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New York Times:
Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border  —  WASHINGTON — The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants.  But this time he had a solution.  As White House advisers listened astonished …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Acting homeland security chief frustrated and isolated — even as he delivers what Trump wants at the border  —  Nearly six months after taking over the Department of Homeland Security as acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan has guided the United States out of a crisis at the southern border …
Discussion: HuffPost and Political Wire
Vincent Wood / The Independent:
Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims  —  Officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and aide Stephen Miller berated over border policy  —  Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Pompeo Pushed Out His Own Ukraine Rep to Squash a Growing Scandal  —  “Volker was the easier guy to let go,” said one former State Department official.  “But just because it is an easy choice doesn't mean it is the right choice.”  —  When President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Kurt Volker was working on behalf of America's interests, unlike Rudy  —  Add Ambassador Kurt Volker to the long list of GOP foreign policy professionals who answered the call to serve and went to work for President Trump, only to be tainted by Trump's alleged corruption and then thrown under the bus by the Trump team.
Discussion: FactCheck.org and Fox News
CNN:
State Department inspector general requests briefing on Ukraine with congressional staff
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shareblue Media
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Poll: Only 4 in 10 Republicans think Trump mentioned Biden on Ukraine call even though he acknowledged doing so  —  WASHINGTON - A new poll shows that only four in 10 Republicans believe President Donald Trump talked to the Ukrainian president about investigating political rival Joe Biden, even though Trump has acknowledged doing so.
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Will Wilkinson / New York Times:
Trump Has Disqualified Himself From Running in 2020  —  The president's brazen attempt at cheating has taken “decide it at the ballot box” off the menu.  Impeachment is imperative.  —  “I think the American people are going to have a chance to decide this at the ballot box in November 2020 …
Discussion: PJ Media Home and Blue Virginia
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pompeo: ‘I was on the phone call’ with Trump and Ukrainian President  —  (CNN)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted Wednesday that he was on the July 25 phone call in which President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
Discussion: Political Wire and KTLA
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape From Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia Probe  —  The U.S. attorney general traveled to Italy to meet with Italian secret service agents—and, potentially, undermine the Mueller investigation.  —  Correspondent-At-Large
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr are increasingly implicated in the impeachment inquiry
Discussion: Raw Story
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Support for impeaching Trump hits new high  —  Support for impeaching President Donald Trump is growing.  —  A batch of recent polling confirms the Democratic impeachment push is gaining steam — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that shows for the first time that more voters support …
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Maya King / Politico:
Warren gets ‘dramatic shift’ in support from black voters
Discussion: Vox and Mediaite
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:   Why Do Black Democrats Usually Prefer Establishment Candidates?
Catherine Philp / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Donald Trump impeachment: President called Boris Johnson for help to discredit Mueller inquiry  —  President Trump personally contacted Boris Johnson to ask for help as he tried to discredit the Mueller investigation into possible connections between Russia and his 2016 election campaign, The Times understands.
Discussion: Political Wire
The Texas Tribune:
Pete Sessions surfaces as potential candidate for open Bill Flores seat  —  In a surprise development, the former Dallas congressman appears to be eyeing a return to the U.S. House — but not in his old district.  Insiders say the response in Central Texas has been lukewarm.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
How Joe Biden would address gun violence  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden has an ambitious pitch for curbing gun violence, and he's centering his strategy on fighting domestic abuse and focusing on daily gun violence in urban areas.  —  Biden revealed his plan Wednesday …
Discussion: Reuters and Washington Post
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:   Joe Biden's 2020 gun safety plan would reinstate assault weapons ban
Anita Kumar / Politico:
A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms  —  House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Giuliani turns on ‘honest’ Ukrainian prosecutor who says Bidens did nothing illegal  —  Rudy Giuliani had nothing but praise for Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko — until he didn't.  —  WASHINGTON — For much of this year, Rudy Giuliani was counting on Ukraine's former chief prosecutor …
Discussion: Raw Story, Morning Consult and Mediaite
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Alan Dershowitz's new book will counter the #MeToo movement  —  Alan Dershowitz — who has been mired in controversy over his taking on Jeffrey Epstein as a client and over his friendly ties to the late sex predator — is about to stir things up again with a new book, “Guilt by Accusation …
Morgan Simon / Forbes:
GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector  —  I write about money and social justice.  —  All of the existing banking partners to private prison leader GEO Group have now officially committed to ending ties with the private prison and immigrant detention industry.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘A presidency of one’: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump  —  The president's personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss's obsessions.
New York Times:
Was There Another Cover-Up In Response to the Whistle-Blower?  —  The Justice Department should have shared a campaign-finance investigation with the Federal Election Commission.  —  Mr. Geltzer and Mr. Katyal are law professors at Georgetown.  —  One of the first things new prosecutors …
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NBC News:
More than 50 former female ambassadors call on administration to protect Yovanovitch  —  WASHINGTON — More than 50 former female U.S. ambassadors are calling on President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a letter to protect foreign service officers from political retaliation …
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Corey Lewandowski Hurls Incendiary Charge at Sanders, Warren: They Want ‘Illegal Aliens to Come Across This Border and Kill Americans’  —  Donald Trump's former campaign Corey Lewandowski confirmed his reputation as a ferocious attack dog for the president, hurling a toxic …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Will Trump Ever Leave the White House?  —  It's a loaded question — with no obvious answer.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Since 2015, we have been worrying about how much danger Donald Trump posed to democracy.
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
Republicans Changing Delegate Rules to Prevent Discord at Convention  —  President Trump's political advisers have been working for months to get states to adjust their plans to ensure that nothing disrupts next year's convention.  —  President Trump's political advisers have concluded …
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Ukraine?  Impeachment?  Trump Can Survive It All, Foreign Analysts Say  —  BRUSSELS — This summer, just after he visited the White House for the second time, President Andrzej Duda of Poland held forth about how much he admired President Trump's transactional style.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Bennet raises $2.1 million in 3rd quarter, pledges to stay in until New Hampshire  —  (CNN)Sen. Michael Bennet raised $2.1 million in the third quarter of 2019, his campaign tells CNN, a sum that will likely make him one of the lowest-fundraising Democrats in the 2020 presidential field.
Discussion: Axios
Associated Press:
North Korea fires missile days before resuming US talks  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile from the sea on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, a suggestion that it may have tested an underwater-launched missile for the first time in three years ahead …
Discussion: Political Wire
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Impeachment Rules Say Senate Must Act, but Its Act Might Be a Swift Dismissal  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell's comment this week that the Senate would be forced to “take up” articles of impeachment from the House had the capital in a swirl, bracing for a full-blown Senate trial of President Trump.
James D. Walsh / New York Magazine:
‘At What Point Does Malfeasance Become Fraud?’:  NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork  —  Back in August, Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, published a scathing critique of WeWork and its enablers on his website, No Mercy/No Malice.
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
DOES HE BELIEVE CHAOS IS A LADDER HE CAN CLIMB?  " TRUMP-ENABLER PETER THIEL'S DINNERS ARE THE HOTTEST TICKET IN L.A. SO WHAT'S HIS ENDGAME?  —  Undeniably curious, ecumenical in his taste in people, scourge of Gawker, the tech billionaire has captivated some of his ideological opponents with a series of TED Talk-like dinners.
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
Dolphins are swimming, mating and even giving birth in the Potomac  —  REEDVILLE, Va. — Five decades ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the polluted Potomac River a “national disgrace.”  Although it is now much cleaner, officials in Washington are still not convinced the water is safe for humans to swim in.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
 
 
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Paul Crookston / Washington Free Beacon:
Chinese Communists Doing ‘Spectacular Job’ Fighting Poverty, NPR Reporter Says
Discussion: NPR and NB Blog
CBS News:
Senators pressure social media giants to crack down on “deepfakes”
Anton Mardasov / Al-Monitor:
Four years in Syria, Russia expands military base, eyes challenges ahead
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
How to Impeach Trump, Do Justice and Win an Election
Discussion: Raw Story
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump hauls out the rhetorical heavy artillery while taking a l'état, c'est moi approach to impeachment
Pankaj Mishra / Bloomberg:
China Needs to Be More Chinese
Discussion: CNN and New York Times
France 24:
Australian opposition call for release of Trump transcript
 Earlier Items: 
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Wants Assurances The Administration Won't Destroy Records About Trump's Calls With Foreign Leaders.
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Fiallo / Tampa Bay Times:
Donald Trump Jr. and senior Trump campaign advisor to speak at UF
Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Two top staffers cut ties with John Delaney's presidential campaign
WOSU Radio:
Ohio State Reports Over 1,500 Instances Of Sexual Assault By Team Doctor
Andrea Salcedo / New York Times:
Trump Is ‘Last Hope for White People,’ Said Police Chief on Trial
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Pro-impeachment group to spend $3.1 million targeting Senate Republicans
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Pew Research Center:
Public Expresses Favorable Views of a Number of Federal Agencies
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and Washington Post