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Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials — Former President Obama warned President Donald Trump against hiring Mike Flynn as his national security adviser, three former Obama administration officials tell NBC News. — The warning, which has not been previously reported …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Washington Loves General McMaster, But Trump Doesn't — The national security adviser has lost sway. The White House says everything's fine. — For the Washington establishment, President Donald Trump's decision to make General H.R. McMaster his national security adviser in February was a masterstroke.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘The president is threatening a witness’: CNN analyst slams Trump's ‘disturbing’ Sally Yates tweets — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — President Donald Trump has drawn a lot of criticism for his decision to lash out at former acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Former CIA agent mocks Trump's Sally Yates tweets: ‘The president is a little confused this morning’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — President Donald Trump was up early tweeting Monday, defending his close friend and former national security adviser retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Group sues for Sally Yates' Justice Department emails — A conservative watchdog group is suing for access to Sally Yates' emails from her brief but eventful tenure as acting attorney general during the early days of the Trump administration. — Judicial Watch filed the Freedom …
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
The Note: Sally Yates goes under oath on Russia
The Note: Sally Yates goes under oath on Russia
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Le Pen's defeat is good news for Trump — The media are framing the defeat of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election as a defeat for President Trump and his brand of populist nationalism. The Post reported that “France on Sunday shrugged off the siren call of right-wing populism …
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USA Today:
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are fake populists: Sen. Sherrod Brown — True populism unites. A true populist tells people the truth. Our president divides with falsehoods. — CONNECT — Donald Trump is a populist. So are Marine Le Pen and Steven Bannon. — Really?
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump call for Muslim ban deleted from site after reporter's question … President Trump's campaign appears to have scrubbed the 2015 press release calling for a halt on Muslim immigration to the United States following a reporter's question on Monday — as well as all its other campaign statements.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Few Thoughts on the Trump/Kushner Families' Presidency Cash Bust Out
A Few Thoughts on the Trump/Kushner Families' Presidency Cash Bust Out
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Steve Bannon's Former Hollywood Partner Breaks Silence: “He's Not a Racist” (Q&A) — The Firm founder Jeff Kwatinetz, a passionate liberal who was in business with Bannon for two years, says the White House chief counsel has “great character.” — President Donald Trump's controversial …
Greg Howard / New York Times:
Keith Olbermann Was Once Cable News's Liberal Standard-Bearer. Now He's Missing Its Boom Times. — Keith Olbermann doesn't look much like a warrior. His gray hair is giving way to white, his midsection threatens the buttons of his sport coats and he walks gingerly, with a gnarly limp from an aging knee.
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Jason Whitlock / Wall Street Journal:
How a Gawker-Affiliated Website Made ESPN Politically Correct — Deadspin ended the sports network's frat-boy culture, but also infused it with a deadening ideology.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Less Than A Third Of The Public Supports The GOP's New Health Care Bill — But Trump voters are considerably more supportive of this bill than the last version. — Less than a third of the public favors the new Republican health care bill just passed by the House of Representatives, a HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Republican Principle Is Shed in the Fight on Health Care
A Republican Principle Is Shed in the Fight on Health Care
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New York Sun
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA dismisses half of key board's scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels — Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department are overhauling a slew of outside advisory boards that inform how their agencies assess the science underpinning policies …
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YouTube:
Evan Jenkins Announces Senate Bid vs. Manchin — In a campaign launch video released Monday, Congressman Evan Jenkins (R-WV) announced he is running for the United States Senate seat held by Joe Manchin.
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Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
35 of 37 economists said Trump was wrong. The other two misread the question. — President Trump's administration says his tax cut will pay for itself. It turns out it's really hard to find an economist who agrees. — The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business regularly polls economists on controversial questions.
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
A Hidden Hand in the Trump-Russia Drama Owns a Ramen Shop. No, Seriously. … One of the better-connected, more knowledgeable people on the ties between the Kremlin and Trump Tower—other than the investigators currently working full-time on the topic—is a ramen shop owner named Jeff Jetton.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Party Like It's 1984 — There have been many bad laws in U.S. history. Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses. Some were all of the above. — But has there ever been anything like Trumpcare, the health legislation Republicans rammed through the House last week?
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Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - Tiffany Trump goes to Washington: First Daughter will attend law school at Georgetown, joining her dad Donald and big sister Ivanka in the nation's capital — Tiffany Trump will be attending law school at Georgetown University in the fall a spokesperson for the family revealed to DailyMail.com
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Drug lobbyist arrested after drunken fracas — A Washington lobbyist for a major drug company was arrested at a Republican political event in Florida late Saturday after he got in an altercation with a man, screaming obscenities and making sexual advances on the person's wife, according to a police report.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
George Will joins MSNBC — Washington Post columnist George Will has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor. — Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, was most recently a contributor at Fox News, though he became a free agent in January when Fox declined to renew his contract.
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
We Could Have Been Canada — Was the American Revolution such a good idea? — And what if it was a mistake from the start? The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
For Fussy Liberals, It's Always Apocalypse Right Now — Liberals are upset - they're always upset - that the evil GOP of Hate has condemned America to a return to a marginally more progressive version of the nightmarish hellscape that was our country before Obamacare passed on March 21, 2010.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Former suspect in Chandra Levy murder deported — A man accused of killing Chandra Levy has been deported to his native El Salvador, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday. — ICE called Ingmar Guandique-Blanco “a documented MS-13 gang member” who …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Pepe the Frog’ creator kills off cartoon that became alt-right meme — The creator of the “Pepe The Frog” character has laid his popular Internet meme to rest. — In a special strip for Free Comic Book Day, artist Matt Furie drew a one-page special edition of his famous comic, “Pepe The Frog,” in a casket at his funeral.
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Republican enraged at court order making it easier for people to vote — Karen Handel said it should “boil your blood” that registration is temporarily reopened in Georgia's sixth district. — A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to reopen voter registration before the June run-off …
John McCain / New York Times:
Why We Must Support Human Rights — Washington, D.C. — SOME years ago, I heard Natan Sharansky, the human rights icon, recount how he and his fellow refuseniks in the Soviet Union took renewed courage from statements made on their behalf by President Ronald Reagan.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
A 2016 Review: There's Reason to Be Skeptical of a Comey Effect — Hillary Clinton's national polling lead in the months before the election if the race was judged based on ... On Friday, Oct. 28, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, sent a letter to Congress about new evidence in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
That Viral Video of a Girl Calling Donald Trump a Disgrace is Totally Fake — Have you seen that video of a young girl telling President Trump that he's “a disgrace to the world”? It's a satisfying clip for those who believe the president needs to be called out to his face. But the video is completely fake.
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New York Post:
Eric Trump denies report that Russia funded dad's golf courses — SEE ALSO — Eric Trump on Sunday condemned a report that claimed his father got funding for his golf courses from the Russians. — “It's a recollection from some guy three years ago through a third person,” …
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Boston Herald:
Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-writing a thriller — In this combination photo, former President Bill Clinton, left, appears at a political event at Upper Moreland High School in Willow Grove, Pa. on April 12, 2012, and author James Patterson appears at a photo session in New York on Aug. 30, 2016.
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