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Swedish police featured in Fox News segment: Filmmaker is a madman — Trump's comments about Sweden during his rally in Melbourne, Florida, spawned headlines in newspapers all around the world. The American president later clarified on Twitter, saying that he was referring to a segment …
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Trump may have been unclear, but Sweden experiencing a migrant crime wave — Police investigator Peter Springare isn't likely to be among those mocking President Trump for his remarks about refugees in Sweden. — Trump's comments during a Florida campaign rally on Saturday …
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Sweden offers to teach Trump about its immigration policies
Sweden offers to teach Trump about its immigration policies
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Trump clarifies remarks on Sweden: I got it from Fox News story
Trump clarifies remarks on Sweden: I got it from Fox News story
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Big Shoe Just Dropped — I don't know how much attention it's received. But the appearance of the name of Felix Sater in this new article in the Times is one of the biggest shoes I've seen drop on the Trump story in some time. — The new story explains that a group of Trump operatives …
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Amid Russia scrutiny, Trump associates received informal Ukraine policy proposal — President Trump's personal lawyer and a former business associate met privately in New York City last month with a member of the Ukrainian parliament to discuss a peace plan for that country …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Report: Trump's lawyer hand-delivered Michael Flynn a secret plan to lift sanctions on Russia
Report: Trump's lawyer hand-delivered Michael Flynn a secret plan to lift sanctions on Russia
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Milo Yiannopoulos / Facebook:
A note for idiots (UPDATED): — I do not support pedophilia. Period. It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst. There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.
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Susan Fowler / Susan J. Fowler:
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating …
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Julia Horowitz / CNNMoney:
Uber CEO orders ‘urgent’ investigation after sex harassment allegations
Uber CEO orders ‘urgent’ investigation after sex harassment allegations
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Jim Mattis to Baghdad: 'We're Not in Iraq to Seize Anybody's Oil' — BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Baghdad on Monday, promising that, despite what President Trump said last month, the administration would not try to seize Iraq's oil. — Nor, he said, would the …
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Tim Skoczek / CNN:
Lewandowski: Trump's staff is letting him down — The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. The author works for the podcast. — Chicago (CNN)President Donald Trump has been hampered …
Avalon Zoppo / NBC News:
Employees Across U.S. Fired After Joining ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Protest — More than 100 protesters across the country were fired from their jobs after skipping work to take part in last week's “Day Without Immigrants” demonstration. — Restaurants and day cares were among the businesses …
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Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
Trump's White House: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight — The Constitution-straining conflicts surrounding the president, his top aides, some of his children, and his licensing-and-development business are a problem with no end in sight. — We aren't even a third of the way through …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Lefties keep showing off their civic ignorance — Michael Moore stars in “TrumpLand,” a filmed political stage show. — MORE FROM: — Last week, cable news personality Sally Kohn tweeted what she called a “straightforward” plan that would eject Donald Trump and install Hillary Clinton into the presidency: “1.
Associated Press:
AP source: Revised travel ban targets same countries — WASHINGTON — A draft of President Donald Trump's revised immigration ban targets the same seven countries listed in his original executive order and exempts travelers who already have a visa to travel to the U.S., even if they haven't used it yet.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In Trump's Volleys, Echoes of Alex Jones's Conspiracy Theories — Way back on Friday, President Trump declared that several news organizations — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times — were “the enemy of the American people.” You know who's not the enemy, in his book? — Alex Jones.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Could reporters be hunted down if Trump goes after leakers? — For those who care about press rights in America, President Trump's words last week were stunning and disturbing. — The news media is not merely “scum,” as he has said many times before, but now “the enemy of the American People.”
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump supporters see a successful president — and are frustrated with critics who don't — MELBOURNE, Fla. — Many of President Trump's most dedicated supporters — the sort who waited for hours in the Florida sun this weekend for his first post-inauguration campaign rally — say their lives changed on election night.
John Fund / National Review:
Trump Is a Lot Like the LBJ Whom Liberals Still Idolize — President Johnson at a White House press conference, 1967 (LBJ Presidential Library) — Johnson was reckless, grandiose, and intimidating, but he got things done, with the help of the GOP. — Austin, Texas - As president, he cut a grandiose figure.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Joe Piscopo Considers Running for Governor of New Jersey. No Joke. — He found fame in the 1980s impersonating Frank Sinatra, President Ronald Reagan and countless others on “Saturday Night Live,” followed by numerous Hollywood gigs, stand-up routines and a drive-time radio show.
Chris Enloe / TheBlaze:
Video surfaces of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia, ACU board reportedly not consulted on CPAC invite — The American Conservative Union, which hosts the annual gathering of conservatives called “CPAC,” announced over the weekend that alt-Right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos would be this year's keynote speaker.