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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Will Tell All to Robert Mueller, Source Says — Trump's one-time chief strategist and current frenemy may have been tight lipped with Congress. He won't be that way with the Special Counsel. — BETSY WOODRUFF1.16.18 9:33 PM ET — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon broke …
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CNN:
WH directs Bannon to avoid answering Hill queries in Russia probe — NYT: Mueller subpoenas Bannon to testify — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon faced angry lawmakers from both parties during a contentious interview that stretched …
NBC News:
FBI agents visited Steve Bannon's home last week to discuss subpoena in Russia probe — FBI agents showed up at Steve Bannon's Washington home last week intent on serving him with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia …
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Axios, Raw Story and New York Magazine
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:
Lawmakers vow to force answers from Bannon in Russia probe after he defies subpoena
Lawmakers vow to force answers from Bannon in Russia probe after he defies subpoena
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NBC News:
Bannon subpoenaed by House committee after refusing to answer questions
Bannon subpoenaed by House committee after refusing to answer questions
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Steve Bannon refuses lawmakers' questions, following ‘White House instructions’
Steve Bannon refuses lawmakers' questions, following ‘White House instructions’
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The Week
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
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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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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Stormy's Story — Not long after the 2016 Republican National …
Stormy's Story — Not long after the 2016 Republican National …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested — WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected of helping China identify the agency's informants in that country has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Many of the informants were killed …
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Democrats grab key Wisconsin Senate seat in Tuesday's special elections — MADISON - Democrats snagged a GOP-leaning state Senate seat in western Wisconsin on Tuesday, buoying progressive hopes that they could ride a wave of victory this fall. — Patty Schachtner, the chief medical examiner …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration — Three-quarters of the members of a federally chartered board advising the National Park Service abruptly quit Monday night out of frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting last year.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
A window inside Trump's morning ‘executive time’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump rises around 5:30 a.m. and begins making his first calls to aides and lawmakers as early as 6. He's dressed in his signature dark suit by 8 a.m. at the latest …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
How Michael Wolff Got Into the White House for His Tell-All Book — Some of president's staff thought they were authorized to talk — Wolff's working title suggested sympathetic view of Trump — Author Michael Wolff's pitch to the White House to win cooperation for his book included …
Dan Gartland / SI.com:
Athletes Who Are the Same Size as Donald Trump — Trump is 6'3" and 239 pounds, according to his annual physical. You can't teach size, the old adage goes. — “I was always the best athlete, people don't know that,” Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal last week ahead of his much-anticipated annual physical.
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Emily Swanson / Associated Press:
Trump ends 1st year with lowest average approval rating — WASHINGTON (AP) — This is a record not to be coveted: Donald Trump is wrapping up a year in office with the lowest average approval rating of any elected president in his first year. — That's according to polling by Gallup …
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Shareblue Media and Politicus USA
CBS13 | CBS Sacramento:
New California Declares Independence From Rest Of State — SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
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John McCain / Washington Post:
Mr. President, stop attacking the press — John McCain, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. — After leaving office, President Ronald Reagan created the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award to recognize individuals who have fought to spread liberty worldwide.
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New York Times:
Debate Continues Over What Trump Said. But Does the Exact Word Matter? — Over a three-day weekend at his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., President Trump showed little or no concern about the angry reaction set off by his use of obscenities to describe the third world countries …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sens. Cotton and Perdue are outed for lying on Trump's behalf
Sens. Cotton and Perdue are outed for lying on Trump's behalf
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Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
California bullet train cost surges by $2.8 billion: ‘Worst-case scenario has happened’ — The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the current budget and up from about $6 billion originally.
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NBC News:
Facebook is a ‘living, breathing crime scene,’ says one former tech insider — SAN FRANCISCO — With more than 2 billion users, Facebook's reach now rivals that of Christianity and exceeds that of Islam. However, the network's laser focus on profits and user growth has come at the expense of its users …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Cooks Terror Stats for Bogus Immigration Argument … The Trump administration and its Republican allies are pointing to terrorism statistics in order to argue for ending two immigration programs. But those who study terrorism in the U.S. say that the administration cooked the numbers to arrive at its desired conclusion.
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Trevor Aaronson / The Intercept:
Trump Administration Skews Terror Data to Justify Anti-Muslim Travel Ban
Trump Administration Skews Terror Data to Justify Anti-Muslim Travel Ban
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Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Feds planning massive Northern California immigration sweep to strike against sanctuary laws — U.S. immigration officials have begun preparing for a major sweep in San Francisco and other Northern California cities in which federal officers would look to arrest more than 1,500 undocumented people …
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times and Axios
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fine, Trump Doesn't Have Dementia. He's Just a Moron. — A recent Washington Post story chronicled the rise of Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, who has gained special influence with President Trump. McCarthy's methods include obsequiousness, attention to detail …
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Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon — A few technology giants dominate their worlds just as Standard Oil and AT&T once did. Should they be broken up? — Standard Oil Co. and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. were the technological titans of their day, commanding more than 80% of their markets.
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Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
GOP activist from Virginia quits Republican Party over Trump's remarks — A young Republican activist from Northern Virginia who was seen as a potential rising star quit the party Tuesday, citing President Trump's “appalling comments” about Haitian immigrants and what he called a nativist streak in his home state.
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Deborah Wrigley / abc13.com:
Source: Couple killed in NW Harris Co. gated community were ‘executed’ … <iframe width="476" height="267" src="http://abc13.com/video/embed/ ?pid=2944513" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> — A source tells Eyewitness News that a man and wife found dead inside their home …
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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.