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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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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 …
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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 …
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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
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Jeff Goldman / New Jersey Online:
WATCH: Man forcibly removed from overbooked United flight … A man who refused to surrender his seat on an overbooked United Airlines flight on Sunday was dragged off the plane by security, according to a video and an account provided by a witness. — Four passengers on a flight scheduled …
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.
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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 …
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Bloomberg:
In Trump's World, Family Always Comes First — Factions inside Donald Trump's White House have knives out for one another. Or guns. — “I love a gunfight,” is how the administration's dark knight, Steve Bannon, apparently described a looming confrontation between his loyalists …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The split on Syria strategy
The Note: The split on Syria strategy
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
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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
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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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Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
4 Victims Reported After Elementary School Shooting in San Bernardino; Shooter Possibly Down: Police Chief — At least four victims have been located after a shooter walked on to the North Park Elementary School campus in San Bernardino and opened fire in a possible murder-suicide, officials said.
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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 …
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CBS News:
McCain says administration rhetoric “partially to blame” for chemical attack in Syria — WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said comments made by people in President Donald Trump's administration are “partially to blame” for encouraging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's apparent use of chemical weapons on his people last week.
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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
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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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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 …
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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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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.
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Bethany Mandel / The Federalist:
Who Needs Alt-Right Conspiracy Theories About Jews When You Have Politico? — Imagine for a moment the outrage that would (rightfully) erupt if a mainstream publication wrote an indictment of an entire sect of Islam, while getting basic facts like the name of the sect wrong, and hit publish the night before Ramadan began.
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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 …
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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 …
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Kenneth Olmstead / Pew Research Center:
Americans have mixed views on policies encouraging broadband adoption — As the Federal Communications Commission continues to address broadband infrastructure and access, Americans have mixed views on two policies designed to encourage broadband adoption, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump sued for not releasing White House visitor logs — Three organizations are suing President Trump's administration for not making public the logs that show who is visiting the White House. — The National Security Archive, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) …