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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
United passenger David Dao says he's still in the hospital — This image made from a video provided by Audra D. Bridges shows David Dao, the passenger who was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago on Sunday. (Associated Press) — David Dao, a Kentucky physician …
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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for ‘higher-priority’ traveler — Geoff Fearns, an Irvine investment manager, was threatened with being handcuffed when he refused to vacate his first-class seat on a United flight to Los Angeles. (Valerie Fearns)
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USA Today:
United Airlines CEO doubles down, says employees followed procedures, flier was ‘belligerent’ — LOUISVILLE — The intense firestorm roaring against United Airlines and its unrepentant CEO raged on Tuesday after his letter to the airline's employees lauded the behavior of the flight's crew when a …
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
United CEO, facing boycott calls, defends booting passenger so crew could take his seat — United Airlines' chief executive is defending his employees after a passenger who refused to give up his plane seat to a crew member was pulled screaming into the aisle by security, battered …
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Daily Mail:
PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off an overbooked United flight as CEO pens ‘tone deaf’ email DEFENDING staff — The 69-year-old Vietnamese-American is married to a pediatrician who has a clinic in Elizabethtown, Kentucky - about 40 miles south of Louisville
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Gary Leff / View from the Wing:
The Real Reason a Man Was Dragged Off That United Flight, and How to Stop It From Happening Again
The Real Reason a Man Was Dragged Off That United Flight, and How to Stop It From Happening Again
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Petition calls for United CEO to resign after passenger dragged off flight
Petition calls for United CEO to resign after passenger dragged off flight
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Spicer apologizes for claiming Hitler didn't use chemical weapons — White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday apologized for claiming that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons, seemingly minimizing the atrocities of the Holocaust. — The statement immediately drew fire from Democrats …
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Eric Trump Says Syria Strike Was Swayed By ‘Heartbroken’ Ivanka — Donald Trump's decision to bomb Syria was influenced by his daughter, Ivanka, being “heartbroken and outraged” at the country's alleged chemical weapons attack, one of the president's sons told a British newspaper.
CNN:
Spicer: Hitler ‘was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing’ — (CNN)White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia's alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday Adolf Hitler …
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Joy Lee / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on White House Press Secretary's Statements on Holocaust
Pelosi Statement on White House Press Secretary's Statements on Holocaust
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Nick Giampia / Fox Business:
Assad is Worse Than Hitler: Syrian Chemical Weapon Survivor
Assad is Worse Than Hitler: Syrian Chemical Weapon Survivor
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Simon Johnson / Telegraph:
Ivanka Trump encouraged my father to launch air strikes against Assad in Syria after chemical …
Ivanka Trump encouraged my father to launch air strikes against Assad in Syria after chemical …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Anne Frank Center calls for Spicer to be fired
Anne Frank Center calls for Spicer to be fired
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page — The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
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CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say — Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal — Their private assessment contradicts …
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Fox News Insider:
Watch Maria Bartiromo's Must-See Interview With President Trump on Fox Business Network — President Donald Trump will sit down with Maria Bartiromo for an interview that will air Wednesday at 7:00 a.m. ET on Fox Business Network. — It will be Trump's first Fox Business interview since he's taken office.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: I want to pass health care before doing tax reform — President Donald Trump still wants to pass a health care bill before he turns to tax reform. — “We're going to have a phenomenal tax reform, but I have to do health care first,” Trump said, according to an excerpt of an interview …
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Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows pursues health care deal with Speaker Ryan — HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Rep. Mark Meadows intends to deliver an Obamacare repeal and replacement plan to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Tuesday that would leave in place the existing law's mandates …
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Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Justin Amash: ‘We Need a Change in Direction from this Speaker or We Need a New Speaker’
Justin Amash: ‘We Need a Change in Direction from this Speaker or We Need a New Speaker’
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Sessions Announces Illegal Aliens Who Illegally Re-Enter The U.S. Will Be Charged With a Felony — Speaking from the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced major changes to Justice Department protocol when it comes to charging and prosecuting illegal aliens.
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Ted Hesson / Politico:
Sessions signals immigration crackdown: ‘This is the Trump era’
Sessions signals immigration crackdown: ‘This is the Trump era’
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Undocumented Immigrants Who Commit Crimes Face Tougher Policy
Undocumented Immigrants Who Commit Crimes Face Tougher Policy
Bloomberg:
Tillerson Asks Why U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine — Offhand remark an unexpected moment as foreign ministers meet — Top diplomat still finding footing in protocol-rich meetings — With one offhand remark, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left European diplomats befuddled at a gathering in Italy.
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Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Remember Mitt Romney's ‘binders full of women?’ They're real. And we got them. — In the world of important political documents — from the Magna Carta to the Pentagon Papers — there are also those known for more pedestrian reasons. Count Mitt Romney's “binders full of women” in that category.
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Maya T. Prabhu / Post and Courier:
Attendees chant ‘you lie’ at U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson during Graniteville town hall … GRANITEVILLE — U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson received some protests Monday like other Republican congressmen nationwide during town halls this year, getting drowned out at times with loud boos and receiving 30 seconds of “You Lie” chants.
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Ben Billmyer / Associated Press:
Town hall meeting erupts into shouts, boos as Congressman Joe Wilson addresses healthcare repeal
Town hall meeting erupts into shouts, boos as Congressman Joe Wilson addresses healthcare repeal
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's “Bottom Line” — With everyone putting down new and/or revised “red lines”, be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China's turn to reveal its “red” or rather “bottom line”, and in a harshly worded editorial titled …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
The Latest Test for the White House? Pulling Off Its Easter Egg Roll — WASHINGTON — President Trump received an urgent warning in February, informing him of a crucial date he was about to miss. — “FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter eggs are near,” said a Twitter post directed at Mr. Trump …
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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Pennsylvania congressman to be named drug czar by Trump — Pennsylvania Congressman Tom Marino is expected to step down from his seat to take on a new role in the Trump administration. Multiple sources tell CBS News that Marino will head up the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), assuming the informal title of drug czar.
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Matt Rosoff / CNBC:
Facebook has reached its Microsoft Bing moment, and history shows the results won't be pretty — Facebook is responding to the challenge from Snap in the classic way that tech companies try to face new competitors — by duplicating every core feature that made Snap popular, and then trying to crush it with distribution and marketing.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
What Reset? White House to Call Out Russia's Fake News on Syria — President Donald Trump's Russian reset is in big trouble. — That's one message of a four-page dossier on the Syrian government's April 4 chemical weapons attack that killed up to 100 people and injured many more.
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William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Silencing of Heather Mac Donald — Lofty college statements on free speech are worthless without enforcement. — No one who knows her could ever describe Heather Mac Donald as a victim. — Still, last Thursday night the Manhattan Institute scholar became the latest target of the latter …
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