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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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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy - sources — U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign …
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New York Times:
Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, spoke in December with Russia's ambassador to the United States about establishing a secret communications channel between the Trump transition team …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Senate Intelligence Committee requests Trump campaign documents — The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked President Trump's political organization to gather and produce all documents, emails and phone records …
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Politico, Politicus USA, Axios, Political Wire and Balloon Juice
Business Insider:
‘This is serious’: Jared Kushner reportedly tried to set up a secret Trump-Russia back channel — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House adviser, was willing to go extraordinary lengths to establish a secret line of communication between the Trump administration …
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RedState, emptywheel and Washington Post
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Kushner wanted secure line with Kremlin before inauguration: report
Kushner wanted secure line with Kremlin before inauguration: report
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The dueling scoops about Jared Kushner's plan for secret communications with Russia, explained
The dueling scoops about Jared Kushner's plan for secret communications with Russia, explained
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Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:
The attack occurred in the Hollywood District. “He said, 'Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don't pay taxes here.'” — A man riding the MAX in Northeast Portland fatally stabbed two passengers who tried to stop him from hurling racial and anti-Muslim insults at women on the train …
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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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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89 — Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s …
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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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New York Times:
Russian Once Tied to Trump Aide Seeks Immunity to Testify Before Congress — Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to President Trump's former campaign manager, has offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election …
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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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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton invokes impeachment in speech to grads
Hillary Clinton invokes impeachment in speech to grads
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
White House correspondent bolts Sputnik over the obvious — Andrew Feinberg, a correspondent for Sputnik, has announced on Twitter that he's no longer working for the Russian “global wire, radio and digital news service.” And he's intent upon doing so with as much detail as possible:
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Mona Charen / National Review:
Stop Making Excuses for Greg Gianforte's Assaulting a Reporter — Greg Gianforte in a March campaign ad (via YouTube) — None of this is a gray area. — The first question you have to wonder about concerning the assault and battery allegedly committed by Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Lesser Part of Valor
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
U.S. Quietly Lifts Limit on Number of Refugees Allowed In — WASHINGTON — Despite repeated efforts by President Trump to curtail refugee resettlements, the State Department this week quietly lifted the department's restriction on the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States.
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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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John Sexton / Hot Air:
Students demand firing of professor who objected to asking whites to leave campus (Update)
Students demand firing of professor who objected to asking whites to leave campus (Update)
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Breitbart, Althouse, The College Fix and Mediaite
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
7 Virtue-Signaling Celebrities Silent on Massacre of Coptic Christians — Left-wingers insist that they are the champions of minorities, yet one oppressed group always seems conspicuously absent from their social media virtue-signalling — Christian minorities in the Muslim world …
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Mara H. Gottfried / Twin Cities:
Charges filed against Tim Kaine's son, others who crashed MN Capitol Trump rally — The chaos that some counter-protesters brought into the Minnesota Capitol in March during a rally in support of President Donald Trump included smoke bombs, mace in people's faces and fireworks …
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Channel NewsAsia:
Philippines' Duterte makes rape joke for martial law troops — Toggle share menu — All Sections — Search Term Search Term Clear search input Search — MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte joked Friday that soldiers could rape up to three women, as he reassured …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Suddenly There's Another Littoral Ship in Trump's Budget Plans — White House, Navy rush to add an extra ship and funding for it — Adding a ship would guarantee one each for Lockheed, Austal — The White House budget office and the Navy are rushing to find an extra $600 million to buy …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Backs Down on Keeping Ethics Waivers Secret — WASHINGTON — The White House unexpectedly backed down Friday in a confrontation with the government's top ethics officer, announcing it will publicly disclose waivers that have been quietly handed out since January to let certain former lobbyists work in the administration.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Rand Paul: Paris Climate Deal Would Kill 6 Million American Jobs — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a leading ally of President Donald Trump's in the U.S. Senate, told Breitbart News exclusively in an interview in his office this week that at least six million U.S. jobs are at risk …
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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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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
Exclusive: Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department — 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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