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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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Michael Flynn's Immunity Request Rejected By Senate Intelligence Committee — The Senate Intelligence Committee turned down the request by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer for a grant of immunity in exchange for his testimony, two congressional sources told NBC News.
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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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Austin Wright / Politico:
Schiff slams White House after reviewing controversial intelligence — Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday he still has deep concerns about the Trump administration's handling of classified intelligence following a trip to the White House to review key documents for himself.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Devin Nunes Knows
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Five questions investigators want to ask Michael Flynn
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Senate Intelligence Committee turned down Flynn's request for immunity: NBC
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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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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
An Obamacare adviser walks into the Trump White House... Multiple sources tell me that former Obama adviser Zeke Emanuel was at the White House Thursday, meeting with staff about what comes next on health care. I'm told the meeting included a discussion of funding for reinsurance …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Trump, baffled and brooding — Trump, during an opioid and drug abuse listening session Wednesday n the Cabinet Room with Chris Christie, Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos / AP's Evan Vucci — President Trump brought his chaos …
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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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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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Joanna L. Grossman / Vox:
Vice President Pence's “never dine alone with a woman” rule isn't honorable. It's probably illegal. — An employment lawyer weighs in. — “I don't work with women. If they're attractive, I'm too tempted. And if they're not attractive, what's the point?”
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National Review:
Pence and Prudence — Traditional Christians face a double standard.
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Now the Left Thinks Pence's Rule to Never Dine Alone With Women Besides His Wife Is Illegal
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SARAH PALIN, BizPac Review and Washington Free Beacon
Jason Easley / Politicus USA:
Rachel Maddow Explains How Mike Pence Is Going To Go Down With Trump For Russia Scandal
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
1 in 3 voters give President Trump a grade F — WASHINGTON — After more than two months in office, America's new president, Republican Donald Trump, got a grade of F from 1 in 3 voters, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. — By contrast, the same number graded predecessor Democrat …
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Richard Greenberg / NBC News:
Obama Officials Made List of Secret Russia Probe Documents To Protect Them … LATEST POSTS FROM INTEL DESK — Obama administration officials were so concerned about what would happen to key classified documents related to the Russia probe once President Trump took office that they created …
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Did Giuliani Try to Cut Deal Between U.S. and Turkey for Iranian?
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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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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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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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
AP reporter disputes Washington Post's Tillerson eye-contact report
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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans' views of blacks' intelligence, work ethic lag behind Democrats at a record clip — Over the last two decades, there has never been a bigger divide between white Republicans and Democrats when it comes to views of the intelligence and work ethic of African Americans, according to the new General Social Survey.
Stephanie Coontz / New York Times:
Do Millennial Men Want Stay-at-Home Wives? — Millennials, generally defined as people born between 1982 and 2000, were supposed to be the generation that forged what has been called “a new national consensus” in favor of gender equality. Indeed, in February the prominent Columbia professor …
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
GOP lawmaker: The Bible says ‘if a man will not work, he shall not eat’ — One lawmaker is citing a godly reference to justify changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) recently quoted the New Testament to question the strength of current work requirements.
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
After ‘classy’ N.C. restaurant bans kids, critics fume — and reservations surge — The final straw was a little girl using an iPad with the volume on high, a device her parents refused to turn down despite repeated requests from the staff at Caruso's, an upscale Italian restaurant in Mooresville, N.C.
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Ruth Sherlock / Telegraph:
Exclusive: The most powerful Briton in America on what it's really like in Donald Trump's White House — Sebastian Gorka is one of Donald Trump's closest advisers and the most influential Briton in the White House. Here he speaks with Ruth Sherlock about how to defeat Islamic State and the …
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
You're the puppet: Spicer revives Trump's unhinged attacks on Clinton as Russia scandal grows — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — At his Friday afternoon White House briefing, President Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer made the jaw-dropping assertion that former Secretary …
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