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Wall Street Journal:
Susan Rice Unmasked — Obama's security adviser sought the name of at least one Trump official in intelligence reports. — Well, what do you know. On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama's national security adviser.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Susan Rice and the Latest Bogus Attempt to Justify Trump's Wiretapping Tweet — Ever since President Trump tweeted, in the early morning of Saturday, March 4th, that “Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” the White House and its defenders have labored to find a justification for the false allegation.
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Hullabaloo, Occupy Democrats and Washington Monthly
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Rice denies Obama administration inappropriately unmasked Trump team
Rice denies Obama administration inappropriately unmasked Trump team
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Politico, Fox News, Daily Kos, JONATHAN TURLEY and Common Dreams
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Why Is CNN Refuting The Susan Rice Story It Refuses To Cover?
Why Is CNN Refuting The Susan Rice Story It Refuses To Cover?
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CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Grabien News RSS:
CNN Goes on Rampage Against Susan Rice Bombshell, Instructs Viewers to Ignore Story
CNN Goes on Rampage Against Susan Rice Bombshell, Instructs Viewers to Ignore Story
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Breitbart, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, twitchy.com, Washington Times and Fox News
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Susan Rice's White House Unmasking: A Watergate-style Scandal
Susan Rice's White House Unmasking: A Watergate-style Scandal
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Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, FOX News Radio, Washington Free Beacon, Israpundit and Mediaite
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Susan Rice isn't a ‘smoking gun,’ but she does have some explaining to do
Susan Rice isn't a ‘smoking gun,’ but she does have some explaining to do
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Breitbart, The Hugh Hewitt Show, New York Magazine and Occupy Democrats
Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
‘I leaked nothing to nobody,’ Susan Rice insists
‘I leaked nothing to nobody,’ Susan Rice insists
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The Nation, Daily Wire, AOL and Fox News Insider
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Susan Rice may ‘be of interest to us,’ says Senate Intelligence chairman
Susan Rice may ‘be of interest to us,’ says Senate Intelligence chairman
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Center for Security Policy, CNN, Vox, NewsBusters and RedState
Axios:
Trumpcare revival talks falling apart ahead of Pence meeting — Attempts to reach a deal this week on health care are unraveling fast, with conservatives already blaming House Speaker Paul Ryan for blocking the White House bill, and leadership sources saying that's nonsense and that the Freedom Caucus …
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The Hill:
Centrists push back on new ObamaCare repeal plan
Centrists push back on new ObamaCare repeal plan
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Politico and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pence presents new healthcare offer to Freedom Caucus
Pence presents new healthcare offer to Freedom Caucus
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Jim Norman / Gallup:
Affordable Care Act Gains Majority Approval for First Time — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty-five percent of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major turnaround from five months ago when 42% approved and 53% disapproved. This is the first time a majority of Americans …
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Axios, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and Politico
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - April 2017: The Fall of the AHCA and Next Steps for the ACA — Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Bryan Wu, and Mollyann Brodie — KEY FINDINGS: — The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted the week after House Republicans pulled the American Health Care Act …
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The Hill, Mother Jones, CNBC and Axios
The Daily Beast:
Assad Apparently ‘Gasses’ Civilians Days After Tillerson Hints He Can Stay in Power — Days ago, in Ankara, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled that the U.S. had no quarrel with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a man Tillerson's predecessor compared to Adolf Hitler after he slaughtered …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Spicer: Syrian chemical attack a ‘consequence’ of Obama ‘weakness’
Spicer: Syrian chemical attack a ‘consequence’ of Obama ‘weakness’
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Breitbart, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Politicus USA and Mediaite
CNN:
Syria gas attack reportedly kills dozens, including children
Syria gas attack reportedly kills dozens, including children
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Raw Story, BBC, ThinkProgress, ABC News, The Huffington Post, WHNT-TV, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Shakesville and IJR
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad
Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad
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Washington Post, Vox, The Atlantic, Reuters, Hot Air, Right Wing Watch, BizPac Review and Balloon Juice
Ben Popken / NBC News:
Advertisers Flee Fox's Bill O'Reilly Show Amid Sexual Harassment Lawsuits — Fox News is in a jam this week as major automakers and smaller outfits pull their ads from the network's popular “O'Reilly Factor” show, following a series of sexual harassment claims against host Bill O'Reilly.
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Politicus USA, The Daily Beast, New York Times, RedState, TheBlaze, Business Insider, Refinery29, twitchy.com, New York Magazine and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
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Media Matters for America:
These Are Bill O'Reilly's Advertisers — Following the latest revelations and allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct involving Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, a growing list of advertisers are beginning to pull their ads from airing during The O'Reilly Factor time slot.
Washington Post:
White House explores two new tax ideas — a value-added tax and carbon tax — as leading proposal to raise revenue falters — President Trump's administration is exploring the creation of two controversial new taxes — a value-added tax and a carbon tax — as part of a broad overhaul of the tax code …
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Daily Wire, Axios, New York Magazine and Mother Jones
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
White House exploring new value-added tax and carbon tax: report
White House exploring new value-added tax and carbon tax: report
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Considers Far-Reaching Steps for ‘Extreme Vetting’ — Foreigners entering U.S. could be forced to hand over phones, answer questions on ideology; changes could apply to allies like France and Germany — Foreigners who want to visit the U.S., even for a short trip …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Lawmakers introduce bill to end warrantless phone searches at border
Lawmakers introduce bill to end warrantless phone searches at border
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The Verge, Raw Story, Just Security and Motherboard, more at Techmeme »
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Eric Trump Offers Surprisingly Candid Thoughts On Nepotism — No modern president has put as much power in the hands of so many family members as Donald Trump. On January 9, he named son-in-law Jared Kushner as his senior advisor despite anti-nepotism laws previously believed to prevent such an appointment.
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Talking Points Memo, AOL, Political Wire, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
How to End the Politicization of the Courts — Mainstream news coverage has a hard time making subtle distinctions between the behavior of the two political parties. When Democratic and Republican tactics are blatantly different — on voter suppression, for instance — journalists are often comfortable saying so.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
A (probably futile) plea for sanity in the Senate
A (probably futile) plea for sanity in the Senate
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FiveThirtyEight, Washington Free Beacon, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hit & Run, The Root, Balloon Juice and twitchy.com
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Mac Pro Lives — Let's not beat around the bush. I have great news to share: — Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple …
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Mashable, The Guardian, Axios, Business Insider, The Verge and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro
Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro
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Business Insider, The Verge and Daring Fireball, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It. — Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. — At 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington, CNN's largest control room was mostly empty but for a handful of producers hunched over control panels and …
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Mother Jones, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Mediaite, TVNewser, The Week and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
WATCH: Boos erupt after Trump tells room full of construction workers that he won most of their votes — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked with a room full of construction union members, and things got a little awkward for him when he started boasting about his big election victory.
Hans Fiene / The Federalist:
Why Men and Women Can Never Be ‘Just Friends’ — The latest numbers on American birth rates are in, and they yield only one reasonable conclusion: All of us need to start having more babies or else the upcoming demographic tsunami will consume our nation, cripple our social programs …
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Why You Shouldn't Walk on Escalators — The train pulls into Pennsylvania Station during the morning rush, the doors open and you make a beeline for the escalators. — You stick to the left and walk up the stairs, figuring you can save precious seconds and get a bit of exercise.
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The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at 2017 North America's Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: I know these people well, you wouldn't believe it. I know them too well. (Applause.) I know them too well. They cost me a lot of money.
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Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Trump promises to rebuild country in speech to construction workers
Trump promises to rebuild country in speech to construction workers
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Politico
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Kirsten Gillibrand Is Becoming a Progressive Champion. Is a 2020 Run Next? — The Democrats' most unlikely holy warrior smells rebellion in the air. — As Kirsten Gillibrand ascended to the pulpit at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant in late February, the congregation seemed to tense with apprehension.
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Media Matters for America:
Trump Ally Alex Jones Threatens To “Beat” Rep. Adam Schiff's “Goddamn Ass” In Anti-Gay Tirade — ROGER STONE: What we're hearing from the Democrats both in the House and Senate is red-baiting — ALEX JONES: That's on Drudge. — STONE: — fear-mongering — It is well beyond the point of recklessness …
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Towleroad, PinkNews, The Hill, Politicus USA and No More Mister Nice Blog
NCAA.org:
NCAA Board of Governors' Position on HB2 Repeal — In August of 2016, the NCAA Board of Governors instructed the relocation of NCAA championships scheduled in North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year because of the cumulative impact HB2 had on local communities' ability to ensure a safe …
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Mother Jones, Human Rights Campaign, New York Times, Snopes.com, IJR, PinkNews, The Charlotte Observer, timesfreepress.com, FOX2now.com, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, NBC News, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Vox, ACS Blog, CBS New York and Politico
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
A birthday video call captures a telling moment in Trump's Russia connections — WASHINGTON — Several businessmen and celebrities from the former Soviet Union gathered on the Turkish Riviera in June 2005 to celebrate the grand opening of what was billed then as the country's most luxurious hotel.
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Talking Points Memo, Financial Times and Occupy Democrats