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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Alex Jones Scoops Megyn Kelly And Proves The Media Isn't Ready For The Trolls — Thursday evening, Alex Jones dropped a bomb on Twitter. After a week of roiling controversy surrounding the conspiracy theorist's upcoming interview with Megyn Kelly, Jones announced a plan to take the interview into his own hands and scoop NBC.
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Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
Megyn Kelly Exposed by Alex Jones in Leaked Audio Recordings … Alex Jones, the conspiracy-theorizing host of the Infowars website whose controversial interview with NBC's Megyn Kelly is set to air Sunday night, has fallen back to the argument of every disgruntled interviewee: “They took me out of context.”
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Alex Jones releases more secretly taped Megyn Kelly audio; NBC responds — Alex Jones released more pre-interview audio of Megyn Kelly late Thursday night and early Friday that includes the NBC News host saying Jones “became very fascinating” to her while separately assuring him the interview won't be “some kind of gotcha piece.”
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YouTube:
Alex Jones Megyn Kelly Full Interview Leaked
Alex Jones Megyn Kelly Full Interview Leaked
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly interview completely overhauled after backlash
Megyn Kelly interview completely overhauled after backlash
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump appears to confirm obstruction investigation, attack Rosenstein in morning tweet rant — President Trump fired off tweets Friday morning attacking the special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and apparently, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Special counsel is investigating Jared Kushner's business dealings — Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller is investigating the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, as part of the probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election …
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CNN:
Robert Mueller expands special counsel office, hires 13 lawyers — (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought 13 lawyers on board to handle the Russia investigation, with plans to hire more, according to his spokesman Peter Carr. — Mueller has assembled a high-powered team …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Mueller hires more than a dozen lawyers for Russia probe, plans to hire more
Mueller hires more than a dozen lawyers for Russia probe, plans to hire more
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller's staff grows to 13, with ‘several more in the pipeline’
Mueller's staff grows to 13, with ‘several more in the pipeline’
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
How Autocratic Is He? — Masha Gessen on whether Trump …
How Autocratic Is He? — Masha Gessen on whether Trump …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides fret over Trump's Russia probe obsession
White House aides fret over Trump's Russia probe obsession
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
We asked 8 Senate Republicans to explain what their health bill is trying to do — Senate Republicans can't answer simple and critical questions about the health care bill they're crafting in secret. — Some still can't say what it's trying to do — other than garner enough votes to pass the Senate …
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Los Angeles Times:
Republican secrecy faces mounting criticism as GOP senators work behind closed doors to repeal Obamacare — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), speaking here to reporters, is facing increasing criticism that GOP leaders are developing their Obamacare repeal in secret. (Getty Images)
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Senate likely to miss its Obamacare repeal deadline — Senate Republicans are getting dangerously close to missing their deadline to hold a Senate health care vote by month's end, potentially derailing fulfillment of their 7-year-old campaign promise to repeal Obamacare.
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Mitch McConnell is crippling The Resistance with his secret health care bill
Mitch McConnell is crippling The Resistance with his secret health care bill
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acknowledges he may need to recuse himself from Russia probe, sources say — The senior Justice Department official with ultimate authority over the special counsel's probe of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election has privately acknowledged …
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Kenneth W. Starr / Washington Post:
Firing Mueller would be an insult to the Founding Fathers
Firing Mueller would be an insult to the Founding Fathers
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Greg B. Smith / New York Daily News:
President Trump chooses inexperienced woman who planned his son Eric's wedding to run N.Y. federal housing programs — She's arranged tournaments at Trump golf courses, served as the liaison to the Trump family during his presidential campaign, and even arranged Eric Trump's wedding.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise — WASHINGTON — President Trump has officially reversed his campaign pledge to deport the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children. — The Department of Homeland …
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Department of Homeland Security:
Frequently Asked Questions: Rescission of Memorandum Providing for Deferred Action for Parents …
Frequently Asked Questions: Rescission of Memorandum Providing for Deferred Action for Parents …
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Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
White House says no determination yet on ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
White House says no determination yet on ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
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Business Wire:
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods Market — Whole Foods Market ranked #28 and Amazon ranked #2 on Fortune's 2017 list of World's Most Admired Companies — SEATTLE & AUSTIN, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFM) today announced that they have entered …
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Bloomberg:
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP sirens blare over Georgia special election — The GOP is bracing for the prospect of a loss in Tuesday's Georgia's special election that could have far-reaching implications for President Donald Trump and his party's fortunes in 2018. — As grim confidential polling data circulates …
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Man on a Wire: Mike Pence's Tightrope Act — Right around the time Donald Trump was boarding Air Force One en route to Saudi Arabia, soon to escape a capital city obsessed with investigations into his campaign's ties with Russia and the firing of FBI Director James Comey …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Pence's balancing act as Trump's No. 2 shows signs of strain amid WH turmoil
Pence's balancing act as Trump's No. 2 shows signs of strain amid WH turmoil
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Nicole Chavez / CNN:
The escape — The two men got onto a correctional bus as prisoners but became fugitives shortly before sunrise. — Rowe, 43, and Dubose, 24, along with 31 other prisoners were headed to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, some 45 miles west of Eatonton, which is about half way between Atlanta and Augusta.
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BuzzFeed:
From Russia With Blood — Lavish London mansions. A hand-painted Rolls-Royce. And eight dead friends. For the British fixer Scot Young, working for Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic meant stunning perks - but also constant danger. His gruesome death is one of 14 that US spy agencies …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Beware of Blaming Government for London Tower Fire — Perhaps safety rules could have saved some residents. But at what cost to others' lives? There's always a trade-off. — A few days ago fire swept through Grenfell Tower, a large apartment building in London.
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Leana Wen / New York Times:
What Bullets Do to Bodies — BALTIMORE — It was just after midnight when the call came in. “Fifteen-year old male, single G.S.W.” — gun shot wound — “to the abdomen,” I heard over the loudspeaker. “Stable vitals.” — Earlier that night, we had treated another young man who had been shot in the abdomen.
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Rasmussen Reports:
in Politics — The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump's job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. — This is the first time the president's overall approval rating has hit the 50% mark since late April.
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CNN:
Judge finds Michelle Carter guilty of manslaughter in texting suicide case — (CNN)In a case that hinged largely on a teenage couple's intimate text messages, Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the 2014 death of her boyfriend, who poisoned himself …
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New York Times:
Trump Transition Team Orders Former Aides to Preserve Russia-Related Materials — WASHINGTON — Members of President Trump's transition team were ordered on Thursday to preserve documents and other materials related to the investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election …
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