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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller's Russia Investigation — WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, was subpoenaed last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to testify before a grand jury as part of the investigation into possible links between …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Bannon refused to answer House panel's questions about time in White House — President Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon refused to answer questions Tuesday from the House intelligence committee about his time in the White House, prompting panel members to subpoena him on the spot …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sens. Cotton and Perdue are outed for lying on Trump's behalf — There is no honor among anti-immigrant advocates and liars, I suppose. After dutifully lying on behalf of the president regarding his abhorrent language ("shithole countries"), Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) were outed by the White House.
Mike Allen / Axios:
The recidivism presidency
The recidivism presidency
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Steve Bannon subpoenaed during House Intel meeting for information the White House instructed him not to give
Steve Bannon subpoenaed during House Intel meeting for information the White House instructed him not to give
Washington Post:
Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration
Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Stormy's Story — Not long after the 2016 Republican National Convention, I got a tip from a friend of mine. An old acquaintance of his in California was close to a woman in the adult-film industry who claimed to have had an affair with Donald Trump. — I reached my friend's friend …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Fox News shelved story on Trump and porn actress Stormy Daniels before election — Fox News had a story at the height of the presidential election that detailed an alleged sexual relationship between porn actress Stephanie Clifford — whose stage name is “Stormy Daniels” — and Donald Trump …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
DOJ, DHS Report: Three Out of Four Individuals Convicted of International Terrorism and Terrorism-Related Offenses were Foreign-Born — Departments of Justice and Homeland Security Release Data for the First Time on Terrorism-Related Activity — Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) …
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 16, 2018, as Religious Freedom Day
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 16, 2018, as Religious Freedom Day
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
‘Democracy is under assault,’ and it seems we're not helping any
‘Democracy is under assault,’ and it seems we're not helping any
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Jill Filipovic / The Guardian:
The poorly reported Aziz Ansari exposé was a missed opportunity — t was bound to happen. In the midst of women sharing stories of harassment and assault via the #MeToo movement, and a brewing backlash of hand-wringers wondering if women have perhaps gone too far …
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Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / Jezebel:
Babe, What Are You Doing? — Late Saturday evening, the website Babe.net published a detailed account of an encounter between “Grace,” an anonymous 23-year-old photographer, and the actor Aziz Ansari. It described a September 2017 incident in which Grace says that she and Ansari went …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Democrats face make-or-break moment on shutdown, Dreamers — Congressional Democrats face a critical decision this week as negotiations to shield 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation stall: Are they willing to shut the government down to protect Dreamers? — Government funding runs out on Friday.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
House GOP leaders may target Obamacare to avoid shutdown
House GOP leaders may target Obamacare to avoid shutdown
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
The president's vital signs — The White House briefing began with a readout of President Trump's vitals from Dr. Ronny Jackson, who conducted the his routine physical examination. — Jackson said Trump requested a cognitive exam during the session. Trump scored 30/30 on a test …
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CNN:
White House doctor: ‘No concerns’ about Trump's cognitive ability
White House doctor: ‘No concerns’ about Trump's cognitive ability
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Meet President Trump's new doctor: White House physician Admiral Ronny Jackson
Meet President Trump's new doctor: White House physician Admiral Ronny Jackson
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CBS News:
DHS Secretary on Trump's reported vulgar comments, DACA policy — Kirstjen Nielsen, President Trump's Homeland Security secretary, tells CBS News that immigrants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, need to follow the law.
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kim:
She's here! — We're so in love. — 7lbs 6oz — Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl. We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care.
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Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:
Bevin issues ultimatum: If courts block Medicaid plan, half million Kentuckians will lose care — Gov. Matt Bevin has issued an executive order that would strip Medicaid coverage from nearly half a million Kentuckians should his proposed overhaul of the federal-state health plan be struck down in court.
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Zac Auter / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate Steady at 12.2% in Fourth Quarter of 2017 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance was essentially unchanged in the fourth quarter of 2017, at 12.2%, but it is up 1.3 percentage points from the record low of 10.9% found in the last quarter of 2016.
Jessica Testa / BuzzFeed:
She's 17 And Wants To Be A Politician. Her Dad Says He Won't Vote For Her. — On the eve of President Donald Trump's first anniversary in office, teenage girls and their fathers are facing off in the most divided political climate since Vietnam. How one family fights through it. — Reporting From
CNN:
Shackled and emaciated, children of torture suspects are freed — (CNN)David and Louise Turpin projected an image of a picture perfect family on social media. — They posted photos of themselves with their 13 children, smiling as they celebrated birthdays, renewed wedding vows and visited Disneyland together.
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Kif Leswing / Business Insider:
A password for the Hawaii emergency agency was hiding in a public photo, written on a Post-it note — A false alert warning of an inbound missile was broadcast in Hawaii on Saturday. — Since then, people have discovered that a photo taken in Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency …
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Bloomberg:
GOP Access to FBI Files Rattles Agents Caught in Political Fight — Sensitive sources or material may be exposed, agents say — Republicans question FBI amid probe into Russian collusion — The Justice Department's decision to give congressional Republicans access to documents …
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David Roberts / Vox:
In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy's insanely cheap future — Even with storage, new renewables beat existing coal. — This month, energy nerds are very excited about a utility bid solicitation. — Wait, hear me out. It really is exciting! — Usually, when we talk …
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Shanti Das / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'I don't want n***ers on my set anymore!' Security guards who worked on House of Cards claim their company was let go after Kevin Spacey ‘refused to acknowledge or shake hands with predominantly black staff’ — Earl Blue's company VIP Protective Services was hired to manage …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Study: 42 percent of Republicans believe accurate — but negative — stories qualify as ‘fake news’ — All those media-trust studies have a tendency toward the rote. Yes, we already knew that the public had little trust in the country's journalistic organs.
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Lexy Perez / Hollywood Reporter:
Alec Baldwin Calls “Renunciation” of Woody Allen “Unfair and Sad” — In a series of tweets posted Tuesday, the actor slammed the re-emergence of sexual-abuse allegations against the director, writing, “accusing people of such crimes should be treated carefully.”
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Sanders Says Trump Isn't Racist, Citing ‘The Apprentice’ — White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said claims that President Donald Trump is racist are “outrageous,” citing his success as a public figure and star turn on television as a host on NBC's reality show “The Apprentice.”
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Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Tiffany Trump plays flower girl at reality star's Vegas ‘wedding’ — Tiffany Trump — who rang in the new year at a Playboy party — spent the weekend in Sin City, where she played a sexy flower girl at a wedding ceremony at A Little White Wedding Chapel as her dumbfounded Secret Service detail looked on.
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TMZ.com:
Seal Under Investigation for Sexual Battery — Seal is under criminal investigation for sexual battery, just one week after he publicly encouraged sexual abuse victims to come forward ... but the singer denies any wrongdoing. — Actress Tracey Birdsall tells us she and Seal were neighbors in Los Angeles in the fall of 2016.
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