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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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Between the lines on Tillerson — After NBC News reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had to be talked out of resigning and had called President Trump a “moron,” the administration pushback has been superficially unified: Trump, Tillerson, and Vice President Mike Pence all described the story as false.
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Nik Steinberg / Politico:
Rex Tillerson Is Running the State Department Into the Ground
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Newsweek:
RETRACTED: PADDOCK'S GIRLFRIEND USED TWO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND WAS MARRIED TO TWO MEN AT THE SAME TIME — Newsweek has retracted its story that reviewed the public records of Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock. — The initial report was based …
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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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New details emerge about Marilou Danley, girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock — Marilou Danley, the longtime girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman, returned to the United States Tuesday night and was met at the Los Angeles airport by FBI agents, according to the Associated Press.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim
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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
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Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman, Back in the U.S. for Grilling
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Yahoo! News:
‘He sent her away’: Sisters of Las Vegas gunman's Australian girlfriend break their silence
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CNN:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend ‘sent away’ before his massacre
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New York Times:
Meticulous Planning by Las Vegas Gunman Before He Opened Fire
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.
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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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Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Low marks for Trump's Puerto Rico response — Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of President Donald Trump's handling of the Puerto Rico hurricane relief effort. — According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research …
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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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Washington Post:
A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn't — CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — The Puerto Rico that President Trump saw during his four-hour visit on Tuesday afternoon was that of Angel Pérez Otero, the mayor of Guaynabo, a wealthy San Juan suburb known …
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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Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Tech Companies Will Testify at Senate Hearing on Russian Election Interference
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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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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jared Kushner fined again for late ethics form, Ivanka Trump fined too — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, senior advisers to President Donald Trump, were both fined $200 for missing deadlines to submit financial reports required by government ethics rules, according to documents and interviews.
Michael Moore:
My Proposal to Repeal the Second Amendment and Replace It With This: — PROPOSED 28th AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION — “A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people …
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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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Josie Ensor / Telegraph:
Archaeologists in Turkey believe they have discovered Santa Claus's tomb
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Key GOP senators open to ‘bump stock’ ban — Top Senate Republicans said Wednesday they are open to considering legislation banning devices that were reportedly used to gun down scores of people in the worst mass shooting in modern American history. — Bump stocks — also known as …
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CNN:
Roy Moore's Facebook page shared inflammatory memes, article praising Russia's anti-gay laws — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — “Want to stop riots? Play the National Anthem. They'll all sit down,” a meme shared on Moore's Facebook page read. — Moore's page also shared an article with the headline …
BBC:
Catalan referendum: Region's independence ‘in matter of days’ — Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. — In his first interview since a disputed vote on Sunday, Carles Puigdemont said his government would …
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Statesman Journal:
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
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
GOP secretly plotting huge cuts to health care for kids on Medicaid — Republicans in Congress have tried again and again to repeal health care for sick kids. Every time, public protest thwarted them. — House Speaker Paul Ryan's American Health Care Act was defeated.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats: Senate budget cuts nearly $500B from Medicare
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