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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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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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Washington Monthly, New York Magazine and Associated Press
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
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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CBS News, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Politico and Politicus USA
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, CNN and Axios
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.
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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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
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
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 and The Daily Caller
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 …
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
How Neil Gorsuch could affect the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick to fill the Supreme Court slot left open following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed by the Senate after a bruising fight when the upper chamber's majority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell …
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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
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
Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
Poll: 51 Percent Support Strikes In Syria, But Most Don't Think They'll Be Effective — A plurality thinks Trump should have asked Congress for authorization. — Half of Americans support President Donald Trump's missile strikes against Syria in retaliation for the Syrian government's reported use …
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The Hill, FiveThirtyEight and Mediaite
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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Booman Tribune
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
K.T. McFarland, Deputy National Security Adviser, Is Expected to Leave Post — WASHINGTON — K. T. McFarland, the former Fox News commentator appointed by President Trump as deputy national security adviser, is expected to leave that position soon and may be nominated to be the United States ambassador …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
K.T. McFarland to leave NSC for Singapore ambassadorship
K.T. McFarland to leave NSC for Singapore ambassadorship
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Daily Kos, IJR and Talking Points Memo