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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Blumenthal: We're careening ‘toward a constitutional crisis’ … (D-Conn.) on Thursday warned that the country is heading toward a “constitutional crisis,” moments after President Trump attacked him for sharing Trump's Supreme Court nominee's concerns with the president's attacks on judges.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump lashes out at Blumenthal for relaying Gorsuch's ‘disheartening’ comments — President Donald Trump attacked the military record of Sen. Richard Blumenthal Thursday morning, suggesting that the Connecticut lawmaker misrepresented his conversation with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump contradicts Gorsuch spokesman, accuses Blumenthal of misrepresenting comments
Trump contradicts Gorsuch spokesman, accuses Blumenthal of misrepresenting comments
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Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
She Showed Up Yearly to Meet Immigration Agents. Now They're Deporting Her. — PHOENIX — For eight years, Guadalupe García de Rayos had checked in at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office here, a requirement since she was caught using a fake Social Security number during …
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PREPARES TO EXECUTE “VICIOUS” EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DEPORTATIONS — Donald Trump's first executive order as president, signed on January 25, called for a series of dramatic new measures aimed at hardening the country's domestic immigration enforcement apparatus.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus Want You to Know They Are Friends — “We're just finishing,” Steve Bannon told me. “Reince is giving me my daily back massage.” — The two men burst into a fit of conspiratorial laughter. — “Off the record!” Reince Priebus said. — “Off the record!”
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump White House besieged by leaks — 's White House has sprung a remarkable number of leaks since his inauguration. — The question is where they're coming from. — Barely a day goes by without some unusual tale emerging from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Recent examples in a single …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump struggling to fill one of the worst jobs in Washington
Trump struggling to fill one of the worst jobs in Washington
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Breitbart:
Please join us Thursday evening on the Breitbart News Facebook page for an exclusive interview …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway: ‘Completely false’ that White House can't fill communications director job
Conway: ‘Completely false’ that White House can't fill communications director job
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Washington Post:
Conway may have broken key ethics rule by touting Ivanka Trump's products, experts say — President Trump's official counselor, Kellyanne Conway, may have broken a key ethics rule Thursday morning when she told TV audiences to “go buy Ivanka's stuff.” — Federal employees are banned …
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway: 'Go buy Ivanka's stuff' — Kellyanne Conway used her platform Thursday to urge Americans to “go buy Ivanka's stuff,” potentially violating ethics rules of the executive branch. — Standing in the White House press briefing room, Conway, a counselor to the president …
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Oval Office Tweets Force CEOs to Choose Fight or Flight — The president crossed a new line with Nordstrom attack — Starbucks, Apple, Alphabet criticized immigration order — President Donald Trump is injecting himself into the daily business of U.S. companies to an unprecedented extent …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Warren's moment galvanizes the left — Warren had been debating the qualifications of her Senate colleague, Jeff Sessions, to be attorney general — Washington (CNN)Democrats searching for a new rallying cry might have Senate Republicans to thank for their newest line: “She persists.”
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
ACLU vows to sue Sessions if he violates Constitution as AG
ACLU vows to sue Sessions if he violates Constitution as AG
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Reuters:
Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources — In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States …
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New York Times:
California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field Workers — MERCED, Calif. — Jeff Marchini and others in the Central Valley here bet their farms on the election of Donald J. Trump. His message of reducing regulations and taxes appealed to this Republican stronghold …
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Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed:
Senators Are Pissed Their Constituents Can't Get Through As Phone Calls Flood The Senate — Just about everything Donald Trump has done since he became president has caused a deluge of calls for senators, resulting in concerns that their constituents can't get through to them.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Leading Rivals Wear Robes — President Obama was no fan of the dreadful 2010 Supreme Court decision ruling in favor of corporate personhood. In that case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court asserted that political spending, including by corporations …
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Billboard:
STEVE BOOM, 48 — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would make almost any list of the world's most powerful people. In retail, he's clearly on top, and in tech, he's close to it. In book publishing, he would be the undisputed No. 1 for 10 years running. In addition to a $65 billion stake in Amazon …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Twitter shares crater after ugly revenue miss, shockingly weak guidance — Twitter shares sank on Thursday after the social media company reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street's expectations, and issued guidance that fell far short of estimates.
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic:
The Myth of Apple's Great Design — Apple has great design is the biggest myth in technology today. The latest victim of this ideology comes in the form a remarkable report on the late Steve Jobs's final project, still in production: a new, $5 billion Cupertino headquarters for Apple Inc.
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Holly Yan / CNN:
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened — (CNN)Another high-profile Trump administration official has made statements about a terror attack that never occurred. — This time, it's Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Three times in one week, Spicer alluded to a terror attack in Atlanta by someone from overseas.
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Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Sean Spicer on Citing Atlanta Terror Attack That Never Happened: I ‘Clearly Meant’ Orlando
Sean Spicer on Citing Atlanta Terror Attack That Never Happened: I ‘Clearly Meant’ Orlando
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Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable — Trump's top adviser thinks we're in “the great Fourth Turning in American history.” — Money in Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post — JM Rieger — Producer, The Huffington Post
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Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Trump Does Not Know What Civil Forfeiture Is, but He Likes It — In a meeting with county sheriffs from around the country on Tuesday, President Trump jokingly (we hope!) threatened to “destroy [the] career” of a Texas legislator who proposed requiring the government to obtain a conviction …
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
The End of Facts in the Trump Era — If you connect with America's anger and paranoia, you can steamroll our most sacred institutions without ever having to tell the truth — The order floated down from the lunatic's castle late on a Friday. No more visas of any kind from seven countries …