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Live Election Results: Montana's At-Large Congressional District — Greg Gianforte, a Republican technology executive who was charged with assault on Wednesday night, faces Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate and folk singer, in a special election for Montana's at-large House seat on Thursday.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought — The darker forces that propelled President Trump's rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party. — When GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter who had attempted to ask him a question Wednesday night in Montana …
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New York Times:
Greg Gianforte, Montana Republican, Captures House Seat Despite Assault Charge — BOZEMAN, Mont. — Greg Gianforte, a wealthy Montana Republican who was charged with assaulting a reporter on Wednesday, nonetheless won the state's lone seat in the House of Representatives on Thursday …
Greg Gianforte / Decision Desk HQ:
Montana At-Large Congressional Election — Candidate Percent Votes — 50.6% — 174,741 — 43.7% — 150,904 — 5.8% — 20,027 — With Missoula coming in, its not enough for Quist to pull ahead. Gianforte wins. — Things aren't getting better for Quist.
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Montana NBC Affiliate Refused to Cover Gianforte ‘Body Slam’ — Last night, Montana residents who tuned into their NBC affiliate, KECI, would not have heard the now infamous audio of Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs being roughed up by GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte.
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President … Every time a new story breaks that moves the Russia story down the field, there's an inevitable eruption from the right and alt-right about the liberal media trying to bring the great man down. It never fails.
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault
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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Montana TV Station Won't Air Recording Of GOP Candidate's Attack On Journalist
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Republican wins Montana election one night after being charged with assault
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New York Magazine, The Resurgent and Politicus USA
NBC News:
Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Say Officials — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News. — Investigators believe Kushner …
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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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Washington Post:
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation — Investigators are focusing on a series of meetings held by Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and an influential White House adviser, as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related matters, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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artnet News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection
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NBC News:
Despite Environment and Controversy, GOP Wins Another Race
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David Freedlander / Politico:
Meet the Real Jared Kushner
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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
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.
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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Tom McTague / Politico:
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’ — Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he had a ‘very frankly constructed meeting’ with US president. — TAORMINA, Italy — Jean-Claude Juncker appeared to confirm reports that Donald Trump had complained in private …
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Peter Müller / Spiegel Online:
‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’ — At a meeting with European …
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Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Daniel Gross / Slate:
Trump Reportedly Wants to Stop Germans From Selling So Many Cars Here, Where They're Made
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Democrats making major headway in special election losses — There have been three special elections in the Trump era, and although Democrats have yet to flip a seat, they've gained considerable ground in each compared to results in the general. — Why it matters: These are tangible signs …
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Vox, Political Wire and The Week
New York Daily News:
Milo Yiannopoulos-led protest against CUNY commencement speaker Linda Sarsour turns violent — A raucous rally against CUNY's School of Public Health's commencement speaker ended in violence Thursday when demonstrators clashed with counter-protesters. — The scuffle broke out after an unlikely band …
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Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Minya bus shooting: Children among at least 26 Coptic Christians killed and dozens injured in Egypt gun attack — Gunmen open fire on bus travelling to monastery in Minya province — Children are among at least 26 people massacred in Egypt and dozens more injured after gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians.
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David Filipov / Washington Post:
Researchers say they've uncovered a disinformation campaign with apparent Russian link — MOSCOW — Researchers have discovered an extensive international hacking campaign that steals documents from its targets, carefully modifies them and repackages them as disinformation aimed …
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John Scott Railton / The Citizen Lab:
Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Trump's behavior at NATO is a national embarrassment — Poor NATO. After all of the hoops summit organizers reportedly jumped through to accommodate President Trump and his anemic attention span, he definitely was not on his best behavior. Trump was the party guest whom no one really wants …
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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?
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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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Carrier Sends Jobs to Mexico, Workers Say Trump ‘Misled’ Them … Donald Trump stood outside a Carrier manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana weeks before taking office and boasted he just saved 1,100 jobs from being shipped to Mexico. — Inside the plant, some workers were skeptical.
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Key Republicans Are Encouraging Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance To Run For Senate In Ohio — Some Republican activists and donors worried about the prospects of their party's Senate candidate in Ohio are kicking around an outside-the-box alternative: Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Officials Offer Differing Views on Tax Plan — Senior Trump administration officials split with each other publicly Thursday on a core feature of the president's tax plan.
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