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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox Is Preparing to Cut Ties With Bill O'Reilly — Popular host has been implicated in a sexual-harassment scandal — Fox News is preparing to cut ties with its biggest star, Bill O'Reilly, according to people close to the situation. — A final decision on Mr. O'Reilly's fate could come …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: The Murdochs Are Turning Against Bill O'Reilly — With only six days remaining in Bill O'Reilly's vacation, the pressure on the Murdoch family to decide the embattled commentator's fate is intensifying. Three sources with knowledge of the discussions said that …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Source: Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are talking exit — Fox News will no longer even respond to questions about whether Bill O'Reilly will return to his show. — A well-placed source said Tuesday afternoon that representatives for Fox and O'Reilly have begun talking about an exit.
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Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
New Bill O'Reilly Accuser Says He Called Her “Hot Chocolate” and Leered — Another woman is telling Fox News her story of harassment at the hands of O'Reilly, according to attorney Lisa Bloom. — Bill O'Reilly used to leer at an African-American Fox News clerical worker and called her …
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Matthew Sheffield / Salon:
Roger Ailes' fake news empire: Former Fox News head presided over a panoply of phony “sock puppet” blogs
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Report: The Murdochs Are ‘Fighting’ About Possibly Firing O'Reilly
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New York Times:
Live Election Results: Georgia's Sixth Congressional District — Democrats hope Jon Ossoff will win them the House seat vacated by Tom Price, the new health and human services secretary. If no candidate wins a majority of the vote, the top two will advance to a June 20 runoff.
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Andre Pollard / Decision Desk HQ:
Write In (Unaffiliated) 0.0% — Fulton County is *slow*. We're expecting a precinct dump from there soon. With the other two counties more or less all in, Ossoff is at 50.3%. Seems clear he drops into the 40s, but the question is how far. — Almost all of Cobb in, and Ossoff is down to 50.8%.
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Tamar Hallerman / Political Insider blog:
Georgia's 6th District race heads to runoff following drama-filled night — Roughly five hours after polling locations closed, major networks began projecting that Georgia's 6th District special election would be heading toward a runoff on June 20. — That means Democrat Jon Ossoff …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Georgia special election goes to runoff as GOP gets wakeup call
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New York Times:
Georgia Special Election Appears Headed for Runoff
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Democrat Jon Ossoff appears headed to runoff in Ga. House race
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AP News:
The Latest: Fresno suspect faces 4 murder charges — FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting in downtown Fresno, California (all times local): — An official says a man suspected of killing a motel security guard and three people he targeted for being white is being charged with four counts of murder.
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Jim Guy / Fresno Bee:
Three dead in central Fresno shooting spree; suspect caught, linked to Motel 6 slaying — Three people were shot and killed after a man went on a shooting spree Tuesday in Fresno, randomly shooting at four white men, killing three, before he was taken into custody, police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
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Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
Man kills 3 people in shootings in downtown Fresno
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
AP Changes Fresno Shooter's Words From ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Removes Islam Reference
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New York Times:
Aircraft Carrier Wasn't Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested — WASHINGTON — As worries deepened last week about whether North Korea would conduct a missile test, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carrier into the Sea of Japan would send a powerful deterrent signal …
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump companies don't always follow his ‘buy American, hire American’ pledge
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Donald Trump: ‘You always have to be concerned’ about thermonuclear war with North Korea
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Planned Trump Order Will Discourage Hiring of Low-Wage Foreign Workers
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USA Today:
First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump — Federal agents ignored President Trump's pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case …
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CNN:
FBI used dossier allegations to bolster Trump-Russia investigation — Washington (CNN)The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump's campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI used Trump dossier to help get warrant to monitor ex-aide: report
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorneys in place — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making aggressive law enforcement a top priority, directing his federal prosecutors across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants and …
Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Miami state senator curses at black lawmaker — and refers to fellow Republicans as ‘niggas’ — TALLAHASSEE — Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles dropped the n-word to a pair of African-American colleagues in private conversation Monday night — after calling one of them a “f**king a**hole …
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
‘Reluctant’ Trump Voters Swung The Election. Here's How They Think He's Doing. — Over the past 14 months, no group has made America more alive to its rebellious streak than the Trump voter. The visual trope of this number is cling-wrapped to our brains: red hats, stadium crowds, rippling flags, chanting.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump issues bold new promises on health care, tax, infrastructure
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes's Fake Scandal — Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders on Clinton's 'I'm with her' slogan: 'It's so phony' — (I-Vt.) called former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — 's “I'm with her” slogan “phony,” according to a new book. — In “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign,” The Hill's Amie Parnes …
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Barton Swaim / Wall Street Journal:
How Hillary Lost the White House
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Elizabeth Elizalde / New York Daily News:
Oregon man dies thinking President Trump was impeached after being lied to by ex-wife — A man died peacefully in his Oregon home after his ex-wife lied to him that President Trump was impeached from office. — Michael Garland Elliott, 75, passed away on April 6 and was surrounded by his caregivers …
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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
She wanted her ex-husband to die with a happy thought; she told him Trump had been impeached
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Donald Judd / CNN:
Republican senator wishes Trump spent less time at Mar-a-Lago — (CNN)Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's frequent trips to Florida have been “bothering” her, saying, “I do wish he would spend more time in Washington.” — Her comments came during a Wall Lake …
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New York Times:
Hunt for Facebook Killer Ends With McDonald's Sighting and a Suicide — Two days after an extraordinary crime, a murder that the killer recorded on video and posted to Facebook, it was a hankering for something as reassuringly normal as a McDonald's meal that tripped him up on Tuesday …
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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump admin: Iran in compliance, but nuclear deal under review — The State Department informed Congress Tuesday that Iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal and that it will continue relief from sanctions under the agreement. — President Trump has ordered a full review of the 2015 agreement …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: I don't consider myself a Democrat — (I-Vt.) said Tuesday night that he still does not consider himself a Democrat, despite taking part in a Democratic National Committee unity tour with the party's new chair Tom Perez. — “No, I'm an Independent,” Sanders said when asked …
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