THE CAUCUS
- Top Democrats Warn Trump Over Comments on Michael Cohen>
(NYT > Politics - January 14 2019 - 12:33 AM:)
<>Three Democratic House committee chairmen cautioned that any effort to discourage or influence a witness’s testimony could be construed as a crime.> <
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- Mediator: Chilling Notion for 2020: Disinformation Will Be Homegrown>
(NYT > Politics - January 14 2019 - 12:18 AM:)
<>Reports that a group of Democrats used online disinformation in the Alabama Senate race in 2017 raise the question of how low will the next presidential campaign go.> <
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- Trump’s Efforts to Hide Details of Putin Talks May Set Up Fight With Congress>
(NYT > Politics - January 14 2019 - 12:10 AM:)
<>Disclosures about the F.B.I. investigation into the president and his efforts to keep meetings with Russia’s leader secret could intensify scrutiny of the president.> <
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- Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Democrats to the Left, Whether They Like It or Not>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 11:17 PM:)
<>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has forced party leaders and 2020 presidential candidates to grapple with left-wing proposals that some might prefer to avoid.> <
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- On Washington: No Photographic Memory in the Senate>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 11:17 PM:)
<>Top senators say it may finally be time to allow news photographers into the chamber for special events.> <
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- Patricia Wald, First Woman to Preside Over D.C. Appeals Court, Dies at 90>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 10:51 PM:)
<>A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she was the first woman to serve on the Court of Appeals in Washington. She was soon joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.> <
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- Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them.>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 10:04 PM:)
<>The Trump administration’s order was intended to force transparency and price competition, but with opaque and inconsistent data, the rollout is turning into a fiasco.> <
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- Stung by Florida Midterm Losses, Democrats See a Swing State Drifting Away>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 6:32 PM:)
<>No state stunned Democrats more than Florida, where Republicans thwarted the forces that are lifting Democrats elsewhere. The battleground state is tilting more to the right.> <
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- News Analysis: Trump Confronts the Prospect of a ‘Nonstop Political War’ for Survival>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 5:37 PM:)
<>Questions about whether the president is a Russian agent made clear that the government shutdown may be just the initial skirmish in an all-out battle between him and Congress.> <
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- Government Shutdown Across America>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 5:16 PM:)
<>In many parts of the United States, the shutdown has underscored how deeply the federal government is connected to everyday life.> <
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FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
- Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Democrats to the Left, Whether They Like It or Not>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 11:17 PM:)
<>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has forced party leaders and 2020 presidential candidates to grapple with left-wing proposals that some might prefer to avoid.> <
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- On Washington: No Photographic Memory in the Senate>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 11:17 PM:)
<>Top senators say it may finally be time to allow news photographers into the chamber for special events.> <
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- Patricia Wald, First Woman to Preside Over D.C. Appeals Court, Dies at 90>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 10:51 PM:)
<>A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she was the first woman to serve on the Court of Appeals in Washington. She was soon joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.> <
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- Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them.>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 10:04 PM:)
<>The Trump administration’s order was intended to force transparency and price competition, but with opaque and inconsistent data, the rollout is turning into a fiasco.> <
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- Stung by Florida Midterm Losses, Democrats See a Swing State Drifting Away>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 6:32 PM:)
<>No state stunned Democrats more than Florida, where Republicans thwarted the forces that are lifting Democrats elsewhere. The battleground state is tilting more to the right.> <
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- News Analysis: Trump Confronts the Prospect of a ‘Nonstop Political War’ for Survival>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 5:37 PM:)
<>Questions about whether the president is a Russian agent made clear that the government shutdown may be just the initial skirmish in an all-out battle between him and Congress.> <
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- Government Shutdown Across America>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 5:16 PM:)
<>In many parts of the United States, the shutdown has underscored how deeply the federal government is connected to everyday life.> <
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- Fact-Check : Explaining Trump’s Tweet on Crimes by Immigrants>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 4:32 PM:)
<>President Trump cited an array of statistics to paint a portrait of widespread criminal conduct by undocumented immigrants. Here’s the context behind them.> <
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- An Ocean Engineer and a Nuclear Physicist Walk Into Congress …>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 10:00 AM:)
<>Eight Democratic scientists won House seats in November, campaigning on issues like offshore drilling and climate change. Now they want to make Congress more scientific.> <
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- Trump Tweets Lengthy Attack on F.B.I. Over Inquiry Into Possible Aid to Russia>
(NYT > Politics - January 13 2019 - 4:27 AM:)
<>President Trump cast James B. Comey and other former top F.B.I. officials as corrupt and politically motivated, saying they had opened the counterintelligence investigation for “no reason.”> <
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