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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
“You Can't Make This S— Up”: My Year Inside Trump's Insane White House — Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now details the feuds, the fights and the alarming chaos he witnessed while reporting what turned into a new book.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials — Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them. — Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Steve Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Forget Treason. Money Laundering Is Serious. — Steve Bannon's charge against Trump's son isn't the worst thing he's saying about the president's inner circle. — Trump watchers have been treated to a world-class cage match over the last couple of days between President Donald Trump …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM — Jeffrey Smith / New York Magazine (Used by permission) — Amid the firestorm over Michael Wolff's forthcoming book “Fire and Fury,” a lawyer for President Trump says legal action against Steve Bannon is “imminent,” accusing the former White House aide of breaking a confidentiality …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Demands That Publisher Halt Release of Critical Book — WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attack on a new book portraying him as a volatile and ill-equipped chief executive on Thursday as his legal team demanded that the author and publisher halt the release of the account scheduled …
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over ‘disparaging’ comments — Lawyers on behalf of President Donald Trump sent a letter Wednesday night to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon demanding he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his family.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump legal team blasts explosive Michael Wolff book in cease-and-desist letter — President Donald Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, has demanded on behalf of his client that author Michael Wolff and his publisher immediately “cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination” …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: White House officials discuss removing Katie Walsh from outside group — Senior White House officials are debating whether Katie Walsh should be fired from Trump's main outside group, America First, after comments she reportedly made to the author Michael Wolff, according to two sources with direct knowledge.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
White House Bans Staff From Using Personal Mobile Phones at Work
White House Bans Staff From Using Personal Mobile Phones at Work
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Questions about Trump's fitness raised by bombshell new book pose growing threat for Republicans in 2018 elections
John Bowden / The Hill:
Bannon loses support of pro-Trump billionaire backer over media fights
Bannon loses support of pro-Trump billionaire backer over media fights
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Madison Park / CNN:
Despite blast by Trump, Bannon reiterates support for President
Despite blast by Trump, Bannon reiterates support for President
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's break with Bannon over Wolff book shows the limits of loyalty
The Daily 202: Trump's break with Bannon over Wolff book shows the limits of loyalty
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
New book: Hannity was open to giving Trump questions before interview
New book: Hannity was open to giving Trump questions before interview
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Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Top Trump donor Rebekah Mercer cuts off Steve Bannon
Top Trump donor Rebekah Mercer cuts off Steve Bannon
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Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
AP NewsBreak: US to end policy that let legal pot flourish — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.
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Washington Examiner:
Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan: It's time for Jeff Sessions to go, as shown by the latest FBI leak … As the first year of the Trump administration comes to a close, one can't help but look back on how allegations of “Russian collusion” dominated the headlines of almost every news agency.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Justice Department ‘Looking Into’ Hillary Clinton's Emails— Again … Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, The Daily Beast has learned. — An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Cory Gardner just showed how Senate Republicans could check Trump if they wanted to — But they don't want to. — This morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced changes to Obama-era marijuana policy guidelines that had in effect allowed several states to move forward with pot legalization …
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HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions Unleashes Federal Prosecutors On Legal Marijuana
Jeff Sessions Unleashes Federal Prosecutors On Legal Marijuana
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Olivier Knox / Yahoo:
Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal
Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Sessions to rescind Obama-era rules on non-interference with states where pot is legal
Sessions to rescind Obama-era rules on non-interference with states where pot is legal
Jennifer Kaplan / Bloomberg:
Sessions Ending Obama-Era Policy That Ushered in Legal Weed
Sessions Ending Obama-Era Policy That Ushered in Legal Weed
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Sessions will end policy that allowed legalized marijuana to prosper
Sessions will end policy that allowed legalized marijuana to prosper
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Sessions announces end to policy that allowed legal pot to flourish
Sessions announces end to policy that allowed legal pot to flourish
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire and Breitbart
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Trump administration to expand drilling off U.S. continental waters — The Trump administration unveiled a controversial plan Thursday to permit drilling in most U.S. continental shelf waters, including protected areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic, where oil and gas exploration is opposed …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States waters, it announced Thursday. The plan would give the energy industry broad access to drilling rights in most parts …
Charles Stewart III / Washington Post:
Trump's controversial election integrity commission is gone. Here's what comes next. — On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he had terminated his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. This has raised a variety of important questions about the commission's work and what comes next.
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Lee Drutman / Vox:
There is no separation of powers without divided government — Partisan loyalty has triumphed over institutional loyalty. — A year ago, as we approached the opening days of the Trump administration, it was still possible to make a hopeful, albeit long-shot, argument that 2017 …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
GOP strategist: Republicans will turn on Trump, impeach him if party is blown out in midterms
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
2018 is the year that will decide if Trumpocracy replaces American democracy
2018 is the year that will decide if Trumpocracy replaces American democracy
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow breaks above 25,000 for the first time ever after strong jobs data — The 30-stock index climbed 152 points, with General Electric, DowDuPont, Merck and IBM rising about 2 percent. — The U.S. private sector added 250,000 jobs in December, according to a report from ADP and Moody's Analytics.
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New York Daily News:
Socialite Jacqueline Kent Cooke accused of smacking lawyer with her glass purse in anti-Semitic attack — Millionaire NFL heiress Jacqueline Kent Cooke allegedly got blitzed on New Year's Eve, spewed anti-Semitic remarks in a Manhattan restaurant and then bashed a man bloody with her glass purse …
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Virginia just determined control of its state house by picking a name out of a bowl — The random drawing to settle a tied race delivered the house majority to Republicans. — Virginia settled the outcome of a tied House of Delegates race that would determine control of the chamber …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republican wins drawing to decide control of Virginia statehouse
Republican wins drawing to decide control of Virginia statehouse
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Richard Morgan / Washington Post:
I read decades of Woody Allen's private notes. He's obsessed with teenage girls. — His 56-box archive is filled with misogynist and lecherous musings. — Woody Allen is making a new movie. Just kidding: He doesn't make new movies. What he's editing now, “A Rainy Day in New York,” …
Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Islamic State declares war on rival Hamas with video execution — JERUSALEM — The extremist Islamic State group's branch in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has taken a simmering dispute with the Palestinian Hamas group based in nearby Gaza to new levels, releasing a 22-minute video in which it calls …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment — Lawmakers concerned about President Donald Trump's mental state summoned Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee to Capitol Hill last month for two days of briefings about his recent behavior.
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