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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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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 …
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Agence France-Presse
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.
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Politico
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.”
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House ‘confident’ of averting shutdown as Trump shows flexibility on wall — The White House sought Monday to calm a jittery Washington ahead of a showdown with Congress over spending, and President Trump softened his demand that a deal to keep the federal government open include money …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
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NBC News
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Decision time for GOP on Trump's wall and government shutdown
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Vox
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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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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The Daily Beast, Axios, Mediaite and The Verge
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN's Tapper: US ‘shamelessly’ advertising Trump's businesses
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Plans to Impose 20% Tariff on Canadian Softwood-Lumber Imports — The dispute centers on Canadian provinces that have been allegedly allowing loggers to cut down trees at reduced rates and sell them at low prices — The Trump administration is taking retaliatory action …
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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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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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New York Times, Common Dreams and Raw Story
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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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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ThinkProgress, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Tantaros Adds to Fox Fight With Claim of ‘Sockpuppet’ Attack — Fox harassment mirrors ‘Homeland’ plot, former host claims — Network used ‘sockpuppets’ to intimidate, Tantaros claims — Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros stepped up her fight with her ex-employer claiming in a new lawsuit …
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The Week
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Ailes Accuser Says Fox News Execs Ordered Eavesdropping On Her Digital Devices
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Despite Trump's Low Numbers, Dem Surge Is No Guarantee — Democrats may be feeling vindicated by President Donald Trump's bumpy first 100 days in office, but they still have work to do if they hope to turn antipathy towards the president into a decisive rebuke of the GOP at the polls in 2018.
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Dissatisfaction With Speaker Paul Ryan, Congress Overall Is Growing, Poll Finds
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Politicus USA and Axios
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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Raw Story
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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Hot Air, Instapundit, IJR and The Resurgent
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Arkansas carries out country's first back-to-back executions in almost two decades — Arkansas on Monday night executed two inmates in back-to-back lethal injections, carrying out the country's first double execution since 2000. — The executions came after Arkansas, pushing back on legal challenges …
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Jacob Carpenter / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Prosecutors: Inmate's water cut off for 7 days before his death in the Milwaukee County Jail — An inquest has been ordered following the April 2016 dehydration death of Milwaukee County Jail inmate Terrill Thomas. Here's how an inquest works, and how the only other Milwaukee County inquest in the past decade ended.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
The Effects of Ending the Affordable Care Act's Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments — Controversy has emerged recently over federal payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) related to cost-sharing reductions for low-income enrollees in the ACA's marketplaces.
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.
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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