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Brooke Baldwin: Speaking like this to women in 2017? No way — Brooke Baldwin is a Peabody Award finalist who anchors the 2-4 p.m. ET edition of CNN Newsroom. The views expressed in this commentary are solely the author's. — (CNN)"Boobs." — Yep, he said it.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
'I'm Done': CNN's Brooke Baldwin Ends Segment After Clay Travis Says He Believes in ‘Boobs’
'I'm Done': CNN's Brooke Baldwin Ends Segment After Clay Travis Says He Believes in ‘Boobs’
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Clay Travis used his ‘First Amendment and boobs’ line long before he shocked CNN
Clay Travis used his ‘First Amendment and boobs’ line long before he shocked CNN
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Congressman Sought Trump Deal on WikiLeaks, Russia — Rep. Rohrabacher asks for pardon of Julian Assange in return for evidence of no 2016 election meddling — WASHINGTON—A U.S. congressman contacted the White House this week trying to broker a deal that would end WikiLeaks founder …
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Faced with an up-or-down choice on Charlottesville resolution, Trump chooses third option — WASHINGTON — In sending the president a joint resolution condemning “racist violence” in Charlottesville, Congress gave President Trump a choice: sign the resolution and reject white supremacists, or veto it and align with the far right.
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
California asks Congress to officially censure Trump over Charlottesville — The lower house of the California legislature on Friday night voted on a resolution urging Congress to formally censure President Trump over his response to violence last month in Charlottesville, Va.
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Gave Special Counsel Robert Mueller More Details on Russian Ad Buys Than Congress — Social-media company shared copies of ads and account information, people familiar with the matter said — Facebook Inc. FB .40% has handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller detailed records …
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Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Did Jared Kushner's Data Operation Help Select Facebook Targets for the Russians? — The Russians used social media to rile the electorate. Investigators wonder if they had inside help. — The headlines were about Facebook admitting it had sold ad space to Russian groups trying to sway the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
Still no charity money from leftover Trump inaugural funds — https://apnews.com/0756ba7480444895b4fa bc9a2f0909b3 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's inaugural committee raised an unprecedented $107 million for a ceremony that officials promised would be …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe — An attorney working on the Justice Department's highest-profile money laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned.
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Raw Story:
There is no such thing as a good Trump voter — As if any further evidence was needed, the last few weeks have provided ample proof to arrive at a single conclusion: There is no such thing as a good Trump voter. This may be a hard pill to swallow for those with loved ones who voted for Trump.
Chicago Tribune:
Judge rules in city's favor on sanctuary cities, grants nationwide injunction — The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to require sanctuary cities like Chicago to give notice when immigrants in the country illegally are about to be released from custody …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Department ends program scrutinizing local police forces
Justice Department ends program scrutinizing local police forces
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Don Babwin / Associated Press:
Judge: Sessions can't deny grant money for sanctuary cities
Judge: Sessions can't deny grant money for sanctuary cities
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Washington Monthly, Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Morality Is Negotiable for Mr. Trump — This week President Trump reached a deal with Democrats to enshrine into law protections for young illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children. Within a matter of days, these young people went from fearing deportation to homelands …
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Cutting Taxes Will Be Harder Than Trump Thinks — On most Tuesdays, known around Capitol Hill as “fly-in day,” House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady holds a quickie media gaggle outside his office, providing reporters the chance to grill him about the coming week's hot issues.
Los Angeles Times:
Dealing with Democrats? Protecting ‘Dreamers’? Here in Arizona that's just fine with these Trump supporters — Supporters of President Trump in Arizona said they had no problem with him cutting deals Democrats to allow so-called Dreamers to stay in the U.S. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New York Times publishes eye-popping correction on campus-sexual-assault book review — In reviewing Vanessa Grigoriadis's new book on campus sexual assault, Michelle Goldberg credits the author for some fine reporting. “Her kaleidoscopic tour through the campus sexual assault controversy …
Mynewsdesk:
Parsons Green terrorist attack — BST — Police officers have evacuated and are searching a residential address in Sunbury, Surrey. — The evacuation is a precautionary measure following the arrest of a man in Dover, Kent, at approximately 07:50hrs this morning in connection …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Declines to Release List of His Visitors at Mar-a-Lago — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining, even in the face of a federal court order, to release the identities of individuals visiting with President Trump …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Hill Republicans' influence ebbs, and they're not sure what to do about it — President Trump's latest tendency to turn to Democrats to hash out major legislative deals has left Republican leaders facing a new reality as a daunting fall agenda looms: They are at their lowest moment of influence this year.
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Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Feds claim ‘thousands of intercepts’ in the case of Ukrainian billionaire, Trump ex-campaign boss — Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash arrives for the start of his trial at the courts of justice in Vienna, Austria on Feb. 21, 2017. Firtash was arrested in Vienna in March 2014 …
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Raw Story
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
The complicated politics holding up Rupert Murdoch's Sky deal — There's a question floating among the British political and media figures. Are Rupert Murdoch's dreams of owning all of Sky plc falling apart? — In a surprising blow for Murdoch's company 21st Century Fox …
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Seeing the Confederacy Clear — On the terrible issue of monuments and all that — Ed Gillespie, the veteran GOP politico, is running for governor of Virginia. He was born and raised in New Jersey — but he knows his territory, obviously. He is running, at least in part …
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Steve Bannon Slated To Speak At Black Entrepreneurs Summit — Former Trump campaign aide Corey Lewandowski is also on the schedule. — WASHINGTON Steve Bannon, the far-right news executive and confidante to President Donald Trump, is scheduled to speak at an event for black entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C., this month.