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Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Furious Republicans are working hard to make Trump's Russia scandal disappear — THE MORNING PLUM: — The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon to provide a “progress report” on its investigation into Russian sabotage …
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Rex Tillerson refutes report that he was on verge of resigning over the summer
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Tillerson: I have ‘never’ considered resigning
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Nik Steinberg / Politico:
Rex Tillerson Is Running the State Department Into the Ground
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ProPublica:
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud — New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz. — In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump's two eldest children …
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Portrait emerging of Las Vegas shooter as man ‘descending into madness’ — In the months before his deadly rampage, 64-year old Stephen Paddock was a man “descending into madness,” according to a person briefed on new findings in the investigation. — New details are emerging …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim — If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim ... If only he had shouted “Allahu akbar” before he opened fire on all those concertgoers in Las Vegas ... If only he had been a member of ISIS ... If only we had a picture of him posing with a Quran in one hand and his semiautomatic rifle in another ...
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What a macho, gun-packing Instagram star did when he was caught in the Las Vegas shooting … Guns and women got Dan Bilzerian where he is today — the so-called “King of Instagram,” with nearly 23 million followers, a mansion full of guns and a hot tub full of women.
David Smith / The Guardian:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning — Authorities investigating the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in modern US history, are preparing to question the girlfriend of gunman Stephen Paddock who has flown back to America after being named …
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Yahoo! News:
‘He sent her away’: Sisters of Las Vegas gunman's Australian girlfriend break their silence — Marilou Danley's sisters have said they believe she was “sent away” so she could not interfere with her boyfriend's plan to open-fire on thousands of people in the Las Vegas massacre.
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NBC News:
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman, Back in the U.S. for Grilling — The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock is back in the U.S. and facing a grilling Wednesday by investigators seeking a motive for the worst mass murder in the nation's modern history.
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Louis Sahagun / Los Angeles Times:
At his local Starbucks, Las Vegas shooter remembered for berating his girlfriend — The workers behind the counter at the Starbucks inside the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, Nev., winced whenever Stephen Paddock and his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, lined up for their usual beverages.
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.
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Washington Post:
New details emerge about Marilou Danley, girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock
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Mark Osborne / ABC News:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, tells family she has a ‘clean conscience’
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Puerto Rico's Debt May Need to Be ‘Wiped Out’ — ‘We are going to work something out,’ president says on Fox — Trump visited island earlier Tuesday to survey storm damage — President Donald Trump suggested that the government debt accumulated by bankrupt Puerto Rico …
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AP-NORC Poll: Few approve of Trump's Puerto Rico response — Americans are more likely to approve than disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling hurricane relief in Florida and Texas, but it's a different story when it comes to Puerto Rico. — According to a new poll …
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New York Times:
White House Dials Back Trump's Vow to Clear Puerto Rico's Debt
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Washington Post:
A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn't
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CNN:
Exclusive: Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan and Wisconsin — (CNN)A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
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Liz Moyer / CNBC:
Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing — A person dressed in a black top hat and bushy white mustache, occasionally putting a monocle on, sat in the audience of the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Equifax data breach. — The Monopoly guy has gone to Washington.
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Ex-Trump adviser Paul Manafort conspired to mislead bankruptcy court, son-in-law charges — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued two new subpoena in the investigation into President Trump's campaign ties to Russia. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@FantasticMrNate) reports. Buzz60 — CONNECT
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Lewis: ‘No amount of blood’ will push Congress on gun control — Rep. John Lewis castigated his Republican colleagues Wednesday morning for their unwillingness to support gun control legislation in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, declaring on the steps of the Capitol that …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Scalise: Shooting ‘fortified’ my view on gun rights
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The Roanoke Times:
Progressive political group obtains cellphone numbers from Virginia Tech, Radford students for electoral campaigns … Radford University and Virginia Tech turned over documents containing personal information, including names, addresses and cellphone numbers of about 40,000 current students …
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Exclusive: EPA to propose repealing Obama's climate regulation - document — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan - the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change - and plans to solicit input …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case — Toward the end of the Supreme Court's argument in Gill v. Whitford, about the future of partisan gerrymandering, there was a revealing moment about the place of the newest Justice in the esteem of at least one of his peers.
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Kareem Shaheen / The Guardian:
Santa Claus's tomb may have been uncovered beneath Turkish church — Archaeologists say they have found almost fully intact temple and burial grounds of Saint Nicholas in Antalya — Turkish archaeologists have dashed the hopes of millions of children by claiming to have uncovered the likely burial place of Saint Nicholas.
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