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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador — President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials …
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BuzzFeed:
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information To Russians During White House Visit — The president discussed classified national security information with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister last week, two US officials confirmed to BuzzFeed News. — President Trump revealed highly …
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JGoldsmith / Lawfare:
Bombshell: Initial Thoughts on the Washington Post's Game-Changing Story — Donald Trump meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak / Russian Foreign Ministry — The Washington Post this afternoon published a stunning story reporting …
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The Daily Beast:
White House Staff ‘Hiding’ As Russia Chaos Engulfs West Wing … White House and administration officials are reeling at reports that President Donald Trump reportedly shared classified information with Russia's top diplomats during an Oval Office meeting last week.
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New York Times:
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally — WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information …
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump — Current and former U.S. officials, supposedly concerned that President Trump had shared some “highly classified information” with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S. last week …
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
Trump's handling of classified info brings new chaos to White House — In a span of 24 hours last week, President Trump startled his senior aides by firing the FBI director investigating his campaign's Russian ties and allegedly disclosing highly classified information to Russian officials in a free-wheeling Oval Office conversation.
Ynetnews:
US intel sources warn Israel against sharing secrets with Trump administration — Israeli intelligence officials fear that top-secret information that has been exposed to the United States will be leaked to Russia—and from Russia to its close ally, Iran. — Donald Trump's upcoming inauguration …
Austin Wright / Politico:
Republicans concerned about report Trump shared secrets with Russia — The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee joined Democrats in slamming Donald Trump on Monday over a report the president divulged highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
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Politico:
White House pushes back against report Trump shared classified info with Russians
White House pushes back against report Trump shared classified info with Russians
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Russia Redux: Republican Senators Confront Another Trump Disaster
Russia Redux: Republican Senators Confront Another Trump Disaster
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Rachel Manteuffel / Washington Post:
When President Trump's bodyguard revealed Jim Mattis's private cellphone number — This Is Not Normal. It's a mantra among politics-watchers, an attempt to force ourselves to see clearly through the toxic levels of absurdity caking Washington these days. The poker-faced way the news …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
How Trump gets his fake news — White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Donald Trump. — Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House refuses to say if Comey tapes exist
White House refuses to say if Comey tapes exist
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The Times of Israel:
Senior member of Trump team said to tell Israelis: Western Wall is not your territory — Bitter diplomatic spat over Jews' holiest place of prayer reported during preparation for president's visit; Netanyahu's office said seeking clarification from DC — In a bitter diplomatic incident …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson “furious” about Tillerson's comments
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson “furious” about Tillerson's comments
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney Chief Bob Iger Says Hackers Claim to Have Stolen Upcoming Movie — He says the thieves demanded a ransom, which the company is refusing to pay. — Have real-life pirates taken aim at Disney? — Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed Monday that hackers claiming to have access …
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Anita Busch / Deadline:
Hackers Holding Disney's Latest ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ For Ransom
Hackers Holding Disney's Latest ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ For Ransom
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Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Congressman Says Donald Trump Has Committed An “Impeachable Act” — Texas Rep. Al Green made the most explicit call yet to impeach the president on Monday, citing his firing of former FBI director James Comey in the midst of the Russia investigation.
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’ — Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. — She wrote “In Trump We Trust” and proclaimed that she worships him like the “people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader - blind loyalty.”
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Nancy Solomon / WNYC News:
GOP Congressman Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer — The most powerful congressman in New Jersey, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, wrote a fundraising letter in March to a board member of a local bank, warning him that a member of an activist group opposing the Republican worked at his bank.
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
NATO Frantically Tries to Trump-Proof President's First Visit — A ‘freaked out’ NATO braces for Donald Trump's first meeting of the transatlantic alliance. — NATO is scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting to avoid taxing President Donald Trump's notoriously short attention span.
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
'SNL's' Yuuuge Year: 20 Insiders Reveal Alec Baldwin's Future as Trump, “Spicey” Secrets and Lorne Michaels' Election Pep Talk — Everyone from Kate McKinnon to Chris Rock gives THR backstage access to a historic season as they reveal how Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer …
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New York Times:
In Computer Attacks, Clues Point to Frequent Culprit: North Korea — SAN FRANCISCO — Intelligence officials and private security experts say that new digital clues point to North Korean-linked hackers as likely suspects in the sweeping ransomware attacks that have crippled computer systems around the world.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Budget Director Says Fat, Lazy Americans Don't Deserve Health Care — Many conservatives believe that a large proportion of Americans do not deserve access to medical care because their high medical costs result from poor decisions. This belief has been floating around right-wing circles for years.
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Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:
Why the ‘alt-left’ will succeed where centrists fail — The label is meant as a slur to discredit us. But that won't change the fact that left-wing populists speak to anti-system anger in a way that others don't — ould you be a member of a political conspiracy without even knowing it?
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Vanity Fair
NBC News:
It's Early, but the GOP Is Already in the Midterm Danger Zone — First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter — Bannon, Preibus & Spicer on the Chopping Block?
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Scott Campbell / Daily Mail:
North Korean hacking group is thought to be behind cyber attack which wreaked havoc across the globe — A hacking group linked to North Korea is thought to be behind the cyber attack that wreaked havoc across the globe, according to security experts. — Analysts from security firms Symantec …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
A Remote Paradise Island Is Now a Plastic Junkyard — Henderson Island is about the most remote place you can visit without leaving the planet. It sits squarely in the middle of the South Pacific, 3,500 miles from New Zealand in one direction and another 3,500 miles from South America in the other.
Jason Zengerle / GQ:
Inside Corey Lewandowski's Failed Romp in Trump's Swamp — He was a political nobody who helped Donald Trump win the White House. Then Corey Lewandowski went to Washington, hell-bent on making his fortune and changing the lobbying game forever. Here's how those grandiose plans blew up …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid. Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues …
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CNN:
Congress' exasperated as White House in ‘downward spiral’ — McMaster: Washington Post story is false — (CNN)Republicans in Congress barely had time to get their footing Monday, as another wild development, this time reports that President Donald Trump had revealed sensitive intelligence …