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NBC News:
Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …
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IJR, The Week, Business Insider, Shareblue, Raw Story, Politicus USA, Axios and Talking Points Memo
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New York Times:
White House Purging Michael Flynn Allies From National Security Council — WASHINGTON — The White House has engaged in a slow-motion purge of hard-line officials at the National Security Council in recent weeks, angering conservatives who complain that the foreign policy establishment …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump stumbles are undercutting executive power, which may be healthy for America long-term
The Daily 202: Trump stumbles are undercutting executive power, which may be healthy for America long-term
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Politico, Los Angeles Times and Sputnik International
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Inside the McMaster-Bannon War
Inside the McMaster-Bannon War
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Washington Post, The Atlantic, Raw Story, McMaster Leaks and The Gateway Pundit
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired — “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes. — Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …
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Politico and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
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CNN:
Scaramucci to hold online event Friday — Scaramucci will be hosting an online event on Friday where he will address the American people directly — (CNN) Anthony Scaramucci wants to tell his own story. — Following his departure from the White House after less than 11 days …
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Business Insider, Political Wire and CNNMoney
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a White House lawsuit — WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory about the fatal shooting …
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The Week, RedState, Raw Story, Business Insider and Snopes.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Confusion, anger inside Fox News over lack of answers in network's Seth Rich probe — Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing — It has been more than two months since Fox News retracted its story about the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich …
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CNN, The Week, Mediaite and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time
A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time
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securingdemocracy.gmfus.org, Reuters, Daily Kos and Rob Portman
New York Times:
Oh, Wait. Maybe It Was Collusion. — Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election? Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
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Raw Story
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CBS News:
Investigators want phone records related to Trump Jr. Russia meeting — Congressional investigators are interested in obtaining phone records pertaining to Donald Trump Jr.'s June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, CBS News has confirmed. — CBS News' Jeff Pegues reports …
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's New Top Aide Assures Sessions His Job Is Safe — New White House chief of staff John Kelly, in one of his first acts in his new post, called Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reassure him that his position was safe despite the recent onslaught of criticism he has taken from President Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Week, Raw Story, Axios, RedState, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire and The Last Tradition
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly cracks down on West Wing back channels to Trump — When new White House chief of staff John Kelly huddled with senior staff on his first day at work, he outlined a key problem in President Donald Trump's White House that he planned to fix: Bad information getting into the president's hands.
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ABC News, Political Wire, Daily Kos, Mashable, Business Insider, IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, AOL, Shakesville and New York Magazine
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Those Calls to Trump? White House Admits They Didn't Happen — WASHINGTON — Has President Trump told you about the time the head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the best speech ever delivered to the more than century-old organization? What about when the president of Mexico picked …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech
Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech
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Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Liberal Values, The Guardian, Political Wire, National Review and Politicus USA
Washington Post:
Trump's war on legal immigration would cripple the economy — PRESIDENT TRUMP says accelerating the United States' economic growth is one of his administration's most cherished goals. On Wednesday, he embraced a legislative overhaul to the immigration system that, if enacted, would make that goal unattainable.
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The Federalist, Tom Cotton and USA Today
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Rebekah Entralg / ThinkProgress:
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
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twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half
Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half
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Washington Examiner, Capitol Confidential, Vox, No More Mister Nice Blog, CityLab, Above the Law, JustOneMinute, Gothamist and Politico
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’
White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’
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Occidental Dissent
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos. Over Investment-For-Visa Program — Records sought from development firm owned by family of White House adviser Jared Kushner — Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner …
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The Hill, CNBC, Raw Story, Axios and Political Wire
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics — VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican's good graces.
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Raw Story
Annie Karni / Politico:
Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …
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Political Wire, The Week, AOL, Axios, Gizmodo, Mashable, Business Insider, twitchy.com, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Ian Cummings / Kansas City Star:
NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri — NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state. — But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …
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myfox8.com, The Root, RedState, Refinery29 and AOL
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Nancy Coleman / CNN:
NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri
NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri
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ThinkProgress, NBC News and IJR
GOLF.com:
PODCAST: The story behind our Trump golf story (and a certain explosive quote) — The real Donald Trump is revealed through his golf game — Of the 7,424 words in Alan Shipnuck's deep dive into President Trump's ties to golf in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, seven words have caused a media frenzy:
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, AOL, Axios, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Townhall.com and Vox
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college. Now he and his brother have been deported. — Family members of the two deported brothers. From left to right: Fatima Claros Saravia, 25, Jonathan Claros Saravia, 29 and their parents Lucia Saravia and Jose Claros Saravia.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Jezebel and ThinkProgress
Grace Rauh / NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm eyes return to Congress — The Staten Island political world is buzzing with talk that a former Republican congressman may want his old job back. NY1 Political Reporter Grace Rauh has that story. — For months now, there has been talk that Michael Grimm would try to get back into politics.
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The Hill and Political Wire
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Border Patrol Ordered To Block Congressmen During Travel Ban … As chaos unfolded at the nation's airports, Trump administration officials issued clear directives: treat lawyers' calls like “protests” and keep duly elected representatives out. — On the chaotic day the Trump administration's …
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Raw Story
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Fearless Conservative Firebrand Laura Loomer Has Car Tires Slashed — Earlier today, Laura Loomer, Rebel Media journalist and former Project Veritas operative, had a tire to her car slashed in what appears to be a pretty clear act of vandalism. — Tweets by LauraLoomer
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Democrats Don't Actually Believe in Democracy — Yeah, we're a republic, but we also have democratic rules, norms, and traditions. Too bad the Democratic Party doesn't believe in them. — Case in point - their bizarre embrace of illegal aliens. Democrats seem to think that foreigners …
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump — Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich took to Periscope to announce that he's doing “a big pivot” away from “being a pro-Trump guy.” Cernovich enthusiastically supported President Donald Trump throughout …