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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Trump's Shadow Is Looming Over This Special Election — SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia — Amy King, an accountant in this Atlanta suburb, said she's always been a Republican. — But when a Republican, Judson Hill — the first candidate to enter the first competitive congressional race …
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Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
Red Alert: GOP Chances Slide in Two Special Elections — Georgia's 6th and Kansas' 4th move in Democrats' direction — Walz's Governor Run Creates Vulnerable Open Seat for Democrats What I Learned About Polling From a Georgia House Survey Looking for Clues From a 2005 Special Election in Ohio
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Georgia Vote Nears, G.O.P. Asks if Ideological Purity Matters Anymore — ATLANTA — When Michael Fitzgerald, a local Republican leader, took a break from packing up the signs after a candidate forum here last week, he appeared momentarily flummoxed about the state of his party under President Trump.
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Trump officials tell Russia to drop its support for Syria's Assad — Officials in the Trump administration on Sunday demanded Russia stop supporting the Syrian government or face a further deterioration in its relations with the United States. — Signaling the focus of talks Secretary …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Obama's Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump's
Obama's Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump's
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Althouse, USA Today, Shareblue, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News Insider and CBS New York
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Ryan and McConnell flip-flop on the use of force in Syria to deter chemical weapons
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 4-9-17: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Rep. Adam Schiff
‘This Week’ Transcript 4-9-17: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Rep. Adam Schiff
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Washington Post, CBS News, ThinkProgress, Politico and Politicus USA
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Column An untraditional president's very traditional military strike
Column An untraditional president's very traditional military strike
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Mother Jones
Joy Lin / ABC News:
Rubio says US can't defeat ISIS until Syria's Assad is removed
Rubio says US can't defeat ISIS until Syria's Assad is removed
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Associated Press, Politico, The Hill and CNN
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Schiff says Russia is absolutely ‘complicit’ in Syrian chemical attack
Schiff says Russia is absolutely ‘complicit’ in Syrian chemical attack
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Politico
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
McMaster: U.S. eager for regime change in Syria
McMaster: U.S. eager for regime change in Syria
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CNN, RealClearPolitics, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Business Insider, Washington Post, Hot Air and Axios
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
McFarland to Exit White House as McMaster Consolidates Power — Former Fox News commentator will become envoy to Singapore — Trump's second national security advisor making his mark — K. T. McFarland has been asked to step down as deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
K.T. McFarland, Deputy National Security Adviser, Is Expected to Leave Post
K.T. McFarland, Deputy National Security Adviser, Is Expected to Leave Post
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Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland ousted from role: report
Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland ousted from role: report
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Hullabaloo, RedState, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Can Bill O'Reilly Keep His Scold's Perch? — In 2000, cable news's transformational star — a telegenic scold who knew wrong from right as sure as he knew that a break from “traditional values” would be this nation's ruination — wrote the following words in his book “The O'Reilly Factor”:
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Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Fox will investigate Bill O'Reilly harassment claims, lawyer says
Fox will investigate Bill O'Reilly harassment claims, lawyer says
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David B. Larter / Navy Times:
Korea crisis deepens as the US dispatches the Carl Vinson strike group to the region — The head of all U.S. forces in the Pacific canceled a planned carrier exercises and port visits in Australia and redirected the Carl Vinson carrier strike group to the waters off the Korean Peninsula …
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Taylor Marsh and RedState
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CNBC:
North Korea says Syria airstrikes prove its nukes justified
North Korea says Syria airstrikes prove its nukes justified
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
Idrees Ali / Reuters:
U.S. Navy strike group to move toward Korean peninsula: U.S. official
U.S. Navy strike group to move toward Korean peninsula: U.S. official
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, IJR, The Daily Caller and The Guardian
New York Daily News:
Man-spreading dispute over seats on J train leads to hammer attack and large brawl — An argument over man-spreading on a Lower East Side subway train ended in an all-out brawl with one man attacking another with a hammer, officials said Saturday. — The 30-year-old hammer victim …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Reuters:
Russian computer programmer arrested in Spain: embassy — A Russian computer programmer, Pyotr Levashov, has been arrested in the Spanish city of Barcelona, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Madrid said on Sunday. — It was unclear why Levashov was arrested.
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New York Times and Raw Story
Jay Rayner / The Guardian:
Le Cinq, Four Seasons Hôtel George V, 31 avenue George V, 75008 Paris (00 331 49 52 71 54). Meal for two, including service and modest wine: €600 (£520) — There is only one thing worse than being served a terrible meal: being served a terrible meal by earnest waiters …
Alan Hall / Daily Mail:
Boyfriend forced to watch as refugee rapes his girlfriend at knifepoint during camping trip in Germany — A refugee from Ghana has been arrested for dragging a young woman from her tent and raping her while she was on a camping holiday with her boyfriend. — The young couple were on a camping trip …
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The Gateway Pundit and Vox Popoli
Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration's House Veterans Struggle to Rally Support in Chamber — Former congressmen Mike Pence, Mick Mulvaney and Tom Price finding it difficult to persuade on GOP health bill — WASHINGTON—They had 30 years of combined service in the House of Representatives …
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Political Wire and Axios
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
How Bannon's multimedia machine drove a movement and paid him millions — Stephen K. Bannon could barely finish his sentences as he implored the listeners of his Breitbart News radio show to see the new movie “Clinton Cash.” — It was July 20, the homestretch of the 2016 presidential campaign …
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Walker wants Wisconsin to be first state to stop dictating how much time kids should go to school — If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has his way, the Badger State will become the first to stop requiring students in public schools to spend a minimum number of hours in class.
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Fox News:
Palm Sunday attacks: ISIS says it carried out bombings at churches in Egypt that killed at least 37 — The ISIS terror group has claimed responsibility for two separate Palm Sunday bombing attacks at Coptic Christian churches in Egypt that have killed 37 people and injured more than 100.
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