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Fox News:
Greg Gianforte: Fox News team witnesses GOP House candidate ‘body slam’ reporter — The race to fill Montana's sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives took a violent turn Wednesday, and a crew from the Fox News Channel, including myself, witnessed it firsthand.
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The Billings / Associated Press:
Gazette opinion: We're pulling our endorsement of Greg Gianforte — In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Greg Gianforte, right, receives congratulations from a supporter in Helena. Montana voters are heading to the polls Thursday to decide a nationally watched congressional election amid uncertainty …
The Guardian:
Republican candidate charged with assault after ‘body-slamming’ Guardian reporter — Audio of Greg Gianforte attacking Ben Jacobs corroborated by Fox News journalists in the room, who described candidate ‘slamming him to the ground’ — The Republican candidate for Montana's congressional seat …
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Felix Biederman / Washington Post:
Face it: The body-slammed reporter did just what you would have done — Most Americans couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. — Yesterday, tech multimillionaire and GOP candidate for Montana's at-large congressional seat Greg Gianforte allegedly hurled the Guardian's Ben C. Jacobs …
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Missoulian:
Missoulian rescinds Gianforte endorsement — Greg Gianforte should not represent Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives. — The Republican candidate for Congress not only lost the endorsement of this newspaper Wednesday night when, according to witnesses, he put his hands around …
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Edmund Kozak / LifeZette:
Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Says No Neck Grab
Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Says No Neck Grab
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte, Charged With Assault, Awaits Fate in Vote
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte, Charged With Assault, Awaits Fate in Vote
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Matthew Balan / Mediaite:
‘You Are Sadly Mistaken’: Don Lemon Rips CNN Guest Who Won't Blame Trump For Alleged Assault On Reporter
‘You Are Sadly Mistaken’: Don Lemon Rips CNN Guest Who Won't Blame Trump For Alleged Assault On Reporter
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Jason Jarrett / Gallatin Media Center:
Update on Assault Investigation
Update on Assault Investigation
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Reporter: Only true thing in Gianforte's assault statement is my name and employer
Reporter: Only true thing in Gianforte's assault statement is my name and employer
Christina Manduley / CNN:
Tapper: If you can't condemn an assault on a reporter, reexamine your love for Constitution
Tapper: If you can't condemn an assault on a reporter, reexamine your love for Constitution
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Helena Independent Record:
AN IR VIEW: Independent Record withdraws endorsement of Gianforte
AN IR VIEW: Independent Record withdraws endorsement of Gianforte
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Fights, Lies, and Audiotape
Fights, Lies, and Audiotape
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘The fish rots from the head’: Morning Joe blames ‘brutish’ Trump for Gianforte's assault on reporter
‘The fish rots from the head’: Morning Joe blames ‘brutish’ Trump for Gianforte's assault on reporter
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Justin Mitchell / Reuters:
Republican candidate charged with assault, roiling Trump's Montana test
Republican candidate charged with assault, roiling Trump's Montana test
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Daily Wire
BBC:
Manchester attack: Police ‘not sharing information with US’ — Police investigating the Manchester Arena bomb attack have stopped sharing information with the US after leaks to the media, the BBC understands. — UK officials were outraged when photos appearing to show debris from the attack appeared in the New York Times.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump chastises fellow NATO members, demands they meet payment obligations — BRUSSELS — President Trump, speaking at a ceremony here Thursday to dedicate a memorial to NATO's resolve in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, publicly chastised his fellow alliance leaders …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Appeals Court Will Not Reinstate Trump's Revised Travel Ban — WASHINGTON — The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., on Thursday refused to reinstate President Trump's revised travel ban, saying it discriminated on the basis of religion. The decision was a fresh setback …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court keeps block on revised Trump travel ban — President Donald Trump's revised travel ban executive order suffered another legal defeat Thursday, prompting the administration to vow an appeal to the Supreme Court. — In a 10-3 vote that broke essentially along party lines …
Cristian Farias / HuffPost:
Appeals Court Slaps Down Donald Trump's Travel Ban Yet Again
Appeals Court Slaps Down Donald Trump's Travel Ban Yet Again
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Wall Street Journal:
How Alleged Russian Hacker Teamed Up With Florida GOP Operative — Political consultant Aaron Nevins asked for and received documents from hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ and posted some on his blog, after which the hacker called the blog to the attention of Trump adviser Roger Stone.
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artnet News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection — The couple has a taste for the works of market-friendly art stars, but lawyers say it's just for decoration. — Since their wedding in 2009, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have amassed a formidable collection of contemporary art.
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Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
Fox News host Sean Hannity takes a vacation after losing more advertisers — Sean Hannity is taking a couple days off amid a growing advertiser boycott after pushing a conspiracy theory involving a slain Democratic National Committee staffer. — So far, seven advertisers have pulled …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Says Sean Hannity Will Return to Show
Fox News Says Sean Hannity Will Return to Show
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Austin Wright / Politico:
FBI won't provide Comey memos to Congress yet — The FBI on Thursday declined a congressional request for explosive memos by former Director James Comey detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump. — The House Oversight Committee and other congressional panels requested …
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Sheriff Clarke directed staff to hassle plane passenger after brief exchange — Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. was sued earlier this year in the wake of a brief exchange with Riverwest resident Dan Black aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Milwaukee. The sheriff has now given his version of what happened.
Alexandra Desanctis / National Review:
‘I Might . . . Pull Off a Leg or Two’ — Center for Medical Progress video (via YouTube) — A shocking new undercover video exposes the grisly reality of ripping apart fetuses. — A shocking new video has just been released by the Center for Medical Progress, the undercover investigative group …
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Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Senate Mulls Health-Law Rewrite Pushing Obamacare Repeal to 2020 — Senators working to craft more modest version than House plan — Little progress on difficult issue: Future of Obamacare taxes — Senate Republicans are weighing a two-step process to replace Obamacare that would postpone …
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Washington Post:
‘Anyone . . . with a pulse’: How a Russia-friendly adviser found his way into the Trump campaign — As Donald Trump surged in the Republican primary polls in the early months of 2016, his outsider campaign faced growing pressure to show that the former reality-TV star …
Daily Mail:
Obama receives rock star welcome in Germany as he appears alongside Merkel and says 'we can't hide behind a wall' — Former President Obama appeared alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate — Obama used the opportunity …
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Daily Wire and Weasel Zippers
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's “street fighters” — West Wing officials are prepping for a years-long war with investigators and the bureaucracy, with plans to beef up legal, surrogate, communications and rapid-response teams as part of a “new normal” for President Trump — besieged.
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Jessica Haynes / MLive.com:
Ann Arbor restaurant says ICE agents ate breakfast, then detained 3 workers — ANN ARBOR, MI - The owner of Ann Arbor's Sava's Restaurant said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials took at least three of her employees into custody the morning of Wednesday, May 24.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Assault on Colleges — and the American Dream — The country's most powerful engine of upward mobility is under assault. — Public colleges have an unmatched record of lofting their students into the middle class and beyond. For decades, they have enrolled teenagers and adults …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's iPhone has one app: Twitter — Top White House officials tell me the key to forcing a more disciplined President Trump (like the one onstage overseas) is limiting his screen time. In Trump's case, it's curtailing his time watching TV and banging out tweets on his iPhone.
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Andrew Mayeda / Bloomberg:
World Bank's Star Economist Is Sidelined in War Over Words — Paul Romer to give up management of research department — Researchers chafed against push to communicate more clearly — The World Bank's chief economist has been stripped of his management duties after researchers rebelled …
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Harvard's Student Paper Is Drunk and Taking Potshots at Mark Zuckerberg — The Harvard Crimson has either become the victim of an incredibly funny prank, or Facebook is beta-testing its silent speech brain interface on college students. — Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned …
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George Kelly / East Bay Times:
Berkeley: College professor arrested as assault suspect — BERKELEY — A former Diablo Valley College professor was in custody Wednesday evening after his arrest Wednesday afternoon in Oakland, according to county records. — Eric Clanton, 28, was being held on $200,000 bail after he was booked …
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