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Fox News:
Steve Scalise shot in Virginia, aide also hit — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in the hip and at least one other aide was also hit in the chest by a gunman with a rifle who opened fire at a baseball practice in Virginia Wednesday morning, Fox News confirmed.
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CNN:
Rep. Scalise shot in Virginia — Rep. Brooks: Scalise crawled with trail of blood — Washington (CNN)Rep. Steve Scalise was shot Wednesday morning in Alexandria, Virginia, a House colleague told CNN, in what sources are calling an apparent “deliberate attack.”
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scalise among wounded in shooting at congressional baseball game practice field — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is in stable condition after being shot early Wednesday at a baseball practice field in a Washington D.C. suburb, according to multiple reports. — Sen. Rand Paul
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Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Member of Congress Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field in Virginia — Steve Scalise, the majority whip of the House of Representatives, was shot at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., when a gunman opened fire at field near a Y.M.C.A., a congressional official said on Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
Gunman fires on Alexandria park during GOP baseball practice; lawmaker Scalise among wounded — A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning on a baseball practice at a park in Alexandria involving Republican members of Congress, possibly injuring several including at least one lawmaker …
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Talking Points Memo and Death and Taxes
New York Times:
Trump Pondered Firing Mueller; His Aides Pushed Back — WASHINGTON — Last month's appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia enraged President Trump. Yet, at least initially, he holstered his Twitter finger and publicly said nothing.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Will Trump fire Mueller? A friend says maybe — but Washington warns against it.
Will Trump fire Mueller? A friend says maybe — but Washington warns against it.
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ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Chicago Tribune, TheBlaze and Mediaite
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Congressional Democrats to file emoluments lawsuit against Trump — Nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress agreed to file a lawsuit Wednesday against President Trump alleging that by retaining interests in a global business empire he has violated constitutional restrictions on taking gifts and benefits from foreign leaders.
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USA Today:
Trump property buyers make clear shift to secretive LLCs — Since President Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies' real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers' identities, a USA TODAY investigation has found.
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The Hill, The Week, Death and Taxes and Raw Story
Steve Reilly / USA Today:
Democrats in Congress suing Trump, citing conflicts
Democrats in Congress suing Trump, citing conflicts
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Political Wire
Alan Fram / AP News:
AP sources: Trump tells senators House health bill ‘mean’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told Republican senators Tuesday that the House-passed health care bill he helped revive is “mean” and urged them to craft a version that is “more generous,” congressional sources said.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump knocks House health care bill as too harsh
Trump knocks House health care bill as too harsh
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Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Mortification of Jeff Sessions — The appearance of Jeff Sessions before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday didn't bring us much closer to understanding what did or didn't happen between Donald Trump and the Russians, or what the president has or hasn't done to cover it up.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
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Yvette Cabrera / ThinkProgress:
Sessions accused of impeding investigation by refusing to answer questions
Sessions accused of impeding investigation by refusing to answer questions
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Washington Monthly, Politicus USA and YouTube
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Sessions's testimony highlights Trump's deep lack of interest in what Russia did in 2016
Sessions's testimony highlights Trump's deep lack of interest in what Russia did in 2016
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Power Line
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Jeff Sessions takes the gloves off
Daily Mail:
London fire: 6 confirmed dead after Grenfell Tower blaze — A woman with six children who was attempting to escape from the 21st floor of the London tower block fire this morning got to the bottom to discover two of them were missing, it has been claimed. — Dozens of horrific eyewitness accounts …
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The Guardian:
London fire: six dead, 20 in critical care after tower block blaze - latest updates
London fire: six dead, 20 in critical care after tower block blaze - latest updates
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BBC:
London fire: Six killed as Grenfell Tower engulfed
London fire: Six killed as Grenfell Tower engulfed
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The Atlantic, The Week, ABC News, New York Magazine and Refinery29
Danny Boyle / Telegraph:
Live London fire latest: At least six die in Grenfell Tower blaze but death toll expected to rise
Live London fire latest: At least six die in Grenfell Tower blaze but death toll expected to rise
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New York Times and NPR
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sessions could earn a ticket to the grand jury — Dems smell blood, but it's not necessarily Jeff Sessions'. The attorney general held his own at his high-stakes Senate hearing, at one point raising his voice to declare he was “not stonewalling,” and resented the “secret innuendo being leaked out there about me.”
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Political Wire
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Few Thoughts on the Sessions' Hearing
A Few Thoughts on the Sessions' Hearing
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Washington Post, The Mahablog and Washington Monthly
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark — SAN FRANCISCO — David Bonderman, an Uber board member and partner at private equity firm TPG, is resigning from the board of the ride-hailing company after he made a disparaging remark about women at an Uber meeting on Tuesday …
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Yahoo! Finance:
LEAKED AUDIO: Uber's all-hands meeting had some uncomfortable moments — Uber held an all-hands meeting on Tuesday, during which the board announced that CEO — Travis Kalanick would take a leave of absence. Furthermore, management shared — recommendations from the law firm Covington & Burling …
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Recode, Language Log, BuzzFeed, WIRED UK, The Guardian, The Verge, The Week, New York Magazine and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
NBC holding crisis meetings over Megyn Kelly … As families of the Sandy Hook victims continue to pressure NBC to ax Megyn Kelly's Sunday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the network has been holding crisis meetings about how to handle the backlash.
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Mediaite, Daily Wire, Raw Story and The Week
New York Times:
Live Election Results: Virginia Primaries — Ralph S. Northam, the current lieutenant governor has won the Democratic primary to replace Gov. Terry McAuliffe. He defeated Tom Perriello, a former congressman who counts Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as big-name backers.
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Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
Northam wins Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia
Northam wins Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia
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Daily Kos, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
A Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party in Virginia
A Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party in Virginia
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Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
How Democrats Can Stop Losing Elections — In 2016, the Democratic Party lost the presidency to possibly the least popular candidate in American history. In recent years, Democrats have also lost the Senate and House to right-wing Republicans whose extremist agenda is far removed from where most Americans are politically.
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The Washington Journal, Instapundit and Washington Free Beacon
Vice:
Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Because of Climate Change — Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? — A multi-million dollar study on the impact of climate change which was set to take place in the Hudson's Bay had to be cancelled due to, you guessed it, climate change.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and LewRockwell
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