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FULL TRANSCRIPT: President Donald Trump's interview with “Face the Nation” — On his 100th day in office Saturday, President Donald Trump spoke to CBS News' chief Washington correspondent and host of “Face the Nation,” John Dickerson, about his accomplishments at the traditional milestone and beyond …
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White House official says 'we've looked at' changes to libel laws that would restrict press freedom — White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said the Trump administration has “looked at” changes to libel laws that would curtail press freedoms, but said “whether that goes anywhere is a different story.”
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Pelosi slams Trump at 100-day mark: 'He hasn't really proposed anything'
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Washington Post, twitchy.com, Politico and The American Mirror


South Korea says U.S. reaffirms it will pay THAAD costs; joint drills wrap up — South Korea said the United States had reaffirmed it would shoulder the cost of deploying the THAAD anti-missile system, days after President Donald Trump said Seoul should pay for the $1-billion battery designed to defend against North Korea.
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McCain to allies: Watch what Trump does, not what he says
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New York Times, Political Wire and The Week

National Security Chief Tells South Korea U.S. Will Pay for Defense System
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to retire from Congress — U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the dean of the Florida legislative delegation and the first Cuban American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year, saying it's time to move on after 38 years in elected office.
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Politico, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo and IJR


Trump's ‘Very Friendly’ Talk With Duterte Stuns Aides and Critics Alike — WASHINGTON — When President Trump called President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on Saturday, the American leader's national security aides saw it as part of a routine diplomatic outreach to Southeast Asian leaders.
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Trump Invites Rodrigo Duterte to the White House
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Yale College Republicans Hold Barbecue Next to Union Hunger Strike — Members of the Yale College Republicans held a barbecue on Friday next to eight graduate student teachers on a hunger strike over the Yale University's refusal to negotiate with its newly formed union.
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Yale grad students still fasting while College Republicans feast
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Trump's Next 100 Days Won't Be Any Better — The three major failures of Donald Trump's first one hundred days in office set him up for even more spectacular failures in the next significant period of his presidency: the approximately 150 days between now and the start of fiscal 2018 on October 1.

Biden keeps 2020 options open — Joe Biden has been saying yes to nearly all the political invitations coming his way, with new ones arriving almost daily. Privately, the former vice president and his staff have started talking about how to begin planning a strategy with a roughly 18-month timeline …
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AOL and Politicus USA


Donald Trump's Spell Hasn't Worn Off—And It Might Never — HARRISBURG, PA—Towards the end of a nearly hour-long speech on Saturday night, the President of the United States read a 266-word sonnet by Al Wilson called “The Snake.” — It was a callback for the truest believers to a simpler time …


No Omerta As Coppola, Pacino And Cast Recall ‘Godfather’ Shoot - Tribeca — Al Pacino had to jump through hoops - including at least six screen tests - before securing the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Marlon Brando was so into playing Vito Corleone that during an early reading …
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Democrats give up hope on striking a deal with Trump — Democrats couldn't be less interested in the whole Jared Kushner vs. Steve Bannon drama, and they have given up on the idea that President Donald Trump's son-in-law will push him to work across the aisle on tax reform or anything else.
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Raw Story and Taylor Marsh

Is There a Case for Le Pen? — EVERY surge of right-wing populism confronts voters with a different dilemma. In the Brexit referendum, the risk was the policy, not the politicians. Voting to leave the European Union was not a vote to make Nigel Farage prime minister …
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Outside the Beltway and NPR


U.S. Marines back in Helmand as Afghanistan ‘stalemate’ continues — The U.S. Marine Corps has returned to Helmand, the restive province in southern Afghanistan where it fought years of bloody battles with the Taliban, to help train Afghan forces struggling to contain the insurgency.
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The Guardian and The Daily Caller