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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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Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
DOJ's Weissmann Joining Mueller's Russia Investigation Team, Sources Say — Andrew Weissmann oversaw VW, bank cases during Obama era — Loss of fraud chief leaves another senior post vacant at DOJ — Andrew Weissmann, head of the Justice Department's fraud section …
Todd Shepherd / Washington Examiner:
Carter Page insists on testifying to counteract ‘false information’ from FBI, CIA
Carter Page insists on testifying to counteract ‘false information’ from FBI, CIA
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
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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New York Times:
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 …
Bloomberg:
Trump Still Deciding Whether to Leave Paris Climate Deal, Sources Say
Trump Still Deciding Whether to Leave Paris Climate Deal, Sources Say
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Ali Breland / The Hill:
Tesla CEO threatens to quit Trump biz council if US leaves Paris deal
Tesla CEO threatens to quit Trump biz council if US leaves Paris deal
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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
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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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
New York Times Will Offer Employee Buyouts and Eliminate Public Editor Role
New York Times Will Offer Employee Buyouts and Eliminate Public Editor Role
Jordan Cohen / The New York Times Company:
Introducing the Reader Center
Introducing the Reader Center
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor; here's the Sulzberger memo
The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor; here's the Sulzberger memo
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Lawrence Yee / Variety:
CNN Fires Kathy Griffin From New Year's Show After Donald Trump Beheading Stunt — CNN has fired Kathy Griffin from their annual New Year's Eve program, which she cohosted with anchor Anderson Cooper. — The network made the announcement via Twitter Wednesday morning.
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Kathy Griffin / TMZ.com:
Kathy Griffin's Gory Photo of Decapitated Trump Focus of Secret Service Investigation
Kathy Griffin's Gory Photo of Decapitated Trump Focus of Secret Service Investigation
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
CNN ‘Evaluating’ Kathy Griffin's Role in Annual New Year's Eve Coverage after Trump ‘Beheading’ Photo
CNN ‘Evaluating’ Kathy Griffin's Role in Annual New Year's Eve Coverage after Trump ‘Beheading’ Photo
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘covfefe’ heard around the world
The Note: Trump's ‘covfefe’ heard around the world
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Barron Trump / TMZ.com:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
The White House Mess — A shakeup needs to start with some self-reflection at the top.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's White House bake-off for chief of staff
Trump's White House bake-off for chief of staff
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
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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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Cassidy takes heat on Obamacare repeal effort at fiery town hall
Cassidy takes heat on Obamacare repeal effort at fiery town hall
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Politico:
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Boehner: Trump is not a ‘disaster’ — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — FORMER SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: TRUMP IS NOT A ‘DISASTER’ — John Boehner got a lot of attention last week when he said the president has been a “complete disaster.” The president himself wasn't too happy with Boehner …
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Brian Klaas / USA Today:
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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Bret Weinstein / Wall Street Journal:
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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Steven Shepard / Politico:
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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Monmouth University:
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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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
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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Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Covfefe: When a typo goes viral
Covfefe: When a typo goes viral
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP launches attack on MSNBC's Morning Joe — The Republican National Committee is offering a blistering take on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” calling it “the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a press release on Wednesday. — The attack was all the more notable given that the morning show …
David Ovalle / miamiherald:
He didn't give police his iPhone pass code, so he got 180 days in jail — A Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up his iPhone password to police, a Broward judge ruled Tuesday — the latest salvo in intensifying legal battles over law-enforcement access to smart phones.
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Priya Anand / BuzzFeed:
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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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
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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Meghann Farnsworth / Recode:
Live now: Watch Hillary Clinton from our Code Conference — Clinton will be interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. — Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State.
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