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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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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 …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Senior adviser to Pompeo resigns — Michael McKinley, a career diplomat and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has resigned his position amid rising dissatisfaction and plummeting morale inside the State Department over what is seen as Pompeo's failure to support personnel ensnared in the Ukraine controversy.
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Washington Post:
At least four national security officials raised alarms about Ukraine policy before and after …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Ex-Ukraine ambassador to Congress: Trump told State Department to remove her
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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.
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CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims ‘we have no soldiers in Syria’
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says U.S. Troops Have Quit Syria. It's Not True.
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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
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Kim Wehle / The Bulwark:
The ‘No Collusion’ Song Goes Silent
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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 …
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani's Ukraine Team: In Search of Influence, Dirt and Money
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Federal appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld a subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records from the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump loses appeal to stop House subpoena of his tax documents — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday lost his appeal to stop a House subpoena of his tax documents from his longtime accountant Mazars USA. — In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District …
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CNN:
Pentagon announces new troop deployments to Saudi Arabia — Washington (CNN)The Pentagon will deploy about 1,500 extra troops to Saudi Arabia in answer to requests by the leading US military commander in the Middle East and, in part, because the US Navy is unable to send a relief aircraft carrier …
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon was confused. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine had been appropriated in late 2018 by Congress, intended to help fend off aggression by neighboring Russia.
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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 …
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Townhall, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
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 …
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Raw Story
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
2020 Presidential debate sites announced for general election — The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Belmont University in Nashville will host the 2020 presidential debates ahead of next November's general election.
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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 …
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Stunning in ugliness & tone’: Trump denounced for attacking Somali refugees in Minnesota — For roughly six minutes Thursday night, President Trump predictably singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his campaign rally in her home district of Minneapolis.
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Elizabeth Ralph / Politico:
“You spent a f—ing week on pneumonia-gate” — The news of Senator Bernie Sanders' heart attack has made headlines, sure. But compared to the relentless media reports about Hillary Clinton's near fainting-spell in 2016, brought on by pneumonia, the coverage of Sanders' health problems has been light.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump predicts senators will quash impeachment. His allies aren't so sure. — Donald Trump made a defiant prediction last week that Senate Republicans will be the bulwark to keep Democrats from ending his presidency. — But behind the scenes, Republicans and Trump's informal circle …
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The White House
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Republicans stumbling over question at heart of impeachment
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump Policy That Favors Wealthy Immigrants — An injunction prevents the administration from withholding green cards to immigrants who receive federal assistance like Medicaid, pending further legal review. — A federal judge in New York issued a nationwide injunction …
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Axios
Gregg T. Nunziata / Just Security:
The Need for a Bipartisan Stand Against the White House Counsel Letter — Earlier this week, White House Counsel Pat Cippolone sent a jaw-dropping letter to Congress. Dripping with contempt, it announced that the Administration has no intention of submitting any further information or allowing …
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden's son — Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn't drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. — “Can you imagine if I took 3 cents from the Ukraine or 4 cents from China?”
Rich Miller / Capitol Fax.com:
Sanguinetti bows out of congressional race — * From Evelyn Sanguinetti via a campaign spokesperson... It is with deep regret that I must announce that I have officially decided to end my campaign for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Congress for the 6th Congressional District of Illinois.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Bad polls for Trump shake GOP — President Trump's troubles are deepening, according to several recent opinion polls that show rising public support for impeachment. — Those polls include one released Wednesday from Fox News that sent shock waves through Washington.
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