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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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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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Joe.My.God. and Washington Times
CNN:
Syria strikes: Site of chemical attack hit again — (CNN)New airstrikes have targeted a town in northwest Syria that was hit by a deadly chemical attack earlier this week, activists said. — It wasn't immediately clear who conducted the strikes on Khan Sheikhoun, which hit on Friday and Saturday …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Tulsi Gabbard ‘skeptical’ Assad regime behind gas attack … (D-Hawaii) said Friday she was “skeptical” that Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime was behind this week's chemical weapons attack in northern Syria. — “There are a number of theories that are out there,” Gabbard said during …
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Political Wire, CNN, Hot Air, Business Insider, Lawfire and Breitbart
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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ThinkProgress and ABC News
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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The American Interest, Power Line, The Daily Caller and IJR
New York Times:
Which Countries Support and Which Oppose the U.S. Missile Strikes in Syria
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's foreign policy is dangerously impulsive
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The Atlantic, Shareblue, Telegraph, Politico, IJR, The Diplomat, Washington Post, The Guardian and NBC News
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
President Not-Obama — Is this the week Donald Trump found a foreign policy?
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New York Times, vice, Eschaton, IJR and Weekly Standard
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Nikki Haley warns the US is ‘prepared to do more’ in Syria
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Vanity Fair, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Monthly, The Last Tradition, CNN, New York Times and Red Alert Politics
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Magazine
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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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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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Washington Examiner, Hot Air, RedState and The Last Tradition
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Alyssa Madruga / Fox News:
Expert: Watch to see if Kim Jong-Un goes into hiding after Syria strike
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Chinese state media cheer Xi-Trump meeting, say confrontation not inevitable
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The Week
John Sharp / al.com:
Rebekah Mason suggested closure of DMV offices in majority black counties, report shows — Governor Robert Bentley's former top advisor and secret paramour Rebekah Mason led a politically-motivated effort in 2015 to close 31 driver's license offices in mostly black counties, a move that embarrassed the state and was later reversed.
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Political Wire, WTVM-TV, NPR and WHNT-TV
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Inside the failed secret mission to save the filibuster — A week before Republicans gutted the filibuster to put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, nine senators gathered in John McCain's office to see whether they could save the Senate from spiraling further into disrepair.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell, the man who broke America
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Outside the Beltway and The Atlantic
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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ThinkProgress, The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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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Breitbart
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Cable News Loves War — Nothing engorges the cable news id quite like a war waged by the United States, even when the war is only a one-off retaliatory Tomahawk strike, like Thursday's missile attack on an airbase in Syria. From inside their command posts in Washington and New York …
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