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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“You Can't Go Any Lower”: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment — After Monday's indictments, the president blamed Jared Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller.
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New York Times:
In Call With Times Reporter, Trump Projects Air of Calm Over Charges — President Trump projected an air of calm on Wednesday after charges against his former campaign chief and a foreign policy aide roiled Washington, insisting to The New York Times that he was not “angry at anybody” …
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CNN:
Trump didn't dismiss idea when foreign policy adviser suggested setting up Putin meeting — Washington (CNN)Candidate Donald Trump did not dismiss the idea of arranging a meeting with Russia's president when it was suggested in a meeting with his campaign foreign policy advisers last year, according to a person in the room.
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New Republic:
Jeet Heer — Looks like Jeff Sessions perjured himself. — Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the election has entangled the attorney general. In his sworn testimony during his confirmation hearing in January, Sessions was asked by Senator Al Franken …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump labels US justice system ‘laughing stock’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called for “quick” and “strong” justice for terror suspects in the wake of the deadly New York City attack, saying that it is not surprising terror attacks happen …
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Washington Post:
Trump and allies gin up a new culprit for New York terrorist attack: Chuck Schumer — President Trump and some of his allies on the extreme right have found a new culprit in Tuesday's deadly terrorist attack in Manhattan: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).
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CBS News:
NYC terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov brags about attack from hospital bed
NYC terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov brags about attack from hospital bed
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New York Times:
Who Is Sayfullo Saipov? From Truck Driver to Uber Driver to Terror Suspect
Who Is Sayfullo Saipov? From Truck Driver to Uber Driver to Terror Suspect
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New York Times:
Authorities Locate Second Man Sought in Connection With Manhattan Attack
Authorities Locate Second Man Sought in Connection With Manhattan Attack
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
‘The Cut Cut Cut Act’: Trump, Hill leaders differ on tax reform bill name — President Donald Trump has told senior congressional leadership that he wants to name the forthcoming tax reform bill the “The Cut Cut Cut Act,” a senior administration official tells ABC News.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
House tax plan lowers caps on 401(k), cuts state and local deductions
House tax plan lowers caps on 401(k), cuts state and local deductions
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP in disarray ahead of tax plan rollout
GOP in disarray ahead of tax plan rollout
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Los Angeles Times:
Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct — Natasha Henstridge was watching a movie on Brett Ratner's couch when she fell asleep. She was a 19-year-old fashion model; he was an up-and-coming music video director in his early 20s.
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
NY publicist says Manafort wanted to pay him for Ukraine work via offshore accounts — to make ‘way more money’ — A prominent New York publicist says Paul Manafort and Rick Gates approached him in 2012 and asked whether they could pay him for Ukraine lobbying work via offshore accounts …
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Leader of pro-Trump Super Pac had mortgage on Paul Manafort property — The leader of a pro-Trump Super Pac once held a mortgage on one of the properties owned by Paul Manafort which federal prosecutors are trying to seize. — Tom Barrack, a close friend of Donald Trump's who leads …
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Norman Eisen / USA Today:
Trump's inevitable Manafort-indictment tweet-storm is working against him
Trump's inevitable Manafort-indictment tweet-storm is working against him
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Washington Post:
Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign — Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of ads that Russian operatives bought on Facebook, providing the fullest picture yet of how foreign actors sought to promote Republican Donald Trump …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
April Ryan to Huckabee Sanders: Does administration ‘think slavery is wrong?’ — CNN contributor and American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan on Tuesday asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if the administration believed “slavery is wrong.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War
Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to Kelly's ‘compromise’ comments in viral Twitter thread
Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to Kelly's ‘compromise’ comments in viral Twitter thread
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The Moderate Voice, USA Today and Washington Post
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining — Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video — (Reuters) - When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.
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Anna Graham Hunter / Hollywood Reporter:
Dustin Hoffman Sexually Harassed Me When I Was 17 (Guest Column) — The author, who slapped away the star's butt grabs and laughed off his vulgar language on the set of 1985 TV film ‘Death of a Salesman,’ still feels conflicted: “I loved the attention. Until I didn't.”
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Carol Rosenberg / miamiherald:
Gitmo judge sends Marine general lawyer to 21 days confinement for disobeying orders — GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, CUBA — The USS Cole case judge Wednesday found the Marine general in charge of war court defense teams guilty of contempt for refusing to follow the judge's and sentenced …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Offered Russian TV Network 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising — Twitter wanted RT to spend big ahead of the 2016 US election, offering a significant portion of its election-related ad inventory in return. The social media company offered the Russian state-owned television network …
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Chris Fuchs / NBC News:
Muslim Americans Again Brace for Backlash After New York Attack — Umer Ahmad, a 43-year-old Muslim-American physician from New Jersey, was in his Trenton office when he heard that a rented pickup truck had deliberately driven down a bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen more.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
‘Concerned’ conservatives, aiming to build a Trump resistance, call for GOP to protect Mueller — In February, with the shock of President Trump's victory still fresh, a small group of libertarians and conservatives began meeting every two weeks to discuss their next moves.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Tap Jerome Powell as Next Fed Chairman — The president is expected to announce his decision Thursday — WASHINGTON—The White House has notified Federal Reserve governor Jerome Powell that President Donald Trump intends to nominate him as the next chairman of the central bank …
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WDIV-TV:
Man, woman caught having sex on flight to Detroit after meeting on plane — Officials say 48-year-old woman, 28-year-old man were strangers before flight — DETROIT - The dangerous quest to join what's known as the “Mile High Club” has landed two more people in hot water.
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Ryan C. Brooks / BuzzFeed:
Thousands Of New Yorkers Took To The Streets In Anti-Trump March Promoted By Russia-Linked Account — BlackMattersUS, a social media campaign believed to be Russians meddling in the US politics, promoted a large anti-Trump march in New York City in the days after the election.
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Talking Points Memo, Axios and Political Wire
CNN:
Schiller tops list of high-profile witnesses before House Russia investigators — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's closest confidantes is speaking privately next week to congressional investigators looking into Russia meddling, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Feds: A Small Town Police Chief Said Black People Were ‘Like ISIS’ And Wished He Could 'Mow ‘Em Down’ — Frank Nucera Jr., a former New Jersey police chief, is facing federal charges in connection with a racially-motivated attack. — WASHINGTON A former police chief of a predominately white small town …
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Journalists condemn “disturbing” arrest of Shareblue reporter covering GOP nominee — “Journalists should be able to document events of public interest without fear of interference or arrest,” stresses one journalism advocate in the wake of shocking arrest video.
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
In Their Reaction to Mueller Investigation, Fox News Has Officially ‘Jumped the Shark’ — Like a lot of conservatives who have always been distrusting of the old “mainstream media,” I once rejoiced at the existence of Fox News Channel. I viewed their extremely important mission as being a source …
ESPN:
Papa John's says anthem protests are hurting deal with NFL — Executives from Papa John's, the official pizza company of the NFL, expressed disappointment on a conference call Wednesday about the league's ongoing player protests during the national anthem. — “The NFL has hurt us,” company founder and CEO John Schnatter said.
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
GOP senator: Millionaires deserve the tax breaks because poor people “create nothing” — The Republican tax scheme to give handouts to billionaires and corporations at the expense of millions of working families is increasingly unpopular — so much so that the GOP delayed the release of their draft bill.