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4:10 PM ET, October 12, 2019

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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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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.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
America Exports Its Corruption to Ukraine  —  Once upon a time, we spread ideals of democracy and rule of law.  Now?  We send Giuliani.  —  KIEV, Ukraine — In 2014, Ukraine's wildly corrupt president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled to Russia after mass protests on the Maidan, Kiev's central square.
CNN:
Rudy Giuliani tells CNN he's unaware he's under investigation for Ukraine involvement  —  Trump: 'I don't know' if Giuliani is still my attorney  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that he's not aware he's under investigation for his involvement …
NBC News:
Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch, says official
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash
CNN:
Exclusive: Military leader of Syrian Kurds tells US ‘you are leaving us to be slaughtered’  —  (CNN)The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, “You are leaving us to be slaughtered,” demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
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New York Times:
Trump's Abandonment of the Kurds in Syria Has Other Allies Worried  —  President Trump's surprise acquiescence to a Turkish incursion into northern Syria this week has shaken American allies, and not just because it was a betrayal of a loyal partner.  What alarmed them even more was his sheer unpredictability.
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Raw Story
Kurdistan24:   Senior female Kurdish political leader killed in ambush in Syria
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Goodbye, America. Goodbye, Freedom Man.
Discussion: Althouse
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:   Bloodied clothes and body bags: Kurds mourn dead in Syria
Reuters:   Iran offers to mediate between Syrian Kurds, Turkey
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Anatomy of the phone call now imperiling Trump's presidency  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — There were dozens of ears listening to President Donald Trump's 30-minute phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry , and as many eyes that saw what he said.
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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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Ex-Republican: Do we still agree on beating Trump?  After your LGBTQ forum, I'm not sure.  —  I'm not asking you to betray your principles, but Republican culture warriors are lying in wait.  Why let them divide us where we already agree?  —  CONNECT  —  Dear Democrats:  —  We've been together for a while now.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Impeachment has put Trump in a different place.  He's showing it every day.  —  President Trump delivered a characteristic performance Thursday night in Minneapolis.  His 100-minute rally speech was complete with scattered vulgarities, caustic attacks on political opponents …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Harry Reid warns Democrats: Trump is a ‘very, very smart man’ who won't be easily beaten in 2020  —  Harry Reid: How Democrats can beat Trump in Nevada  —  Watch the full interview on “The Axe Files” Saturday at 7 p.m. on CNN.  —  Washington (CNN)Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Washington Times
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell tightlipped as impeachment furor grows
Discussion: Breitbart and Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
A Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’  —  Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.  —  There were billionaires (Leslie Wexner and Leon Black) …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Favorite Impeachment Lawyer Is ...Trump Himself  —  President Donald Trump has slowly but surely bent the Office of the White House Counsel to his will.  —  On Tuesday, the Office of the White House Counsel delivered an eight-page letter to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
Financial Times:
China makes few concessions in trade truce with US  —  After five months of constant escalations in their long-running trade war with the US, Chinese officials on Friday finally secured a respite.  —  In return for a series of modest concessions, most of which had been offered …
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
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Brent Staples / New York Times:
How Italians Became ‘White’  —  Mr. Staples is a member of the editorial board.  —  Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it declared in 1790 that only “free white persons, who have, or shall migrate into the United States” were eligible to become naturalized citizens.
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
The Babylon Bee:
Elizabeth Warren Recalls How She Lost Her Teaching Job When Her Fake Mustache Fell Off Revealing She's A Woman  —  U.S.—As part of her campaign, Elizabeth Warren has begun sharing stories illustrating the hardship and discrimination she's faced.  Recently, she revealed a particularly tough …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Wall Street Journal:
The Turk and the President  —  The Syrian retreat is all too typical …
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
All-women Delta crew flies 120 girls to NASA to encourage female aviators
Shawn Donnan / Bloomberg:
Trump's China Deal Yields Plenty of Questions, and Critics
Discussion: Raw Story
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
As Impeachment Divide Persists, More Voters Embrace an Inquiry
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
The Trump campaign and Russian government are apparently on the same moral plane
YouTube:
Indicted: Rudy Giuliani Allies Arrested At Airport Boasted Of Trump Relationship, Mar-A-Lago Stays
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
He who must not be named: How Hunter Biden became a conversation-stopper
 Earlier Items: 
Annalisa Quinn / NPR:
In ‘Catch And Kill,’ Ronan Farrow Offers A Damning Portrait Of A Conflicted NBC
Mathias Döpfner / Politico:
Never again ‘never again’
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
It is wrong — and corrosive — to conflate ‘unfavorable news’ and ‘fake news’
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Raw, angry, uncensored: Welcome to Trump's impeachment-era campaign
Discussion: New York Times
Nancy Amons / WSMV-TV:
News4 talks one-on-one with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace: For All the GOP Criticisms of Whistleblower, ‘The Basic Allegation Has Been Largely Confirmed’