBC: China is going to make a deal because 'they're going to have to'  —  KEY POINTS  — President Donald Trump on Monday said that he believes China will make a deal with the U.S. “because they're going to have to.”  — Trump's remarks during an exclusive interview on CNBC's …
Discussion: Political Wire
Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Trump and Macron's symbolic friendship tree ‘has died’  —  French media say oak given as a gift by Macron and planted at the White House as part of charm offensive is no more  —  The tree planted by Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, at the White House as a symbol …
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:   Symbolic Friendship Tree Planted by Trump and Macron Has Died, Reports Say
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Dem, GOP senators want to check Trump's power to sell arms to Saudis  —  Sens. Murphy and Young want a resolution that would let Congress vote on last month's arms deal and block or restrict future weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.  —  WASHINGTON — Two senators plan to introduce a bill Monday designed …
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Megan Specia / New York Times:   Saudi Teenager Faces Death Sentence for Acts When He was 10
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senators make bipartisan push to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says  —  $4,700,000,000.  —  It's more than the combined ticket sales of the last two “Avengers” movies.  It's more than what virtually any professional sports team is worth.  And it's the amount that Google made from the work …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Can newspapers be saved from Big Tech? This proposal aims to try
Discussion: Politico
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren, Booker stand out on chaotic Iowa stage  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In the early state where field organization has traditionally mattered the most, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have quietly and patiently concentrated their resources toward building grassroots machines designed to power them on caucus night.
Discussion: Des Moines Register and Althouse
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
The goal for 2020 underdogs in Iowa: to become the Joe Biden alternative
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer's Message Was a Clue for Mueller, Who Set It Aside  —  WASHINGTON — As the special counsel's investigators pursued the question of whether President Trump tried to impede their work, they uncovered compelling evidence — a voice mail recording and statements from a trusted witness — that might have led to him.
New York Times:
People Are Trying to Figure Out William Barr.  He's Busy Stockpiling Power.  —  Is he the operator who spun the then-secret Mueller report?  Or the straight shooter who later disclosed portions that were damaging to President Trump?  —  WASHINGTON — Not long before Attorney General William …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Ginsburg Hints at Sharp Divisions Ahead as Supreme Court Term Nears End  —  WASHINGTON — In 2012, as the Supreme Court was mulling the fate of President Barack Obama's health care law, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg addressed the American Constitution Society, a liberal group.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:   Conservative gains at Supreme Court leading to anger, frustration and ‘peeks behind the curtain’
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Age matters more than sexual orientation to U.S. presidential voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a sign that a presidential hopeful's sexual orientation has diminished as a concern for voters, Americans are more likely to say they would reject a candidate older than 70 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists can't repeat their Watergate-hero act.  The reasons should make us grieve.  —  The question from an audience member made the three network chiefs bristle:  —  Why aren't the news media holding the White House accountable like they did during the Nixon/Watergate era?
Associated Press:
Hong Kong to push ahead with bill that sparked huge protest  —  HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's leader signaled Monday that her government will push ahead with controversial amendments to extradition laws despite a massive protest against them that underscored fears about mainland China's broadening footprint …
Discussion: CNN, American Greatness and VICE News
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Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
A Million March in Hong Kong Over Eroding Freedoms, Organizers Say
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Iran-linked terrorists caught stockpiling explosives in north-west London  —  Terrorists linked to Iran were caught stockpiling tonnes of explosive materials on the outskirts of London in a secret British bomb factory, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.  —  Radicals linked to Hizbollah …
 
 
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Democrats by the Dozen in Iowa
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The 2020 News Cycle Will Look Very Different
Associated Press:
Top Iran diplomat warns US it cannot ‘expect to stay safe’
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden gambles on high-risk primary strategy
Discussion: ABC News
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Latino leaders sound alarms over Trump reelection in 2020
Discussion: Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Close Encounters at the Iowa Democratic Fundraiser
 Earlier Items: 
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Think America can ditch Trump in 2020? The world says otherwise
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Buttigieg's big accomplishment that he never mentions on the campaign trail
Axios:
Why Trump is a Florida Man
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Business leaders urgently discuss strategies to claw back Trump's trade powers
Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
China adds Washington Post, Guardian to ‘Great Firewall’ blacklist
Jonathan M. Katz / Los Angeles Times:
Call immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
In Alabama — where lawmakers banned abortion for rape victims — rapists' parental rights are protected
Discussion: The Mahablog and Progress Pond