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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
New Book: Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Leland Keyser Doesn't Believe Her — “It just didn't make any sense,” lifelong friend Leland Keyser told New York Times reporters about Ford's allegations, adding “I don't have any confidence in the story.” — Buried at the end of their new book …
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Power Line and New York Times
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NBC News:
Democrats call for Kavanaugh impeachment over new sexual misconduct claims — Trump defended Kavanaugh after two New York Times reporters revealed new information on the sexual misconduct allegations facing the Supreme Court Justice. — A slew of prominent Democrats called on Congress …
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, The Week, Daily Wire, SCOTUSblog, RedState and fox5sandiego.com
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Elizabeth Warren Joins Harris, Castro in Calling for Kavanaugh's Impeachment
Elizabeth Warren Joins Harris, Castro in Calling for Kavanaugh's Impeachment
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The Daily Beast, ABC News, CNN, The Daily Caller and Outside the Beltway
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
Calls for Kavanaugh's Impeachment Come Amid New Misconduct Allegations
Calls for Kavanaugh's Impeachment Come Amid New Misconduct Allegations
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Washington Post, PJ Media Home, ABC News and POLITICUSUSA
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh's character
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The Federalist, Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Patterico's Pontifications, twitchy.com and Instapundit
Martha Raddatz / ABC News:
Iran fired cruise missiles in attack on Saudi oil facility: Senior US official — Iran launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory in the attack on a key Saudi oil facility Saturday, a senior Trump administration official told ABC News Sunday.
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Raw Story, The American Conservative, Informed Comment, Bloomberg, The Week and Daily Wire
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CNN:
Trump says US ‘locked and loaded depending on verification’ of attack on Saudi oil field
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Mediaite, BizPac Review, NPR, WTKR-TV and middleeastmonitor.com
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ against attackers of Saudi oil facility ‘depending on verification’
Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ against attackers of Saudi oil facility ‘depending on verification’
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One America News Network, Breitbart, Townhall and The Intercept
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi oil
Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi oil
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One America News Network and Fox News
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy — Purdue Pharma, the drug manufacturer accused of triggering the nation's epidemic of opioid addiction through its sale of the profitable but highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy Sunday.
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New York Times, One America News Network, The Week, Axios and The Crime Report
Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Russia carried out a ‘stunning’ breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil — On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the United States and was seizing …
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New Republic
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren's first priority as president: ending government corruption — Warren's bold plan to crack down on corruption in Washington, explained. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) just previewed the first major piece of legislation she'd try to get passed through Congress if elected president …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Warren releases plan to tackle Washington corruption — NEW YORK — Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a new plan Monday to tackle corruption in Washington, part of the Democratic presidential candidate's ongoing promises to enact “big structural change” if elected.
Discussion:
Politico
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Nancy Pelosi's next target: Mitch McConnell — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will escalate her caucus' anti-Mitch McConnell messaging this fall, testing a theory that this can be more effective than just continuing the party's anti-Trump rhetoric, Democratic leadership aides tell Axios.
Discussion:
Political Wire, Politico and Mediaite
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Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
Steven Mnuchin's Mysterious Link to Creepy Epstein Model Scout — The treasury secretary's name shows up on official records for a company formed in the 1980s by Jeffrey Epstein's close friend, the model scout Jean-Luc Brunel. — In the late 1980s—before he was a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Shakes Up New Hampshire Operation — Senator Bernie Sanders has overhauled his New Hampshire state operations five months before the primary, as his campaign fights to maintain support in a state he won by more than 22 percentage points in 2016.
Discussion:
The Daily Beast
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Bernie Sanders shakes up campaign leadership in New Hampshire
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Why Trump is rallying in New Mexico — At a Trump rally back in February in El Paso, Texas, the campaign saw an unexpected pattern in the attendee data — a large crowd of New Mexicans crossed the state line to be there. — “That was our first glimpse into the idea that there might …
Discussion:
Politico
Tia Goldenberg / Associated Press:
Israeli PM vows to annex ‘all the settlements’ in West Bank — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to annex “all the settlements” in the West Bank, including an enclave deep in the heart of the largest Palestinian city, in a last-ditch move that appeared aimed …
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Politico and Political Wire
Streiff / RedState:
Babylon Bee Accurately Predicts a Snopes Fact Check Nine Months Before They Do It — A customer hold a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken outside a KFC restaurant, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, in Mountain View, Calif. Yum Brands Inc., which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, reports second-quarter results after the close of regular trading.
Thor Benson / The Daily Beast:
The Climate Crisis Is Poised to Make Huge Swaths of America Totally Uninsurable — “People are going to be trapped because once it's uninsurable, good luck selling the house,” one climate expert cautioned. — As climate change spurs increasingly destructive wildfires in California …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Ilhan Omar says she's controversial only because ‘people seem to want the controversy’ — Rep. Ilhan Omar, reacting to outrage over a resurfaced video in which she appeared to compare migrant detention centers to the slave trade, said Sunday she's “controversial” only because “people seem to want the controversy.”
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Breitbart
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Trenton councilman defends McBride, says ‘Jew down’ is just a ‘statement of speech’ — Muschal: 'You know, it's like a car dealer, they wanted $5,000, you Jew ‘em down to $4,000’ … Longtime Trenton City Councilman George Muschal says that will he didn't hear a colleague make an anti-Semitic slur …
CBS News:
Most Americans say climate change should be addressed now — CBS News poll — A majority of Americans think action needs to be taken right now to address climate change. Most consider it at least to be a serious problem — including more than a quarter who say it is a crisis.
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