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Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:
Adam West, Straight-Faced Star of TV's ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88 — The actor struggled to find work after the campy superhero series was canceled, but he rebounded with voiceover gigs, including one as the mayor of Quahog on ‘Family Guy.’ — Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep …
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Brian Lowry / Variety:
Adam West, TV's ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88 — Adam West — an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series “Batman” — died Friday night in Los Angeles. He was 88. A rep said that he died after a short battle with leukemia. — “Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senators debate bringing in Comey for Round 2 — A key Senate panel is considering whether to step up its battle to meet with former FBI Director James Comey, who gave dramatic testimony this week to a competing committee. — Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are debating subpoenaing Comey to compel his testimony.
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Sam Stein / HuffPost:
Top Dem Donor Calls On Lawmakers To Take Up Trump Impeachment — The base wants it. Now a big-name funder does too. — One of the Democratic Party's top donors is urging lawmakers to begin impeachment proceedings for President Donald Trump. — Tom Steyer, the wealthy environmentalist …
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
House, Senate investigators seek Trump tapes, Comey memos
House, Senate investigators seek Trump tapes, Comey memos
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Nick Timothy / Conservative Home:
Why I have resigned as the Prime Minister's adviser — Nick Timothy was co-Chief of Staff to Theresa May. — Yesterday, I resigned as the Prime Minister's adviser. — Clearly, the general election result was a huge disappointment. What lay behind the result will no doubt be the subject of detailed analysis for many months.
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Alan Cochrane / Telegraph:
Ruth Davidson planning Scottish Tory breakaway as she challenges Theresa May's Brexit plan — Ruth Davidson is to defy Theresa May's plans for a hard Brexit and tear her Scottish party away from English control after the UK Tories' disastrous General Election result.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The GOP That Failed — As the carnage of World War I widened, Barbara Tuchman recounts in “The Guns of August,” a German leader asked a colleague, “How did it all happen?” — “Ah,” replied the other, “if only one knew.” — A century later, there is no mystery to the carnage that President Donald Trump has wrought.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
How the Party Decided on Trump
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Biden encourages 2012 foe Romney to run for the Senate — At donor conference, Biden also repeats his criticisms of Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid — DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Mitt Romney is getting encouragement to run for Senate in 2018 from an unlikely source: Joe Biden.
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Top Republican trio urges Trump to act on Russia
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
OPINION: The damaging case against James Comey — The testimony of James Comey proved long on atmospherics and short on ethics. While many were riveted by Comey's discussion of his discomfort in meetings with President Trump, most seemed to miss the fact that Comey was describing his own conduct in strikingly unethical terms.
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Reuters:
U.S. joins battle as Philippines takes losses in besieged city — U.S. special forces have joined the battle to crush Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town, officials said on Saturday, as government forces struggled to make headway and 13 marines were killed in intense urban fighting.
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Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Trump's ‘Apprentice’ gamble — ‘The Apprentice’ is about to come front and center in President Donald Trump's jobs plan. — “Infrastructure Week” didn't draw the public's attention away from James Comey. Maybe reviving “The Apprentice” will. — Next week the White House will embark …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The French Are Spinning American Food — Viande Americaine is definitely food, but it isn't American. And so what? — Spring twilight comes late to northern France, and around 9, when we left the Marine Le Pen rally, a hush was settling across the countryside.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
One explanation for McCain's grogginess: a 75,000-mile itinerary as ‘shadow’ diplomat — Maybe this is why Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) seemed a bit groggy during Thursday's high-profile congressional hearing: He had spent the previous week on the other side of the world …
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Christopher Clarey / New York Times:
Jelena Ostapenko, Unseeded Latvian, Rallies to Win French Open — PARIS — Skipping the typical base stations, Jelena Ostapenko powered her way straight to a tennis peak on Saturday, winning her first WTA tour title at the French Open. — Her stunning run in Paris — capped by a riveting 4-6 …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
TRUMP to rollback some of Obama's Cuba policies — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Kellyanne complains about West Wing colleagues — REMEMBERING Zbig Brzezinski — ASHCROFT hired by Qatar — KATY TUR profile - B'DAY: Zeleny — Good Saturday morning. THE BELMONT STAKES is 6:37 p.m. tonight on NBC.
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Republican fundraisers can stomach Trump — if only he'd call — Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney had barely disembarked from the Silver Lake Express lift when the glad-handing and ribbing began in earnest. — “All right, guys, the old man is here,” he whooped to Ron Kaufman, one of his close advisers …
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Foreign payments to Trump's businesses are legally permitted, argues Justice Department — The U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday that President Trump's businesses are legally permitted to accept payments from foreign governments while he is in office, and thus Trump is not in violation …
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Masquerading as Reporter, Assassin Hunted Putin Foes in Ukraine — KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainians have long struggled with fake news from Russia, but last week, they discovered something even more insidious: a fake journalist. — The man was tall and dapper. He wore a dark suit and spoke with a French accent.