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Sources: US prepares charges to seek arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange — Washington (CNN)US authorities have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN. — The Justice Department investigation of Assange …
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Justice Dept. debating charges against WikiLeaks members in revelations of diplomatic, CIA materials — Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Justice Department Weighs Charges Against Julian Assange
Justice Department Weighs Charges Against Julian Assange
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention — An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypt's brutal crackdown on civil society returned home to the United States late Thursday …
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump wades into French elections — Two days before a French election that has Europe on edge, President Donald Trump weighed in Friday with a tweet that seemed to imply support for the controversial far-right populist Marine Le Pen. — Trump's Friday morning tweet responded to a shooting …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Emails show O'Reilly lawyers' last-ditch effort to save his job — The day before Bill O'Reilly was cut loose from Fox News after 20 years with the network, his handlers appeared to believe they had at least one more card to pull that might help save his job in the midst …
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Frank Schaeffer:
Conservative Sexual Abuse Anyone? What's The “Conservative” Response Been to the Rash of Fox News-Sexual Predators? Silence. — When I grew up in the evangelical ghetto good manners about all things sexual were the gold standard of both my evangelical upbringing and our ideas about what it meant to be a conservative.
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Miranda Green / CNN:
Former Fox News contributor Palin reacts to O'Reilly's exit
Former Fox News contributor Palin reacts to O'Reilly's exit
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New York Times:
Bill O'Reilly Payout Could Be as High as $25 Million
Bill O'Reilly Payout Could Be as High as $25 Million
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Professional Class Strikes Back — Notes from realignment: A solid Republican district becomes the site of a Democratic resurgence. In the first round of a special election a thirty-something unknown outperforms Hillary Clinton's 2016 margin. A runoff looms, but the lesson to draw from this result is clear.
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The Federalist and naked capitalism
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Elana Schor / Politico:
DNC rally with anti-abortion candidate fuels backlash
DNC rally with anti-abortion candidate fuels backlash
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Democrats' Existential Crisis Won't Resolve Itself
The Democrats' Existential Crisis Won't Resolve Itself
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The Week, The Atlantic, NBC News, The Hill, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Trump Blew Up the Conservative Media — Months before Donald Trump blew up American politics with his surprise win in November, he did the same thing to the conservative media. Through much of the campaign, two very different media moguls with colliding visions for the Republican Party vied …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Young America's Foundation:
YAF to Berkeley: Honor First Amendment or Face Litigation — Late Thursday night, Young America's Foundation put UC-Berkeley on notice that their attempts to deny the First Amendment rights of students will not be tolerated any longer. — In a letter to Berkeley's Vice Chancellor Stephen Sutton …
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Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
UC Berkeley reverses decision to cancel Ann Coulter visit
UC Berkeley reverses decision to cancel Ann Coulter visit
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Mattis tells lawmakers Trump budget won't fully rebuild military: report — Defense Secretary James Mattis has privately cast doubt on President Trump's proposed Pentagon spending levels, telling members of Congress that the $603 billion request is not enough to fulfill Trump's vow to rebuild the military, CNN reported Friday.
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Sources: Mattis tells Hill Trump budget won't fully rebuild military
Sources: Mattis tells Hill Trump budget won't fully rebuild military
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Political Wire
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Yikes! New Behind-the-Scenes Book Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign — ‘Shattered,’ a campaign tell-all fueled by anonymous sources, outlines a generational political disaster — There is a critical scene in Shattered, the new behind-the-scenes campaign diary by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes …
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Instapundit
mcclatchy-newsroom:
Secret meeting at Mar-a-Lago raises questions about Colombia peace and Trump — BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA — President Donald Trump quietly met a pair of former Colombian presidents last weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, thrusting his administration into an ugly power struggle …
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Post On Politics, Raw Story and The Week
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
AG Jeff Sessions: Judges shouldn't ‘psychoanalyze’ Trump to see if executive orders are lawful — (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions said this week that judges shouldn't “psychoanalyze” President Donald Trump when determining whether his executive orders are lawful.
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Repeal and Piecemeal: A Better Obamacare Strategy — Repeal Obamacare now. Here's why it would work. — House Republicans are reportedly ready to return any day now to health-insurance reform after the spectacular failure in late March of the American Health Care Act …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Chaffetz says ‘absolutely’ no scandal is forcing him out — Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz — who shocked the political establishment when he announced his retirement earlier this week — said that he has already started looking for post-congressional employment, and hopes to serve on boards …
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Dennis Romboy / KSL-TV:
Poll: Evan McMullin beats Sen. Orrin Hatch in head-to-head matchup — SALT LAKE CITY — Former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin would beat Sen. Orrin Hatch in a head-to-head matchup for the U.S. Senate, a new poll shows. — The Centrist Project, which is recruiting candidates …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
RNC raises record-setting $41.5M haul — The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday announced it raised $41.5 million in the first three months of 2017, its strongest-ever total for the first quarter following a presidential race. — “Our record-setting fundraising pace has been fueled …
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Politico
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Dortmund Bus Attacker Hoped to Profit From Share Slump — 28-year-old with German-Russian dual citizenship arrested — Prosecutors say man bought put options on Dortmund shares — In what seems like a plot from a James Bond movie, police arrested a man on suspicion he attacked the bus …
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NPR
CNN:
French police officer killed, Champs-Elysees in Paris closed, CNN affiliate says — Paris (CNN)One police officer and an attacker have been killed in a shooting in Paris on Thursday, the French Interior Ministry said. — A car stopped at 102 Champs-Elysees, in front of a police van, ministry spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet said.
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CNNMoney:
Crisis-ridden Venezuela gave $500K to Trump inauguration — Why Venezuelans are protesting — Venezuela faces shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and money. — But its state-run oil company — through a subsidiary — donated $500,000 to President Trump's inauguration committee on December 22, 2016.
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Several Google engineers have left one of its most secretive AI projects to form a stealth start-up — Google has slowly been pulling back the curtain on homegrown silicon that could define the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence. — Some key creators of that project …
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Daily Mail
Fox News:
Senate leader investigating possible FBI deception about Texas terror attack — A powerful U.S. senator has launched an investigation into whether the FBI knew about a planned attack by ISIS-inspired terrorists at an anti-Muslim cartoon show in the Dallas area and did nothing to stop it …
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The Daily Caller and Geller Report
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
White House could provoke a spending showdown over funding for border wall — White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that he hopes to use negotiations to keep the government open past April 28 in an effort to force Democrats to back some funding for creating a new wall along …
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