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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends: Maybe Trump Wall Was ‘Symbolic’ — Fox & Friends took viewers on a trip down gaslight alley on Thursday, with the show hosts scrambling to make sense of the alleged deal between Donald Trump and “Chuck and Nancy” to save DACA and punt the border wall until later.
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John Binder / Breitbart:
Report: Trump Caves on DACA, Wants ‘Quick’ Amnesty for 800K Illegal Aliens — In a meeting with establishment politicians from the Problem Solvers Caucus and the Blue Dog Coalition, President Trump signaled a full-fledged cave on the issue of giving amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens currently protected …
Washington Post:
Trump, top Democrats agree to work on deal to save ‘dreamers’ from deportation — President Trump and top Democratic leaders late Wednesday agreed to work out an agreement that would protect the nation's “dreamers” from deportation and enact border security measures that don't include building …
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Axios:
Trump: “The wall will come later” — Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement responding to President Trump's morning tweets surrounding DACA, agreeing that there was “no final deal” but rather general agreement on the following terms: — Trump will encourage the House …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House: ‘There will be no amnesty’ under Trump — The White House on Thursday said “there will be no amnesty” under President Trump, pushing back against charges he's become “Amnesty Don” in his push to address young immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump's diehard supporters are fuming after an apparent about-face on ‘dreamers’ — Staunch conservative allies of President Trump erupted in anger and incredulity late Wednesday after Democrats announced the president had agreed to pursue a legislative deal that would protect thousands …
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Confirms Support for Law to Protect ‘Dreamers’
Trump Confirms Support for Law to Protect ‘Dreamers’
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
No, Trump isn't trying to do bipartisan tax reform
No, Trump isn't trying to do bipartisan tax reform
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: It's time to abolish the Electoral College — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton told CNN on Wednesday that it is time to abolish the Electoral College, part of a sweeping interview where the former Democratic nominee sought to explain why she lost the 2016 election.
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Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
Weiner's Lawyers Argue Teenager in Sexting Case Targeted Him
Weiner's Lawyers Argue Teenager in Sexting Case Targeted Him
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Anthony Weiner Says His Actions ‘Crushed the Aspirations of My Wife’
Anthony Weiner Says His Actions ‘Crushed the Aspirations of My Wife’
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Hillary Clinton Looks Back in Anger
Hillary Clinton Looks Back in Anger
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Exclusive: Rice told House investigators why she unmasked senior Trump officials — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince …
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Reminder: Susan Rice Lied About Her Role In The Obama Admin Unmasking Scandal — Susan Rice lied. Devin Nunes did not. — On March 22, Rep. Devin Nunes made his ham-fisted disclosure that the Obama administration had conducted incidental surveillance collection and unmasking of Trump administration officials.
UVA Center / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists — Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville
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John B. Judis / New Republic:
Redoing the Electoral Math — I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong. — If any force on Earth could be powerful enough to unite the Democratic Party, you'd have thought the words “President Donald Trump” would do the trick. Instead, Hillary Clinton's defeat …
Eli Hager / New York Times:
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones — Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. candidate in American studies.
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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
Why Didn't Trump Build Anything in Russia? — Thirty years ago, in July 1987, Donald and Ivana Trump flew to the Soviet Union, apparently at the invitation of the Soviet ambassador to the United States, in order to scout locations for a Trump hotel in Moscow. “It was an extraordinary experience,” Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal.
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Russia's War Games With Fake Enemies Cause Real Alarm
Russia's War Games With Fake Enemies Cause Real Alarm
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump ethics watchdog moves to allow anonymous gifts to legal defense funds — The U.S. Office of Government Ethics has quietly reversed its own internal policy prohibiting anonymous donations from lobbyists to White House staffers who have legal defense funds.
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Joe Biden / New York Times:
Reclaiming America's Values — In over 45 years of working in global affairs, I've observed a simple truth: America's ability to lead the world depends not just on the example of our power, but on the power of our example. — American democracy is rooted in the belief that every man …
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Worries About ‘Mass Exodus’ Of Frustrated Members — Following a rash of retirements, House Republican leaders are scrambling to get something done legislatively to convince other frustrated members not to toss in the towel in a tough political environment.
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Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Martin Shkreli jailed after Facebook post about Hillary Clinton — NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday revoked the $5 million bail of Martin Shkreli, the infamous former hedge fund manager convicted of defrauding investors, after prosecutors complained that his out-of-court antics posed a danger to the community.
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Matt Bai / Yahoo:
Is sexism what happened to Hillary? … I took my kids to New York for last November's election, so they could experience the hum of a newsroom and help — color in Yahoo's giant red-and-blue map with chalk. The outcome devastated my 8-year-old daughter. She was excited by the idea of a Hillary Clinton presidency and had
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CBS13 | CBS Sacramento:
Folsom School Warns ‘USA’ Chant Could Send ‘Unintended Message’ — FOLSOM (CBS13) — Controversy erupts at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom over students chanting “USA.” — It's a popular way to for students to show pride during sporting events and rallies, but school and district officials …
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Mike Hirsch / Morning Call:
Updated exclusive: How ‘Game of Thrones’ plans to avoid leaks of season 8's ending — “Game of Thrones” producers will shoot multiple versions of the ending of season eight to try to avoid leaks. That's according to HBO's president of programming. — Of The Morning Call
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Trump Says Jump. His Supporters Ask, How High? — In the Trump era, Republicans have been revising their views on right and wrong. — In 2011, the Public Religion Research Institute asked voters if — White evangelical Protestants were the least forgiving.
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Billionaire Diller's Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead — Diller Island is dead. — After years of toe-to-toe battling with a small band of critics and a fellow billionaire, Barry Diller said Wednesday that he was pulling the plug on his family's commitment to build and operate …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The Latest (Dim, Distant) Hope for Health-Care Reform — Three senators probably can't get enough fellow Republicans to support their bill, even though it has some ideas worth attempting. — Health-care reform is like one of those ill people in a Victorian novel.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Anthony Scaramucci wants paternity test for newborn son — MORE FROM: … Anthony Scaramucci's divorce is turning nasty, because he believes the newborn son whose birth he missed during his historically-brief tenure in the White House is not his - and he is demanding a paternity test.
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Fear itself: Donald Trump's real immigration policy — It's not mass deportation. It's not self-deportation. It's something cheaper, and more insidious. — The president tells immigrants currently protected from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program not to worry.
Mikaela Lefrak / The Atlantic:
The David Carr Generation — At the time of his death in early 2015, David Carr was a prominent media columnist for The New York Times. He edited the alt-weekly Washington City Paper in the mid-1990s, where he cultivated some of the great journalistic talent of our day.