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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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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 …
Discussion: Axios, The Gateway Pundit and The Week
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
McMaster, On ‘Warpath,’ Purges Key Trump Allies From White House NSC
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Haaretz
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump stumbles are undercutting executive power, which may be healthy for America long-term
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals  —  President Trump made building a wall along the southern U.S. border and forcing Mexico to pay for it core pledges of his campaign.  —  But in his first White House call with Mexico's president …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Raw Story
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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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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 …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Spicer savors his last days in the White House  —  Sean Spicer has been floating around the White House since he announced his resignation almost two weeks ago, dipping in and out of his office, attending meetings on tax reform and popping up for public ceremonies like Gen. John Kelly's swearing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump set to embark on 1st vacation since inauguration
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Read the ‘Communications Plan’ Scaramucci wrote to WH staffers
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
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  —  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 …
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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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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:
Associated Press:
Mueller's job would be protected by bipartisan Senate bill  —  WASHINGTON — Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are moving to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job, putting forth legislation that aims to ensure the integrity of current and future independent investigations.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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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Rebekah Entralg / ThinkProgress:
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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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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.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Fearless Conservative Firebrand Laura Loomer Has Car Tires Slashed (Updated)  —  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.
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 …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Keeps His Conservative Movement Allies Closest  —  WASHINGTON — Sometimes he just wants to know how he's doing, like a maître d' checking in after a meal.  “How's this playing?”  President Trump asked Fox News's Sean Hannity over dinner in the private residence of the White House …
 
 
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Iranian general boasts of Quds Force killing U.S. troops in Iraq
Devin Henry / The Hill:
States sue EPA over ozone rule delay
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Dow Jones Newswires:
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Military Times:
Blackwater founder wants to boost the Afghan air war with his private air force
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP clash looms over raising the debt ceiling
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Noga Tarnopolsky / Los Angeles Times:
Relations between Israel and Jordan have become ‘very dangerous’
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Border Patrol Ordered To Block Congressmen During Travel Ban
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Elyssa Cherney / Chicago Tribune:
Arrest warrant issued for Northwestern professor in Near North Side stabbing death
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Dave Mosher / Business Insider:
NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens — and it pays a six-figure salary
Grace Rauh / NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm eyes return to Congress
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James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Remember all those left-wing pundits who drooled over Venezuela?
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump
Dmitry Medvedev / Facebook:
The US President's signing of the package of new sanctions against Russia will have a few consequences.
 

 
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