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7:45 PM ET, October 11, 2019

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Newsweek:
Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake  —  A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.  —  Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official …
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Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey  —  Escape comes after Trump cleared way for Erdogan to launch offensive on Kurds  —  Five Isis militants have broken out of a prison in northern Syria after Turkish shelling nearby, a spokesman in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has said.
New York Times:
ISIS Rears Its Head, Adding to Chaos as Turkey Battles Kurds
Washington Post:
Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her  —  The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whose abrupt ouster in May has become a topic of interest for House impeachment investigators said Friday that her departure came as a direct result …
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New York Times:
Trump Had Ukraine Envoy Removed on ‘False Claims,’ She Tells House Inquiry  —  Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine, she told impeachment investigators on Friday, despite a boss saying she had “done nothing wrong.”  —  WASHINGTON — Marie L. Yovanovitch …
The Hill:
White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again  —  The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News  —  The anchor is one of the faces of the network's news division and one of its most important journalistic assets.  —  In a shocking turn of events that stunned the media industry, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith announced his departure from the network after more than 23 years on Friday afternoon.
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CNN:
Shepard Smith makes shocking announcement that he is leaving Fox News  —  New York (CNN Business)In a stunning announcement, Shepard Smith said on his Friday show that after more than two decades at Fox News, he was stepping down as chief news anchor, and leaving the network.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Shepard Smith, Fox News Anchor, Abruptly Departs From Network  —  Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News whose reporting often drew the ire of President Trump, said on Friday that he was leaving the cable news network after 23 years, an abrupt move that left some of his co-workers openly stunned.
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani's relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation: Sources  —  The business relationship between President Donald Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the men charged Thursday in a campaign finance scheme is a subject of the ongoing criminal investigation …
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash  —  Aram Roston, Karen Freifeld, Polina Ivanova  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden …
Discussion: New York Post
CBS San Francisco:   Ukrainian Andrey Kukushkin, Linked To Giuliani Associates, Arrested In San Francisco On Campaign Finance Violations
New York Times:
Trump Taxes: Justice Dept. Asks Judges to Block Subpoena  —  But the department did not agree with President Trump's lawyers that a sitting president is immune from criminal investigation.  —  The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to stop the release …
Discussion: Political Wire
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The Daily Beast:
More Potential Whistleblowers Are Contacting Congress  —  The first two officials who came forward about the president's pressure campaign on Ukraine seem to be just the beginning, according to Hill sources.  —  New potential whistleblowers are coming forward to the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
David Priess / Washington Post:
The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think  —  The history of past acquittals isn't as helpful to Trump as naysayers believe  —  As the House of Representatives builds momentum to impeach President Trump, conventional wisdom holds that the constitutionally required …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Bad polls for Trump shake GOP
Discussion: Daily Kos and Progress Pond
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Kamala's Fake Lover: Jacob Wohl Told Me it Was for a Spike TV Show  —  The duo behind botched smears against Elizabeth Warren, Robert Mueller, and Pete Buttigieg have truly outdone themselves.  —  Inept conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman held another bizarre press conference …
Discussion: The Daily Dot
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Thousands of US troops deploying to Saudi Arabia: Pentagon  —  The United States is deploying an additional 2,800 U.S. forces to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Iran's attack on Saudi oil facilities in September, the Pentagon announced on Friday.  The deployment includes fighter squadrons …
Discussion: Politico and UPI
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judges Strike Several Blows to Trump Immigration Policies  —  Judges in three states ruled against a policy that would withhold green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance such as Medicaid.  Another judge ruled on border wall funding.  —  Three federal judges issued injunctions …
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Immigrant Wealth Test Blocked, Called ‘Repugnant’ Policy
Discussion: Raw Story
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Judge blocks Trump move to deny green cards to recipients of government-benefits
Discussion: ABC News
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr, Trump's Hatchet Man, Is About to Become His Scapegoat  —  Trump's DOJ is arguing that Congress should never have heard Nixon's “smoking gun” tape and should be barred from reviewing any further evidence of Trump's criminality.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Since William Barr became …
Discussion: gen.medium.com and Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Pence plan 11th-hour mission to save Kentucky governor  —  The White House is planning an 11th-hour push to stave off an embarrassing defeat for the Republican governor of Kentucky, with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence expected to make separate trips to the state in the runup to the Nov. 5 election.
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
Pompeo refuses to say if he met with Giuliani on February Warsaw trip  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is doing “everything he can,” according to Andrea Mitchell, to avoid discussing Rudy Giuliani.  Former CIA director John Brennan joins to discuss.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Rich McHugh / Vanity Fair:
“YOU ARE TO STAND DOWN”: RONAN FARROW'S PRODUCER ON HOW NBC KILLED ITS WEINSTEIN STORY  —  Rich McHugh recounts how top NBC brass, including news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim, bowed to Harvey Weinstein to quash the truth.  —  One year ago, I resigned from NBC News …
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Newt Gingrich's Hypocrisy on Trump Impeachment: ‘I Think I Remember’ His Push Against Clinton  —  Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called out former House Speaker and Trump ally Newt Gingrich on Friday for attacking the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry …
Rosie McCall / Newsweek:
Greta Thunberg snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize by committee run by Norway, one of the world's biggest oil and natural gas exporters  —  The Nobel Committee has surprised oddsmakers by not picking 16-year-old Greta Thunberg to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.  —  The five-member Norwegian panel …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and twitchy.com
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Ricochet:
Greta Snubbed by Nobel Peace Committee
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and The Root
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed News:
A Group Of Students Burned A Latina Author's Book Because They Felt Attacked For Being White  —  Jennine Capó Crucet spoke about “white privilege” at Georgia Southern University.  The freshman audience said she attacked them for being white and privileged.
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
How Trump-Country Democrat Rep. Max Rose Got to Impeachment  —  Because this is a story about Max Rose, it has to at some point find him at Jody's Club Forest, a Staten Island bar he famously frequents, drinking pitchers of Bud Light.  And because Max Rose is who he is …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Goes Down in Flames on ‘The View’: 'Don't Mansplain!'  —  The Republican senator's flailing performance did not win over anyone on “The View” Friday morning.  —  Meghan McCain skipped out on Rand Paul's appearance on The View Friday morning—citing “personal reasons” …
Discussion: Mediaite, twitchy.com and Contemptor
 
 
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues.
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
The Free Beacon Fired A Top Reporter For A “Financial Transaction” With Someone He Frequently Covered
Lauren McGaughy / Dallas Morning News:
ICE says Mexican citizen who confessed to shooting transgender woman in Dallas was deported in 2010
David Siders / Politico:
O'Rourke raises $4.5 million in third quarter
Discussion: Associated Press
John Harwood / CNBC:
Common thread for Mueller, Ukraine and Syria: Russia Helps Trump, Trump Helps Russia
New York Times:
How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice
 Earlier Items: 
Derek Lawrence / EW.com:
We interviewed Elizabeth Warren about Ballers, and only Ballers
Discussion: Queerty, PinkNews and HuffPost
Rich Miller / Capitol Fax.com:
UPDATED x2 *** Sanguinetti bows out of congressional race
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Bored by His Own Speech, Just Wants to Talk About TV Shows
Center for American ProgressCenter …:
Trump's Plan To Privatize Medicare
Discussion: Townhall
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Stunning in ugliness & tone’: Trump denounced for attacking Somali refugees in Minnesota
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden's son