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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN severs ties with Jeffrey Lord — CNN severed ties with Jeffrey Lord on Thursday, hours after he ignited controversy by tweeting the words “Sieg Heil!” at a prominent liberal activist. — “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
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Media Matters for America:
CNN's Jeffrey Lord just issued a Nazi victory salute. Really. — CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord tweeted the Nazi victory salute. — On August 10, the American Spectator published an attack piece by Jeffrey Lord against Media Matters. The screed lashed out at what Lord describes as “Media Matters Fascists.”
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Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
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Washington Post
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
MMF'S Angelo Carusone Responds
MMF'S Angelo Carusone Responds
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Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon, IJR and Mediaite
Bloomberg:
With Bank Subpoenas, Mueller Turns Up the Heat on Manafort — Investigators seek account records linked to Trump ex-adviser — Special counsel pressuring Manafort's son-in-law, associates — Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Manafort switching legal team as feds crank up heat on him — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is changing his attorneys as a federal investigation heats up into his financial transactions, according to people familiar with the matter. — Manafort's case will now be handled …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios and The Gateway Pundit
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attorney Calls FBI's Raid on Manafort Home ‘Gross Abuse’
Trump Attorney Calls FBI's Raid on Manafort Home ‘Gross Abuse’
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Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump ‘surprised’ by Manafort raid in Russia probe
Trump ‘surprised’ by Manafort raid in Russia probe
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Political Wire, The Week and Common Dreams
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line — For those worried that President Trump might get into nuclear war with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some solace Wednesday. “Americans should sleep well at night …
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The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Shakesville, Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Reuters, ABC News and Associated Press
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Washington Post:
Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North Korea … BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump escalated his rhetoric about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, threatening here Thursday that “things will happen to them like they never thought possible” should the isolated country attack the United States or its allies.
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late on North Korea
It's Not Too Late on North Korea
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JustOneMinute, Hot Air, RT, Breitbart, Politico, The Guardian, Washington Free Beacon, WND, IJR, USA Politics Today, The Gateway Pundit and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Lindsey Graham On The Crisis On The Korean Peninsula
Senator Lindsey Graham On The Crisis On The Korean Peninsula
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Axios, RT, Political Wire, The Daily Caller, RedState and Hullabaloo
Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
U.S. Ambassador Haley Loses Two Key Aides at United Nations
U.S. Ambassador Haley Loses Two Key Aides at United Nations
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Breaking News USA, Gizmodo, CNBC, Washington Free Beacon and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
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ABC News
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
A Top Trump Adviser Compared The North Korea Situation To The Holocaust
A Top Trump Adviser Compared The North Korea Situation To The Holocaust
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Media Matters for America and Business Insider
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says he is ‘very thankful’ to Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia — BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump said here Thursday that he is “very thankful” to Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats from Russia, because he said it helps him cut the U.S. government's payroll.
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ThinkProgress, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Joe.My.God.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump thanks Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats, dismaying State Department — President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling American diplomats from Russia on the grounds that “we're going to save a lot of money,” prompting dismay among some of the rank-and-file at the State Department.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump thanks Putin for cutting US diplomats: ‘We want to reduce our payroll’
Trump thanks Putin for cutting US diplomats: ‘We want to reduce our payroll’
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ABC News, Axios, Mother Jones and The Week
Washington Post:
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it — Critics of President Trump have repeatedly warned of his potential to undermine American democracy. Among the concerns are his repeated assertions that he would have won …
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Business Insider, The Hill, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, AOL, The Federalist, Right Wing Watch, ThinkProgress, The Week, Outside the Beltway, The New Civil Rights Movement, theGrio, The Moderate Voice, IJR, Common Dreams, The Washington Journal, The Stranger …, Mediaite, Politicus USA, National Review, TheBlaze, Axios, Talking Points Memo, RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog and PBS NewsHour
Foreign Policy:
Here's the Memo That Blew Up the NSC — Fired White House staffer argued “deep state” attacked Trump administration because the president represents a threat to cultural Marxist memes, globalists, and bankers. — The memo at the heart of the latest blowup at the National Security Council paints …
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Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hit & Run and israpundit.org
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails — Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack. — U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled …
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Judicial Watch, CNN, TheBlaze, Infowars, IJR, Shakesville, The Daily Caller, AOL, twitchy.com, Washington Free Beacon, USA Politics Today and RRH Elections
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Judge orders new search for Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails
Judge orders new search for Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails
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RedState
Nathan Heller / Vogue:
Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She's Focusing on Herself — “It's not like I'm living in fear or anything,” Manning says. “I'm so glad to be out and about and walking around.” Here, Manning in a Norma Kamali swimsuit. — Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 2017
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Mashable, KFOR-TV, Sputnik International, Refinery29, The Daily Caller, AOL, twitchy.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, IJR and Mediaite
Bob Dreyfuss / Rolling Stone:
Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing's Phony Foreign-Policy Guru — Gorka's a former Breitbart editor with Islamophobic views and ties to neo-Nazi extremists - and he has the ear of the president — The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC.
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Vacationing Trump tweets “get back to work” to Mitch McConnell — Donald Trump dialed up his criticism of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Twitter Thursday, tweeting from his club in Bedminster, New Jersey: — The backstory: This back-and-forth was sparked by the health-care collapse …
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Why Republicans Didn't Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Why Republicans Didn't Repeal and Replace Obamacare
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CNN, Weekly Standard, The Hill, BuzzFeed and Bloomberg
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump deserves some blame for ObamaCare repeal failure
Gingrich: Trump deserves some blame for ObamaCare repeal failure
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RedState
Michael Whitney / Politico:
The Democratic Party's Looming Fundraising Crisis — Halfway through Year One of the Trump presidency, the Democratic base is energized. Its voters are showing up at rallies, crowding town hall forums, self-organizing into local groups and scaring Republican incumbents …
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IJR, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democratic Fight in California Is a Warning for the National Party
Democratic Fight in California Is a Warning for the National Party
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The Atlantic, Washington Free Beacon and NBC News
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: The chaos behind the scenes of Fox News' now-retracted Seth Rich story — Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing — For more than two months, Fox News has declined to explain the story behind one of its most high-profile journalistic disasters …
Dan Molinski / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Gov. Justice Asks Trump for $4.5 Billion to Save Eastern Coal — Miners in Western states say proposal goes against free market principles — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is asking President Donald Trump to extend his support for the coal industry by providing some $4.5 billion …
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Study: Trump actions trigger health premium hikes for 2018 — https://apnews.com/cc6b335865e24a4b843d c0e2c4cc6c7a — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's own actions are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased …
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CNN:
Trump pick Sam Clovis stoked birther conspiracy, called Eric Holder a ‘racist black’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Sam Clovis, Donald Trump's pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, pushed unfounded theories about then-President Barack Obama's upbringing and called …
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