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Roxane Gay is Spelled With One “N”:
All I really need to say: — In canceling Milo's book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place. When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized …
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Breitbart employees threaten to leave over Yiannopoulos
Breitbart employees threaten to leave over Yiannopoulos
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Could Milo Yiannopoulos now lose his lucrative book deal?
Could Milo Yiannopoulos now lose his lucrative book deal?
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Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources — In the week before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Brussels and pledged America's “steadfast and enduring” commitment to the European Union, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with a German diplomat …
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Simon Carraud / Reuters:
France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf — French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump calls anti-Semitism ‘horrible’ — President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitism, calling it “horrible” and pledging to put an end to it. — “I will tell you that anti-Semitism is horrible and it's gonna stop and it has to stop,” Trump told MSNBC's Craig Melvin during a visit …
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Jewish cemetery vandalized. Jewish centers threatened. ADL calls on Trump to ‘step forward’.
Jewish cemetery vandalized. Jewish centers threatened. ADL calls on Trump to ‘step forward’.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
More than 60 threats to Jewish Centers across the US, authorities investigating
More than 60 threats to Jewish Centers across the US, authorities investigating
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Ohio's Trump country, a House conservative gets an earful — MARION, Ohio — It was Rep. Jim Jordan's second Presidents' Day visit to the home of Warren G. Harding, but it was the first to be surrounded by protesters. Nearly 200 people had swarmed the building, their signs accusing …
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RealClearWorld:
Venezuela Is a Ticking Time Bomb — Over the last two decades, the now-deceased Hugo Chavez and his handpicked successor, President Nicolas Maduro, have wreaked havoc in Venezuela. Socialist economic policies and government corruption have destroyed a once-thriving economy sitting on the world's largest oil reserves.
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Edward Price / Washington Post:
I didn't think I'd ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit. — Edward Price worked at the CIA from 2006 until this month, most recently as the spokesman for the National Security Council. — Nearly 15 years ago, I informed my skeptical father that I was pursuing a job with the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency
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CNN:
Mar-a-Lago: Trump's Winter White House takes over Palm Beach — Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, a newcomer to the White House, is still developing his relationship with the people of Washington. But that's far from the case with the people of Palm Beach …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing
Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing
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Christina Dugan / People.com:
David Cassidy Reveals He Is Battling Dementia: ‘A Part of Me Always Knew This Was Coming’ — David Cassidy is battling dementia. — The 66-year-old actor, widely known for his starring role as Keith Partridge on the 1970s series The Partridge Family, reveals to PEOPLE that he is fighting the memory loss disease.
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas — AUSTIN — The group of 40 people gathered at a popular burger and fish taco restaurant in San Antonio listened eagerly to the latest news about the anti-vaccine fight taking place in the Texas legislature.
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago 3, Camp David 0. With Trump as president, is the rustic Md. retreat doomed? — THURMONT, Md. — Dwayne Snurr, a janitor and lifelong resident of this rural, working-class town 60 miles from the White House, was eating chicken wings in a cafe off Main Street last week …
David Brooks / New York Times:
This Century Is Broken — Most of us came of age in the last half of the 20th century and had our perceptions of “normal” formed in that era. It was, all things considered, an unusually happy period. No world wars, no Great Depressions, fewer civil wars, fewer plagues.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For a Trump adviser, an odyssey from the fringes of Washington to the center of power — Sebastian Gorka at the International Special Training Center's Military Assistance Course in Germany. For him, the terror threat is rooted in Islam and “martial” parts of the Koran that he says predispose some Muslims to acts of terror.
New York Daily News:
TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened — No lines. No waiting. And no TSA screeners. — Eleven passengers strolled through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday after Transportation Security …
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Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:
Last man standing: McMaster for NSA? — I think Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will be the next national security advisor. Like Vice Adm. Bob Harward, General David Petraeus reportedly has withdrawn over the issue of being able to bring in his own staff. And Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Chooses H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser
Trump Chooses H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's nominees gripe the White House isn't protecting them — Candidates for top jobs in President Donald Trump's administration are getting spooked after Andrew Puzder's nomination was scuttled and they fear the White House isn't doing enough to protect them from grueling confirmations …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The Trump White House is already cooking the books — Almost exactly a year ago, I suggested a rule of thumb for evaluating candidates' economic agendas: The more growth a politician promises, the worse his or her economic plan probably is. — Why? Because it suggests …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump to roll back Obama's climate, water rules through executive action — President Trump is preparing executive orders aimed at reversing Obama-era policies on climate and water pollution, according to individuals briefed on the measures. — While both directives will take time to implement …
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Seven Days in February — Trumps' critics, left and right, aim to bring about the cataclysm they predicted. — A 1964 political melodrama, Seven Days in May, envisioned a futuristic (1970s) failed military cabal that sought to sideline the president of the United States over his proposed nuclear-disarmament treaty with the Soviets.