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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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House refuses to say if Comey tapes exist … The White House refused to say Monday whether it would comply with congressional requests to produce possible recordings of conversations between President Trump and White House visitors. — Facing repeated questions from multiple news outlets …
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Political Wire
ACLU:
ACLU Demands Records on Comey Firing — NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Justice Department and FBI asking for all records related to President Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.
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NBC News:
After Weeks of Missteps, Nervous Trump Aides Hope for a Reboot — Rattled by President Donald Trump's increasing frustration with the staff guidance he's getting and by the administration's unforced errors, White House officials are desperately hoping the president's first foreign trip beginning …
Matt Schlapp / The Hill:
Good riddance to James Comey, Obama's enabler — I have to hand it to the Democrats; they had a good week. — They believe in many conspiracy theories, including the humdinger that FBI Director — I mean, former Director — Jim Comey's intervention in the last days of the presidential election swung …
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Politico and The Rush Limbaugh Show
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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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
House Republican writes letter to constituent's employer complaining about her progressive activism
House Republican writes letter to constituent's employer complaining about her progressive activism
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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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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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Madness Invites Mutiny
Trump's Madness Invites Mutiny
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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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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly and Axios
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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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
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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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
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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Hullabaloo
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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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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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Political Wire
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. top court lets North Carolina voter law die, pleasing rights groups
U.S. top court lets North Carolina voter law die, pleasing rights groups
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Shareblue
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.
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 …
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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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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Bill Chappell / NPR:
WannaCry Ransomware: Microsoft Calls Out NSA For ‘Stockpiling’ Vulnerabilities
WannaCry Ransomware: Microsoft Calls Out NSA For ‘Stockpiling’ Vulnerabilities
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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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Nicole Gaouette / CNN:
State Dept.: Assad using crematorium to hide atrocities — Gasping for life: Syria's merciless war on its own children — (CNN)The US said Monday it believes the Syrian government has built a large crematorium near the notorious Saydnaya Military Prison in an effort to hide mass atrocities carried …
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Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Syria using crematorium to hide executions, State Department says
Syria using crematorium to hide executions, State Department says
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RedState, The Atlantic, TheBlaze and Mediaite
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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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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Hullabaloo, Sputnik International, NPR and The Daily Caller
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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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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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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