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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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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.
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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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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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 …
Politico:
White House pushes back against report Trump shared classified info with Russians — The White House went into fresh damage control mode on Monday, pushing back against a Washington Post report that Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week …
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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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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Russia Redux: Republican Senators Confront Another Trump Disaster — Senators arriving at the Capitol Monday night to return to their normal business of confirming nominees and passing bills were once again confronted with and forced to respond another disaster unleashed by President Donald Trump.
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump
Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump's handling of classified info brings new chaos to White House
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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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 …
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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Anita Busch / Deadline:
Hackers Holding Disney's Latest ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ For Ransom — UPDATED with comments from former hacker: Disney's upcoming Johnny Depp film Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has been pilfered by ransom hackers seeking payment from the studio.
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney Chief Bob Iger Says Hackers Claim to Have Stolen Upcoming Movie
Disney Chief Bob Iger Says Hackers Claim to Have Stolen Upcoming Movie
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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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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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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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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
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 …
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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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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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Clinton launches new political group: ‘Onward Together’ — Hillary Clinton is officially back in the political game. — Clinton sent a blast email to supporters Monday afternoon asking people to sign up for her next venture, Onward Together. — “From the Women's March to airports across …
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Dominic Mancini / The College Fix:
Minority students feel ‘marginalized’ by historic building's ‘imposing, masculine’ paneling — Some minority students at the University of Michigan have apparently felt intimidated by the interior wood paneling found throughout the historic Michigan Union building.
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