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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
What the emotional moment with a Navy SEAL's widow proves about President Trump — There was one moment in President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night that people will remember for a very long time. It came when Trump honored the wife of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens, who was killed in a raid in Yemen last month.
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Jason Kurtz / CNN:
Van Jones on Trump: ‘He became President of the United States in that moment, period’ — (CNN)Shortly after President Donald Trump addressed a Joint Session of Congress for the first time since taking the oath of office, CNN's Van Jones called one particularly moving moment from the speech …
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Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
Generals May Launch New ISIS Raids Without Trump's OK
Generals May Launch New ISIS Raids Without Trump's OK
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The pundits are wrong. Trump's handling of the Ryan Owens affair was contemptibly cynical.
The pundits are wrong. Trump's handling of the Ryan Owens affair was contemptibly cynical.
Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Liberals Attack SEAL's Widow, President Trump Over Tribute
Liberals Attack SEAL's Widow, President Trump Over Tribute
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump invited Yemen raid widow to speech during condolence call
Trump invited Yemen raid widow to speech during condolence call
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Nation Watching, Widow of Fallen SEAL Becomes a Face of Bravery
With Nation Watching, Widow of Fallen SEAL Becomes a Face of Bravery
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Trump's Use of Navy SEAL's Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S. War Propaganda
Trump's Use of Navy SEAL's Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S. War Propaganda
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Worst Performance of Trump's Presidency Now Belongs to the Press Corps — The media's reaction to his speech to Congress was shameful. — By the time Mitt Romney selected him to be his running mate in 2012, Paul Ryan (then chairman of the House Budget Committee) had already cultivated …
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Alex Pareene / The Concourse:
You Cretins Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed — Here's what you have to understand about the sort of people who become anchors, nonpartisan pundits, centrist columnists, and cable news political correspondents: They didn't sign up to be the resistance. They don't want Donald Trump to fail.
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CNN:
7 in 10 Speech-Watchers Say Trump Boosted Optimism — (CNN)President Donald Trump's first address to Congress received largely positive reviews from viewers, with 57% who tuned in saying they had a very positive reaction to the speech, according to a new CNN/ORC poll of speech-watchers.
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CBS News:
Viewers strongly approve of Trump's speech to Congress — Viewers nationwide strongly approved of President Trump's speech Tuesday night, with many Democrats joining Republicans in calling it “presidential” and positive in tone. Republicans and Independents found it “unifying,” …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
5 Key Takeaways From President Trump's Speech
5 Key Takeaways From President Trump's Speech
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: Trump's Congress Address Pulls 43 Million Viewers, Far From Comparable Obama Speech — Up from recent State of the Union addresses, the event is still off a steep 17 percent from 2009. — President Donald Trump made his first big televised appearance from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Pres. Trump's Address to Congress Watched By 43.4 Million on TV
Pres. Trump's Address to Congress Watched By 43.4 Million on TV
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Oriana Schwindt / Variety:
Updated: Trump's First Address to Congress Draws Smaller Audience Than Obama's First Address
Updated: Trump's First Address to Congress Draws Smaller Audience Than Obama's First Address
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Overnight Ratings: Obama's First Presidential Address Outdrew Trump's by 17%
Overnight Ratings: Obama's First Presidential Address Outdrew Trump's by 17%
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CNNMoney:
White House: Conway acted ‘without nefarious motive’ in Ivanka Trump plug — White House plugs Ivanka Trump's brand — The White House has concluded that Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, was acting “without nefarious motive” when she plugged Ivanka Trump's products in a TV interview …
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Was Kellyanne Conway raised in a barn?
Was Kellyanne Conway raised in a barn?
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Media Matters for America:
CNN Reports That It Got Played On Its Not-So-Anonymous Immigration Scoop From Trump — SARA MURRAY: Let's just change gears entirely and talk about the bait and switch that the president pulled when it came to immigration yesterday. He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
GOP lawmaker: ‘Poorly dressed’ Democratic women wore ‘bad-looking white pantsuits’ — A Republican congressman who is potentially eyeing a Senate run mocked Democratic women on Wednesday for wearing white at President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.
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Mike Hayes / BuzzFeed:
Bomb Threats To Jewish Centers Were Made Using “Spoofing” And Voice-Masking Technology — Investigators believe the perpetrators responsible for the latest wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish centers and schools around the US used sophisticated technology to shield their identity.
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Ali Breland / The Hill:
Schumer asks FCC for waiver to trace Jewish center bomb threats
Schumer asks FCC for waiver to trace Jewish center bomb threats
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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
The State of Trump's State Department — The flags in the lobby of the State Department stood bathed in sunlight and silence on a recent afternoon. “It's normally so busy here,” marveled a State Department staffer as we stood watching the emptiness. “People are usually coming in for meetings …
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Cynthia Cox / kff.org:
How Affordable Care Act Repeal and Replace Plans Might Shift Health Insurance Tax Credits — An important part of the repeal and replacement discussions around the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will involve the type and amount of subsidies that people get to help them afford health insurance.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Watch the hilarious ad that could doom the House Republican tax plan
Watch the hilarious ad that could doom the House Republican tax plan
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Bill Nye / National Review:
Bill Nye's Embarrassing Face-off with Tucker Carlson on Climate Change — It didn't end well for the ‘Science Guy.’ — Climate-change alarmists who have been largely unchallenged by the media over the past decade have finally met their match in Fox News host Tucker Carlson. And it ain't pretty.
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Will Disney's Bob Iger Run for President in 2020? Hollywood Friends Are Nudging — Iger told THR in June that “a lot of people have urged me to seek political office,” and now he's considering the prodding for him to lead the Democratic ticket. — Disney CEO Bob Iger already runs the world's most successful media company.
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Alister Doyle / Reuters:
Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5°F — An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.
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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Oldest fossil ever found on Earth shows alien life on Mars is likely — It's life, but not as we know it. The oldest fossil ever discovered on Earth shows that organisms were thriving 4.2 billion years ago, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Attitude Magazine:
World exclusive: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ set to make Disney history with gay character — Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast has quickly become one of the most eagerly anticipated movies in history, smashing records when its first trailer racked up more than 127 million views in just 24 hours last November.
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Katie Hopkins / Daily Mail:
Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth — By , KATIE HOPKINS FOR MAILONLINE — I didn't come to Sweden for the riots.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Unveils Plan to Dominate Digital: New Shows, a $25M YouTuber and Donald Trump (Of Course) — Amid his feud with the president ("We all know the truth"), Zucker is taking his battle for TV news dominance online with a monthly audience of 100 million and a strategy …
Melissa Jacobs / Fox News:
GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups — The Obama administration funneled billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional investigators. — “It's clear partisan politics played …
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Beau Biden's widow having affair with his married brother — MORE FROM: — The widow of Joe Biden's late son Beau Biden has started a romantic relationship with her former brother-in-law, Hunter Biden, the former Vice President's younger son. — Hallie Biden, who was devastated …
Austin Wright / Politico:
Graham: Require 2020 candidates to release tax returns — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he wants all presidential candidates to be required by law to release their tax returns, starting in 2020. — The South Carolina Republican said his proposal would include Donald Trump if the president seeks reelection.
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Joseph Farah / WND:
The greatest start for any modern president — Exclusive: Joseph Farah declares, ‘There could be a new face on Mount Rushmore’ — Joseph Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND. He is the author or co-author of 13 books that have sold more than 5 million copies …
Ben Casselman / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump's Speech Was Quiet — And Quietly Radical — Reviews of President Trump's first address to Congress on Tuesday night seem to be converging around a single theme: It was Trump at his most subdued. “Trump Softens Tone in Outlining Goals,” read the lead headline on The New York Times homepage Wednesday morning.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists — When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don't affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a “disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.”
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