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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Anthony Scaramucci's wife files for divorce — MORE FROM: … Anthony Scaramucci, the White House's potty-mouthed new communications director, has been dumped by his beautiful blond wife because of his “naked political ambition,” multiple sources exclusively tell Page Six.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump “loved” Scaramucci's quotes — but he hates being upstaged — Top Republicans tell us that yesterday may have been an inflection point in the West Wing meltdown — that if behavior like this continues, apparently sanctioned by the President, people will finally leave.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Why Anthony Scaramucci's Rant Probably Ticked Off the FBI … In his immediately infamous phone call to a New Yorker staff writer, Anthony Scaramucci didn't just say the White House chief of staff was a “f-king paranoid schizophrenic” or accuse the president's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, of engaging in autofellatio.
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New York Times:
Reince Priebus Pushed Out After Rocky Tenure as Trump Chief of Staff — WASHINGTON — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff who failed to impose order on a chaos-wracked West Wing, was pushed out on Friday after a stormy six-month tenure, and President Trump replaced him with John F. Kelly …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump says he wants a ‘general’ to replace Priebus: report — President Trump has said privately that he wants to appoint “a general” to replace White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, The New York Times reports. — The president, the Times reported on Thursday, has so far focused …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's hardball tactics backfire as ‘skinny repeal’ goes down — THE BIG IDEA: President Trump's attacks on Republican senators are finally catching up with him, and Lisa Murkowski will not be bullied. — A last-ditch effort to keep the Obamacare repeal effort alive went …
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Vicky Ward / HuffPost:
Here's The Real Reason Anthony Scaramucci Hates Reince Priebus
Here's The Real Reason Anthony Scaramucci Hates Reince Priebus
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The Onion:
Onion Fact Checks: Anthony Scaramucci's ‘New Yorker’ Interview
Onion Fact Checks: Anthony Scaramucci's ‘New Yorker’ Interview
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Anthony Scaramucci's Empty Feud With Reince Priebus
Anthony Scaramucci's Empty Feud With Reince Priebus
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mooch to lower profile after New Yorker fracas
Mooch to lower profile after New Yorker fracas
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The night John McCain killed the GOP's health-care fight — It was the most dramatic night in the United States Senate in recent history. Just ask the senators who witnessed it. — A seven-year quest to undo the Affordable Care Act collapsed — at least for now — as Sen. John McCain …
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
John McCain saved Republicans from themselves
John McCain saved Republicans from themselves
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Alexia Fernández Campbell / Vox:
What McCain did was hard. What Murkowski and Collins did was much harder.
What McCain did was hard. What Murkowski and Collins did was much harder.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Taking Stock Of Trumpcare's Epic Collapse
Taking Stock Of Trumpcare's Epic Collapse
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New York Times:
Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No
Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No
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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Kellyanne Conway calls GOP who voted against repeal “Loch Ness monsters of the swamp”
Kellyanne Conway calls GOP who voted against repeal “Loch Ness monsters of the swamp”
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Gary Martin / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Obamacare repeal bill dies in Senate; McCain votes ‘no’
Obamacare repeal bill dies in Senate; McCain votes ‘no’
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BuzzFeed:
Part Four: The Secrets Of The Spy In The Bag — Vladimir Putin's former media czar was murdered in Washington, DC on the eve of a planned meeting with the U.S. Justice Department, according to two FBI agents whose assertions cast new doubts on the US government's official explanation of his death.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Republicans despair after health care collapse — Speaker Paul Ryan had none of his Eagle Scout-like optimism. — At a closed-door conference meeting with House Republicans hours after Sen. John McCain scuttled perhaps the last best hope of repealing Obamacare, Ryan read an excerpt from …
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Mark Meadows: New healthcare bill is coming ‘that can get to 51’ — Rep. Mark Meadows, a key negotiator in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, said a new effort is underway to write a bill that can pass the Senate that would include proposals offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz, and Rob Portman.
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump just delivered the most chilling speech of his presidency — The president of the United States is explicitly encouraging police violence. — In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the United States delivered a clear and chilling message …
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Dan Lieberman / CNN:
MS-13 members: Trump makes the gang stronger
MS-13 members: Trump makes the gang stronger
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor — Half his tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn. — The president's primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider.
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John Delaney / Washington Post:
Why I'm running for president — John Delaney, a Democrat, represents Maryland's 6th Congressional District in the House. — The American people are far greater than the sum of our political parties. It is time for us to rise above our broken politics and renew the spirit that enabled us to achieve the seemingly impossible.
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Daniel Hoffman / New York Times:
The Russians Were Involved. But It Wasn't About Collusion. — Russians are fond of a proverb, “besplatniy sir biyvaet tol'ko v mishelovke”: “Free cheese can be found only in a mousetrap.” — Having long considered the United States its main enemy, the Kremlin deploys a full quiver …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Seizes 2 U.S. Properties and Orders Embassy to Cut Staff
Russia Seizes 2 U.S. Properties and Orders Embassy to Cut Staff
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Democrats want to know who's behind Trump dossier — There's been a stark partisan divide over the Trump dossier — the collection of “salacious and unverified” allegations about Donald Trump (the words are former FBI Director James Comey's) that was reportedly gathered by Trump's opponents …
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Who Paid for the ‘Trump Dossier’?
Sally Q. Yates / New York Times:
Sally Yates: Protect the Justice Department From President Trump — The spectacle of President Trump's now daily efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country. But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' relationship …
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New York Post:
Couple jump to their deaths because they 'can't afford' health care — A couple jumped to their death in Murray Hill early Friday. — Seth Gottfried — Manhattan parents struggling to pay their doctor's bills jumped to their deaths early Friday - leaving double suicide notes pleading …
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Endorses Police Brutality In Speech To Cops — The president said law enforcement officers shouldn't protect suspects' heads when putting them into police cars. — WASHINGTON President Donald Trump received applause on Friday when he endorsed police brutality while delivering …
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USA Today:
Russia probe could reveal Trump's closest-held secrets — Since Election Day, President Trump's businesses have sold at least 30 luxury condos and oceanfront lots for about $33 million. That includes millions of dollars in properties to secretive shell companies, which can hide the identities …
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Bjorn Lomborg / Wall Street Journal:
Al Gore's Climate Sequel Misses a Few Inconvenient Facts — Eleven years after his first climate-change film, he's still trying to scare you into saving the world. — They say the sequel is always worse than the original, but Al Gore's first film set the bar pretty low.
Daily Mail:
‘Our beautiful boy has gone’: Little Charlie Gard's parents announce that their brave warrior whose plight touched the world has finally died after battling devastating genetic illness he fought for so long — Charlie's parents had fought a lengthy legal battle to take their severely ill baby son to the US for treatment
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Police cheer Trump after jab at mayors who don't let them do their jobs — President Trump drew a round of applause from law enforcement officials on Friday after he took a swipe at mayors who don't let police “do their job.” — “I've met police that are great police that aren't allowed …
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