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Bloomberg:
Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions — Special counsel examines dealings of Kushner, Manafort, Trump — Trump has warned Mueller against going beyond Russia in probe — The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia …
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Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Investigating Possible Money Laundering by Paul Manafort — Probe by Mueller into former Trump campaign manager is part of examination of Russian meddling in election — WASHINGTON—Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating possible money laundering by Paul Manafort …
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg:
Here's the Chain Reaction Trump Could Set Off by Trying to Fire Mueller — Warning on Russia investigation renews speculation of firing — Dismissing Mueller ‘not politically survivable,’ Democrat says — President Donald Trump's interview with the New York Times on Wednesday …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Big Picture
CNN:
Trump's blast of Sessions has ‘chilling’ effect inside West Wing — Trump: ‘I love getting even with people’ (1992) — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)For President Donald Trump, loyalty in Washington is a one-way street. — Trump's trashing of several of his administration's …
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The Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Fox News Insider, Raw Story, Feeds, East Bay Times, The Gateway Pundit and JONATHAN TURLEY
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CNN:
GOP senators dismayed at Trump's criticism of DOJ officials — Sessions: I plan to continue as attorney general — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)A group of Republican senators criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday, a day after the President rebuked top law enforcement officials …
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Politico, Power Line, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, Raw Story, The Hill, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Above the Law, The Root, New York Magazine, CBS New York, Political Wire, The Resurgent, The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly, Shareblue, Daily Wire, IJR, The National Interest, Axios, RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog and Shakesville
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Yeah, Trump Is Probably Going to Fire Robert Mueller
Yeah, Trump Is Probably Going to Fire Robert Mueller
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CNNMoney, Shareblue, Daily Kos, Washington Post and New York Times
Bwittes / Lawfare:
The President vs. Federal Law Enforcement: Trump Attacks Everyone
The President vs. Federal Law Enforcement: Trump Attacks Everyone
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New York Magazine, Washington Post, The Hill, ABC News, CNN, NBC News, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, Salon, First Draft, National Review, AOL, Just Security, IJR and Business Insider
New York Times:
Inspiring Little Fear in Senators, Trump Struggles to Sell Health Bill — WASHINGTON — President Trump thought he could sell balky Republican senators like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on the Senate health care bill through pleasantries, cajoling and, ultimately, some Oval Office muscle.
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MichelleMalkin.com, Take Care Blog, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Politicus USA, The Week and twitchy.com
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans lament an agenda in ‘quicksand’
Republicans lament an agenda in ‘quicksand’
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Vox, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Business Insider, Raw Story, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Talking Points Memo and Axios
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate GOP's latest health care push sputters
Senate GOP's latest health care push sputters
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Vox, ThinkProgress, HuffPost, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Key Trumpcare Holdout Says He's A Yes If Guaranteed A Vote On His Amendment
Key Trumpcare Holdout Says He's A Yes If Guaranteed A Vote On His Amendment
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IJR and Balloon Juice
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Dean Heller is keeping his options open on health care
Dean Heller is keeping his options open on health care
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The Daily Caller
TMZ.com:
Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Dead, Commits Suicide by Hanging (UPDATE) — 12:32 PM PT — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Bennington was home alone at the time of the suicide. We're told his family was out of town and he was found upstairs by an employee.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It … The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it. — The effort, which involves a multi-pronged social media push …
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Vox, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Shakesville, IJR, Daily Kos, Axios and New York Times
CBO's Publications:
H.R. 1628, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017: An Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute — CBO and JCT estimate that enacting this legislation would reduce federal deficits by $420 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to the number under current law.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trumpcare still isn't dead
Trumpcare still isn't dead
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Los Angeles Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Atlantic
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
During ‘Made in America Week,’ President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club applies to hire 70 foreign workers — President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida has asked permission to hire 70 foreign workers this fall, attesting — in the middle of the White House's “Made in America Week” …
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Political Wire
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Jeremy Singer-Vine / BuzzFeed:
More Foreign Workers Requested By Trump's Mar-A-Lago
More Foreign Workers Requested By Trump's Mar-A-Lago
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Mashable and Politicus USA
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Dept. ordered Glacier park chief, other climate expert pulled from Zuckerberg tour — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg flew to Glacier National Park on Saturday to tour the melting ice fields that have become the poster child for climate change's effects on Montana's northern Rockies.
Erin Durkin / New York Daily News:
NYC law that makes dog-sitting illegal without kennel license triggers rage from pet lovers — Pet lovers are barking mad over a little-known city rule that makes dog-sitting illegal in New York. — Health Department rules ban anyone from taking money to care for an animal outside a licensed kennel …
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Hit & Run, Daily Wire, Gothamist and Washington Free Beacon
Washington Post:
Two of six African teens who went missing from robotics competition are in Canada, D.C. police say … Two of the six teenage members of the Burundi robotics team who went missing from Washington this week have crossed into Canada and are safe, D.C. police said on Thursday.
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Axios, NPR and Conservative News Today
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Lucia I. Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Two members of missing Burundi robotics team spotted crossing into Canada, police say
Two members of missing Burundi robotics team spotted crossing into Canada, police say
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New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
Chris Conte / WTVF-TV:
White County Inmates Given Reduced Jail Time If They Get A Vasectomy — Inmates in White County, Tennessee have been given credit for their jail time if they voluntarily agree to have a vasectomy or birth control implant, a popular new program that is being called “unconstitutional” by the ACLU.
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TheBlaze, Business Insider, The Root, Above the Law, The Daily Caller, Fusion and Washington Free Beacon
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Billionaire GOP donor out of politics calls Trump ‘abortion of a human’ — TALLAHASSEE — Billionaire health care mogul and GOP megadonor Mike Fernandez has one message to Republicans who don't stand up to President Donald Trump: Grow a pair. — “All the Republicans who hide behind the flag …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Kamala Harris and Rand Paul: To Shrink Jails, Let's Reform Bail — Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old New Yorker, was arrested on charges of stealing a backpack in 2010. To ensure he would show up for trial, and because of a previous offense, the judge set bail at $3,000. But his family could not afford to pay.
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Hill investigators, Trump staff look to Facebook for critical answers in Russia probe — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Top Democrats on the House and Senate Russia investigations and a top digital staffer from the campaign of President Donald Trump split sharply on whether the campaign colluded with Russia …
Mike Cason / al.com:
Lawyer blasts court ruling allowing abortion for 12-year-old who was raped — Lawyer slams ruling allowing abortion for 12-year-old rape victim — A former state court official and a counselor for pregnant women today criticized an Alabama court ruling allowing a 12-year-old girl who was raped …
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The Montgomery Advertiser, Raw Story, Friendly Atheist, Mediaite and LifeNews.com
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Louise Mensch's Destructive Fantasies — Mensch, a former British MP, is now the purveyor of fantastical conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and Russia. — A few years back, my father and I voluntarily submitted ourselves to an episode of Question Time, a long-running program on the BBC …
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Daily Wire
Samantha Swindler / Oregonian:
IQ costs Oregon parents their kids, but is that fair? (Column) — Gallery: Redmond couple fights for custody of their children — The nursery in Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler's home is filled with unread children's books and unworn baby clothes. A Winnie the Pooh blanket lies untouched inside …
Associated Press:
Cancer isn't silencing McCain in career's latest chapter — John McCain couldn't bring himself to vote for Donald Trump — so he talked about writing in his best friend's name for president. After the election, he's been the leading Senate Republican critic of Trump's posture toward Russia.
Patt Morrison / Los Angeles Times:
Column Bill Nye on the terrifying ascendancy of American ‘dingbatitude’ — From the Emmy-winning “science guy on” the PBS children's television program to the lab-coat crusader who “saves the world” on Netflix, Bill Nye is a longtime science-is-entertaining educator, a onetime mechanical engineer and a perpetual science lover.
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, MichelleMalkin.com, twitchy.com, IJR and Washington Free Beacon
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Is this still off-camera?’ Press mocks Sarah Huckabee Sanders for bringing visual aids to audio-only briefing — White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday befuddled members of the press corps when she shared visual aids at a briefing where video cameras had been banned by the Trump administration.
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Joe.My.God.
John Nolte / Daily Wire:
USA Today Complains About Lack of ‘Women’ and ‘No Lead Actors of Color’ in Movie ‘Dunkirk’ — USA Today's Brian Truitt describes himself as a “shameless geek,” but oddly enough omits the fact that he is also just as shamelessly ignorant when it comes to the signaling of his own CorrectThink virtue.
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Lessons Learned From Roger Ailes One Year After His Fox Firing — On the anniversary of the ouster of the most influential man in conservative politics, who died in May, a legacy is revealed in Trump's anti-media venom, Rupert Murdoch's unrest and a vision that has jumped cable news to become the dominant historical current.
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The Last Refuge, The Daily Caller and AOL
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Christie's last big move could be filling Menendez's seat — Gov. Chris Christie is the most unpopular governor in the country, but in his last days in office he may get to exercise enormous influence nationally: Choosing a successor to embattled U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez …
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Political Wire
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
For House Republicans, Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results — What recent midterms tell us about how members of the presidential party fare — As they dig their trenches to try to withstand what may (or may not be) a Democratic wave, Republicans may take heart in the performance …
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New York Magazine
Jon Sarlin / CNN:
Why not turn the White House cameras on? — With each day cameras at the White House briefing room are banned from filming, the White House is chipping away at decades of tradition. Should networks and journalists ignore the White House's press restrictions?
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Donald Trump said 414 false things in his first six months. Here's what we've learned — Big lies, needless lies, above all else unrelenting lies. With some exceptions, this is not sophisticated deceit. — The totals in this story have been updated to reflect Trump's Wednesday interview with the New York Times.