Trump's Super Bowl party cost taxpayers $3.4 million.
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Monday, February 3
TONIGHT: THE BATTLE OF IOWA Campaigns and voters are acknowledging a palpable sense of unpredictability and anxiety as Democrats begin selecting which candidate to send to a November face-off with President Donald Trump. The Democratic race is unusually large and jumbled heading into Monday’s caucus. [AP]
HONG KONG ANNOUNCES NEW BORDER CLOSURES The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 362 people and infected more than 17,300 globally as it continues its alarming spread. One person outside mainland China, a man in the Philippines, is known to have died. Hong Kong has closed more borders with China, in an attempt to stem the spread of the virus. [CNN]
3 INJURED IN 'TERRORIST-RELATED ATTACK' IN LONDON A man strapped with a “hoax device” was fatally shot by police following a “terrorism-related” stabbing in London Sunday afternoon that left three people injured. All three victims were hospitalized, one with life-threatening injuries. [HuffPost]
TRUMP FUMBLES AFTER CHIEFS WIN SUPER BOWL Trump congratulated the Kansas City Chiefs on defeating the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday night, telling the team they represented “the Great State of Kansas ... so very well.” Just one problem: The Chiefs aren’t based in Kansas, but rather in Missouri. [HuffPost]
TAXPAYERS' $3.4 MILLION TAB FOR TRUMP PARTY Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million to send Trump to Florida over the weekend so he could host a Super Bowl party for paying guests at his for-profit golf course. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club — the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000. [HuffPost]
U.S. DRONE DESTROYED BUILDING CONTAINING AL QAEDA MILITANTS A suspected U.S. drone strike destroyed a building housing al Qaeda militants last week in eastern Yemen. Trump retweeted several tweets and media reports that seemed to offer confirmation the Jan. 25 strike killed top al Qaeda leader Qassim al-Rimi. [AP] |
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LAMAR ALEXANDER JUSTIFIES LETTING TRUMP OFF THE HOOK Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) defended his key vote to block witnesses from being called in the impeachment trial, saying President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine were “wrong” but not impeachable. [HuffPost]
GOP SENATOR: BIDEN COULD FACE IMPEACHMENT OVER UKRAINE IF HE WINS Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) warned that former Vice President Joe Biden could immediately face calls for impeachment if elected president. The first-term Republican went on the offense in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying Biden’s prior dealings with Ukraine makes him a GOP target. [HuffPost]
POMPEO PUSHES FREE PRESS FOR KAZAKHSTAN Secretary of State Mike Pompeo championed a free press for Kazakhstan Sunday, days after cutting a National Public Radio journalist from his trip following his rant over questions about Ukraine. Pompeo told Kazakh journalist Aigerim Toleukhan in an interview that freedom of the press helps “build out civil societies.” [HuffPost]
MCCONNELL'S NEW LEGACY: IMPEACHMENT TRIAL RIGGER Years after professing admiration for the “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay but then engineering a dramatic remake of the federal judiciary, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now earning a different legacy: The guy who rigged a Senate trial to protect a president impeached for trying to cheat his way to reelection. [HuffPost]
MONTANA GOP CONDEMNS LAWMAKER CALLING FOR SOCIALISTS TO BE SHOT The Montana Republican Party condemned a comment made by a state GOP lawmaker who said the U.S. Constitution calls for people who identify as socialists to be jailed or shot. State Rep. Rodney Garcia made the comment Friday at a state party gathering when he spoke about being worried about socialists entering the government and being “everywhere.” [AP]
THE BATTLE FOR THE THIRD TICKET OUT OF IOWA A presidential campaign axiom holds that there are only three tickets out of Iowa. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have the loyal bases and national polling leads to remain in contention regardless of the outcome in the first state to vote. But the fortunes of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) rest heavily on how they perform here. [HuffPost] |
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