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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
National security adviser attempts to reconcile Trump's competing impulses on Afghanistan — In meeting after meeting with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, this spring and summer, President Trump angrily hammered home two questions: — He wanted to know why the U.S. military …
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The Atlantic, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Pacific Standard and Daily Kos
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The Daily Caller:
National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is thwarting President Donald Trump's foreign policy prescriptions, two former senior NSC officials told The Daily Caller News Foundation. — “Everything the president wants to do, McMaster opposes,” a former senior official said in a wide-ranging interview.
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Front Page Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider and BuzzFeed
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
The Real Reason McMaster Let Susan Rice Keep Her Security Clearance
The Real Reason McMaster Let Susan Rice Keep Her Security Clearance
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Vox, ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America, Breitbart, TheBlaze, NBC News and Front Page Magazine
New York Times:
Leak Investigations Triple Under Trump, Sessions Says — Washington — Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday that the Justice Department was now pursuing three times as many leak investigations as the previous administration, a significant devotion of law enforcement resources …
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New York Magazine
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
DOJ warns the media could be targeted in crackdown on leaks
DOJ warns the media could be targeted in crackdown on leaks
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U.S. Department of Justice, Liberty Blitzkrieg, The Washington Journal and The Gateway Pundit
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions Floats Media Subpoenas As Part Of Crackdown On Leaks
Jeff Sessions Floats Media Subpoenas As Part Of Crackdown On Leaks
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, New York Times, IJR, The Root and Politicus USA, more at Mediagazer »
CBS News:
“This culture of leaking must stop,” Sessions says, threatening media subpoenas
“This culture of leaking must stop,” Sessions says, threatening media subpoenas
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USA Today, Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Media Matters for America and Washington Free Beacon
Matt Ferner / HuffPost:
Legal-Weed States Tell Jeff Sessions Their Programs Are Working. He Might Crack Down Anyway.
Legal-Weed States Tell Jeff Sessions Their Programs Are Working. He Might Crack Down Anyway.
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Hit & Run, The Cannabist and Washington Post
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Reality closing in on Trump with grand jury investigation
The Note: Reality closing in on Trump with grand jury investigation
CNN:
Exclusive: FBI tracked ‘fake news’ believed to be from Russia on Election Day — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing “fake news,” CNN has learned.
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Wall Street Journal:
Kelly's Rules for Trump's West Wing: Stop Bickering, Get in Early, Make an Appointment — New Chief of Staff John Kelly moves quickly to bring order and discipline to a West Wing riven by conflict — White House Chief of Staff John Kelly with Donald Trump's son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner at the White House on Thursday.
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
CNN insiders rip Jim Acosta's antics as ‘auditions’ for his own show — Jim Acosta is suddenly one of CNN's most controversial figures even among some of his CNN colleagues, who say his public battles with the Trump administration are going too far. — One of Acosta's colleagues …
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and IJR
New York Times:
Martin Shkreli Is Found Guilty of Fraud — Martin Shkreli, accused of defrauding his hedge fund investors and a pharmaceutical company, was convicted on three of eight counts on Friday, after a five-week trial in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn. — He faces as much as 20 years in prison.
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Mother Jones, Gizmodo and Gothamist
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli found guilty of 3 of 8 charges, including securities fraud — A federal jury found notorious “Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli guilty of multiple criminal charges Friday. — Shkreli, 34, was convicted of some of the eight criminal counts that he had faced …
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of three of eight securities fraud charges
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of three of eight securities fraud charges
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STAT, Raw Story and Boing Boing
David Herzig / Washington Post:
This Trump real estate deal looks awfully like criminal tax fraud — Two tax lawyers break down the president's sale of two condos to his son. … President Trump clearly doesn't want to release his income tax returns to the public. Members of the public and commentators …
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Mediaite
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Jarrett calls grand juries ‘undemocratic farce’ one day after calling for one for Clinton — Former defense attorney and Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett called grand juries an “undemocratic farce” on Thursday, just one day after writing an op-ed asking why a grand jury had not been impaneled …
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Media Matters for America and Fox News
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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Poll: Americans in battleground districts would strongly oppose Trump firing special counsel Robert Mueller
Poll: Americans in battleground districts would strongly oppose Trump firing special counsel Robert Mueller
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Gingrich says Mueller represents ‘deep state’ at worst
Gingrich says Mueller represents ‘deep state’ at worst
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit and USA Politics Today
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Murder conviction in Blackwater case thrown out, other sentences overturned — A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out the first-degree murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard sentenced to life in prison in the killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Court Rejects a Murder Conviction and Voids 3 Sentences in Blackwater Case
Court Rejects a Murder Conviction and Voids 3 Sentences in Blackwater Case
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The Daily Caller
Mike Vilensky / Wall Street Journal:
Cuomo May Face a Primary Hurdle in 2018 — An actress, an upstate mayor and a former state senator are three potential democratic contenders — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a rally in support of the Affordable Care Act and against the Senate replacement bill in July.
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AOL and Washington Free Beacon
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John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Sex and the City’ star considers primary challenge to NY Gov. Cuomo: report
‘Sex and the City’ star considers primary challenge to NY Gov. Cuomo: report
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The Daily Caller
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Ivanka and Jared, move back to New York — After delivering a blistering speech critiquing Donald Trump's performance as president at a recent conference, I was challenged by an audience member to say something nice about our commander in chief. I answered without a second's hesitation.
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The Washington Journal and Althouse
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Maxine Waters Endorses White House Leaks: 'I'm So Glad They're Telling Us What's Going On'
Maxine Waters Endorses White House Leaks: 'I'm So Glad They're Telling Us What's Going On'
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TheBlaze and twitchy.com
Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
COMPLAINT: TRUMP STRATEGIST MAY HAVE IMPROPER PR ARRANGEMENT
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Wasserman Schultz Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From Police Was Awan's, Not Hers — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz never actually saw the computer she fought to block the Capitol Police from examining as evidence in a criminal case against her IT aide by saying it was hers, she told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Thursday.
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TheBlaze, Townhall.com, National Review, Mediaite, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Infowars and RedState
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Scandal That Matters — Democratic IT staff who had access …
The Scandal That Matters — Democratic IT staff who had access …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Power Line and Sun-Sentinel
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Keep the Trump Leaks Coming — The president is too incompetent to serve, and Congress must be pressured into removing him. — Both in content and in context, the official transcripts of Donald Trump's January phone calls with Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull …
Natalya Veselnitskaya / The Moscow Times:
Russian Lawyer Tells State TV She Met Trump Jr. to Ask for ‘Help’ — The Russian lawyer who reportedly met with Donald Trump Jr. to offer him compromising material on Hillary Clinton, told state television she wanted to “ask him for help.” — “It was a private meeting,” …
Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
TRUMP, AMERICA'S BOY KING: GOLF AND TELEVISION WON'T MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN — Now that he's president, Trump frequently departs the White House and spends the weekend golfing at either his South Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, or his country club in the New Jersey suburb of Bedminster.
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The Hill, The Washington Journal, IJR, USA Today, Shakesville, The Gateway Pundit, AOL, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The New Civil Rights Movement
John Harwood / CNBC:
Amid Washington dysfunction, lack of accomplishments, Trumps clings to his shrinking support — As political and legal troubles mount, President Donald Trump holds ever tighter onto a base of support that grows ever smaller. — Trump has placed cultivation of intensity within his base …
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Hunt for Trump dossier author inflames Russia probe — Two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers traveled to London earlier this summer to track down the former British intelligence operative who compiled a controversial dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US created 209,000 jobs in July, vs 183,000 jobs expected — The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3 percent, according to a government report Friday. — The report comes with the economy at a crossroads as President Trump has promised 3 percent economic growth.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Other presidents paused to meet the press before going on vacation — not Trump — Acosta's full exchange with Stephen Miller — President Trump has let almost six months pass without holding a solo press conference. Now he's heading off on a two-week vacation with no immediate plans to meet the press.
BostonGlobe.com:
Forget scenic traditions — Trump vacations in the land of spray tans — WASHINGTON — There's been an unspoken norm among presidents that their vacations are glamorous, or at the very least, scenic. — In election years, they tend to bow more to the masses. But most other years are set aside for mixing with elites.