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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel — White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Instapundit and The Guardian
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises — Liberal Democrats could yet see their dreams come true. — Last week, a new poll from the liberal outfit Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked Americans if President Trump should resign if evidence emerges that his campaign worked with Russia to help defeat Hillary Clinton
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Washington Times
Jonathan Allen / Roll Call:
Opinion: The S.S. Trump Is Sinking — Find a Lifeboat — An open letter to House Republicans — Opinion: The GOP's Big Health Care Winner — Mitch McConnell Opinion: This Budget Isn't Dead on Arrival Opinion: Put Up Your Own Plan, Democrats — If they're smart, House Republicans …
NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’ — SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies. — Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
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The Daily Caller
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Financial Times:
Trump ready to tackle North Korea alone — FT exclusive — President says US will act unilaterally if China does not pressure Pyongyang … Donald Trump has warned that the US will take unilateral action to eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea unless China increases pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
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The Sun, The Hill, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Political Wire, Reuters, Just Security, RT and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Donald Trump / Financial Times:
Donald Trump in his own words
Donald Trump in his own words
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Politico, CNBC, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, KTLA, BizPac Review, The Guardian, NBC News, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Axios, The Hill and RedState
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, made a trip to Iraq over the weekend, visiting the country as the American military is aiding Iraqi forces in their brutal fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
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Reuters, Politico, New York Daily News, Political Wire, KTLA, Mediaite, New York Magazine and RedState
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Reuters:
ADVISORY: Story on Kushner visiting Iraq withdrawn — The story “Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner visits Iraq, U.S. official says”, the accompanying alert and subsequent update are wrong and are withdrawn. — CARACAS Venezuela's opposition lawmakers said on Sunday they will push for the removal …
CNN:
Jared Kushner travels to Iraq
Jared Kushner travels to Iraq
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Gizmodo, Reuters and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Two nail bombs on St Petersburg metro rip through carriages, killing at least 10 as Putin visits city for meeting — Two nail bombs on the metro in St Petersburg ripped through train carriages killing at least 10 people today. — The incident occurred at two separate locations …
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RT, The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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Vocativ:
ISIS Celebrates St. Petersburg Metro Blast That Killed 10
ISIS Celebrates St. Petersburg Metro Blast That Killed 10
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Instapundit and Mediaite
Danny Boyle / Telegraph:
Watch | Aftermath of Saint Petersburg train ‘bombing’
Watch | Aftermath of Saint Petersburg train ‘bombing’
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Politico and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Henry Meyer / Bloomberg:
10 People Reported Dead as Blast Hits St. Petersburg Subway
10 People Reported Dead as Blast Hits St. Petersburg Subway
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RedState
CNN:
St. Petersburg metro explosion: 10 dead in Russia blasts
St. Petersburg metro explosion: 10 dead in Russia blasts
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Associated Press, Hot Air, KTLA and TheBlaze
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
How to Lose a Majority — The very public intra-party fight between President Trump and the Freedom Caucus is just the latest twist in the ongoing fight over the philosophical, strategic and ideological direction of the Republican party. As has been his mode of operation since his candidate days …
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Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger — In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Senate faces nuclear showdown over Neil Gorsuch nomination
Senate faces nuclear showdown over Neil Gorsuch nomination
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Washington Post and Politico
ProPublica:
Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us — When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Political Wire and The Week
Los Angeles Times:
Our Dishonest President … It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
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Breitbart, Vox Popoli, Heat Street, The Week, Fox News Insider, The Hill, Occupy Democrats, Business Insider, Mother Jones and Political Wire
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words — On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics. — Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's, a Rhode Island prep school with a dress code. He stopped wearing a bow tie on April 11 …
Susan Bordo / The Guardian:
The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists — In this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election — any books have been written about the way racial differences …
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Shakesville
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
What is the “Alt” Left?
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats' Smug Faces — If you're stressed out about this whole Russian nonsense, relax - Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong, and he's not going be impeached, arrested, or ritually disemboweled. When the truth comes out and it explodes in the Democrats' soft …
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Talking Points Memo and Occupy Democrats