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CNN:
Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security — Controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who this week announced he will be joining Donald Trump's administration as assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
House Inquiry Turns Attention to Trump Campaign Worker With Russia Ties — Michael Caputo, who served as a communications adviser to the Trump campaign, has been asked by the House committee investigating Russian election meddling to submit to a voluntary interview and to provide any documents …
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Raw Story, The Guardian and Mediaite
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Conservative media coverage gap on Trump, Obama bows — When Trump received The Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud Medal at the Royal Court Palace in Saudi Arabia, he bowed ever so slightly to the Saudi leader presenting it to him. — In 2009, when Obama greeted the Saudi King with a bow …
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Trump shakes hands with Saudi leader, doesn't bow as Obama appeared to do
Trump shakes hands with Saudi leader, doesn't bow as Obama appeared to do
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Slate, Telegraph, AOL and The American Mirror
Associated Press:
Melania Trump skips headscarf as she arrives in Saudi Arabia
Melania Trump skips headscarf as she arrives in Saudi Arabia
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Conservative News Today and The Daily Caller
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump receives Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor
Trump receives Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor
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Weasel Zippers, Politico, The Week and Mother Jones
Annie Karni / Politico:
Saudis give Trump a reception fit for a king
Saudis give Trump a reception fit for a king
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ABC News, IJR, The Mahablog, Washington Post, Associated Press, Axios and The Week
patribotics:
EXCLUSIVE: Judiciary Committee Considering Articles of Impeachment — Multiple sources close to the intelligence, justice and law enforcement communities say that the House Judiciary Committee is considering Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States.
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CANNONFIRE and Mediaite
Miranda Green / CNN:
Comey's father: Trump was ‘scared to death’ of FBI director — Washington (CNN)The father of former FBI Director James Comey says his son was fired because President Donald Trump was “scared to death of him.” — In a phone interview with CNN on Saturday, J. Brien Comey called his son's firing last week “a Trump deal.”
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Mike Kelly / NorthJersey.com:
In hometown of Allendale, James Comey is no ‘nut job,’ but principled career man
In hometown of Allendale, James Comey is no ‘nut job,’ but principled career man
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Washington Post, Mediaite, AOL, Politicus USA and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Fired FBI Director James Comey to Testify in Public
Fired FBI Director James Comey to Testify in Public
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Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
Jim Comey's father, a NJ Republican, speaks out about Trump
Jim Comey's father, a NJ Republican, speaks out about Trump
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Raw Story, Power Line, The Hill, RedState and Conservative News Today
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Twitter co-founder: ‘Very bad’ if Twitter helped make Trump president — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the role Twitter may have played in electing President Trump. — In an interview published Saturday in The New York Times, Williams discussed the president's March claim …
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
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Axios, The Verge, The Times of Israel, AOL, Mashable, Althouse and Political Wire
Erick Erickson / Washington Post:
Here comes the GOP bloodbath — Erick Erickson is editor of the Resurgent. — Republicans like to point out how disastrous President Barack Obama's tenure was for the Democratic Party. During his presidency, Democrats reached new lows in state legislative, gubernatorial and congressional seats.
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Black voters say they're already losing under Trump — Conversations with Virginian voters help explain that dreadful 12-per-cent approval rating with a community he pledged to make a priority. — PETERSBURG, VA.—A struggling post-industrial town. A Christian factory worker praying “constantly” for Donald Trump.
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Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Stifled U.S. Spying — WASHINGTON — The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.
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Infowars, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Axios and emptywheel
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
GOP talks of narrowing ‘blue-slip’ rule for judges — GOP senators are talking about changing an obscure Senate tradition to make it more difficult for Democrats to block certain judges from advancing to a confirmation hearing. — The change to the “blue-slip rule” would involve preventing …
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Political Wire
CBS News:
“Clock boy” discrimination lawsuit dismissed by federal judge — A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit brought by the family a Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that officials believed to be a bomb, saying the student's attorneys failed …
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Hot Air, IJR and CBS Dallas
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
For Democrats, special elections may be preview of 2018 campaigns — Democrats are heading into the homestretch of three special elections over the next month amid a national frenzy over the investigation into the possible connections of President Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian interference in the election.
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New York Times
Steve Robinson / Howie Carr Show:
BPD: Dominicans Control Boston Heroin Trafficking — BOSTON - Heroin trafficking in Boston is largely controlled by Dominican drug organizations, according to an explosive report distributed Tuesday to state and federal agencies by the Boston Police Department.
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Power Line
Damian Carrington / Wired:
The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault Flooded. Thanks, Global Warming — It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle …
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Popular Science, Crop Trust, Washington Post, Vox, Gizmodo and Mashable
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
‘Penises Cause Climate Change’; Progressives Fooled by Peer-Reviewed Hoax Study — Gender studies is a fake academic industry populated by charlatans, deranged activists and gullible idiots. — Now, a pair of enterprising hoaxers has proved it scientifically by persuading an academic journal …
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