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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pushing Big White House Changes as Russia Crisis Grows — President Trump is actively discussing major changes, including a shakeup of his senior team, after spending much of his free time during his overseas trip weighing the Russia investigation and the political crisis it poses for him.
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CNN:
Sources: Comey acted on Russian intelligence he knew was fake — Washington (CNN)Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake — created by Russian intelligence — but he feared that if it became public …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Shakesville, Business Insider, Hot Air, Raw Story, Daily Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, AOL, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, The Week and Hullabaloo
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Inside Hillary Clinton's Surreal Post-Election Life — The surreal post-election life of the woman who would have been president. — When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past.
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The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Vox, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Political Wire, Axios, twitchy.com, Althouse and NY State of Politics
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Republicans Broke American Politics, and Media Elites Are Blind to It — Greg Gianforte's victory, after assaulting an America reporter, should horrify anyone who cares about the strength of our political institutions. — Republican Greg Gianforte defeated Democrat Rob Quist …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President
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Raw Story
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Texas gov appears to joke about shooting reporters
Texas gov appears to joke about shooting reporters
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Lesser Part of Valor
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin — Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Overcome by Coughing Fit During Commencement Speech, Needs Water — A familiar problem from the campaign trail hit Hillary Clinton while she spoke at Wellesley College's commencement on Friday, when she began coughing and needed some water and a throat lozenge.
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Mother Jones, Hot Air and twitchy.com
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Caroline Hallemann / Town & Country:
Read the Full Transcript of Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College Commencement Speech
Read the Full Transcript of Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College Commencement Speech
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Conservative News Today, Shakesville and Balloon Juice
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's remarkably aggressive anti-Trump speech, annotated
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton has a coughing fit while delivering Wellesley graduation speech …
Hillary Clinton has a coughing fit while delivering Wellesley graduation speech …
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Power Line
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton Doesn't Name Trump, But Pulls No Punches In Fiery Wellesley Address
Clinton Doesn't Name Trump, But Pulls No Punches In Fiery Wellesley Address
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The Week
Valerie Jones / Rigzone:
Former House Speaker Boehner: Trump ‘Still Learning How to be President’ — John Boehner delivers a fierce keynote in which he shares his view on Trump's presidency, whether or not he'd consider running for president and of course, Russia. — Regina Mayor, KPMG's global sector head …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
John Boehner unloads on Trump: A ‘complete disaster’
John Boehner unloads on Trump: A ‘complete disaster’
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Mediaite, Business Insider and IJR
Rose-Ann Aragon / Click2Houston.com:
Mom furious after teacher names daughter ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ — CHANNELVIEW - “Most likely to be a terrorist.” Those are the words one seventh-grader at Lance Cpl. Anthony Aguirre Junior High School brought home from her teacher. — It was an award given to 13-year-old Lizeth Villanueva by her teacher.
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Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Texas teachers give ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 13-year-old
Texas teachers give ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 13-year-old
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AJ Willingham / CNN:
7th-grader gets ‘Most Likely to Become a Terrorist’ Award
7th-grader gets ‘Most Likely to Become a Terrorist’ Award
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CBS Denver, Refinery29 and CBS Philly
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say — The FBI is investigating an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization, summoning President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, for an emergency session with the bureau's cybersecurity agents and representatives of the CIA, officials tell ABC News.
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Wall Street Journal:
Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’ — A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely populated counties have replaced large cities as America's most troubled areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that's accelerating.
Discussion:
Political Wire and The Daily Caller
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Exclusive: NSA Chief Admits Donald Trump Colluded With Russia — When will Admiral Rogers say publicly what he told his agency's workforce? — President Donald Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey continues to reverberate in the KremlinGate scandal, which threatens to consume the Trump administration.
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Raw Story and Mother Jones
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DHS chief: If you knew what I knew about terror, you'd ‘never leave the house’ — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would “never leave the house” if they knew the truth. — “I was telling [Fox host] Steve …
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ABC News, Axios, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, The Right Scoop, Geller Report and RedState
Tegna / KING-TV:
Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests — A faculty member at the Evergreen State College had been told he's not safe on campus. He's been called a racist during two days of protest at the college in Olympia. … As a biology professor for 15 years at Olympia's …
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Hot Air, Washington Times, Althouse, Daily Wire, Conservative News Today, Washington Post, The College Fix, TheBlaze, Heat Street, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon's back — The escalating crisis surrounding the Russia investigation (with reports last night on FBI interest in Jared Kushner) looks like good news for somebody in the White House: Steve Bannon. — Nine sources in the West Wing and within Trump's close orbit said the Russia situation is Bannon's shot at redemption.
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Circa:
FISA court transcript — In his final congressional testimony before he was fired by President Trump this month, then-FBI Director James Comey unequivocally told lawmakers his agency used sensitive espionage data gathered about Americans without a warrant only when it was “lawfully collected, carefully overseen and checked.”
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Hit & Run, RedState, Daily Wire, The Right Scoop, Hot Air, The Week and The Gateway Pundit
The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Attack in Egypt — Terrorists are engaged in a war against civilization, and it is up to all who value life to confront and defeat this evil. This merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls.
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Daily Mail, RT and IJR
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
The reason behind Macron's firm handshake with Trump, revealed: He was warned! — Emmanuel Macron was warned! — To be more specific, the newly elected president of France was told to be prepared for the sometimes awkward and always aggressive handshakes of President Trump.
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, AOL and Business Insider
Andreas Rinke / Reuters:
Merkel pushes back against renewed Trump criticism of surplus — Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed back on Friday against renewed criticism of Germany's trade surplus from U.S. President Donald Trump, who told EU officials Germany was “very bad” on trade and suggested it was selling too many cars in the United States.
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Politico, IJR, Mediaite and Sputnik International
New York Post:
De Blasio employee arrested for child pornography … A leading young Democrat and de Blasio administration employee has a secret taste for sickening kiddie porn that involves baby girls as young as 6 months old, court papers revealed Friday. — Jacob Schwartz, 29, was busted for allegedly keeping …
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RedState, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon and Jammie Wearing Fools
US News:
CARTOON GALLERY … A CEA chair would have argued, internally at least, that conditions are different now from when 3 percent growth was more common. Specifically, most analysts predict that annual increases in both the labor force and productivity (output per hour worked) …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On travel ban, judges reach ‘Trump only’ decision — There's a glaring political divide in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stop President Trump's revised executive order limiting entry into the U.S. for some people from a few terror-plagued Muslim-majority nations.
Karen Jowers / Military Times:
John Glenn's remains were disrespected at the military's mortuary, Pentagon documents allege — WASHINGTON — A senior mortuary employee at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware twice offered horrified inspectors a peek at American icon John Glenn's dead body while the famed astronaut awaited burial earlier …
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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
Exclusive: Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department - sources — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years.
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