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EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member — Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction …
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Sebastian Gorka Denies Reported Affiliations with Vitézi Rend — Lord knows I've had my differences with The Forward before. I have them still, and often. They rarely unsettle me, if only because robust disagreements, especially on things that matter, are what we journalists should seek, not shun.

Top Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka Stonewalled When Asked If He Belongs To A Nazi-Allied Group — “Send a request to White House press,” Gorka told BuzzFeed News. — Sebastian Gorka, a top national security adviser to President Trump, stonewalled when BuzzFeed News asked about a report that he belongs to a Nazi-allied group.
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Addicting Info, Death and Taxes, The FADER and AOL

Jewish organizations call for Sebastian Gorka's resignation for ties to far-right group
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Joe.My.God.


Spicer says Trump ‘stands by’ unproven allegation that Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower — White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump “stands by” his allegation that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping surveillance of Trump Tower last fall …
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Dem lawmaker: Trump might've leaked classified information — The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee suggested Thursday President Trump disclosed classified information during a Fox News interview the night before. — “In his effort to once again blame Obama …
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Raw Story, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats, Mediaite and Deadline


CNN's Chalian: Trump ‘looked like a third-grader’ in Fox interview — President Trump “looked like a third grader” trying to “squirm out of a lie” when asked about his wiretapping claims during a Fox News interview, CNN's political director said Thursday. — David Chalian …
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Raw Story

Paul Ryan: ‘No such wiretap existed’
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Politico, The Verge, The Week, Death and Taxes and Media Matters for America

Senate Intel leaders: No indication Trump Tower was tapped
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ABC News, Washington Post, Joe.My.God., Vox, Daily Kos and Daily Wire

Trump's wiretapping claim was just shot down by the heads of the Senate Intel Committee
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ABC News, The Root and Business Insider

Senate Intel chair: ‘No indications’ Trump Tower was wiretapped
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The Moderate Voice and Common Dreams

Senate panel leaders: no evidence to Trump claim of Obama wiretap
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Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, Media Matters for America, Eat Pray Vote and The Hill


Mike Flynn Worked for Several Russian Companies, Was Paid More Than $50,000, Documents Show — Former Trump national security adviser had business connections with Russia beyond RT that hadn't been previously known — President Trump's former national security adviser, Mike Flynn …
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Trump adviser Flynn paid by multiple Russia-related entities, new records show — Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser amid controversy over his contacts with Russia's ambassador, collected nearly $68,000 in fees and expenses from Russia-related entities in 2015 …
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ABC News, ThinkProgress, CNN and The Week


Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor — President Trump on Thursday will unveil a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens …
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Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research — President Trump's budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research. The cuts are deep and broad. — They also go beyond what many political observers expected.
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NPR, The Federalist, Vox, Common Dreams and Daily Kos


A day in the life of a poor American under Trump's proposed budget
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CNN, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, Inside Higher Ed, Politico, TheBlaze and Daily Kos

Trump Budget Plan Declares War on ‘War on Poverty’ Programs
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Politico, Business Insider and Raw Story

Trump's federal budget would eliminate dozens of agencies and programs
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, FOX News Radio and John Hawkins' Right Wing News


Chelsea Clinton announces new picture book, She Persisted — Count Chelsea Clinton among the many people whom Elizabeth Warren inspired when she refused to be silenced in the Senate. — Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton …
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Mulvaney justifies budget: We can't ask a coal miner to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration …
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Trump Budget Is ‘Heavy Lift,’ Even for G.O.P. Congress
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Can Big Bird survive Trump?
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Hot Air and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion


Sources: Sean Hannity once pulled a gun on Juan Williams — Sean Hannity is surrounded by jackasses. — The Wall Street Journal columnist who called Hannity the “dumbest anchor” on Fox News is a “jackass,” according to Hannity. The forensic psychologist who suggested a blood vessel had popped inside Hannity's brain is a “jackass.”
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Lack of Oxford Comma Costs Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute — A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.
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Trump's attacks on judges who don't agree with him might be alienating the judges who do — Even judges who think the travel ban is constitutional are horrified by Trump. — President Donald Trump's travel ban has some defenders on the federal bench. President Trump himself does not.
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5 Problems With The Hawaii Judge Halting Trump's Travel Ban
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McDonald's tweets to Trump: ‘You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President’ — McDonald's' in a tweet on its corporate account called President Trump “a disgusting excuse of a President” on Thursday morning. — The tweet, which was briefly pinned to the top of the account before being deleted …
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Secret Service Agents Under Investigation for Taking Photos of Donald Trump's Sleeping Grandson — A source with knowledge of the information tells Mother Jones that two Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect Donald Trump III, President Donald Trump's grandson, took selfies with the eight year old while he was sleeping.
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IJR, TMZ.com, Mediaite, Death and Taxes, RedState and Washington Free Beacon


Rand Paul Responds to John McCain: Senator From Arizona Is “Unhinged” and “Past His Prime” — Sen. Rand Paul responds to attacks from Sen. John McCain on this morning's ‘Morning Joe.’ — ON Thursday, Paul released this statement: “Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries …
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Hot Air and Sputnik International
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Paul: McCain “makes a really, really strong case for term limits”
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The Week


The Real Cost of Abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts — On Thursday morning, President Trump's proposal for the federal budget confirmed a fact long suspected: the proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities …
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Why I'm Moving Home — COLUMBUS, Ohio — In recent months, I've frequently found myself in places hit hard by manufacturing job losses, speaking to people affected in various ways. Sometimes, the conversation turns to the conflict people feel between the love of their home and the desire to leave in search of better work.
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Althouse

Stephen Bannon Is a Fan of a French Philosopher...Who Was an Anti-Semite and a Nazi Supporter — Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief strategist, recently spoke approvingly of the ideas of an anti-Semitic French intellectual who was sentenced to life in prison for cooperating with the Nazis during World War II.