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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange … Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton's missing 33,000 emails.
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The Daily Beast:
Republicans on House's Trump-Russia Probe Not That Interested in Trump or Russia
Republicans on House's Trump-Russia Probe Not That Interested in Trump or Russia
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Salon, Talking Points Memo and Althouse
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Trump-Russia investigators gathering documents from estate of GOP operative, sources say
Trump-Russia investigators gathering documents from estate of GOP operative, sources say
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Last Men and OverMen and Vox
Jessica Finn / Daily Mail:
Former US president George HW Bush apologises after actress claims he ‘sexually assaulted’ her from his WHEELCHAIR in this photograph - with his wife Barbara standing by his side — Actress Heather Lind made allegations Tuesday claiming when she met former President George H.W. Bush, 93 …
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The Hill, Fox News, USA Today, Althouse, The Daily Caller, AOL, RedState, East Bay Times, Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze, twitchy.com and Press Association
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Alexia Fernandez / People.com:
George H. W. Bush Apologizes to Actress After She Claims He ‘Sexually Assaulted’ Her During a Photo Shoot — George H. W. Bush has apologized to an actress who accused him of sexually assaulting her while they posed for a photograph together four years ago.
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NBC News, CBS Boston, CBS Dallas, IJR, The Republic and WGN-TV
Kate Feldman / New York Daily News:
Actress Heather Lind accuses former President George H.W. Bush of sexual assault
Actress Heather Lind accuses former President George H.W. Bush of sexual assault
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Newsweek, Vox, Raw Story and ThinkProgress
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
George H.W. Bush Apologizes After Actress Says He Sexually Assaulted Her
George H.W. Bush Apologizes After Actress Says He Sexually Assaulted Her
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Shakesville and Deadline
Kieran Corcoran / Business Insider:
George H.W. Bush apologizes after an actress accuses him of sexual assault in a #MeToo post on Instagram
George H.W. Bush apologizes after an actress accuses him of sexual assault in a #MeToo post on Instagram
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Washington Post, IndieWire and The Daily Caller
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The Trump dossier was Clinton's dirtiest political trick — MORE FROM: … And so the worm turns. Make that worms. — Just as key congressional panels open new probes into the still-smoking debris of last year's election, the revelation that Hillary Clinton's campaign …
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The Hill:
Trump rails over ‘fake dossier’ after Clinton revelation
Trump rails over ‘fake dossier’ after Clinton revelation
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The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider, Townhall.com, Mediaite, New York Times and RedState
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Clinton camp and DNC funded what became the Trump-Russia dossier: Here's what it means
The Clinton camp and DNC funded what became the Trump-Russia dossier: Here's what it means
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Launch probes! Congressional GOPers try desperately to take focus off Trump
Launch probes! Congressional GOPers try desperately to take focus off Trump
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RedState, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Instapundit and Mother Jones
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Tax Cuts Are the Glue Holding a Fractured Republican Party Together — WASHINGTON — The Republican tax plan is a bit like having a baby to save a failing marriage. — With divisions roiling the party, the prospect of a once-in-a-generation bill to cut taxes on businesses …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Virtually every Republican now a Trump Republican
Virtually every Republican now a Trump Republican
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Politico, ABC News, The Guardian, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Jeff Flake's Defiant Surrender
Jeff Flake's Defiant Surrender
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The Atlantic, The American Conservative, JustOneMinute and Political Wire
Brandy Zadrozny / The Daily Beast:
YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi … Something had set Lane Davis off, but that wasn't unusual. — It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Island—a small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington state—where Lane …
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RedState, Raw Story and twitchy.com
Jack Date / ABC News:
Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive — A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, IJR and The Gateway Pundit
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Tracy Watkins / Stuff.co.nz:
US ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown faced complaints over ‘cultural misunderstanding’ — U.S Ambassador Scott Brown explains his conduct during a Peace Corps function in Samoa. — US Ambassador Scott Brown has fronted over mounting “innuendo and rumour” about a State Department investigation into his behaviour.
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The Hill, Raw Story, Vox, New York Times, The Daily Caller and AOL
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Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Scott Brown: US ambassador to New Zealand investigated over inappropriate comments
Scott Brown: US ambassador to New Zealand investigated over inappropriate comments
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Politico and Political Wire
NAACP:
NAACP Issues National Travel Advisory for American Airlines — Calls for Meeting with Airlines to Discuss Troublesome Issues — (October 24, 2017) - The NAACP, the nation's original and largest social justice advocacy organization, has released the following statement today announcing …
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Slate, New York Times, NBC News, Towleroad, IJR, TheBlaze, VICE News, The Daily Caller, theGrio, Mashable and CBS Dallas
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Lydia Polgreen / Highline:
Four Quitters Walk Into a Bar... I have met Trump haters before, lots of them, the kind who seize upon every conspiracy theory and refuse to give him any benefit of any doubt. The four people I recently spent the morning with at Solly's Tavern in D.C. (sans booze, don't worry) were not Trump haters.
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Political Wire
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: ‘I went to an Ivy league college’ — President Trump on Wednesday cited his Ivy League education in pushing back at the notion that he is an uncivil leader. — “You know people don't understand, I went to an Ivy League college,” he told reporters at the White House. “I was a nice student.
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Record-High Support for Legalizing Marijuana Use in U.S. — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal. This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement.
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Washington Post, AOL, Outside the Beltway, Politico, New York Magazine, WSVN-TV, Washington Examiner, Hit & Run, Vox, Politicus USA, NPR and Washington Free Beacon
David Kamp / Vanity Fair:
Why Joe Biden Didn't Run . . . And Why He's Not Ruling Out 2020 — In a cruel twist, Joe Biden's planned 2016 presidential campaign was upended by the death of its foremost booster, his 46-year-old son, Beau, from brain cancer. Will the former vice president make a run in 2020?
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ABC News, Washington Times, Political Wire, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and New York's PIX11
Madison Park / CNN:
You may have to pay $70 to visit the Grand Canyon and 16 other national parks … (CNN) — The National Park Service proposes more than doubling the entrance fees at 17 popular national parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone, to help pay for infrastructure improvements.
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Shareblue Media, Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo
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Brianna Keilar / CNN:
With my husband deployed, covering the news hits home — Gen. Kelly speaks at White House (full remarks) — A CNN correspondent whose husband is on his sixth deployment anchors a show and struggles to keep it together as the White House briefing turns to military deaths
Brooke Marine / W Magazine:
Rosie O'Donnell Breaks Her Silence on Donald Trump: “I Seriously Worry Whether I Will Be Able to Live Through His Presidency” — As someone who's always been outspoken and especially so about her politics, it's been an unexpectedly quiet year for Rosie O'Donnell.
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TheBlaze, IJR, The Daily Caller and NewsBusters
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
CBO: Bipartisan Obamacare bill would cut deficit, keep coverage stable — A bipartisan bill to stabilize Obamacare would cut the federal deficit by $3.8 billion but wouldn't do much to change health insurance premiums for 2018, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
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Washington Monthly, HuffPost and Booman Tribune
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Randy Wimbley / WJBK-TV:
Black customer terrified by locksmith's racist text message — SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) - A Southfield woman in need of a locksmith was shocked after getting a glimpse of a text conversation the worker had about her. — The message may have been a joke but that woman was not laughing - instead she was pretty shaken up.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
House GOP tax leader threatens to break Trump's promise not to change 401(k) rules — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady on Wednesday suggested a tax bill he is preparing to introduce could force changes to 401(k) plans and other retirement accounts, potentially bucking …
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Axios, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos and Politico
Bloomberg:
Under Trump, Made in America Is Losing Out to Russian Steel — An oligarch-owned steel company is winning pipeline contracts, and foreign steel imports are up 24 percent this year. — Four days after his inauguration, Donald Trump signed a handful of executive memos to advance …