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New York Times:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Still Benefiting From Business Empire, Filings Show — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump's daughter and son-in-law, will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $741 million …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Bannon earned more than half a million dollars from entities tied to GOP donors — Steve Bannon, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, earned more than half a million dollars last year from entities linked to a pair of major conservative donors, according to documents released …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kushner's privileged status stokes resentment in White House — In a White House where President Donald Trump commands reverence, Jared Kushner often refers to the president by one name: Donald. And while cable TV can dominate the president's mood and set the agenda for senior administration staff …
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump's closest aides hail from ranks of financial elite — New documents released Friday night by the White House revealed hard numbers showing how President Trump, who campaigned as a champion of the working class, has surrounded himself with a circle of wealthy advisers.
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Washington Monthly and Mediaite
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Stephen K. Bannon, architect of anti-globalist policies, got rich as a global capitalist — Stephen K. Bannon was running an investment banking company in Beverly Hills when his partner called with urgent news: a potential $10 billion deal was about to unfold in New York City involving …
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Forbes
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump's Advisers Made Big Money, Disclosures Show — Disclosures reveal some aides' portfolios before they divested any assets as required by ethics office — The White House offered a window into the concentration of wealth among senior advisers serving in President Donald …
Fox News:
Intelligence official who ‘unmasked’ Trump associates is ‘very high up,’ source says — The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday.
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BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and The Lid
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Devin Nunes Knows — Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration. — California Rep. Adam Schiff may not offer much by way of substance, but give him marks for political flimflam. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was so successful at ginning …
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Breitbart
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump's White House struggles to get out from under Russia controversy — President Trump entered his 11th week in office Friday in crisis mode, his governing agenda at risk of being subsumed by escalating questions about the White House's conduct in the Russia probe — which the president called a “witch hunt.”
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The Guardian, CBS News, Politico, Fox News Insider, CNBC, Occupy Democrats, Daily Kos, NBC News, CBS New York, Shareblue, Political Wire and Washington Examiner
Austin Wright / Politico:
Schiff slams White House after reviewing controversial intelligence
Schiff slams White House after reviewing controversial intelligence
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The Atlantic, ABC News and Daily Wire
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Ahead of release of financial disclosures, Trump administration brags about how many wealthy people it has
Ahead of release of financial disclosures, Trump administration brags about how many wealthy people it has
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Political Wire
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Five questions investigators want to ask Michael Flynn
Five questions investigators want to ask Michael Flynn
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Salon, New Yorker, Washington Post, RedState and Political Wire
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Putin spokesman: US-Russia relations ‘maybe worse’ now than Cold War … The relationship between the U.S. and Russia may be more antagonistic now than it was during the decades-long Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin's top spokesman said Friday. — Asked by ABC's “Good Morning America” …
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Business Insider, Hot Air, Fox News Insider, SARAH PALIN, twitchy.com, The Week and ABC News
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New York Times:
‘Penis Seat’ Causes Double Takes on Mexico City Subway — A seat in a subway car in Mexico City's metro system caused a stir earlier this year. There were awkward glances. Visible discomfort. Baffled looks. Some laughs. And of course, the inevitable pictures from passenger's camera phones.
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Althouse
Senator Claire McCaskill:
Gorsuch: Good for Corporations, Bad for Working People — This is a really difficult decision for me. I am not comfortable with either choice. While I have come to the conclusion that I can't support Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court—and will vote no on the procedural vote and his confirmation …
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Politico, Business Insider, Washington Post, Vox, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, The Week, Axios and Reuters
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hannity sides with Freedom Caucus over Trump — Fox News host Sean Hannity sided with the Freedom Caucus on Thursday in its feud with President Trump, saying he didn't think the conservative lawmakers were at fault for last week's failure of the GOP healthcare bill.
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NPR, Roll Call, Axios, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, The Daily Signal, Doug Ross, Towleroad and IJR
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Steven Camarota / Foreign Affairs:
The Case Against Immigration — Why the United States Should Look Out for Itself — Outlining his position on immigration in August of last year, Donald Trump, then the Republican candidate for U.S. president, made his motivating philosophy clear: “There is only one core issue in the immigration debate …
CNN:
First on CNN: New terrorist laptop bombs may evade airport security, intel sources say — Intel played significant role in Trump administration's decision to prohibit travelers from 10 airports in 8 countries from carrying laptops and other large electronic devices on planes
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twitchy.com
Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
Nikki Haley is kicking anti-Semites in the UN to the curb — MORE FROM: … Nikki Haley, the “new sheriff in town,” is taking no guff from anti-Semites disguised as Israel-haters infesting the United Nations, that den of obscene bigots and butcher-lovers that sits, like a giant middle finger pointing …
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Trump set to sign executive orders to stop trade abuses — President Trump on Friday is expected to sign two executive orders aimed at tackling long-standing concerns around trade enforcement as the White House launches plans to redefine U.S. policy. — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross …
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RedState
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Grassley asks State for details on Clinton's security clearance — (R-Iowa) is asking the State Departments for details on the security clearances of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — and her top aides. — Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter this week …
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Raw Story
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
AP reporter disputes Washington Post's Tillerson eye-contact report
AP reporter disputes Washington Post's Tillerson eye-contact report
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Heat Street, IJR, Refinery29, SARAH PALIN, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and RedState
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The latest attempt to validate Trump's wiretapping claim? An Obama official who left in 2015. — It has been tricky for President Trump and his allies to retroactively figure out how to explain his tweets about then-President Barack Obama wiretapping Trump Tower.
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New York Times, The Guardian, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, vice, Washington Free Beacon, Power Line, The Last Refuge, The White House and KTLA
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Did Giuliani Try to Cut Deal Between U.S. and Turkey for Iranian? — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Mike Mukasey disclosed they wanted to go around prosecutors and cut a deal between the Turkish and U.S. governments for a client accused of laundering Iranian money …
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Raw Story
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Richard Greenberg / NBC News:
Obama Officials Made List of Secret Russia Probe Documents To Protect Them
Obama Officials Made List of Secret Russia Probe Documents To Protect Them
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Daily Kos, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Favorite Health-Care Idea Is to Stick It to Mothers — The single most unifying idea to change Obamacare among conservatives is to eliminate the law's “essential health benefits.” These burdensome mandates of which treatments insurance has to cover make Obamacare too expensive, conservatives say.
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