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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Donald Trump masqueraded as publicist to brag about himself — The voice is instantly familiar; the tone, confident, even cocky; the cadence, distinctly Trumpian. The man on the phone vigorously defending Donald Trump says he's a media spokesman named John Miller, but then he says …
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Trump claims he didn't regularly use a fake name. That's not what he said under oath. — Donald Trump on Friday denied that the voice of “John Miller” on a 25-year-old recording obtained by The Washington Post is, in fact, his own. Appearing on NBC's “Today” show, the presumptive Republican …
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Donald Trump denies posing as spokesman in recordings Washington Post uncovered
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Hangs Up When WaPo Reporters Ask Him About Posing As Publicist
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David Catanese / US News:
Ralph Nader: Trump's Done Some Good, Clinton's Winning By ‘Dictatorship’ — He heaps praise on Bernie Sanders, but won't reveal how he'll vote in November. — The five-time presidential candidate had more positive comments abut Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton in an interview with U.S. News.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Sorry, liberals. Elizabeth Warren isn't going to be Hillary Clinton's running mate. — As speculation on whom the presidential nominees will select as their running mates gets louder, almost inevitably eyes are turning to Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Nader: Clinton winning by ‘dictatorship’ — is “going to win by dictatorship” in her Democratic primary race against Bernie Sanders — “Twenty-five percent of superdelegates are cronies, mostly. They weren't elected,” Nader, an activist and former Green Party presidential candidate, told U.S. News in a story published Friday .
12NewsNow.Com:
PN-G ISD Superintendent on Obama admin's transgender letter: It's going in the paper shredder — PORT NECHES - — Port Neches-Groves Superintendent Dr. Rodney Cavness on Thursday slammed the Obama administration's expected letter which is set to tell districts to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choosing.
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Obama transgender edict incites the right
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U.S. Department of Justice:
U.S. Departments of Justice and Education Release Joint Guidance to Help Schools Ensure …
Fox News:
Report: Obama administration to tell public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms of their choice
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Rep. Steve King: I'll likely hold hearing on Obama's bathroom directive
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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Obama administration to issue guidance on transgender access to school bathrooms
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Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known — Epstein, (inset left), and Clinton flew together at least 26 times on the disgraced financier's “Lolita Express.” (John Coates, airport-data.com) — Former President Bill Clinton …
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Megan Cassidy / Arizona Republic:
Photos: Sheriff Joe Arpaio through the years … It's official: A federal judge has found Sheriff Joe Arpaio in civil contempt of federal court. — A federal judge ruled that the Maricopa County lawman and three of his top aides violated a federal court order meant to curtail racial profiling …
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Evan Axelbank / WTVT:
Family dog takes rattlesnake bite for 7-year-old — TAMPA (FOX 13) - His owners call him the perfect dog. Haus is a 2-year-old German Shepard, and usually 68 pounds of loyalty and love, especially when it comes to his 7-year-old, Molly DeLuca. After Haus possibly saved Molly's life …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP rep refuses to apologize for racial slur — Former House Homeland Security Chairman Pete King (R-N.Y.) is refusing to apologize for using the racial slur “Japs” during an interview on MSNBC on Friday morning, saying people are “too politically correct.”
Cosmos Magazine:
Should we synthesise a human genome? — As specialists gather in private to discuss a grand plan for constructing a human genome, Drew Endy and Laurie Zoloth argue that such an enormous moral gesture should not be discussed behind closed doors. — At Harvard today, an invitation-only group …
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Andrew Pollack / New York Times:
Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
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David Samuels / New York Times:
Through the Looking Glass with Ben Rhodes — My interest in Ben Rhodes began with a photograph I saw from Senator Barack Obama's insurgent campaign for president in 2008. The photograph showed a group of Obama's young speechwriters celebrating a victory. In the shallow background was a young writer …
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Pfizer Blocks the Use of Its Drugs in Executions — The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it has imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.
Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
Clinton charity gave $2M to company owned by Bill's ‘friend’ — More On: — Bill Clinton's foundation doled out $2 million to a power company partly owned by a wealthy blond divorcée about whom questions have been raised as to whether she is the frequent visitor to his home nicknamed “Energizer.”
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Bill Clinton gets into combative exchange over crime bill
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
MARK CUBAN: Trump is that guy in the bar who will say anything to get laid — Billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban isn't holding back his opinion about his frenemy, Donald Trump. — “There's that guy who'll walk into the bar and say anything to get laid.
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Telegraph:
Ivanka Trump praises her father for ‘elevating’ the election campaign — Play! — Donald Trump's daughter has launched a robust defence of her father, describing him as a man who has “elevated” the political discussion, but confessing that she didn't discuss the election with her friend Chelsea Clinton.
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Hillary-Hating Fan Fiction Feeds Trump — Donald Trump has hinted he has a lot of dirt on Hillary Clinton. But where is he getting his information from? Some of the best, worst Hillary fan fiction money can buy. — Hillary Clinton is a murderer and a lesbian and she buys her muumuus on Amazon.com.
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Third-party effort fizzling out — An effort by prominent conservatives to recruit a third party candidate to run against Donald Trump — is fizzling out. — A serious third party run would cost millions, and GOP donors have so far been reluctant to embrace a bid.
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Kirk, on tape: Menendez indicted for opposing Obama's Iran deal — CHICAGO — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk hasn't let up on his insistence that President Obama is using his power as president to lash out at a political enemy. — At a fundraising event last month in Chicago, the Illinois Republican …
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Ari Melber / NBC News:
Trump Campaign Could Use New Donations to Pay Donald Trump $36M for Loan — After railing against a “corrupt” fundraising system in the Republican primaries, Donald Trump now says he will raise hundreds of millions of dollars to compete in the general election.
New York Post:
Cop questioned in NYPD corruption probe kills himself at golf course — More On: — An NYPD deputy inspector who had been questioned in the ongoing corruption probes of the department fatally shot himself in the head on Friday, The Post has learned. — Deputy Inspector Michael Ameri …
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Freida Frisaro / Associated Press:
Auction for gun that killed Trayvon Martin possibly hijacked — MIAMI (AP) — Bidding in an online auction for the pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin appeared to have been hijacked by fake accounts posting astronomically high bids.
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