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Scoop: Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal — President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision. Details on how the withdrawal will be executed are being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Trump expected to withdraw from Paris climate deal — President Donald Trump is planning to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement, a White House official said Wednesday morning — only to have Trump himself revive the suspense less than an hour later.
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Trump Expected to Pull U.S. From Paris Climate Accord — President Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, three officials with knowledge of the decision said, making good on a campaign pledge but severely weakening the landmark 2015 climate change accord …
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The White House Mess — A shakeup needs to start with some self-reflection at the top.
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Trump's White House bake-off for chief of staff — As a long-expected shake-up begins in the West Wing, President Trump has been asking key Republicans for their opinions about two possible replacements as White House chief of staff: Gary Cohn, a moderate voice who's his current economic adviser …
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No One Wants The Big White House Job That Just Opened Up
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Kushner tries to pretend everything's normal
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Russia probe scares off potential appointees
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Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations — (CNN)Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.
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Carter Page insists on testifying to counteract ‘false information’ from FBI, CIA
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THOUGHT BEHEADED IMAGE WAS HIS DAD — Barron Trump was watching television Tuesday at home with Melania when Kathy Griffin's photo appeared on the screen, and his initial reaction was that something terrible happened to his father. — Trump family sources tell us Barron was in front …


The New York Times Is Eliminating The Public Editor Role — The accountability position was created in the wake of a 2003 plagiarism scandal. — The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor, an accountability role the paper created in 2003 in the wake …
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New York Times Will Offer Employee Buyouts and Eliminate Public Editor Role

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Poll: Support for Trump impeachment rises — An increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don't think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires. — Forty-three percent of voters want Congress …
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Voters Show Growing Appetite for Trump Impeachment
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‘COVFEFE’: Trump's late-night tweet goes viral …
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CNN ‘Evaluating’ Kathy Griffin's Role in Annual New Year's Eve Coverage after Trump ‘Beheading’ Photo — CNN is evaluating Kathy Griffin's role in its annual New Year's Eve coverage after the comedian posed for a photo shoot holding a decapitated, bloody head resembling that of President Donald Trump.
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Trump says Kathy Griffin ‘should be ashamed of herself’
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll- May 2017: The AHCA's Proposed Changes to Health Care — Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Liz Hamel, Elise Sugarman, and Mollyann Brodie — KEY FINDINGS: — With Congress currently discussing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan that would repeal …
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Donald Trump's business ties explain a lot of his dictator worship — As Donald Trump praises Rodrigo Duterte's death squads in the Philippines, Trump Tower Manila is going up. — President Trump makes more money when he embraces regimes that violate human rights.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute — Trump is His Own Worst Spokesperson; Spicer, Conway Not Much Better — VP Pence does best job representing his boss — West Long Branch, NJ - President Trump may not be well-served by his primary spokespeople, but he is probably his own worst mouthpiece …
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Leaked Internal Documents Show UberPool Was A Cash-Burning Machine — In late 2015, UberPool was losing its home market of San Francisco to Lyft Line. Here's what Uber did to win it back, according to internal company documents. — In summer 2015, about a year after Uber launched …
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The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next — Whites were asked to leave for a ‘Day of Absence.’ I objected. Then 50 yelling students crashed my class.
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Leaked regulation: Trump plans to roll back Obamacare birth control mandate — The administration is mulling broad exemptions from the health law requirement. — The Trump administration is apparently preparing to overhaul Obamacare's birth control mandate, purportedly allowing any employer …
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Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server With No Password — Sensitive files tied to a US military project were leaked by a multi-billion dollar firm once described as the world's most profitable spy operation, Gizmodo has confirmed.
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GOP taps anti-Clinton strategy to damage Elizabeth Warren early — BOSTON — Republicans are getting a jump on Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. — The Massachusetts Democrat is preparing to run for re-election to the Senate in 2018 and hasn't said yet whether she'll …
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What's a ‘Covfefe’? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation — WASHINGTON — And on the 132nd day, just after midnight, President Trump had at last delivered the nation to something approaching unity — in bewilderment, if nothing else. — The state of our union was ... covfefe.
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L.A. Home Vandalized With N-Word Graffiti — ... Hate Crime — An L.A. home owned by LeBron James was the target of a hate crime — someone spray painted the n-word on the front gate and detectives are now investigating, cops tell TMZ Sports. — Here's what we know …
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