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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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The Atlantic, Washington Post, NBC News, The Daily Caller, New York Times, Mediaite and Hot Air
WNYW-TV:
Gov. Christie defends going to beach during shutdown
Gov. Christie defends going to beach during shutdown
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Politico and Business Insider
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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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
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Axios Sneak Peek
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Weekly Standard, Al Jazeera English, NPR, TheBlaze, CBS New York and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Axios and Talking Points Memo
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Justice Kennedy tells job applicants he may retire next year: report — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has reportedly told law clerk applicants that he is considering retiring. — NPR reported that Kennedy hired his law clerks for the coming term but has not yet hired law clerks for the term beginning in October 2018.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Kennedy Tells October 2018 Clerkship Applicants He's Considering Retirement, Right Before 2018 Midterms
Justice Kennedy Tells October 2018 Clerkship Applicants He's Considering Retirement, Right Before 2018 Midterms
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New York Magazine, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire and Althouse
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
The best thing Chief Justice Roberts wrote this term wasn't a Supreme Court opinion
The best thing Chief Justice Roberts wrote this term wasn't a Supreme Court opinion
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Power Line
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Top GOP Senate recruit Ann Wagner won't challenge Claire McCaskill — Rep. Ann Wagner has opted against a 2018 Senate bid, choosing re-election to the House over challenging vulnerable Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. — Wagner's surprise move, finalized over the weekend, is a blow to the Republican Party.
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Political Wire
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: ‘Fake News will be forced to discuss’ White House accomplishments — The media that President Donald Trump has so often derided for what he perceives as their unfair coverage of his administration will soon have no choice but to report on the White House's preferred issues, the president wrote online Monday morning.
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Paul Singer / USA Today:
Trump tweets about ‘fake news’ nearly 10 times more often than ‘build the wall’
Trump tweets about ‘fake news’ nearly 10 times more often than ‘build the wall’
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Washington Post, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today, IJR and Business Insider
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
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
PBS poll: 70 percent say civility has dropped since Trump's election
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RedState
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, Axios and The Moderate Voice
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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Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams and The Hill
Lawrence Wright / New Yorker:
America's Future Is Texas — With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state's demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation's bellwether. — When Frederick Law Olmsted passed through Texas, in 1853, he became besotted with the majesty of the Texas legislature.
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
Mark Finkelstein / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
WaPo's Ignatius: Fighters in Syria cheer at mention of Trump name — “One Syrian Kurdish commander used a vulgar term, in Spanish it would be cojones, to describe what President Trump has got and why they like him.” — On a morning when you would have expected the Morning Joe panel …
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Washington Free Beacon
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Hijacked American Presidency — Every now and then we are going to have to do this: Step back from the daily onslaughts of insanity emanating from Donald Trump's parasitic presidency and remind ourselves of the obscenity of it all, registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth.