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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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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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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Montana NBC Affiliate Refused to Cover Gianforte ‘Body Slam’
Montana NBC Affiliate Refused to Cover Gianforte ‘Body Slam’
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
RNC chief: Gianforte ‘right to apologize’
RNC chief: Gianforte ‘right to apologize’
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Daily Wire, ABC News, Hot Air and The Week
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton launches new campaign against Trump — She didn't beat him, and now she's suggesting he might be impeached. — Hillary Clinton is still running against Donald Trump — against what she says he represents about the worst in America, against his twisting of the truth …
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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 and Hot Air
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
Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Texas teachers give ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 13-year-old — Seventh-grader Lizeth Villanueva has been in her school's academic honors program for two years. She gets good grades and has never been a discipline problem. Yet on Tuesday, her teacher gave her a “most likely to become a terrorist” award.
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Rose-Ann Aragon / Click2Houston.com:
Mom furious after teacher names daughter ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Mom furious after teacher names daughter ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
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Tegna / KHOU-TV:
Teachers name student ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Teachers name student ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
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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’ — Former House speaker John A. Boehner continued a streak of remarkable post-office candor during a Wednesday appearance at a Houston energy conference, telling a luncheon audience that President Trump's term has — foreign policy aside — been a “complete disaster.”
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Politicus USA and Mediaite
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
President Trump's claim that he's already saved ‘millions of jobs’ on his foreign trip — “Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs.” — All presidents like to claim their foreign travels are a success.
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Nancy Pelosi complains Trump not visiting countries in alphabetical order
Nancy Pelosi complains Trump not visiting countries in alphabetical order
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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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republicans' 7-point win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats — Winning narrowly in safe red seats is a bad sign. — Greg Gianforte's 7 percentage point win in the Montana special election keeps a seat in Republican hands but fundamentally represents bad news for the GOP.
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Axios, Washington Monthly, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Booman Tribune, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and NPR
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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
New York Times:
Did the Turkish President's Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows … The New York Times reviewed videos and photos to track the actions of 24 men, including armed members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail, who attacked protesters in Washington last week.
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Business Insider, Hot Air, The Week, Axios 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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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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AOL, The Daily Caller, IJR, Daily Mail, The Week and Political Wire
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Allies, Convicted of High Crimes Without a Trial — Maybe Flynn committed treason. But so far no one has presented any evidence, just innuendo. That's not justice. — Heard any good Mike Flynn jokes lately? — How about this one from “Morning Joe,” this week?
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Peter Müller / Spiegel Online:
‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’ — At a meeting with European Union leaders on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump was sharply critical of Germany. DER SPIEGEL spoke with meeting participants. — U.S. President Donald Trump voiced significant displeasure over Germany's trade surplus …
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Tom McTague / Politico:
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’
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Washington Free Beacon and ABC News
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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RedState, Geller Report and The Right Scoop
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner (Exclusive) — In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
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Shakesville, The Week, Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Times:
Students berate professor who refused to participate in no-whites ‘Day of Absence’ — Over the last 72 hours, students have taken over a small liberal arts college in Washington state, and only one adult has tried to stop them. — Students at Evergreen State College in Olympia …
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Tegna / KING-TV:
Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests
Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests
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Hot Air, Heat Street and Washington Post
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The conservative mind has become diseased — To many observers on the left, the initial embrace of Seth Rich conspiracy theories by conservative media figures was merely a confirmation of the right's deformed soul. But for those of us who remember that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity …
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Raw Story and Hullabaloo