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John Bowden / The Hill:
Lewandowski: 'We've got a real problem' if Dems retake the House — 's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Trump and Republicans are “in trouble” if Democrats retake the House in the 2018 midterms. — In an interview with John Catsimatidis …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's nightmare — Trump's day of reckoning ... The one thing that could dramatically diminish President Trump's chances of avoiding impeachment and chalking up legislative wins is Democrats winning the House. — And, thanks to series of recent developments, Trump knows this no longer just seems plausible, but probable.
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government's drug policy office — In May 2016, Taylor Weyeneth was an undergraduate at St. John's University in New York, a legal studies student and fraternity member who organized a golf tournament and other events to raise money for veterans and their families.
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Column A close reading of Glenn Simpson's Trump-Russia testimony — Glenn Simpson's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, released this week, is a tale of two research projects. One is about the financier turned criminal-justice crusader William F. Browder.
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Fusion GPS, firm behind disputed Russia dossier, retracts its claim of FBI mole in Trump camp
Fusion GPS, firm behind disputed Russia dossier, retracts its claim of FBI mole in Trump camp
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Anatomy of a Farce — Fusion GPS founder's testimony shows …
Anatomy of a Farce — Fusion GPS founder's testimony shows …
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Washington Post:
Vulgarity used by president projected onto Trump hotel in D.C. — The expletive President Trump used last week in a discussion about immigration in the Oval Office and other slogans were projected Saturday night onto an outer wall of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington.
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Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
White House Disputes Trump Quote in Journal Interview — The Wall Street Journal stands by what it reported and releases audio of disputed portion of interview — WASHINGTON—The White House disputed that President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Thursday that …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House scrambles after false missile warning in Hawaii
White House scrambles after false missile warning in Hawaii
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USCIS:
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: Response to January 2018 Preliminary Injunction — Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA. Until further notice, and unless otherwise provided in this guidance …
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Resumes Accepting DACA Renewals
U.S. Resumes Accepting DACA Renewals
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
DACA Participants Can Again Apply for Renewal, Immigration Agency Says
DACA Participants Can Again Apply for Renewal, Immigration Agency Says
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
New alarm among Republicans that Democrats could win big this year … A raft of retirements, difficulty recruiting candidates and President Trump's continuing pattern of throwing his party off message have prompted new alarm among Republicans that they could be facing a Democratic electoral wave in November.
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Margaret Atwood / Globe and Mail:
Am I a bad feminist? — Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, fiction and essays, including The Handmaid's Tale. — It seems that I am a “Bad Feminist.” I can add that to the other things I've been accused of since 1972, such as climbing to fame up a pyramid …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
'I'm Running,' Romney Says Privately, but as a Trump Friend or Foe? — SALT LAKE CITY — A few days after Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah announced that he would conclude his tenure after serving 42 years in office, the state's governor, Gary Herbert, was growing anxious about whether Mitt Romney would run for the seat.
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New York Times:
In Some Countries, Facebook's Fiddling Has Magnified Fake News — SAN FRANCISCO — One morning in October, the editors of Página Siete, Bolivia's third-largest news site, noticed that traffic to their outlet coming from Facebook was plummeting. — The publication had recently …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Couldn't Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To.
Facebook Couldn't Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To.
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Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You're Not — SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg. Another day an anonymous donor set up an $86 million Bitcoin-fortune charity called the Pineapple Fund. A Tesla was spotted with a BLOCKHN license plate.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Ladies, let's be reasonable about #MeToo or nothing will ever be sexy again — Ladies, please. — Well, it has been a fun (glances at watch) three months that we have been doing this thing where we stop letting harassment and assault get swept under the rug, and it has been nice, certainly …
Katie Way / babe:
I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life — She approached him because she recognized his camera flash — Aziz Ansari was taking pictures at the 2017 Emmy Awards after-party with a film camera, not a digital one. “I stood up, and I'm like tipsy at this point and feeling really confident.
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John Hawkins / Townhall.com:
How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It — Today, as you read this, my website Right Wing News is shutting down operations. It has been around since 2001, but became massive a few years ago because of Facebook.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Sell the New York Times. Now. — And other unsolicited advice for A.G. Sulzberger. — The cult worship of the New York Times commenced not long after that day in 1896 when Adolph S. Ochs of Chattanooga, Tenn., spent a mess of borrowed money to purchase controlling ownership in the respected …
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
I'm In Hawaii And Just Got The Scariest Alert Of My Life. Here's What I Did Next. — What would you do if you thought you had 15 minutes to live? — Reporting From — HONOLULU — On Saturday morning, I was basking in my usual routine, waking up with my yawning dog, walking upstairs to receive a macchiato made by my husband.
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Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times:
Mark Wahlberg and Agency Will Donate $2 Million to Time's Up After Outcry Over Pay — Mark Wahlberg and his talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, will donate $2 million to a fund dedicated to fighting pay inequity and harassment of women in Hollywood. — The donation will be made in the name …
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