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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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Alex Jones Megyn Kelly Full Interview Leaked
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly interview completely overhauled after backlash
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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
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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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump allies on the offensive against Mueller — President Trump's legal team and political allies have launched a preemptive strike against special counsel Robert Mueller. — Trump's backers are furious about a story that appeared Wednesday in The Washington Post, in which five anonymous sources alleged …
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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 …
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Special counsel is investigating Jared Kushner's business dealings
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
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’
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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 …
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
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal valued at $13.7 billion
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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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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.
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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Barney Henderson / Telegraph:
Live Grenfell Tower: Angry protesters gather at site of tragedy and crowd marches on Downing Street
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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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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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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump announces revisions to parts of Obama's Cuba policy — MIAMI — President Trump announced a new policy toward Cuba Friday that seeks to prohibit commercial dealings that benefit the Castro regime and somewhat limits the freedom of U.S. citizens to travel to the island …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Who in the White House Will Turn Against Donald Trump? — The yearning in the character of Donald Trump for dominance and praise is bottomless, a hunger that is never satisfied. Last week, the President gathered his Cabinet for a meeting with no other purpose than to praise him …
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 …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, hires his own lawyer in Russia probe — MIAMI — Michael Cohen, who for years has served as President Trump's personal attorney, has hired a lawyer of his own to help him navigate the expanding Russia investigation. — Cohen confirmed Friday …
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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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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Ted Nugent: 'I'm Not Going To Engage In Hateful Rhetoric Anymore' — “We have got to be more respectful to the other side.” — Conservative rocker Ted Nugent, who has a history of inflammatory remarks, vowed Thursday to tone down his act and called for civility on both sides of the political aisle.
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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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