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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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New York Times:
Who's Worth What at the White House: The Financial Disclosures — The Trump administration released the financial disclosure forms from members of the White House staff. Here is some of what they reveal. — The disclosures include the complicated assets of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner …
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USA Today and Business Insider
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 …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Stephen K. Bannon, architect of anti-globalist policies, got rich as a global capitalist
Stephen K. Bannon, architect of anti-globalist policies, got rich as a global capitalist
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Forbes
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump's closest aides hail from ranks of financial elite
Trump's closest aides hail from ranks of financial elite
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Mediaite
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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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.”
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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The Atlantic, ABC News and Daily Wire
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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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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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
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hannity sides with Freedom Caucus over Trump
Hannity sides with Freedom Caucus over Trump
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NBC News:
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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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, RedState, Political Wire and Washington Monthly
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 …
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
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
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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Daily Kos, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Did Giuliani Try to Cut Deal Between U.S. and Turkey for Iranian?
Did Giuliani Try to Cut Deal Between U.S. and Turkey for Iranian?
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Raw Story
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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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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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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Mother Jones and TheBlaze
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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