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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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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Sessions receives message of support from Trump after new report of past turmoil — (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions received a message of support from President Donald Trump after The New York Times published an article Thursday recounting a heated exchange between the two in May, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP feels betrayed by Trump's dealmaking with Dems — Donald Trump's latest fling with Democrats has plunged the Republican Party into a state of confusion and outrage that far surpasses the frustration with his debt ceiling deal with the minority last week.
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Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Paul Ryan Rejects Trump-Schumer Deal, Promises More Border Security
Paul Ryan Rejects Trump-Schumer Deal, Promises More Border Security
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump and Democrats strike DACA deal. Yes? No? Sort of? Trump's world can be confusing.
Trump and Democrats strike DACA deal. Yes? No? Sort of? Trump's world can be confusing.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Conservatives Recoil at Trump's Accommodation With Democrats Over DACA
Conservatives Recoil at Trump's Accommodation With Democrats Over DACA
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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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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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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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
President Trump Doubled Down On Blaming Both Sides For Violence In Charlottesville — Again
President Trump Doubled Down On Blaming Both Sides For Violence In Charlottesville — Again
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘There is no realistic comparison’ between antifa and white supremacists
GOP senator: ‘There is no realistic comparison’ between antifa and white supremacists
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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 — COSTA MESA, Orange County — It was a surreal visit to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's Orange County home. The 15-term Republican greeted me in bare feet, sitting on his front step making fundraising phone calls …
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Medicaid for All Would ‘Bankrupt the Nation,’ Warns Bernie Sanders—In 1987 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced new legislation yesterday to expand Medicare to everyone in the United States. The bill, which came with 15 Democratic co-sponsors, envisions universal coverage …
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Single-payer health care failed miserably in Colorado last year. Here's why.
Single-payer health care failed miserably in Colorado last year. Here's why.
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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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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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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 …
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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Fox News:
UC-Berkeley braces for riots over conservative Ben Shapiro's speech on campus — The campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and the area around it, looks like it's bracing for a military siege. — Six buildings have been shut down and put off limits, large concrete blocks …
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Julie Jordan / People.com:
Fergie and Josh Duhamel Separate After 8 Years of Marriage: ‘We Are and Will Always Be United’ — After eight years of marriage, Fergie and Josh Duhamel are going their separate ways, they confirm to PEOPLE exclusively. — “With absolute love and respect we decided to separate as a couple earlier …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Texas secession movement: Russia-linked Facebook group asked us to participate in anti-Clinton rallies — A Russia-linked Facebook group asked a Texas secessionist movement if it would participate in a series of anti-immigrant, anti-Hillary Clinton rallies it was planning to hold across …
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
Sucking the Joy Out of Everything — Remember when people used to let things go? When people would just get along, not hunt for secret meanings behind actions and ways to be offended for the sake of being offended? Thanks to the progressive left that day is done. — These guys suck the joy out of everything.
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Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Navy Investigating If Destroyer Crash Was Caused by Cyberattack — The military is examining whether compromised computer systems were responsible for one of two U.S. Navy destroyer collisions with merchant vessels that occurred in recent months, Vice Admiral Jan Tighe …
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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.
Jeff Dunetz / The Lid:
EXCLUSIVE: Israel Embassy & NSC Officials Say McMaster “Hezbollah/Yelling” Story False — Pajamas Media and Israel National News both ran a story this week that U.S. National Security Adviser McMaster sparked an argument with an Israeli delegation during an August meeting to discuss the terrorist group Hezbollah.
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