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Adam Entous / Washington Post:
Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence — President Trump asked two of the nation's top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign …
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Trump asked DNI, NSA to deny evidence of Russia collusion — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called two top intelligence community figures to request that they deny in public any evidence of collusion between his campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Politicus USA
New York Times:
Michael Flynn Misled Pentagon About Russia Ties, Letter Says — WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, misled Pentagon investigators about his income from companies in Russia and contacts with officials there when he applied for a renewal …
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Daily Wire, HuffPost, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press and Balloon Juice
Austin Wright / Politico:
Chaffetz postpones Wednesday hearing after speaking with Comey — House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz on Monday said he will postpone a hearing scheduled for Wednesday after speaking with former FBI Director James Comey, who had been invited to testify. — “Spoke with Comey.
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CNN:
First on CNN: Mueller briefed on secret Comey memos, source says — Special counsel to lead Russia investigation — (CNN)Robert Mueller — the former FBI director now overseeing the Department of Justice's investigation into Russia's election-year meddling and contact with the Trump campaign …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Chris Christie: I warned Trump about Flynn
Chris Christie: I warned Trump about Flynn
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Washington Post, The Week, Axios, Political Wire, Mediaite and IJR
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Manafort, Stone Turn Over Russia Documents to Senate Intel Committee
Manafort, Stone Turn Over Russia Documents to Senate Intel Committee
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RedState, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, Mother Jones and Associated Press
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sessions' Senate testimony canceled this week
CNN:
Warner: Door open to holding Flynn in contempt after invoking Fifth Amendment
Warner: Door open to holding Flynn in contempt after invoking Fifth Amendment
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Heat Street, CANNONFIRE, The Guardian, Mediaite, IJR and CBS Philly
NBC News:
Flynn ‘Lied to Investigators’ About Russia Trip, Says Top House Dem
Flynn ‘Lied to Investigators’ About Russia Trip, Says Top House Dem
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Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Brian Naylor / NPR:
Flynn Takes The 5th, Refuses To Turn Over Documents To Senate Panel
Flynn Takes The 5th, Refuses To Turn Over Documents To Senate Panel
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New York Times, The Atlantic, The Gateway Pundit, ThinkProgress and Gizmodo
CNBC:
19 dead in possible suicide blast at Ariana Grande UK concert — At least 19 people were killed and about 50 others were injured in a suspected suicide bombing Monday night after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England, authorities said. — Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being treated as terrorism.
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New York Times:
Explosion, Panic and Death at Ariana Grande Concert in England — MANCHESTER, England — At least one explosion, which may have been a suicide bombing, thundered through a Manchester concert arena on Monday night just as a performance by the pop star Ariana Grande ended, in what the police described as a “terrorist incident.”
The Guardian:
Manchester Arena: police confirm fatalities after explosion at Ariana Grande concert - live
Manchester Arena: police confirm fatalities after explosion at Ariana Grande concert - live
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BBC:
Manchester Arena blast: 19 dead and about 50 hurt
Manchester Arena blast: 19 dead and about 50 hurt
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Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian:
Police report fatalities after explosion at Manchester Arena
Police report fatalities after explosion at Manchester Arena
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The Guardian:
Manchester Arena: police confirm 19 dead after explosion at Ariana Grande concert - latest updates
Manchester Arena: police confirm 19 dead after explosion at Ariana Grande concert - latest updates
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Sputnik International and Hit & Run
Alistair Smout / Reuters:
British police says responding to serious incident at venue where Ariana Grande performing
British police says responding to serious incident at venue where Ariana Grande performing
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RedState, twitchy.com, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Staffers ‘Embarrassed’ by Hannity's Conspiracy Theory Crusade … Fox News staffers are growing increasingly dismayed as network star Sean Hannity and others continue to promote the unfounded conspiracy theory that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered last year for talking to WikiLeaks.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How One Pro-Trump Site Keeps A Debunked Conspiracy Theory Alive — The top story on pro-Trump media last week was a conspiracy about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer and his alleged connection to WikiLeaks. — A typical Gateway Pundit headline.
Max Boot / Foreign Policy:
The Seth Rich ‘Scandal’ Shows That Fox News Is Morally Bankrupt
The Seth Rich ‘Scandal’ Shows That Fox News Is Morally Bankrupt
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Washington Post, USA Today, Media Matters for America, The Resurgent and Mediaite
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
What a Conservative Sees From Inside Trump's Washington — Republicans wish all that bad news was fake. But no, it's real: The administration is destroying itself. — The conservative voters who elected Donald Trump seem to feel especially betrayed when those who document his failures and violations are fellow conservatives.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Key Senate Republican offers dim outlook for Trump budget — (R-Texas) warned on Monday that President Trump's budget may be a non-stater on Capitol Hill, noting lawmakers routinely craft their own legislation. — Cornyn made the comment after he was asked whether a proposed cut to Medicaid in Trump's budget was too steep.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump's Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
The price tag on universal health care is in, and it's bigger than California's budget — It would cost $400 billion per year to remake California's health insurance marketplace and create a publicly funded universal heath care system, according to a state financial analysis released Monday.
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Power Line, Hot Air, Instapundit and twitchy.com
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
California's single-payer plan costs $400 billion — twice the state's entire budget
California's single-payer plan costs $400 billion — twice the state's entire budget
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MattBruenig and Los Angeles Times
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 5-3 Vote Affirms NC Racial Gerrymandering Case, with Thomas in Majority and Roberts in Dissent — The Supreme Court has issued this 5-3 opinion in Cooper v. Harris. Justice Kagan wrote the opinion for the Court, with Justice Thomas making the fifth vote for affirmance.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias
Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias
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Anushay Hossain / CNN:
The ugly truth behind Saudi Arabia's love for Melania Trump — Anushay Hossain is a writer and media personality based in Washington. For more, visit AnushaysPoint.com. The views expressed are her own. — (CNN)Donald Trump's first major trip overseas may be fraught with diplomatic land mines …
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Tampa Bay Times:
Suspect tells police he killed Tampa Palms roommates for disrespecting his Muslim faith — TAMPA — A man accused of shooting his roommates in a New Tampa apartment told police he shared neo-Nazi beliefs with the two men until he converted to Islam then killed them because they disrespected his faith.
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Washington Post:
Trump close to choosing outside counsel for Russia investigation — President Trump is moving rapidly toward assembling outside counsel to help him navigate the investigations into his campaign and Russian interference in last year's election, and in recent days he and his advisers …
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Political Wire, CNBC, Taylor Marsh, Axios and Talking Points Memo
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump eyeing Lewandowski, Bossie as crisis managers — The White House is looking to wall off the scandals threatening to overtake the president's agenda by building a separate crisis management operation. — President Donald Trump personally reached out to two of his former campaign aides …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Monica Lewinsky / New York Times:
Roger Ailes's Dream Was My Nightmare — This is not another obituary for Roger Ailes, who died last week a year after being ousted at Fox News. It is, I hope, instead an obituary for the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally.
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
MSNBC Reaches No. 1 for First Time in Weekly Primetime Ratings, Fox News Drops to Third — For the first time in its history, MSNBC ranked number one in both total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic during primetime for a full week among the big three cable news networks, according to Nielsen data.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
For 1st Time in 17 Years, Fox News Was 3rd in Prime Time Demo
For 1st Time in 17 Years, Fox News Was 3rd in Prime Time Demo
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
The President Just Told a Room of Israelis That He “Just Got Back From the Middle East” — Another great moment for America courtesy of President Donald Trump, who is in Jerusalem meeting with Israeli leaders—who, I guess, he does not consider Middle Eastern because they are not Arabs:
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Sbrown / globaldevelopment:
What the Mariel Boatlift of Cuban Refugees Can Teach Us about the Economics of Immigration: An Explainer and a Revelation — Do immigrants from poor countries hurt native workers? A study by an influential immigration economist at Harvard University recently found that a famous flood …
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Equitable Growth
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find — The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa. — Currently, most experts believe that our human lineage split from apes around seven million years ago …
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