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New York Times:
Trump Fires Warning Shot in Battle Between Bannon and Kushner — WASHINGTON — As he grappled on Thursday with his first major decision involving military action, a fed-up and frustrated President Trump turned to his two top aides and told them he had had enough of their incessant knife-fights in the media.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Bannon and Kushner hold sit-down in attempt to bury the hatchet — Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, two warring senior White House aides, had a bury-the-hatchet meeting ordered by President Donald Trump, after arriving at Mar-a-Lago this week. — The sit-down, which was confirmed …
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Even as the White House furiously tries to tamp down rumors that it is torn by inner strife and teetering on the verge of firing adviser Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump's far-right supporters have launched a hashtag campaign calling for the ouster …
Axios:
Bannon's allies are scrambling to save him — Steve Bannon's allies both inside and outside the White House are worried Trump is going to fire him. They're scrambling this afternoon to figure out a way to persuade the president he'd be making a grave mistake.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Alex Jones brands Jared and Ivanka ‘enemies of the republic’ after Trump ally blames them for Syria strike
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Obama Administration Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, Despite Saying Otherwise — DNI James Clapper said as much last February. — Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is announced as national security adviser, Feb. 20, 2017. — National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster delivered remarks …
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Washington Post:
Warplanes return to Syrian town devastated by chemical attack — BEIRUT — Residents of the Syrian town devastated by a chemical-weapons attack last week said that warplanes had returned to bomb them Saturday as Turkey described a retaliatory U.S. assault as “cosmetic” unless it removed President Bashar al-Assad from power.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's foreign policy is dangerously impulsive
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New York Times:
Which Countries Support and Which Oppose the U.S. Missile Strikes in Syria
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New York Times:
Syria Strike Puts U.S. Relationship With Russia at Risk
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
President Not-Obama — Is this the week Donald Trump found a foreign policy?
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Pentagon: Russia May Have Directly Participated in Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Nikki Haley warns the US is ‘prepared to do more’ in Syria
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Riddle of Trump's Syria Attack
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NBC News:
Trump's Options for North Korea Include Placing Nukes in South Korea — The National Security Council has presented President Trump with options to respond to North Korea's nuclear program — including putting American nukes in South Korea or killing dictator Kim Jong-un …
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Reuters:
Chinese state media cheer Xi-Trump meeting, say confrontation not inevitable — Chinese state media on Saturday cheered the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as one that showed the world that confrontation between the two powers was not inevitable.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media loved Trump's show of military might. Are we really doing this again? — The cruise missiles struck, and many in the mainstream media fawned. — “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night,” declared Fareed Zakaria on CNN, after firing of 59 missiles …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Trump Badly Wants Pundits' Approval. TV Loves His Syria Strike. So What Comes Next?
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NBC4 Washington:
Man Accidentally Shoots Himself at NRA Headquarters: Police — The employee suffered a minor wound to his lower body and was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to Fairfax county police — A National Rifle Association employee accidentally shot himself while doing firearms training …
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Enrique Krauze / New York Times:
Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? — MEXICO CITY — The United States invasion of Mexico in 1846 inflicted a painful wound that, in the 170 years that followed, turned into a scar. Donald Trump has torn it open again. — Among the many lies that he has constructed …
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Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
Tomi Lahren sues Glenn Beck, The Blaze for wrongful termination — Tomi Lahren, the young incendiary conservative commentator, is suing her former boss, Glenn Beck and his media firm, The Blaze, for wrongful termination involving her pro-choice comments. — According to Lahren's suit …
CNN:
Japanese scientists want to be first to drill into the Earth's mantle — (CNN)Humans have been to the Moon and explored almost every corner of the planet — but there's one place they have never been. — A group of Japanese scientists said they plan to be the first group to successfully drill …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
As Harassment Claims Hound O'Reilly, His Family Values Book Tops Charts — The timing of Bill O'Reilly's latest best-selling book could hardly be more awkward. — The book, “Old School,” is billed as a defense of traditional values, and includes advice on how men should treat women respectfully, not as sex objects.
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Google accused of ‘extreme’ gender pay discrimination by US labor department — Allegations of possible employment violations emerge at court hearing as part of lawsuit to compel company, a federal contractor, to provide compensation data … Google has discriminated against its female employees …
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Bipartisan pitch to save filibuster gets 61 senators' endorsement — Sixty-one senators urged their party leaders to preserve the filibuster for legislation on Friday, backing the procedural tool after Republicans scrapped the minority's power to block Supreme Court nominees.
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