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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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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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Shakesville, Conservative News Today and Balloon Juice
Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Overcome by Coughing Fit During Commencement Speech, Needs Water
Clinton Overcome by Coughing Fit During Commencement Speech, Needs Water
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Mother Jones and Hot Air
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
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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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
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought
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CNN, New York Magazine, Political Wire and The Resurgent
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’ — 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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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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CBS San Francisco, The Root, NPR and myfox8.com
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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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.
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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
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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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
Associated Press:
Judge to consider contempt against antiabortion group leader after release of Planned Parenthood videos — David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, in a 2015 file photo. (Washington Post / Getty Images) — A federal judge said Thursday that he would consider holding …
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Townhall.com, Media Matters for America, Media Matters for America, TheBlaze, LifeNews.com and National Review
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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
Undercover Planned Parenthood Video Removed from YouTube at Judge's Order
Undercover Planned Parenthood Video Removed from YouTube at Judge's Order
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, Weasel Zippers, The Right Scoop, RedState and Geller Report
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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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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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, National Review, Hot Air, The Week and Axios
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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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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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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The Week, Raw Story, Mediaite and Shakesville
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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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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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP leaders launch internal review into leak — House GOP leaders have launched an internal review into how someone secretly recorded and leaked audio of a private 2016 leadership meeting in which Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) jokes about how Russia is paying off President Trump.
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Political Wire
Washington Times:
The latest news from the president in exile — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — The government in exile — the real one, according to the media — has had a busy week at home and abroad. “President Obama” has given up leading from behind and presumes now to lead from overseas.