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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Level Yet in New NBC News/WSJ Poll — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has declined to the lowest point of his presidency, and nearly half of voters want their vote in the 2018 midterms to be a message for more Democrats …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Approval Rating Falls to Lowest Level Since Taking Office — Poll finds 38% approve of the job the president has done, a five-point drop from September — President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to its lowest level since he took office, with Americans disapproving …
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Puerto Rico's utility cancels controversial $300 million contract with Montana firm hired to repair electrical grid — BREAKING: Puerto Rico's utility cancels the controversial $300 million contract with a Montana firm hired to repair its electrical grid. — The announcement …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Puerto Rico governor wants Whitefish contract cancelled ‘immediately’ — Puerto Rico's governor is calling for a controversial contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings to be terminated immediately. — Gov. Ricardo Rosselló on Sunday asked the Governing Board of the Electric Power Authority …
BuzzFeed:
FBI Probe Of Paul Manafort Focuses On 13 “Suspicious” Wire Transfers — BuzzFeed News has learned of a series of wire transfers, made by companies linked to Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, that federal officials deemed suspicious. Many of the wires went …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The ‘dossier’ and the uranium deal: A guide to the latest allegations — As a service to readers bound to be confused by an increasingly complex story, here's a brief guide to the latest developments in the tangled allegations involving Russia, President Trump and Hillary Clinton. — The Dossier
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Michael Weiss / CNN:
Controversial Trump dossier: What really matters — Clinton campaign, DNC helped fund dossier research — Regardless of who paid for it, the accuracy of the contents must still be fully analyzed and properly vetted — Michael Weiss is a national security analyst for CNN and author of “ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.”
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Ahead of possible Mueller indictments, Donald Trump is attacking Hillary Clinton
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
2 Navy SEALs Under Suspicion in Strangling of Green Beret in Mali — WASHINGTON — Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 strangled to death an Army Green Beret on assignment in Mali in June, military officials say.
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CNN:
Mueller charges would shift the script for Trump — Trump attacks Clinton, as Mueller charges loom — Julian Zelizer: The political impact of the first charges in Mueller investigation will be just as important as the legal issues at play — Depending on how Trump's team handles the fallout …
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Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
Historic Alexandria church decides to remove plaques honoring Washington, Lee — Leaders of a historic Episcopal church in Alexandria have decided to remove a pair of plaques from its sanctuary that memorialize two of their most prominent parishioners: George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
How Churches Die — There's a saying attributed variously to Robert Conquest or John O'Sullivan that “any institution that is not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing over time.” A good case in point is the Episcopal Church, which was once known as “the Republican Party at prayer …
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ESPN:
Texans plan pregame protest of Bob McNair's comments — Houston Texans players are planning to protest as a unit before Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks in the wake of team owner Bob McNair's controversial “inmates running the prison” comment, a league source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Kushner took unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner returned home Saturday from an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia — his third trip to the country this year. — Kushner left Washington, D.C., via commercial airline …
Washington Post:
The Post's endorsements in Virginia — THE RESULTS of Virginia's gubernatorial primaries this spring, in which Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie each beat more extreme party challengers, looked promising for the commonwealth's voters, whose record of electing …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Roger Stone vows legal action over Twitter suspension — President Donald Trump's longtime associate Roger Stone said “the battle against free speech has just begun” as the political provocateur tangles with Twitter over his account's suspension. — “This is a strange way to do business …
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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
Roger Stone Banned From Twitter After Railing Against CNN Anchor
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Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Roger Stone Banned From Twitter After Threatening CNN Anchors
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Home Builders Will Oppose Republican Tax Bill — National Association of Home Builders concerned about mortgage-interest deduction; Republicans say will retain an itemized deduction for property taxes — WASHINGTON—An influential home builders group will oppose the House Republicans' forthcoming tax bill …
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Axios
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
House Tax Writer Gives Ground on a State and Local Tax Break
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TMZ.com:
MLB's Bruce Maxwell Arrested For Aggravated Assault, Allegedly Pointed Gun At Woman — Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after cops say he pulled a gun on a woman ... TMZ Sports has learned. — Scottsdale PD tells us Maxwell, 26 …
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Townhall.com, Arizona Republic, The Last Tradition, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and AOL
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Facebook struggles to contain Russia narrative — Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election — despite the many other ways that fake messages and bogus accounts spread on the dark side of social media.
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