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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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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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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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Mike Cernovich:
Exclusive — Scaramucci Memo Showed Content Focused Vision for White House Communications Team — “An effective Comms shop will dictate the news of the day on most days,” former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci wrote in a rough draft of a memo sent to Cernovich Media.
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo — A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics …
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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 …
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Inside the McMaster-Bannon War
Inside the McMaster-Bannon War
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Shane Savitsky / Axios:
McMaster reshuffles National Security Council
McMaster reshuffles National Security Council
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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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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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Bloomberg:
Trump Is Considering Perry for Homeland Security Chief
Trump Is Considering Perry for Homeland Security Chief
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Mike Allen / Axios:
John Kelly closes the Oval Office door
John Kelly closes the Oval Office door
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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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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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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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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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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Confusion, anger inside Fox News over lack of answers in network's Seth Rich probe
Confusion, anger inside Fox News over lack of answers in network's Seth Rich probe
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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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’ in bizarre exchange — White House senior adviser Stephen Miller smiled as he volunteered to “take one actual last question” at Wednesday's news briefing, before press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to the podium.
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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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Rebekah Entralgo / 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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Garet Williams / Vox:
Stephen Miller couldn't defend a new immigration bill without demeaning the press
Stephen Miller couldn't defend a new immigration bill without demeaning the press
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Politico and No More Mister Nice Blog
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 White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” — Today, I signed into law the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” which enacts new sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Dmitry Medvedev / Facebook:
The US President's signing of the package of new sanctions against Russia will have a few consequences.
The US President's signing of the package of new sanctions against Russia will have a few consequences.
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump signs what he calls ‘seriously flawed’ bill imposing new sanctions on Russia
Trump signs what he calls ‘seriously flawed’ bill imposing new sanctions on Russia
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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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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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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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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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Political Wire
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Has Launched A “Real News” Program On His Facebook, Hosted By His Daughter-In-Law — In one video, Lara Trump said she'd be back every week to provide updates on the president's accomplishments. — After months of denigrating the media as fake news, President Trump has launched …
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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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CNN:
Trump nominee Sam Clovis blasted progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’ in old blog posts — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of …
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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 …
Drew Johnson / National Center …:
Al Gore's Inconvenient Reality: The Former Vice President's Home Energy Use Surges up to 34 Times the National Average Despite Costly Green Renovations — Introduction — In February 2007, the day after his panicky global warming film “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Academy Award for best documentary …
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