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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say … North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
US spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat — Despite the United States' insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country's east coast just days ago.
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Haley decries leaks after Trump tweets Fox story — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley lashed out at leaks of classified information in a Fox News story Tuesday morning on North Korean missiles, saying it is “incredibly dangerous” that it was reported, even after President Trump tweeted out the story.
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Bloomberg:
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo — Engineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture” — CEO Pichai said Google employee violated Code of Conduct — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting …
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Sundar Pichai / Google:
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech
Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech
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Jonathan V. Last / Associated Press:
Google Fires the Engineer Who Questioned Diversity
Google Fires the Engineer Who Questioned Diversity
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CNN:
Trump at 200 days: Declining approval amid widespread mistrust — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump's overall approval rating stands at its lowest point in CNN polling, while three-quarters of Americans say they can't trust most of what they hear from the White House.
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
In decisive Rust Belt, Trump's approval is starting to look like Romney's — (CNN)Even as the White House this week firmly insists President Donald Trump is determined to seek a second term, a new analysis of polling data shows that he's caught in a three-way political squeeze in the states …
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
I Found Trump Fan Nicole Mincey and She's Not a Twitter Bot … Even though she's been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey. The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend. The one everyone thinks is a bot.
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Ryan Nobles / CNN:
McConnell criticizes Trump's ‘excessive expectations’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered some of his toughest criticism yet for President Donald Trump in a speech Monday to a Rotary Group in northern Kentucky. — McConnell, who has been relatively measured …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report — WASHINGTON — The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Justice Department reverses position to support Ohio purging inactive voters in high-profile case — The Justice Department has reversed itself in a high-profile voting case in Ohio to side with the state and allow the purging of voters from the rolls for not answering election mail and not voting in recent elections.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It
Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It
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Justin Levitt / electionlawblog.org:
DOJ flips on SCOTUS purge case
DOJ flips on SCOTUS purge case
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Jim Michaels / USA Today:
Trump White House weighs unprecedented plan to privatize much of the war in Afghanistan — The White House is actively considering a bold plan to turn over a big chunk of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to private contractors in an effort to turn the tide in a stalemated war …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster — Donald Trump has scrambled the political spectrum in certain ways, and one of them has been to introduce a new set of players onto the national scene. “Nationalists” or “populists” (as they now call themselves), or the “alt-right” …
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Exclusive First Interview — New RNC Spokeswoman: Whole GOP Needs to Get Behind Trump and Listen to American People — Kayleigh McEnany, formerly of CNN and now the Republican National Committee's new spokeswoman, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday's Breitbart News Daily to stress …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Deep State Teams with Fake News: Email Evidence Proves New York Times Soliciting Anti-Trump Bureaucracy Leakers — Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper's employees …
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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d! — Bill Burr's 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error — The man who wrote the book on password management has a confession to make: He blew it.
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Jason Zengerle / GQ:
What If Mike Pence Becomes President? — Mike Pence—who's quietly launched his own PAC and already begun glad-handing big dollar donors—is shocked (shocked!) by the rumors that he might be laying the groundwork for his own presidency. Fake news, he calls it.
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Pat Robertson Weighs in On Eric Bolling — And It's as Bad as You Think … Occasionally we are reminded that Pat Robertson is still alive. — The televangelist ex-presidential candidate and founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network weighed in last night on the Eric Bolling imbroglio …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart … Higher Income Lower Income … Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using post-tax income. … Many Americans can't remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away.
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David Dayen / New Republic:
The Left's Misguided Debate Over Kamala Harris — My article about a bank's law-breaking during the housing crisis became a political football, obscuring the real issue at hand. — Back in January, after Donald Trump had nominated Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Heller gets GOP primary challenger in Nevada — Danny Tarkanian announced his bid on 'Fox and Friends,"'where he criticized Heller as a ‘Never-Trumper.’ — Danny Tarkanian, the son of a legendary Nevada college basketball coach who has run for office several times, announced Tuesday morning …
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Tarkanian to oppose Heller in Nevada GOP Senate primary
Tarkanian to oppose Heller in Nevada GOP Senate primary
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Kurt Andersen / The Atlantic:
How America Lost Its Mind … When did america become untethered from reality? — I first noticed our national lurch toward fantasy in 2004, after President George W. Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, came up with the remarkable phrase reality-based community.
Matthew Walther / The Week:
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes. Full stop. — Seventy-two years ago this week the United States committed war crimes against the Japanese people on a scale that was previously unimaginable in human history. — It is almost impossible to utter this truism …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Now Starring in the West Wing: Sarah Huckabee Sanders — WASHINGTON — Pickle did not go as planned. — When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly minted White House press secretary, began her first official briefing by reading a child's letter to President Trump — “Everybody calls me Pickle …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders ‘litmus test’ alarms Democrats — House and Senate Democrats have wondered for months whether Bernie Sanders' supporters might choose to focus their energy on launching primary challenges to party moderates in 2018. They're about to get an answer.
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