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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Said to Be Under Investigation for Ukraine Work  —  Prosecutors are investigating whether the president's lawyer broke laws meant to prevent covert foreign influence on the government.  —  WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump's …
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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
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘Stop talking’: Trump advisers want Giuliani dumped  —  For weeks, prominent Republican advisers have been privately imploring President Donald Trump to sideline Rudy Giuliani after a barrage of inconsistent, combative and occasionally cringe-inducing media interviews, according to three people familiar with the conversations.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:   Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch, says official
CBS San Francisco:   Ukrainian Andrey Kukushkin, Linked To Giuliani Associates, Arrested In San Francisco On Campaign Finance Violations
New York Times:
Kevin McAleenan Is Out as Acting Homeland Security Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Friday the departure of Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security who spent his six-month tenure trying to curb a surge of asylum seekers …
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Why Trump's Fourth Secretary of Homeland Security Just Resigned  —  When Kevin McAleenan became the acting Secretary of Homeland Security, in April, a D.H.S. official, who knew McAleenan personally, told me, “I'm not sure how he can finesse things with this Administration.”
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Kevin McAleenan resigns as acting homeland security secretary  —  (CNN)Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security since April and the fourth person to serve in that post since the Trump presidency began, submitted his resignation to the White House on Friday, a source tells CNN.
Washington Post:
Trump says he is replacing McAleenan as acting homeland security secretary
Discussion: Roll Call
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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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Goodbye, America.  Goodbye, Freedom Man.  —  Under Trump, the U.S. becomes the world's fair-weather friend.  —  The time is the early 1980s.  The place is the South China Sea.  A sailor aboard the U.S.S. Midway, an aircraft carrier, spots a leaky boat jammed with people fleeing tyranny in Indochina.
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:   The Latest: Pentagon says US came under fire from Turks
Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey
Foreign Policy:
Pompeo's State Department Reels as Impeachment Inquiry Sinks Morale  —  As the investigation grows, so, too, does the foreign service officers' legal defense fund.  —  The fast-moving impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump has dragged the State Department into the center …
Discussion: The Guardian and NBC News
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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 …
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren's same-sex marriage quip captures what some find exciting — and others distressing — about her  —  About 90 minutes into Thursday's forum on LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles, a gay rights leader posed a question to Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How would she respond if a voter approached her and said …
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The Babylon Bee:
Elizabeth Warren Recalls How She Lost Her Teaching Job When Her Fake Mustache Fell Off Revealing She's A Woman
Discussion: twitchy.com
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Why Shep Smith finally walked out of Fox News for good  —  New York (CNN Buiness)Last month Shep Smith decided that he had simply had enough.  —  With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it, the Fox News star prided himself on anchoring …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace: For All the GOP Criticisms of Whistleblower, ‘The Basic Allegation Has Been Largely Confirmed’  —  Fox News' Chris Wallace spoke with Shepard Smith this afternoon and said that for all the Republican criticisms of the intel whistleblower, the basic allegation has been largely corroborated.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Newt Gingrich's Hypocrisy on Trump Impeachment: 'I Think I Remember …
Discussion: HuffPost
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: Washington Monthly and Boing Boing
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Nancy Amons / WSMV-TV:   News4 talks one-on-one with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
James Comey Would Like to Help  —  The former F.B.I. director wants an end to the Trump presidency.  And yes, he knows you might think he caused it.  —  James Comey slumps strategically in restaurants — all 6-foot-8 of him, drooping faux-furtively with his back to the room …
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: HuffPost
BuzzFeed News:
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China  —  We thought trade would bring Western values to China.  Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.  —  “Chinese netizens hail Apple's removal of app that aids HK rioters.”  —  That was how the Global Times …
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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump renews claim that he is immune from criminal investigation in effort to block Manhattan DA probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Raw, angry, uncensored: Welcome to Trump's impeachment-era campaign  —  LAKE CHARLES, La. — First he claimed the political establishment was rigging the 2016 election against him.  Then he accused special counsel Robert Mueller of overseeing an “attempted takeover of the government.”
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
It is wrong — and corrosive — to conflate ‘unfavorable news’ and ‘fake news’
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump announces partial trade deal with China, lifting hopes that tensions could ease
San Francisco Chronicle:
SF man indicted with Ukrainian associates of Giuliani wanted to open a huge marijuana ranch in Livermore
Politico:
UK ‘softens Brexit position’ in final push for deal
Ed Whelan / National Review:
D.C. Circuit Ruling on Subpoena of Trump Financial Records
Discussion: New York Sun
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
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 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Those Foreign Business Ties? The Trump Sons Have Plenty Too
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
The Free Beacon Fired A Top Reporter For A “Financial Transaction” With Someone He Frequently Covered
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Pence plan 11th-hour mission to save Kentucky governor
Discussion: Associated Press
David Priess / Washington Post:
The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr, Trump's Hatchet Man, Is About to Become His Scapegoat
Discussion: gen.medium.com and Raw Story
 

 
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