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New Jersey Online:
PHOTOS: Christie, family soak up sun on N.J. beach he closed to public — Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J. — NJ Advance Media for NJ.com — BERKELEY TOWNSHIP — People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend …
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Andrew Mills / New Jersey Online:
The plane truth: How we caught Chris Christie sunbathing on a closed beach — Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J. — amills@njadvancemedia.com, — NJ Advance Media for NJ.com — In my 23 years as a photo journalist …
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Washington Post, NBC News, New York Times, Mediaite and Hot Air
Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Christie spent night with his family in shuttered Island Beach State Park
Christie spent night with his family in shuttered Island Beach State Park
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ABC News, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Bannon pushes tax hike for wealthy — Steve Bannon is causing a stir inside the administration by pushing an idea that's anathema to most Republicans: raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for steep middle and working-class tax cuts. (Some officials who've heard Bannon's idea …
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Washington Post, CNBC, Business Insider, The Week and Mediaite
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How Low Can Taxes Go? Outside Washington, Republicans Find Limits
How Low Can Taxes Go? Outside Washington, Republicans Find Limits
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Axios, Hullabaloo and Laffer Center
Laura Santhanam / PBS NewsHour:
New poll: 70% of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump took office — Americans broadly believe their country's political tone has become less civil since Donald Trump was elected president and that fundamental rights are weakening, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
PBS poll: 70 percent say civility has dropped since Trump's election — A majority of Americans in a new survey thinks civility has gotten worse since President Trump was elected. — A PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll out early Monday found that 70 percent of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump's election.
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RedState
Foreign Policy:
Tillerson Ready to Let Russia Decide Assad's Fate — In talks with the U.N. chief, Tillerson indicates Russia should be in the driver's seat when it comes to the future of Syria. — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres during …
New York Times:
Medicaid Worsens Your Health? That's a Classic Misinterpretation of Research — As a program for low-income Americans, Medicaid requires the poor to pay almost nothing for their health care. Republicans in Congress have made clear that they want to change that equation for many …
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Vox
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Vagina surgery ‘sought by girls as young as nine’ because of pornography, doctors reveal — Girls as young as nine are reportedly seeking surgery on their private parts because of insecurities stemming from adult content such as pornography, according to leading doctors.
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The American Conservative
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker to CNN: ‘You guys are getting played’ … Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) told CNN early Monday that the media is “getting played” by covering President Trump's tweets. — The congressman said the media needs to cover “real issues” instead of Trump's tweets when asked on CNN's …
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Raw Story, ABC News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Axios
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Kushner, Ivanka rub elbows with Dem billionaire Soros at Hamptons party: report — First daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were spotted at a party over the weekend rubbing elbows with billionaire Democratic financier George Soros and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
David Sirota / International Business Times:
Justice Department's Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns, Saying Trump Makes It Impossible To Do Job — One of the Justice Department's top corporate crime watchdogs has resigned, declaring that she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while, she asserts, her own bosses in the Trump administration …
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Common Dreams and The Hill
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Deportation a ‘Death Sentence’ to Adoptees After a Lifetime in the U.S. — SEOUL, South Korea — Phillip Clay was adopted at 8 into an American family in Philadelphia. — Twenty-nine years later, in 2012, after numerous arrests and a struggle with drug addiction, he was deported back to his birth country, South Korea.
New York Times:
Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry — Just over a decade ago, Donald J. Trump was locked in conflict with a group of apartment owners who had taken control of the condominium board at his new glass tower across from the United Nations.
ABC:
Donald Trump tweets ‘juvenile’ fake wrestling video of him beating up CNN — US President Donald Trump has stepped up his feud with the media by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man in a business suit, his face replaced by the CNN logo, outside a wrestling ring.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground
Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground
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