Intelligencer
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Jonathan Chait
– Oct 17, 12:52 PM
A few weeks ago, Republicans were still insisting that Donald Trump's diplomatic posture toward Ukraine did not involve any quid pro quo — and if such a thing had happened, it would be bad. “There was no quid pro quo, you'd have to…
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Wendy Ruderman
– Oct 18, 2:00 AM
A few weeks into the school year, Benjamin Franklin High and Science Leadership Academy parents received an urgent note: Damaged asbestos had been discovered inside ducts in the boiler room and first-floor SLA commons. The Philadelphia School…
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The Washington Post
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Toluse Olorunnipa, David Fahrenthold
– Oct 17, 9:44 AM
President Trump has awarded the G-7 Summit of world leaders to his own private company, scheduling the massive gathering for next year at his Trump Doral resort outside Miami, the White House said Thursday. That decision will bring hundreds of…
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vice
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
– Oct 17, 9:19 AM
There's a joke in the journalism industry: It's not news until the New York Times says it is. This is because the Times often reports stories that other outlets already have without any acknowledgment that they're doing so. Angry journalists…
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The Washington Post
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Aaron Blake
– Oct 17, 2:03 PM
Sen. Mitt Romney delivered perhaps the most thorough Republican rebuke of President Trump's Syria withdrawal on Thursday, calling Trump's abandonment of the Kurds there “ a bloodstain on the annals of American history.” But while that…
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The Washington Post
– Oct 16, 9:26 AM
Click any temperature underlined in the story to convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit DOHA, Qatar — It was 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius) in the shade outside the new Al Janoub soccer stadium, and the air felt to…
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Vanity Fair
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William D. Cohan
– Oct 16, 1:25 PM
In the last 10 minutes of trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday, September 13, someone got very lucky. That's when he or she, or a group of people, sold short 120,000 “S&P e-minis”—electronically traded futures…
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The Washington Post
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Meagan Flynn
– Oct 17, 3:57 AM
To Democrats, what the photo conveyed was clear: the speaker “literally standing up to the president” after the House overwhelmingly voted to condemn his decision to pull out of northern Syria. The stunning moment marked the latest…
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The American Conservative
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Daniel Larison
– Oct 17, 9:33 AM
The BBC reports that Trump's letter infuriated Erdogan, who chucked it in the trash after reading it: In response, Turkish presidential sources told BBC Turkish: “President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in…
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The New York Times
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Elizabeth Savage
– Oct 17, 5:42 AM
It was when I could no longer read street signs that I started to panic. I'd been navigating the city for years with deteriorating sight, relying mostly on the memory of having walked the streets of N.Y.C. for more than two decades. I have uncanny…
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