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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ Poll: Just 29 Percent Approve of Trump's Firing of James Comey — Just 29 percent of Americans say they approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, while 38 percent disapprove, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
U.S. Checks and Balances ‘Under Assault’ by Trump, Clapper Says
U.S. Checks and Balances ‘Under Assault’ by Trump, Clapper Says
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Warner: I will ‘absolutely’ subpoena tapes between Comey and Trump if they exist
Warner: I will ‘absolutely’ subpoena tapes between Comey and Trump if they exist
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Republicans and Democrats agree: If Trump has tapes, he'll need to turn them over to Congress — Lawmakers in both parties said Sunday that President Trump will need to hand over any recordings of conversations in the White House if such a taping system does exist.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia
Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia
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Fox News:
Sens. Mark Warner and Mike Lee on replacing James Comey at the FBI
Sens. Mark Warner and Mike Lee on replacing James Comey at the FBI
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Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon:
Dead man lying — Unyielding dishonesty and belligerence have landed Trump one investigation away from impeachment — We've reached a magical time in the great story unfolding before us, the time when everybody knows that Trump is guilty, but the verdict is not yet in.
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Firing Comey Was a Grave Abuse of Power
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
At 3 a.m., NC Senate GOP strips education funding from Democrats' districts — N.C. Senate Republicans were visibly upset with Democrats for prolonging the budget debate with amendments during an after-midnight session Friday morning. — As the clock approached 1 a.m. …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump, irked at cabinet and staff, mulls sweeping shake-up — At the urging of longtime friends and outside advisers, most of whom he consults after dark, President Trump is considering a “huge reboot” that could take out everyone from Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon …
Daily Progress:
Torch-wielding protesters gather at Lee Park — Several dozen torch-wielding protesters gathered in Charlottesville's Lee Park just after 9 p.m. Saturday, chanting “You will not replace us,” “Russia is our friend” and “Blood and soil.” — After about 10 minutes, Charlottesville police arrived …
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CNN:
Callista Gingrich set to be named ambassador to the Vatican — Washington (CNN)Callista Gingrich, the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is the preferred nominee to be the next ambassador to the Vatican. — The White House hopes to announce her nomination before President Donald Trump meets …
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Wall Street Journal:
Senate Conservatives Look to Cut Medicaid — Conservative Senate Republicans are weighing faster and steeper cuts to Medicaid that could drop millions of people from coverage and mark the biggest changes to the program in its 52-year history.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor
Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor
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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Trump thinks that exercising too much uses up the body's ‘finite’ energy — President Trump reportedly eschews exercise because he believes it drains the body's “finite” energy resources, but experts say this argument is flawed because the human body actually becomes stronger with exercise.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Clapper: US institutions ‘under assault’ — Clapper: US institutions under assault by Trump — Washington (CNN)Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a stern warning Sunday about the state of the US government after President Donald Trump's decision …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The Widening Blast Radius of the Fox News Scandal — While the growing chorus of allegations from former employees are making Rupert Murdoch's cable news network sound more like a malevolent bachelor party in Las Vegas, what happens at Fox News is not staying at Fox News.
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patribotics:
EXCLUSIVE: Sealed Indictment granted against Donald Trump — Separate sources with links to the intelligence and justice communities have stated that a sealed indictment has been granted against Donald Trump. — While it is understood that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution means that …
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
How a $10.69 purchase may have sidelined the global malware attack — LONDON — As the world began Friday to understand the dimensions of Wanna Decryptor 2.0, the ransomware that has crippled computers worldwide, a vacationing British cybersecurity researcher was already several steps ahead.
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Chris Willman / Variety:
With a New Collaborations Album, Todd Rundgren Talks About Loving Reznor, Fagen and Robyn... and Loathing Trump — Todd Rundgren's new album, “White Knight,” is a grab-bag of collaborations with fellow artists — among them, Trent Reznor, Daryl Hall, Bettye LaVette, Robyn, Donald Fagen …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
George Conway is the man at the center of everything — If it weren't for George Conway, the nation might never have met Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump might never have met Kellyanne. — In the 1990s, George was a quiet but critical presence in what Hillary Clinton would dub …
Reuters:
North Korea fires missile days after new South Korea leader pledges dialogue — North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of calls to rein in its weapons program, days after a new leader in its old rival South Korea came to power pledging to engage it in dialogue.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Launches a Missile, Its First Test After an Election in the South
North Korea Launches a Missile, Its First Test After an Election in the South
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