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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Nearing 100 days, Trump's approval at record lows but his base is holding — President Trump nears the 100-day mark of his administration as the least popular chief executive in modern times, a president whose voters remain largely satisfied with his performance, but one whose base of support …
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CNBC, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, Fox News Insider, Politico, Mediaite, The Week and Balloon Juice
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Disapproval of President Donald Trump Grows in Latest WSJ/NBC News Poll — The president risks losing the political middle ground, as disapproval outweighs approval by 14 points and independents move away from him — Americans have become increasingly dissatisfied with President Donald Trump …
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Breitbart and Political Wire
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump at 100 days: 96 percent of his voters say they'd do it again (POLL) — There's no honeymoon for Donald Trump in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but also no regrets: He approaches his 100th day in office with the lowest approval rating at this point of any president in polls since 1945 …
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Washington Post, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review and SARAH PALIN
Salena Zito / New York Post:
How Trump voters feel about his first 100 days — MORE FROM: … Last fall, just weeks before Election Day, I traveled the old Lincoln Highway, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, to learn the attitudes of voters who lived miles from the off-ramps of the main interstates and coastal America.
Washington Post:
President Trump is least popular president at 100-day mark
President Trump is least popular president at 100-day mark
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Common Dreams, Instapundit and Axios
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Public Gives Trump Low Marks for First 100 Days: NBC News/WSJ Poll
Public Gives Trump Low Marks for First 100 Days: NBC News/WSJ Poll
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Business Insider and Politico
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN's Alisyn Camerota: Roger Ailes sexually harassed me — For a long time Alisyn Camerota was reluctant to describe the dark side of working at Fox News. — She respects many of her former colleagues. She has close friends who work there. But she perceives that something has changed …
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Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Bill O'Reilly Is Gone, But Fox News's Legal Nightmare Continues — The Murdochs hoped firing Bill O'Reilly would signal a changing culture at Fox News. “We want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values of trust and respect,” Rupert and his sons …
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ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America, The Root and USA Today, more at Mediagazer »
Thomas Adamson / Associated Press:
FRANCE BEGINS PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN TEST FOR POPULISM — PARIS (AP) — Amid heightened security, French voters began casting ballots for their next president Sunday in a first-round poll that's seen as a litmus test for the spread of populism around the world and a vote on the future of Europe.
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Vox Popoli
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Associated Press:
Tight, tense French presidential vote echoes around world — As French voters cast ballots for president Sunday, they're making a choice that will resonate far beyond France's borders, from Syrian battlefields to Hong Kong trading floors and the halls of the U.N. Security Council.
Stan Collender / Forbes:
A Government Shutdown This Week Will Depend On What Trump Considers A Win — A government shutdown won't happen this week because of a specific spending cut, tax hike or policy rider. The real, and perhaps only, issue will be Donald Trump's need to record a “win.”
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
House Democrats grow bullish after Trump's stumbles
House Democrats grow bullish after Trump's stumbles
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Political Wire and Bloomberg
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Uber's C.E.O. Plays With Fire — Travis Kalanick's drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion. — SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple's headquarters in early 2015 to meet …
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The Verge and Eschaton, more at Techmeme »
Michael Kruse / Politico:
How Trump Succeeds Without Succeeding — Earlier this month, 11 weeks after his inauguration, in the aftermath of bungled attempts at instituting a Muslim travel ban and “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act, and in the midst of sinking approval ratings, steady reports …
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Sessions, unlike Trump, says DREAMers are ‘subject to being deported’ — Striking a different tone than President Trump on DREAMers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said they like “everyone that enters the country unlawfully” are “subject to being deported.”
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Yonhap News Agency:
Third U.S. citizen detained in North Korea: sources — A former Korean-American professor was arrested in North Korea last week, becoming the third U.S. citizen to be detained by the communist country as of late, according to sources Sunday. — The U.S. citizen, identified only by his surname Kim …
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Al Jazeera English and The Daily Caller
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Volleyball Over, North Koreans Go Back to Work at Nuclear Site, Analysts Say
Volleyball Over, North Koreans Go Back to Work at Nuclear Site, Analysts Say
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Daily Mail
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump's Fake War on the Fake News — Seven days before Donald Trump took office, the inauguration festivities got off to a low-key start inside a modest conference room at the Capitol Hill offices of the American Trucking Association. There, a hundred-odd familiar faces from the Washington set gathered …
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Raw Story
Gary Peterson / East Bay Times:
Child's Donald Trump question elicits congressman's heartfelt reply — U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier's town hall was winding down, and as usual his audience had gotten its money's worth. — And not just because it was free. — DeSaulnier, D-Concord, treated the audience during a recent event …
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Fox News Insider and TheBlaze
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Jonah Bennett / The Daily Caller:
Congressman Tells Girl That Trump Is More Dangerous Than A Terrorist
Congressman Tells Girl That Trump Is More Dangerous Than A Terrorist
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SARAH PALIN and Geller Report
Jonathan Taplin / New York Times:
Is It Time to Break Up Google? — In just 10 years, the world's five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft. Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon and Facebook have taken their place.
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naked capitalism and Axios
Surain Adyanthaya:
OMG! AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby. Then he tried to fight a passenger who stood up for her. AA591 from SFO to DFW.
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