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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing — Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday. — All 100 senators have been asked …
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Associated Press:
Trump backs away from demand for border wall money — President Donald Trump stepped back Monday from demanding a down payment for his border wall in must-past spending legislation, potentially removing a major obstacle to a bipartisan deal just days ahead of a government shutdown deadline.
New York Times:
As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out — WASHINGTON — Behind the Trump administration's sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
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Demian Bulwa / San Francisco Chronicle:
BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders — A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15% — President tells staff he wants to prioritize reductions over deficit concerns — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has ordered White House aides to accelerate efforts to draft a tax plan slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Will Provoke a Crisis or Be Humiliated This Week — The president has miscalculated the politics of government funding. — It's hard to imagine a better metaphor for Donald Trump's presidency than if, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress, he celebrates his 100th day in office by shutting down his own government.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Decision time for GOP on Trump's wall and government shutdown
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia — Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March — PARIS—Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Forget the critics, Mr. President. Your first 100 days have been just fine. — Despite the best efforts of the White House “PR apparatus” to sell the president's first 100 days as a success, the New York Times declared in an editorial, the new administration has, in fact, been plagued by …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Christie gives Trump a ‘B,’ says WH staff need to ‘get their act together’ — Warren gives Trump an ‘F’ on first 100 days — Washington (CNN)With a few days left of his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump's friend Gov. Chris Christie graded his performance so far as a “B.”
Dan Merica / CNN:
State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump personally owns Mar-a-Lago, his private club on Florida's eastern coast. But that didn't stop the State Department, in a blog post on the United States Embassy in London's website, from touting the property.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN's Tapper: US ‘shamelessly’ advertising Trump's businesses
CNN's Tapper: US ‘shamelessly’ advertising Trump's businesses
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson
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Zach Kyle / Idaho Statesman:
Chobani sues Alex Jones, InfoWars for defamation over Twin Falls assault coverage — Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government …
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Steve Chawkins / Los Angeles Times:
Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ — Robert Pirsig in 1991 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. (Gary Guisinger / For The Times) — In the nearly five years it took Robert Pirsig to sell “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance …
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Fox Business:
Obama Wall Street's Newest Fat Cat With Cantor Speech — (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press) — When he was president he called them “fat cats,” but now he's likely thanking them for a huge payday. — Former President Barack Obama, less than 100 days out of office …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Obama to net $400K for Wall Street speech: report
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News — Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels. But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule. — “The Rachel Maddow Show” surpassed “Tucker Carlson Tonight” …
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Lauren Sherman / The Business of Fashion:
Amidst Backlash, Ivanka Trump Clothing Is Secretly Relabelled as Adrienne Vittadini — BoF has learned that G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump ready-to-wear, has relabelled inventory without the knowledge of the brand and sold it to discount chain Stein Mart.
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Aaron R. Hanlon / New Republic:
Why Colleges Have a Right to Reject Hateful Speakers Like Ann Coulter — Disinviting right-wing provocateurs isn't a suppression of free speech. It's a value judgment in keeping with higher education's mission. — As graduation season approaches, colleges across the country are locking …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former press secretary Josh Earnest doesn't have much sympathy for Sean Spicer — Press secretary Josh Earnest's advice for his successor Sean Spicer — Former White House press secretary Josh Earnest is speaking for the first time about how his successor Sean Spicer is doing.
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Bill Nye's Bizarre Video On Transgenderism Bombs On YouTube [VIDEO] — A clip of Bill Nye's latest television show promotes transgenderism and other gender identities as hard science, and it's performing horribly on YouTube, as of Monday. — “My Sex Junk,” published on YouTube Sunday …
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Hot Air and SARAH PALIN
Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Now Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity — Debbie Schlussel, a former Fox News guest, appeared on a local radio show on Friday and recounted an incident where Sean Hannity purportedly asked her to a hotel, and when she rebuffed his advances …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hate speech is free speech, Gov. Dean: Glenn Reynolds — The former governor showed himself to be a constitutional illiterate on Twitter. — I tell my constitutional law students that there are a couple of statements that indicate that a speaker is a constitutional illiterate who can safely be ignored.
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Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
At Tomi Lahren hearing, judge orders The Blaze to search emails — A Dallas County judge on Monday ordered Glenn Beck and his conservative media company The Blaze to produce emails between them and a reporter for The Daily Caller related to the controversial pundit Tomi Lahren.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign — (CNN)Donald Trump's administration has taken a tough stance on WikiLeaks in recent weeks. — US officials told CNN last week that the Justice Department has prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Dissatisfaction With Speaker Paul Ryan, Congress Overall Is Growing, Poll Finds — Nearly three-quarters disapprove of Congress's job performance, up 12 points since February — Americans hold dim views of Congress and of House Speaker Paul Ryan, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth — Struggling communities deserve help, but nostalgia economics won't work. — A wave of recent columns argue that what Trump superfans — or at least some hazily imagined, hard-pressed Northern working-class version of them — really want is respect.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump jokes that Haley could ‘easily be replaced’ — DON'T MISS A BRIEF. SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
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BBC:
Le Pen ‘steps aside’ as party leader — Marine Le Pen says she's stepping aside as leader of far-right National Front party as she seeks French presidency … You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.
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