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Lucas Aulbach / Courier-Journal:
Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville — A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O'Hare International Airport.
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What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria — Fifty-seven percent of Americans approve of the airstrike against Syrian military targets - calling immoral the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons that led to the strike - but most are leery of any military involvement beyond airstrikes, a CBS News poll shows.
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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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McCain says administration rhetoric “partially to blame” for chemical attack in Syria
McCain says administration rhetoric “partially to blame” for chemical attack in Syria
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Obama, Syria Chemical Attack Shows Risk of ‘Deals With Dictators’
For Obama, Syria Chemical Attack Shows Risk of ‘Deals With Dictators’
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Tillerson, on Eve of Russia Trip, Takes Hard Line on Syria
Tillerson, on Eve of Russia Trip, Takes Hard Line on Syria
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘People Just Flat-Out Lie’ — President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R. person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week. — Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears — President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term. But inside his pressure-cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks. — The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …
John Sides / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch's confirmation shattered political conventions. Here is why. — The confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court has left shattered political conventions in its wake: the refusal to hold hearings for Merrick Garland, the first partisan filibuster of a high court nominee …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Neil Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Neil Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
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The Guardian:
Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three — Exclusive: Sebastian Gorka told proposal would be ‘the worst solution’ when he suggested it to senior European diplomat … A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya …
Washington Post:
Republicans begin to fret about holding on to Tom Price's Georgia seat — ATLANTA — Republicans are becoming increasingly concerned about their ability to hang on to former Republican congressman Tom Price's seat here in a wealthy, suburban district where restive Democratic energy has been surging since November's election.
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Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
Red Alert: GOP Chances Slide in Two Special Elections
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Publicity Stunts Aren't Policy — Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal? Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufacturer to keep 1,100 jobs in America rather than moving them to Mexico.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
TV ads slam Republicans over would-be Obamacare repeal — Moderate House Republicans who flirted with supporting the GOP's now-stalled Obamacare replacement will face attack ads in their districts this week for doing so. — Save My Care, a coalition of left-leaning health care advocacy groups fighting …
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Trump's Secret Weapon Against Obama's Legacy — On February 28, President Donald Trump signed three bills into law. He held an Oval Office ceremony to spotlight two of them, H.R. 321 and H.R. 255, both of them feel-good symbolic resolutions declaring the importance of women in science and engineering.
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Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:
The Seven Types of People Who Tweet at Trump — I love Twitter," Donald Trump once tweeted. That love is manifest in more than 34,000 tweets since he took up the mantle @realDonaldTrump and over 350 in the weeks since he became the U.S. president. Trump has more than 27 million followers on Twitter …
Penny Starr / Breitbart:
Donald Trump's Pick For Top Economic Adviser Is Pro-Immigration, Pro-Outsourcing — President Donald Trump has picked an economic advisor who believes in growing the nation's economy by importing workers and consumers, and by expanding free-trade outsourcing, despite Trump's “buy American, hire American” campaign promises.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN nabs Eric Lichtblau from the New York Times — The voracious recruiters at CNN are at it again: This time, they've managed to coax veteran investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau from his perch at the New York Times. Lichtblau will serve as assistant managing editor at CNN's Washington bureau.
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
The other California: A flyover state within a state — California may never secede, or divide into different states, but it has effectively split into entities that could not be more different. On one side is the much-celebrated, post-industrial, coastal California, beneficiary …
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Javier Panzar / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats
Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats
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Associated Press:
SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS ON TAXES VEERS INTO UNEXPECTED CORNERS — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.
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Steven Bertoni / Forbes:
Josh Kushner's Complex World: How Jared's Liberal Brother Runs A Billion Dollar Fund In Trump Era — As the world's attention on November 8 turned to New York City, where both candidates awaited the results of the U.S. presidential election, one of Manhattan's most connected people …
John Archibald / al.com:
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign this week — It Is becoming clear that Robert Bentley will not last the week as governor. — Sources in Montgomery say his lawyers have been involved in negotiations to step down from the governorship and plead to lesser charges, allowing Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey to step up as governor.
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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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