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New York Times:
White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call  —  Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard President Trump's July phone call with Ukraine's president and was alarmed, testified that he tried and failed to add key details to the rough transcript.
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Washington Post:
Firsthand account of Trump's Ukraine call puts GOP in bind, emboldens Democrats  —  A top National Security Council official on Tuesday delivered a firsthand account of President Trump pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, putting congressional Republicans in a bind …
CNN:
Shouting match erupts in Vindman deposition as Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to out whistleblower  —  (CNN)Democrats and Republicans got into a shouting match behind closed doors on Tuesday while interviewing a witness in the impeachment investigation, with Democrats accusing Republicans …
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Two volatile meetings at the White House have become central to the impeachment inquiry  —  The Ukrainian officials arrived at the White House on July 10 hoping to cement their country's relationship with the United States, solidifying support the Trump administration seemed reluctant to extend for reasons they didn't fully understand.
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
Vindman is a Jew, Not a Ukrainian, Mr. Duffy  —  Forget about the specifics of the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in the Ukraine matter and what it might explain or portend.  Let's talk instead for a minute about the specifics of one particular insinuation about him almost from the minute we learned of his existence.
Washington Post:
Mike Pence is reliably, relentlessly wrong  —  THE MORE undisciplined President Trump becomes in his scattershot defenses of his behavior toward Ukraine, the more robotically Vice President Pence seems to stay on message.  Unfortunately, that message is an indefensible falsehood.
Discussion: PBS NewsHour and The Hill
New York Times:
Former G.O.P. Lawmaker Pressed for Ambassador's Ouster, Diplomat Will Say
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:   State Department official to testify that John Bolton warned about influence of Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Vindman is a patriot, not a Ukrainian spy
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Slandering an American war hero must have consequences
Discussion: American Greatness
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
NEW: Reporter Behind Story on Katie Hill Affair Worked for Republican Candidates Who Ran Against Hill  —  Jennifer Van Laar, the writer behind the RedState.com and Daily Mail stories that included nude photos of former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), is a longtime GOP consultant who has worked …
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Caroline Kitchener / The Lily:
Revenge porn drove Katie Hill out of Congress. Would that have happened to a man?
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   Convicted Trump aide to run for ex-Rep. Katie Hill's seat after she was forced out by revenge porn attack
Associated Press:
Papadopoulos seeks California seat left vacant by Rep. Hill
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows  —  Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.  —  The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
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Benjamin H. Strauss / Nature:
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding  —  Abstract  —  Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m.  This quantity is comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model …
Discussion: Big Think and Rolling Stone
The Daily Beast:
Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat  —  The President of the United States amplified a tweet calling one of his diplomats a liar—and, by implication, absolving a Ukrainian gas mogul of any mob ties.  —  President Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting …
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Anna Schecter / NBC News:   Diplomat Bill Taylor receives rock star reception in Ukraine after House testimony
Gary Stein / Washington Post:   President Trump may have violated criminal provisions of the Hatch Act
Aaron Schaffer / Al-Monitor:
How Kim Kardashian became Armenia's most famous advocate  —  The reality television star is informally lobbying for recognition of the Armenian genocide.  —  Kim Kardashian speaks alongside US President Donald Trump during a second-chance hiring and criminal justice reform event in the East Room …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Trump's dealings with Turkey pave way for House vote acknowledging Armenian genocide
Discussion: Hot Air and Wall Street Journal
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
White House Finds Loophole in Search for Homeland Security Secretary  —  Officials who lead agencies in the department and echo the president's language on immigration were initially thought to be ineligible under a federal law.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has found a way to bypass …
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
Mulvaney was left in the dark on al-Baghdadi operation  —  President Trump's acting chief of staff first learned of the raid when it was already underway, raising questions about his status in the White House.  —  WASHINGTON — Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney first learned …
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Washington Post:
Islamic State defector inside Baghdadi's hideout critical to success of raid, officials say
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Mitch McConnell's extraordinary efforts to say nothing at all  —  (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went to extraordinary lengths Tuesday to avoid giving substantive answers to direct questions about the allegations made by Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the first current White House official …
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Schiff Directing Witnesses Not To Answer GOP Questions  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is overseeing the ongoing illegitimate impeachment inquiry set in motion by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is reportedly telling witnesses testifying not to answer questions asked by Republican lawmakers.
Discussion: Fox News and National Review
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NBC Universal:
MSNBC'S “THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW” IS #1 IN A25-54 ACROSS CABLE NEWS, TOPPING ALL REGULARLY SCHEDULED SHOWS ON FOX NEWS AND CNN IN OCTOBER  —  “Morning Joe” at 6am Posts Record-Breaking Month in Total Viewers, Tops CNN in A25-54 for 24th Straight Month and in Total Viewers for 56th Straight Month
Christie Aschwanden / Wired:
Trans Athletes Are Posting Victories and Shaking Up Sports  —  Transgender athletes at all levels of sport are winning medals, spurring a contentious debate over the future of gendered competition.  —  Transgender athletes are having a moment.  At all levels of sport, they're stepping onto the podium and into the headlines.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
He's running for governor to run false ads on Facebook.  Now Facebook is stopping him  —  New York (CNN Business)A San Francisco man tried to call out Facebook's controversial false ads policy by running false ads of his own.  Now the company is barring him from doing so …
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
Dread in northern Syria as U.S. troops withdraw and cease-fire ends  —  DERIK, Syria — As the final hours of a cease-fire in northeastern Syria wound down on Tuesday, dread descended on a region once shielded by the United States.  —  In towns and cities, families debated, and sometimes fought, over whether, and where, to run.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Buttigieg distances himself from his McKinsey consulting days  —  The consulting firm built business experience for Buttigieg but has fallen down his resume amid public controversy.  —  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
How Americans Split on Health Care: It's a 3-Way Tie  —  Despite the lack of consensus, a new survey finds that almost two-thirds of the public favors Democratic approaches.  —  When Americans are asked whether they support a “Medicare for all” system that would replace all current insurance …
Yahoo News:
‘The Wild West’: Questions surround Trump legal team payments  —  In 1994, as a slew of scandals were popping up around President Bill Clinton, an attorney who worked with his defense team visited the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) in Washington to ask a simple question in person …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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CNN:
Stuck in an airport for almost two weeks, Iranian beauty queen says she will be killed if she is deported
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Miru / CREW:
Kushner, Barrack, Perry and Plenty of Ethics Problems Attend Saudi Conference
Discussion: The Guardian and Al Jazeera
Media Matters for America:
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SC Rep. Joe Cunningham to vote for House resolution setting rules for impeachment inquiry
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New poll poses serious questions about Democratic impeachment drive
Discussion: Hot Air
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