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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Bannon apologizes — Battered by the backlash from Michael Wolff's book, Steve Bannon is trying to make amends with the Trump family, providing a statement to Axios that expresses “regret” to President Trump and praises his son, Donald Trump Jr. Show less “Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man.
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CNN:
Tapper cuts off interview with Trump adviser — In a heated interview, White House adviser Stephen Miller talks with CNN's Jake Tapper about Michael Wolff's book “Fire and Fury” and its revelations about life inside the Trump campaign and White House.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
WikiLeaks shares full text of Wolff's Trump book — WikiLeaks posted the full text of Michael Wolff's explosive new book about President Trump — on Sunday. — The website's official account tweeted a link to a Google Drive containing the full text of the book. — “New Trump book ‘Fire and Fury’ by Michael Wolff.
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Simon Walters / Daily Mail:
Trump would resent not being invited to Harry and Meghan's wedding, could put a post-Brexit deal at risk - and will treat The Queen like a ‘reality contestant’ if he gets a state visit, claims author Wolff — Theresa May's hopes of a Brexit trade deal with the US could be wrecked if Donald Trump …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
CIA director pushes back on claim in Wolff book: Trump reads — pushed back Sunday on a claim that President Trump — does not read, calling the assertions made in author Michael Wolff's explosive new book on the White House “absurd.” — “This president reads material that we provide to him.
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KQED News:
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer: We're Hand-Delivering New Anti-Trump Book to All of Congress
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer: We're Hand-Delivering New Anti-Trump Book to All of Congress
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Mixed signals on infrastructure plan emerge from Trump retreat
Mixed signals on infrastructure plan emerge from Trump retreat
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Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Pompeo, Lewandowski vehemently defend Trump, slam ‘Fire and Fury’ book as fiction
Pompeo, Lewandowski vehemently defend Trump, slam ‘Fire and Fury’ book as fiction
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Talking Points Memo, The Last Tradition and Mediaite
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Golden Globes 2018: Stars Will Take Activists to the Red Carpet — In their push to highlight the problems of sexual harassment and gender inequality, eight actresses at Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony are extending their political statements to their plus-ones.
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Erin Nyren / Variety:
Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern To Be Accompanied by Activists at Golden Globes
Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern To Be Accompanied by Activists at Golden Globes
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Harvey Weinstein / Telegraph:
Golden Globes: Stars struggling to find black dresses, stylists say
Golden Globes: Stars struggling to find black dresses, stylists say
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RedState and Daily Wire
Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:
You'll miss me, Jersey! And with that, Chris Christie's just getting warmed up — Gallery: Governor Christie reflects on his time in office — The first time I asked Gov. Chris Christie a question we were 2,000 miles from New Jersey. I was a year into my first newspaper job in southeast New Mexico.
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Eric Garland Has Blown Our Cover — Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya's Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American “super spy” Eric Garland.
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
‘Learn his name first’: The politicizing of military widows is touching a nerve — In a way, Jenn Budenz lies with him, her right hand resting on their infant, with a gaze fixed on a framed photo of Maj. Andrew Budenz in a sharp Marine Corps uniform. — His face is everywhere at the grave …
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
Kushner's Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role — Last May, Jared Kushner accompanied President Trump, his father-in-law, on the pair's first diplomatic trip to Israel, part of Mr. Kushner's White House assignment to achieve peace in the Middle East.
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Ruth Eglash / Washington Post:
20 groups that advocate boycotting Israel will now be denied entry — JERUSALEM — Members of 20 international organizations that promote a boycott campaign of Israel, many of them affiliated with the BDS movement, will be banned from entering the country, according to a list published Sunday by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi's son hobnobs with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago — Paul Pelosi Jr., son of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, appears to be quite the nonpartisan partyer. — At least judging by the pair of Instagram photos of himself arm-in-arm with first daughter Ivanka Trump …
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Amber Tamblyn / New York Times:
Redefining the Red Carpet — Years ago, I was sitting in a dressing room in Tokyo, across from the director of the film I was about to shoot. The director spoke only Japanese, so we communicated through an interpreter. We talked briefly about how well the camera tests had gone and how excited we were about the project.
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Why hasn't Michael Wolff's dementia-Trump ever been seen in public? — President Trump is on TV and in newspapers more than any human on earth, and yet Michael Wolff, based on his time gossiping, has convinced the national media that grandpa got away and is now drooling in the Oval Office.
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
White House preparing for trade crackdown — President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to unveil an aggressive trade crackdown in the coming weeks that is likely to include new tariffs aimed at countering China's and other economic competitors' alleged unfair trade practices, according to three administration officials.
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