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Washington Post:
Barr doesn't accept key inspector general finding about FBI's Russia investigation  —  Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department's inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report — that the FBI had enough information …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Here Are The Latest Secret Memos From Mueller's Report  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the second installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with key witnesses.
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Highlights from the newly released FBI Mueller investigation notes
Discussion: KDFX-TV
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Rep. Duncan Hunter to plead guilty in campaign finance scandal, leave Congress  —  Longtime congressman says he wants to spare his family the spectacle of a trial, which was to start Jan. 22  —  After years of denials and claims he was the target of a political witch hunt, Rep. Duncan Hunter …
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KUSI Newsroom / KUSI-TV:
Congressman Duncan D. Hunter announces guilty plea on one count of misuse of campaign funds  —  SAN DIEGO - For 39 years, the Hunter family has represented San Diego in the 50th Congressional District, but that may come to an end next year.  —  Hunter is is charged with using campaign funds …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Rep. Duncan Hunter to plead guilty in campaign finance violations case  —  GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter is set to plead guilty in federal court on Tuesday after denying for more than a year that he had illegally misused campaign funds.  —  Hunter told TV station KUSI in San Diego, “Tomorrow …
Discussion: NBC News and Fox News
CNN:
Rep. Duncan Hunter to plead guilty in case alleging misuse of campaign funds
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Alayna Treene / Axios:
GOP impeachment report claims Trump did nothing wrong  —  President Trump committed “no quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, or abuse of power,” Republicans on the House committees investigating the Ukraine controversy have concluded in a 110-page report reviewed by Axios ahead of its formal release.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House Judiciary announces impeachment witnesses
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Democrats Have Enough ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence For Impeachment?
Discussion: HuffPost
CNN:
House Republicans defend Trump's actions in new report responding to impeachment inquiry
Discussion: KTLA and KTVZ-TV
Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
Giuliani Associate Lev Parnas Cleared to Comply With Impeachment Subpoena  —  MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal judge paved the way on Monday for Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas to comply with a House subpoena for information relevant to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Law & Crime and VICE
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ABC News:
Giuliani associate asks court to release material for impeachment inquiry
Discussion: USA Today, The Hill and The Daily Beast
NBC News:   Prosecutor says new charges ‘likely’ in case against Rudy Giuliani associates
Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
U.S. ‘Likely’ to Bring New Charges in Giuliani-Allies Case
Discussion: Political Wire
Erin Durkin / Politico:   New charges likely in case against Giuliani associates
Washington Post:
The surprising second choices of Democratic primary voters upend political cliches  —  A war between ‘progressives’ and ‘moderates’?  Voters don't see things the way pundits do.  —  To many observers, the Democratic presidential primary has highlighted the “profound ideological divides between …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden says he doesn't need Obama's endorsement
Discussion: The Hill
Jacksonville Journal-Courier:
Poll says Biden keeps narrow lead in state, but Warren, Buttigieg gain in primary race
Discussion: The Hill
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Young voter asks Elizabeth Warren emotional question about acceptance
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Senate panel look into Ukraine interference comes up short  —  With the impeachment inquiry charging forward, President Donald Trump's allies have defended his demand for political investigations from Ukraine by claiming that the government in Kyiv tried to sabotage his candidacy and boost Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Assessing the Republicans' 10 ‘findings’ in their impeachment inquiry report
Discussion: Associated Press and KyivPost
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Politico:
Georgia governor set to buck Trump on Senate appointment  —  In defiance of Trump, Brian Kemp has begun informing fellow Republicans that he will appoint business exec Kelly Loeffler to the soon-to-be-vacant seat.  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been getting pressure about his prospective Senate pick.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kelly Loeffler to have powerful ally after she's tapped to Senate in Georgia  —  Kemp to formally announce Loeffler on Wednesday at 10 a.m.  —  When Gov. Brian Kemp announces on Wednesday that he's picked Kelly Loeffler for an open U.S. Senate seat, she'll have some powerful backup to help defend her new post.
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Bloomberg overtakes Harris in new poll  —  Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) topped Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in a new Hill-HarrisX poll of the Democratic presidential primary race.  —  The survey released on Monday found that support for the former mayor ticked …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
California Gov. Newsom to campaign in Iowa for Kamala Harris
Discussion: Axios
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Defiant Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook policy to allow false ads  —  Zuckerberg says ‘people should be able to judge for themselves the character of politicians’ and compares alternative to censorship  —  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has defended the company's decision …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Republicans in turmoil as redistricting looms  —  The GOP group charged with winning state legislatures is in turmoil — sparking concerns that the party is at risk of blowing the next round of redistricting.  —  The Republican State Leadership Committee has seen an exodus of top staff in recent months …
Discussion: Raw Story
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Carter Page loses appeal in defamation suit against media outlets  —  Carter Page, the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, suffered another court loss on Monday when a federal appeals court upheld a trial judge's decision to throw out his defamation lawsuit against a pair of media outlets.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court refuses to revive Carter Page lawsuit
Discussion: Associated Press
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Trump administration quietly releases Lebanon military aid  —  1 of 3  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has quietly released more than $100 million in military assistance to Lebanon after months of unexplained delay.  —  That's according to two congressional staffers …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
‘Free, Melania’ offers new details about the life of a private first lady  —  Adapted from Kate Bennett's “Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography” set for release Tuesday.  —  Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, like those before her, has battled the vast juxtaposition between public perception and private citizen.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Elisabeth Egan / New York Times:
6 Takeaways From Melania Trump's Unauthorized Biography
Dan Levin / New York Times:
‘OxyContin Just Started Showing Up’  —  Purdue Pharma introduced its opioid painkiller, OxyContin, in 1996, when the Class of 2000 entered high school.  Some students began experimenting, often combining prescription opiates with alcohol at parties.  —  For many, what started …
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Warren's Son Attended One of Nation's Most Elite Private Schools  —  The Haverford School's leafy campus, arched doorways, and neatly uniformed boys would seem to denote the sort of class and privilege that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has decried on the campaign trail.
James Downie / Washington Post:
The useful idiot from Louisiana  —  A few weeks ago, I wrote about Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) showcasing the “typical shell game” of Republicans on impeachment: Eliminate the importance of the “quid pro quo,” muddy the waters of the president's motive and distort the impeachment process itself.
Discussion: The Independent, HuffPost and Axios
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wealthy Mercer family spent millions on conservative causes in 2018 as they distanced themselves from Trump  — Republican megadonors Robert and Rebekah Mercer donated over $12 million to a variety of conservative causes last year despite distancing themselves from being associated with President Donald Trump.
The Guardian:
Traditional ‘foreign policy’ no longer exists.  Democrats are the last to know  —  Progressives need a new doctrine, championing the interests of the global 99% against a transnational oligarchy  —  There are few phrases as fundamental to US politics as foreign policy.
 
 
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Reuters:
Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones, computers
Discussion: National Review
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Gunmen massacre 14 Christians during Protestant service in Burkina Faso
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Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden blows off court hearing over child support as his lawyer abruptly quits …
Discussion: Twitchy and The Gateway Pundit
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court appears unlikely to hand victory to gun rights backers in 2nd Amendment case
Discussion: Townhall, MSNBC and UPI
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
When a crusading Maltese journalist was murdered, her sons vowed justice.  Almost miraculously, it's happening.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
Meet The Chinese Diplomat Who Got Promoted For Trolling The US On Twitter
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Making the Al Capone Tax-Evasion Defense Against Impeachment
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Ross Barkan / Medium:
The Fascism to Come  —  In 2016, not long after Donald Trump's …
Chris Kobiella / Rolling Stone:
False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
State lawmakers acknowledge lobbyists helped craft their op-eds attacking Medicare-for-all
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years
Angus King / USA Today:
Ukraine scandal: I know why Trump top dogs — Mulvaney, Pompeo, Perry & Bolton — won't bark
Discussion: Raw Story
R.J. Lyman / The Bulwark:
This Is the Single Best Argument For Why Trump Should Be Impeached and Removed
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 

 
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