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Financial Times:
US admits Trump tax reforms will be hit by healthcare setback — Treasury secretary Mnuchin rejects currency war fears, plans new Syria sanctions — Read next … The US Treasury secretary has conceded that the administration's timetable for ambitious tax reforms is set to slip following setbacks …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump's Unreleased Taxes Threaten Yet Another Campaign Promise
Trump's Unreleased Taxes Threaten Yet Another Campaign Promise
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Morning Consult
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump could release his taxes but probably won't, experts say
Trump could release his taxes but probably won't, experts say
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The Hill, CNBC, ThinkProgress and Politico
Christy Riggins / Zpolitics:
Exclusive: Weekend poll shows Gray may take the lead in CD-6 — With less than 24 hours until Election Day, a new zpolitics and Clout Research poll shows that Republicans may have a new front runner in the race to replace Tom Price. — According to the report, Democrat Jon Ossoff remains …
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Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
In Georgia, Jon Ossoff Tries to Vanquish Seventeen Candidates at Once — Two weeks before a special election for Georgia's Sixth Congressional District seat, which takes place this Tuesday, the thirty-year-old Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff stood on a busy North Atlanta street corner brandishing a lightsaber.
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Politicus USA, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Political Insider blog and Vox
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump's lies
This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump's lies
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Cotton blitzed by constituents at rowdy town hall — Sen. Tom Cotton came under fire at a raucous town hall Monday, as constituents pelted the Arkansas Republican on topics ranging from Donald Trump's tax returns and possible ties to Russia to the GOP push to repeal Obamacare.
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Vulnerable GOP senator: ‘No problems’ with Planned Parenthood funding
Vulnerable GOP senator: ‘No problems’ with Planned Parenthood funding
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USA Today, Mother Jones, Politico and The Daily Caller
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Cotton booed for defending Trump on tax returns
Cotton booed for defending Trump on tax returns
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BBC:
North Korea ‘will test missiles weekly’, senior official tells BBC — North Korea will continue to test missiles, a senior official has told the BBC in Pyongyang, despite international condemnation and growing military tensions with the US. — “We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly …
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap
US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap
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The Gateway Pundit
Matthew Reade / The Claremont Independent:
Students Demand Administrators ‘Take Action’ Against Conservative Journalists — In an open letter to outgoing Pomona College President David Oxtoby, a group of students from the Claremont Colleges assail the president for affirming Pomona's commitment to free speech and demand that all five colleges …
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Breitbart, Hit & Run, Power Line and Heat Street
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Pomona College Students Say There's No Such Thing as Truth, ‘Truth’ Is a Tool of White Supremacy
Pomona College Students Say There's No Such Thing as Truth, ‘Truth’ Is a Tool of White Supremacy
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Instapundit and National Review
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Trump calls Erdogan to congratulate him on contested referendum, Turkey says — President Trump called to congratulate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday after a referendum greatly expanding his powers, according to Turkish officials, despite a more circumspect State Department response …
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National Review, Foreign Policy, Power Line and Business Insider
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Isobel Finkel / Bloomberg:
Erdogan Says He Doesn't Care What Europe Thinks About Turkey's Vote
Erdogan Says He Doesn't Care What Europe Thinks About Turkey's Vote
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BBC, Politico, Balloon Juice, Shareblue and Associated Press
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Public Dissatisfaction With Washington Weighs on the GOP — Ryan job rating at 29%; Republicans view their party as divided — Nearly three months after the Republican Party took control of the White House and Congress, the public gives low job ratings to the president and even lower ratings to the speaker of the House.
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Pew Research Center:
2. Views of the parties — Public assessments of the Republican …
2. Views of the parties — Public assessments of the Republican …
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The Daily Caller
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump woes take toll on GOP
Poll: Trump woes take toll on GOP
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Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife—and Is Offered a Deal for Less Than 30 Days in Jail — At Apple, Neha Rastogi worked on everything from Siri to FaceTime to Maps, sometimes seated beside Steve Jobs himself. — She is clearly brilliant and dedicated as well as passionate …
Justin Osofsky / Facebook:
Community Standards and Reporting — On Sunday morning, a man in Cleveland posted a video of himself announcing his intent to commit murder, then two minutes later posted another video of himself shooting and killing an elderly man. A few minutes after that, he went live, confessing to the murder.
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Mashable, New York Times, Mediaite, Business Insider, NBC News, The Verge, Axios, Washington Post and Gothamist, more at Mediagazer »
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
BREAKING: Glenn Beck Countersues Tomi Lahren, Claims She Mistreated Staff, Offended Blaze Audience — Glenn Beck, and his conservative network, The Blaze, have filed a counter claim against firebrand conservative news personality Tomi Lahren after she sued the organization for wrongful termination.
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Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Business Insider, Raw Story, Red Alert Politics, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and Heat Street, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump to overhaul visa program for high-skilled workers — President Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday that aims to overhaul the H1-B visa program used by tech companies to bring high-skilled workers to the U.S. — Trump will travel to a manufacturing plant in Kenosha, Wis. …
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The Gateway Pundit
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Susan Rice Did Nothing Wrong, Say Both Dems and Republicans — A review of the surveillance material flagged by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes shows no inappropriate action by Susan Rice or any other Obama administration official, Republican and Democratic Congressional aides …
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Business Insider and Daily Kos
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump's claims about Susan Rice start to unravel
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz concerned Democrats will trigger government shutdown — With Congress about to consider a must-pass spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that he was concerned Senate Democrats would “engage in across-the-board obstruction.”
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Axios
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Google says rogue vendor violated guidelines by instructing contractors to rate InfoWars as untrustworthy site — Google said Monday that a vendor mistakenly told staffers working for the search engine that InfoWars should be ranked as a low-quality site. — The prominent right-wing website …
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Medium, Infowars and The Gateway Pundit
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
‘Shattered’ Charts Hillary Clinton's Course Into the Iceberg — Donald J. Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in November came as a shock to the world. Polls, news reports and everything the Clinton campaign was hearing in the final days pointed to her becoming the first female president in American history.
Shaun King / New York Daily News:
KING: Conservatives don't hate a golfing President, but they hated an uppity negro golfing President — No President in American history has ever golfed more per week than Donald Trump. In his first 12 weeks in office Trump took a staggering 18 golf course trips. That's unheard of.
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RedState and The Guardian
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Diabolical parents blasted for cruel pranks that make their kids cry — A Maryland mom and dad are being blasted online for pulling a cruel prank on their son — which included cursing the young boy out and convincing him he had done something terribly wrong.
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Heat Street
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Bush Nostalgia Is Overrated, but His Book of Paintings Is Not — A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors — Illustrated. 191 pp. Crown Publishers. $35. — As a cub reporter in 1967, Richard Cohen (now a political columnist for The Washington Post) …
Marwan Barghouti / New York Times:
Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel's Prisons — HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel's illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
NYT Fails To Disclose Terrorism Conviction Of Op-Ed Contributor
NYT Fails To Disclose Terrorism Conviction Of Op-Ed Contributor
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New York Times