Top Items:
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.
Discussion:
New York Times, Hot Air, Vox, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, neo-neocon, Boing Boing, View from the Wing, Raw Story, Fox News Insider, KFOR-TV, CBS Chicago, The Ring of Fire Network, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Federalist, IJR, FOX31 Denver, The Daily Caller, AOL, Instapundit, Axios, Eschaton and Mediaite
RELATED:
Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight — Several videos have been posted online of a man being dragged off a United Airlines plane after the flight was overbooked. — Facebook: video.php — Videos posted to Twitter and Facebook show a man being pulled …
Discussion:
Hit & Run, ThinkProgress and Daring Fireball
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A man wouldn't leave an overbooked United flight. So he was dragged off, battered and limp. — United Airlines says a man wouldn't give up his spot on an overbooked flight Sunday. — So, according to witnesses and videos of the incident, he was pulled screaming from his seat by security …
Discussion:
WCNC-TV, BGR, Raw Story, Mashable, CBS Dallas and Outside the Beltway
Audra D. Bridges:
Please share this video. We are on this flight. United airlines overbooked the flight. They randomly selected people to kick off so their standby crew could have a seat. This man is a doctor and has to be at the hospital in the morning. He did not want to get off. We are all shaky and so disgusted. #unitedairways
Discussion:
The Guardian, Boing Boing and Associated Press
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Breitbart editors tell staffers to stop writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, sources say — Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.
Discussion:
The Hill, Talking Points Memo, RedState, Little Green Footballs, Political Wire, Hullabaloo, AOL, The Daily Caller, IJR, Daily Kos, Axios and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, ABC News, Vox, Balloon Juice, Business Insider, Raw Story, Daily Kos and Axios
Bloomberg:
In Trump's World, Family Always Comes First
In Trump's World, Family Always Comes First
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Politico, Heat Street and CNN
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Priebus made Bannon, Kushner make up: report
Priebus made Bannon, Kushner make up: report
Discussion:
RedState, CBS News and No More Mister Nice Blog
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘People Just Flat-Out Lie’ — President Donald 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.
Discussion:
Mediaite, Fox News Insider, The Daily Caller and IJR
Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
San Bernardino School Shooting: 2 Adults Dead in Classroom, 2 Students Hospitalized in Possible Murder-Suicide — Two adults were found dead in a classroom and two students are in unknown condition after a shooter walked on to the North Park Elementary School campus in San Bernardino on Monday …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, Mother Jones, KFOR-TV, CBS Philly, CBS Denver, Boing Boing, CBS Pittsburgh, The Guardian, Mediaite, CBS Dallas, twitchy.com, FOX31 Denver, CBS New York, IJR, The Daily Caller and Axios
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway
RELATED:
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen
What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen
Discussion:
RedState
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
In historic moment, Neil Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
In historic moment, Neil Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Discussion:
New York Times, Politico, Axios, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Common Dreams, Hot Air, SCOTUSblog, Althouse and The Hill
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.
NASDAQ.com:
Midday Update: Stocks Return Gains on Reports of Chinese Troop Deployments on N. Korea Border — The benchmark averages have surrendered earlier gains on news that China has deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border, and the U.S. is considering further sanctions against Russia.
Discussion:
John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
CBS News:
Full Transcript: Rex Tillerson on “Face the Nation” — JOHN DICKERSON: We want to welcome Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to the broadcast. Mr. Secretary, thank you for being with us. As a start, what message was being sent to the Syrian leader with the U.S. military action?
Discussion:
CNN, New York Times, Hot Air, The Guardian and Instapundit
RELATED:
Ben Westcott / CNN:
Trump administration sends mixed signals on Syria ahead of G7 meeting
Trump administration sends mixed signals on Syria ahead of G7 meeting
Discussion:
KFOR-TV, NYR Daily, Politicus USA, Balloon Juice, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
CBS News:
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.
Discussion:
Daily Kos, IJR, Hot Air, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, RedState, Politico, Washington Times, CBS New York, Washington Free Beacon and CNBC
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Susan Rice's claim that Obama got Syria to ‘verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile’ — “We were able to find a solution that didn't necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished.
Discussion:
Reuters, National Review, Infowars, IJR, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com and New York Times
Financial Times:
China offers concessions to avert trade war with US — Xi affords Trump prospect of quick wins on market access in finance and beef — Read next … China will offer the Trump administration better market access for financial sector investments and US beef exports to help avert a trade war …
Discussion:
Breitbart, RedState, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, East Bay Times, The Daily Caller, Sputnik International and Axios
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 …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Business Insider
Ekin Karasin / Daily Mail:
Now that's a VERY deep end: Glass bottomed swimming pool on 42nd floor jets out into thin air so brave swimmers can see busy street 500 feet below — Dubbed the Sky Pool, the infinity pool is on 42nd floor and extends 10 feet over side of Market Square Tower
Discussion:
IJR
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 …
Discussion:
Business Insider and Axios
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 …
Discussion:
Political Wire
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and twitchy.com
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.
Discussion:
Mother Jones, New York Magazine, CNBC, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TheStreet, Daily Kos, AOL, Hullabaloo and Eschaton
James West / Mother Jones:
Leaked Email: President Trump's Modeling Agency Is Shutting Down — One of President Donald Trump's favorite businesses will go the way of Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Airlines, and Trump Magazine: his embattled New York modeling firm, Trump Model Management, has officially told …
Discussion:
Mediaite and New York Magazine