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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
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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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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.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Will Provoke a Crisis or Be Humiliated This Week
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Ailes Accuser Says Fox News Execs Ordered Eavesdropping On Her Digital Devices
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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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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.
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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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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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference
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The Hill, Politicus USA, naked capitalism and Political Wire
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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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.
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.
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.
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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