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Harvard Kennedy School:
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Chelsea Manning's Fellowship Withdrawn by Harvard After Criticism — Facing harsh criticism, a Harvard dean said early Friday morning that he was revoking his invitation to Chelsea Manning, a former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.
Andrew Degrandpre / Washington Post:
Harvard dean rescinds Chelsea Manning's visiting fellow invitation, calling it a ‘mistake’ — Harvard's Kennedy School of Government rescinded a visiting fellowship offered to Chelsea Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who spent seven years in prison for leaking classified government secrets …
New York Times:
Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment — WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside Trump's dalliance with Democrats — After months of hammering Republicans over their failure to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump huddled this week with moderate House Democrats and Republicans who were trying to sell him on a fix to the health care law.
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Democrats Dare to Trust Trump on DACA
Democrats Dare to Trust Trump on DACA
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Washington Post, Shareblue and Common Dreams
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats cling to the impossible: Winning the Senate in 2018
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP feels betrayed by Trump's dealmaking with Dems
GOP feels betrayed by Trump's dealmaking with Dems
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Weekly Standard, Balloon Juice, Axios, Booman Tribune and Washington Monthly
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Amnesty Deal Would Be a Huge Win for Trump Foes
Amnesty Deal Would Be a Huge Win for Trump Foes
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Fox News, Salon, Conservative News Today, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
ProPublica:
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ — Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you. — Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world's largest social …
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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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Axios, Politico, Fox News, CNBC, The Week, Conservative News Today, The Daily Caller, NPR, NBC News, Associated Press, CBS New York, Scared Monkeys and IJR
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New York Times:
London Underground Is Struck by Crude Bomb at Parsons Green
London Underground Is Struck by Crude Bomb at Parsons Green
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff — How rudderless is the Democratic Party? Its membership is so bereft of leadership and policy direction that 16 of its senators have signed on to a health care bill sponsored by a self-avowed independent democratic socialist from Vermont.
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Vox, Washington Post, Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and New York Times
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Medicaid for All Would ‘Bankrupt the Nation,’ Warns Bernie Sanders—In 1987
Medicaid for All Would ‘Bankrupt the Nation,’ Warns Bernie Sanders—In 1987
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Power Line, Washington Free Beacon, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, Daily Wire, NTK Network and The Daily Caller
Russell Goldman / New York Times:
North Korea Launches Another Missile, Escalating Crisis — HONG KONG — North Korea fired a missile off its east coast on Friday, the South Korean military said. — It was the 15th such test this year and the first since North Korea detonated its most powerful nuclear bomb to date.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Resurrects His Claim That Both Sides Share Blame in Charlottesville Violence — WASHINGTON — President Trump thrust himself back into the racial storms of Charlottesville on Thursday, repeating his charge that those resisting the neo-Nazis and white supremacists were as much to blame …
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WDIV-TV:
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 …
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
The Cassini spacecraft just crashed into Saturn — PASADENA, Calif. — NASA scientists just received their last-ever message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning. Those final bits of data signal the end of one of the most successful planetary science missions in history.
Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Charlottesville protests a ‘setup’ — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said leftists convinced Civil War re-enactors to protest the removal of a civil war statue and pretend to be white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., last month.
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
The pro-Russia, pro-weed, pro-Assange GOP congressman who will be tough to beat
The pro-Russia, pro-weed, pro-Assange GOP congressman who will be tough to beat
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The Guardian, Politicus USA and Mother Jones
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
California legislature passes bill requiring presidential candidates to release tax returns — The California State Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would require all presidential candidates to release their tax returns prior to being placed on the state's ballot.
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Splinter and Politicus USA
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:
BBC:
Fanged creature found on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey — A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified. — Preeti Desai found the decaying fish on a beach in Texas City, and asked Twitter for help.
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
History Greenlights Bill Clinton Impeachment Drama ‘The Breach’ — History has ordered a six-episode scripted drama that will explore the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the network announced Thursday. — The series will be based on the book “The Breach: Inside the Impeachment …
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Political Wire and Deadline
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.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Daily Caller reporter renounces racist, misogynistic writings — Back in 2010, some blogger wanted to vent about something. “Small towns like the one I'm from in Texas have a fat girl problem. The scent of cheap perfume, sweat, grease ... forms a troposphere-like force field surrounding …
Nicola Slawson / The Guardian:
FT journalist presumed dead after being ‘dragged into water by crocodile’ — Man, named as Paul McClean, had been taking surfing lessons in Sri Lanka, when witnesses say he was pulled into the lagoon after washing his hands … A British tourist is missing after witnesses saw him being dragged …
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USA Today:
'For first time in 300 years, there's not a single living person on the island of Barbuda' — Barbuda has been left completely devastated by Hurricane Irma. An estimated 95% of Barbuda's structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump condemns Rice's unmasking: ‘What she did was wrong’ — President Trump ripped former national security adviser Susan Rice on Thursday for unmasking the names of his top aides in an intelligence report. — “She's not supposed to be doing that, and what she did was wrong,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
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Los Angeles Times, Conservative News Today, RT, ThinkProgress and Taylor Marsh
Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host — At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening, just three hours after the White House encouraged ESPN to fire her, Jemele Hill sat next to her co-host Michael Smith on the set of their daily SportsCenter show and …
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