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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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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump to light White House blue to honor police
Trump to light White House blue to honor police
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Politico, Axios and Washington Free Beacon
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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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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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in NC voter ID case — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear North Carolina's appeal of a lower court's decision to strike down its voter ID law, effectively killing the law. — The court declined to overturn a Fourth Circuit Court …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted After Supreme Court Rejects Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law. The move left in place a federal appeals court ruling that struck down key parts …
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The Nation, Axios, BillMoyers.com, The Week and Eschaton
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in North Carolina Voting Case; Chief Justice Issues Statement
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in North Carolina Voting Case; Chief Justice Issues Statement
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Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Revive North Carolina Voter-ID Law
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Revive North Carolina Voter-ID Law
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Washington Free Beacon
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court leaves in place ruling that struck down N.C.'s voter ID law
Supreme Court leaves in place ruling that struck down N.C.'s voter ID law
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Booman Tribune
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
America's worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
America's worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
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The Daily Caller
John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts: Conway secretly hates Trump — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is secretly disgusted by President Trump and spoke harshly off him off-camera during the campaign, “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said Monday
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump ‘Doing This For The Money’
Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump ‘Doing This For The Money’
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump
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Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed A Shower After Defending Trump
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed A Shower After Defending Trump
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump admits he fired Comey over Russia. Republican voters don't believe him. — President Donald Trump has said the real reason he fired James Comey from the FBI was because of the bureau's investigation into links between Trump's 2016 campaign associates and Russia.
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Alex Ward / Vox:
Secret tapes, hearings, and a new FBI director: the Comey news to watch for this week
Secret tapes, hearings, and a new FBI director: the Comey news to watch for this week
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Axios
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.
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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Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
MARVEL CANCELS TA-NEHISI COATES' BLACK PANTHER & THE CREW COMIC AFTER TWO ISSUES — Ta-Nehisi Coates, the celebrated public intellectual, faced a setback in his attempt to introduce racial diversity to the world of comic books when Marvel announced that Black Panther & The Crew …
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The Daily Caller
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James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Live Cyber attack latest: Vladimir Putin blames US for hack as thousands more computers hit by ransomware — Thousands of computers in China and Japan hit by WannaCry virus — Putin says Russia had ‘nothing to do’ with global ransomware outbreak — Microsoft attacks US government …
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Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week's cyberattack
The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week's cyberattack
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Medium:
A Conversation with President Obama on Political Courage — By Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President Kennedy and member of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Committee — Last week, President Obama received the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award for his many acts …
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The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Obama: Not bombing Syria ‘required the most political courage’
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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Outside the Beltway, Politico, The Week and AOL
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 …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson “furious” about Tillerson's comments — Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — a man who has no trouble getting the President on the phone — is “furious” about comments Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made today on NBC's “Meet the Press,” according to two sources with knowledge of Adelson's reaction.
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Miss USA Winner Angers Liberals With Health Care Answer — Kára McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist, won the crown at the Miss USA pageant on Sunday night while surprising and angering liberals with her interview answers on health care and feminism. — McCullough works …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
THE TRUTH about Trump's tapes — POLITICO INVESTIGATION: Stock trades ‘leaves Congress rife with conflicts’ — About that White House shakeup ... — ADRIENNE ELROD's new firm — B'DAY: Rachel Kelly — Listen to the Playbook Audio Briefing http://bit.ly/2qIO6jZ ... Subscribe on iTunes http …
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Denis Dyomkin / Reuters:
Putin blames off-key piano for hesitant musical rendition — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday an impromptu piano rendition he gave on the sidelines of a meeting in Beijing had been hampered by an out of tune instrument. — Putin was captured on camera on Sunday sitting …
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Sputnik International, NPR and The Daily Caller
Kevin Quealy / New York Times:
If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They're More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy — Here are guesses from 1,746 adults: — Where is North Korea? — Each represents a respondent's guess. — Just 36 percent got it right. Here are the countries they selected:
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Reuters:
France's Macron picks PM from the right, blowing apart old boundaries — Newly-inaugurated French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a conservative prime minister on Monday in a move to broaden his political appeal and weaken his opponents before legislative elections in June.
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Political Wire and Axios