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World
Deaths Surpass 200, and State Department Urges Against Travel to China
The United States set its advisory at Level 4, which represents the highest safety risk. The World Health Organization said the virus represents a risk outside of China.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html
Worse and more of it.
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Opinion
The Truth About Harvey Weinstein’s Walker
Whether he needs assistance or not, the image can influence jurors and reinforce harmful stereotypes of people with disabilities.Criminal court is a stage.
The lawyers and their clients and prosecutors are players.
The jury is the audience.
Some dramatists are better than others.
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World
As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Anti-Chinese Sentiment
Fears of the outbreak have fueled xenophobia as a wave of panic spreads, sometimes outstripping practical concerns.There is no Pogrom as yet.
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New York
Fotis Dulos, Charged With Killing His Wife, Jennifer, Attempts Suicide
Mr. Dulos apparently tried to kill himself at home in Connecticut. His wife had gone missing after dropping off their five children at school.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/nyregion/fotis-dulos-dead.html
I don't have to decide.
I expect the children will survive.
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Opinion
Bernie Could Win the Nomination. Should We Be Afraid?
The establishment doesn’t have the credibility to stop the surging Sanders movement.Sanders must win if he is the candidate.
Trump must not get a second term.
The lessons of 1933 must be understood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Br%C3%BCning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
In a word, we should be afraid.
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Opinion
Of All Trump’s Defenses, This Is the Lamest
Only the voters can send the president packing? That’s a joke.The intention of impeachment is the removal of unsatisfactory appointed and elected federal officers. It is a political process.
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U.S.
U.S. Accuses Harvard Scientist of Concealing Chinese Funding
Prosecutors say Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard’s chemistry department, lied about contacts with a Chinese state-run initiative that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent.The courts should be busy.
Researchers have not cared which pocket the funds came out of.
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Opinion
What if It Were Obama on Trial?
Consider Trump’s impeachment from some other angles.Nicholas Kristof makes good points.
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Opinion
Did I Just Get Yanged?
Andrew Yang is showing what healthy populism looks like.I want a liberal president.
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Opinion
Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists
Left and right agree on one point. The president’s re-election campaign is way ahead online.Education is important.
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John Delaney Ends Presidential Campaign After Two and a Half Years
Mr. Delaney’s campaign was one of the longest in American history, spanning
almost the entirety of the Trump presidency, but he dropped out three days
before the Iowa caucuses.
Wanting to be president is the first disqualification.
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Mitt Romney: The only Senate Republican seen as a possible vote to convict Trump.
Until late Thursday, he was the lone Republican vocally pushing for
witnesses to be called in the impeachment trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_enemy_of_my_enemy_is_my_friend
Friend is too strong.
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Catch up on the key moments from Thursday.
Watch the highlights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/politics/impeachment-trial-trump.html
These are certainly highlights.
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The debate over new witnesses follows a week of upheaval over the issue.
For a time after revelations from John Bolton’s manuscript, it looked as if
the trajectory of the trial might shift.
The statements of John R. Bolton are not evidence in the impeachment.
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On Politics: The Sniping Picks Up
A blunter Buttigieg, a waning trial, a dig at an ice cream shop: This is
your morning tip sheet.
Pay attention.
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Here are the basics of the trial on Friday.
A much anticipated debate over new witnesses will begin.
The fix may be in.
It would be foolish to bet.
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Pompeo Says Trump Backs Ukraine on Russia, but Isn’t Ready for Zelensky Visit
The secretary of state met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv,
during the impeachment trial of President Trump over a pressure campaign
against Ukraine.
Trump will not plead guilty.
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Iowa Will Be the First Test Case for 2020 Election Security
The good news is that caucuses are inherently safer than traditional
elections. But campaigns remain dangerously exposed to hackers, and
election systems in many states are still vulnerable.
Personal direct contact should be difficult to corrupt.
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Impeachment Briefing: Is It Over?
Senator Lamar Alexander said he would not vote for new witnesses — a
possible death blow to the Democrats’ case.
It is not yet decided.
Trump seems to be getting off.
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Alexander says Democrats proved their case, but it’s not impeachable.
The senator said he’d vote no on the question of witnesses on Friday,
meaning Republicans are likely to be able to block the move for new
evidence in the trial.
Lamar Alexander will not vote to remove Donald Trump.
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Susan Collins says she’ll vote in favor of witnesses.
Democrats would need four Republicans to side with them on Friday to demand
new witnesses and documents.
Susan Collins is as independent as thought.
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What if the Senate has a tie vote on calling witnesses?
If a vote on hearing witnesses ends in a tie, it could fall to Chief
Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to decide what happens next.
There probably will not be a tie vote.
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Former senator calls on Republicans to allow witnesses.
The former senator John Warner issued a statement Thursday night calling on
his fellow Republicans to bring “relevant witnesses and documents.”
John Warner has no power to enforce his opinions.
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Architect of C.I.A. Torture Program Testifies Prisoners Acted Well Adjusted
Dr. James E. Mitchell said in court at Guantánamo Bay that the alleged
leader of the Sept. 11 plot, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was fine after 183
rounds of waterboarding.
Torture of prisoners is another war crime.
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Things get testy over a matter of ‘respect.’
The question of respect became its own topic of debate Thursday night.
Treat everyone with due respect.
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Senators ask how the trial verdict will affect the balance of power.
In 1999, only one bipartisan question was asked over two days of
questioning.
Bipartisanship is a trivial matter.
The balance of power between the branches of government is a separate matter.
The distribution of party loyalties changes from time to time.
This drives the distribution of party power in government.
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Murkowski asks about summoning Bolton as a witness.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is a critical swing vote on the question
of whether to compel more witnesses or documents.
Lisa Murkowski has answered her question with a no.
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Spotlight Falls on Democrats From Trump-Friendly States
Attention has centered on four Republicans who might break ranks in
President Trump’s impeachment trial. But Democrats have their own list of
potential defectors.
Trump seems to have won the loyalty fight.
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Lamar Alexander, Key G.O.P. Senator, Plans to Oppose Move for New Evidence
The Tennessee Republican said House Democrats had proved that President
Trump withheld military aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his
political rival but that this was not impeachable.
So he has said.
I am too old to join in a civil war.
I will design a Guillotine if asked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
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Trump heads to Iowa in a bid to rally supporters for caucuses.
It was President Trump’s second rally in three nights this week."Mr. Trump told a raucous crowd of supporters Thursday night that they had a “front row seat to the lunacy and the madness of a totally sick left.”"
Mr Trump is the "pot calling the kettle black".
He is mistaken as to the political orientation of the mad.
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