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Statement from Dean Elmendorf regarding the invitation to Chelsea Manning to be a Visiting Fellow — HOME - NEWS - STATEMENT FROM DEAN ELMENDORF REGARDING THE INVITATION TO CHELSEA MANNING TO BE A VISITING FELLOW — Statement from Douglas W. Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Chelsea Manning's Harvard Fellowship Withdrawn After Criticism — Facing harsh criticism, a Harvard dean said early Friday morning that he was revoking his invitation to Chelsea Manning, a former United States soldier convicted of leaking classified information, to be a visiting fellow at the university.
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Olivia Nuzzi / thecut:
Here's Why Steve Bannon Wears So Many Shirts — Physically, I feel slightly inhibited; but spiritually, I feel oddly secure. This is due to the many shirts I'm wearing as I type — three (3) shirts to be precise — a tank top, a dress shirt, another dress shirt, and on top of that, a blazer.
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Senate Republicans claim they are a few votes away from repealing Obamacare — But they always have been. — The Obamacare repeal drama is back, and everybody is picking up where they left off. — Senate Republicans are trying to build momentum for a last-gasp bill to replace the Affordable Care Act …
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The bizarre, doomed buddy-buddy relationship between Trump and Democrats, explained — Trump wants wins. Democrats think he's a sucker. Eventually this will end in tears. — Something weird has been happening in Washington — President Donald Trump has been palling around with Democrats.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's top supporters are in a full-blown panic. They're right to be afraid.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside Trump's dalliance with Democrats
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Obamacare repeal still tops GOP voters' to-do lists
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BBC:
Parsons Green: London Underground blast is terror incident — An “improvised explosive device” was detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday's rush hour, Scotland Yard has confirmed. — Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives, working with MI5 …
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Joe Watts / The Independent:
Theresa May slaps down Donald Trump over London terror suspect tweet — DWP considering whether to ‘push the button’ on Universal Credit — One of Nasa's most important spacecraft slams into Saturn — Security guard accidentally shoots himself, invents black man to blame
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Theresa May on Trump terror tweet: unhelpful
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London Underground Is Struck by Crude Bomb at Parsons Green
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Sanderscare is all cheap politics and magic math — For years Democrats have (rightfully) hammered Republicans for spouting empty slogans and magic math. — Tax cuts will pay for themselves? Uh-huh, if you say so. Maybe have a chat with Kansas. — Build a wall, and Mexico will pay for it?
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Google Allowed Advertisers To Target “Jewish Parasite,” “Black People Ruin Everything” — Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like “black people ruin neighborhoods,” then allowed the campaign to go live. — Google, the world's biggest advertising platform …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's new world — Over the past week or so, we've heard all kinds of theories from administration officials and President Trump's friends on the outside about why he's cutting deals with “Chuck and Nancy” and softening on his core issue of immigration. — The points we keep hearing:
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Deborah Strange / Gainesville Sun:
GPD receives complaint against ‘hot cop’ — In Facebook posts captured and sent to The Sun, Officer Michael Hamill makes jokes about Jews and recommends “the Hitler way” to deal with people who abuse government resources. — The Gainesville Police Department is reviewing a complaint …
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Itay Hod / The Wrap:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Call for ESPN to Fire Jemele Hill — “She crossed the line and put herself in dubious legal territory,” Democratic Coalition Chairman Jon Cooper says — The Democratic Coalition, an anti-Trump Super PAC, has filed an ethics complaint …
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National Review:
The Chuck and Nancy Amnesty — President Trump had dinner Wednesday night with Chuck and Nancy, as he familiarly calls the Democratic leaders he apparently hopes will become his new governing partners. — Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi left the repast and promptly announced that they had reached …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Mike Pence's press secretary is leaving — Mike Pence's press secretary Marc Lotter is leaving the administration, according to two sources with knowledge of the decision. He plans to become a prominent surrogate for Trump and Pence's political activity on the outside.
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Farmington Hills teacher accused of assaulting 6th-grader who sat during Pledge of Allegiance — Student at East Middle School in Farmington Hills doesn't stand for Pledge — FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - Many NFL players have expressed their beliefs by kneeling for the national anthem before games …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Manafort's spokesman spends 2 and 1/2 hours testifying before grand jury — A spokesman for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Jason Maloni, spent about two-and-a-half hours testifying Friday before a federal grand jury probing potential collusion between the campaign and Russia.
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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
A white security officer told police he was shot by a black man. Turns out, he'd shot himself. — In a dimly lit, wooded area on the southwest side of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn., the handgun Brent Ahlers brought to work discharged. — As a security officer …
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
U.S. Army kills contracts for hundreds of immigrant recruits. Some face deportation. — U.S. Army recruiters have abruptly canceled enlistment contracts for hundreds of foreign-born military recruits since last week, upending their lives and potentially exposing many to deportation …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Loneliest President — “ISOLATED?” read the subject line. — “Friend,” Donald Trump wrote recently to supporters in a fundraising email. “The fake news keeps saying, ‘President Trump is isolated.’ ... They say I'm isolated by lobbyists, corporations, grandstanding politicians, and Hollywood.
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Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Russia Laundering Probe Puts Trump Tower Meeting in New Light — U.S. prosecutors follow funds from alleged $230 million fraud — Criminal probe came as Russian lawyer in matter met Trump Jr. — Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Roald Dahl's Widow Says ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Hero Was Supposed to be Black — The widow and the biographer of the beloved British children's writer Roald Dahl told the BBC in an interview this week that Charlie Bucket, the young boy whose life is changed by a golden ticket in …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Supporters of President Donald Trump are still furious about his decision to work with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on helping to shield undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children from being deported. — Now some Trump fans have taken …
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Judge declines to drop criminal charges against inauguration protesters — A federal judge is declining to dismiss cases for more than 200 people charged with rioting on President Trump's Inauguration Day. — In a decision issued Thursday, Judge Lynn Leibovitz of the District …
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Joseph Bottum / Weekly Standard:
The Joy of Destruction — What explains the sudden mania for toppling statues? — Josh Cobin seems a good enough guy. A little pudgy, maybe, with his hair thinning on top and a beard borrowed from a Civil War officer—one who forgot to get a trim before Mathew Brady showed up to take the battalion photograph.
CNN:
Ex-cop Jason Stockley found not guilty in black man's death — (CNN)A St. Louis judge on Friday found former police officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of black motorist Anthony Lamar Smith. — “This Court, in conscience …
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