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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump — WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy.
Donald J. Trump / GOP.com:
The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards — 2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90% of the media's coverage of President Trump is negative. — Below are the winners of the 2017 Fake News Awards.
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, Forbes, Vox, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys, IJR, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Business Insider, Washington Times, Breitbart, The College Fix, Al Jazeera English, Jezebel, BloombergQuint, The Daily Signal, New York Times, France 24, 89.3 KPCC, CBS San Francisco, Deadline, CNBC, RedState, TheBlaze, Reuters, Politico, Washington Free Beacon, FOX 61, Politicus USA, Little Green Footballs, theGrio, Axios and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
WikiLeaks: Trump administration a ‘frequent source of false information’ — WikiLeaks late Wednesday referred to the Trump administration as a “frequent source of false information” after winners of President Trump — 's “Fake News Awards” were announced.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump averages a ‘fake’ insult every day. Really. We counted.
Trump averages a ‘fake’ insult every day. Really. We counted.
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Medium, The Daily Caller, Trust, Media and Democracy, Hit & Run and USA Today, more at Mediagazer »
Paulina Dedaj / Fox News:
President Trump reveals winners of his ‘Fake News’ awards
President Trump reveals winners of his ‘Fake News’ awards
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theGrio, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, White House Dossier, Althouse and Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Kelly risks a Steve Bannon moment — Late last night, a few hours after Fox News aired Bret Baier's interview with John Kelly, a source close to the president told me Trump would explode when he saw what his chief of staff said. The source — who has spent a lot of time with Trump …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump pushes back on chief of staff claims that border wall pledges ‘uninformed’ — White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that some of the hard-line immigration policies President Trump advocated during the campaign were “uninformed,” …
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Politico, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, CNN, NBC News, NPR, Business Insider, Raw Story, The Week, Washington Times and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
Trump Was Not ‘Fully Informed’ in Campaign Vows on Wall, Chief of Staff Says
Trump Was Not ‘Fully Informed’ in Campaign Vows on Wall, Chief of Staff Says
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Axios, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Week, Mother Jones and New York Magazine
Elana Schor / Politico:
DACA-shutdown talks still stalled after Kelly hits the Hill
DACA-shutdown talks still stalled after Kelly hits the Hill
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CNN, Associated Press, Weekly Standard, Washingtonian, Reuters, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump Upsets Republican Strategy to Avoid Shutdown — WASHINGTON — President Trump blew up Republican strategies to keep the government open past Friday when on Thursday morning he said a long-term extension of the popular Children's Health Insurance Program should not be part of a stopgap spending bill pending before the House.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Axios, NPR, Washington Post, Roll Call, Washington Times and Florida Politics
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump's baffling tweet about CHIP and the government shutdown, explained
Trump's baffling tweet about CHIP and the government shutdown, explained
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Talking Points Memo, RedState and Axios
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Republicans lack votes to prevent a shutdown
Republicans lack votes to prevent a shutdown
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Vox, Roll Call, Outside the Beltway, BostonGlobe.com, Florida Politics, New York Magazine, The Hill, Washington Post, The Week and Axios
Reuters:
Exclusive: Exercise? I get more than people think, Trump says — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Do not expect U.S. President Donald Trump to hit the gym, despite his doctor's orders. — He gets plenty of exercise on the golf course and at the White House complex, the president told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Washington Post, thecut and New York Times
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Summer Meza / Newsweek:
Jared Kushner still doesn't have security clearance after a year at the White House
Jared Kushner still doesn't have security clearance after a year at the White House
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Defense One and Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Republicans seethe at tight-lipped Bannon — Republican lawmakers fumed at Steve Bannon on Wednesday, and some threatened to hold the former Trump White House strategist in contempt of Congress a day after he stonewalled the House's Russia investigation.
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Axios, Political Wire, Raw Story and Business Insider
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Bannon Agrees to Cooperate With Mueller Inquiry
Bannon Agrees to Cooperate With Mueller Inquiry
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Townhall.com, The Week, The Daily Caller, Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh and The Resurgent
Julie Ray / Gallup:
World's Approval of U.S. Leadership Drops to New Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year into Donald Trump's presidency, the image of U.S. leadership is weaker worldwide than it was under his two predecessors. Median approval of U.S. leadership across 134 countries and areas stands at a new low of 30%, according to a new Gallup report.
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IJR, The Week and Mother Jones
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Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair:
“Harvey's Concern Was Who Did Him In”: Inside Harvey Weinstein's Frantic Final Days — Before the story of his alleged abuses broke in October, Harvey Weinstein hunkered down in his Tribeca bunker—even as the producer refused to believe the end was near. — HOLLYWOOD 2018
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Political Wire, Deadline and Balloon Juice
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The GOV'T shuts down Fri.: What we see happening …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Is Trump's doctor okay? — Examining the White House physician's briefing on President Trump's physical, I was alarmed — not about the president's health, but the doctor's. — Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson was so effusive in extolling the totally amazing, surpassingly marvelous …
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The Daily Caller, Lance Mannion, twitchy.com and Mediaite
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump's Physical Revealed Serious Heart Concerns, Outside Experts Say
Trump's Physical Revealed Serious Heart Concerns, Outside Experts Say
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National Review, CNN, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
‘Vision, Chutzpah and Some Testosterone’ — The Times editorial board has been sharply critical of the Trump presidency, on grounds of policy and personal conduct. Not all readers have been persuaded. In the spirit of open debate, and in hopes of helping readers who agree with us better understand …
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Majority Of Americans See Trump's First Year As A Failure — As President Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, a majority of Americans think his first year in office has been a failure — and that he's divided the nation. — A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds …
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Online NewsHour
Amazon.com:
Amazon Announces Candidates for HQ2 — Amazon expects to create 50,000 high-paying jobs and invest over $5 billion in the city where it opens HQ2, a full equal to its Seattle HQ — Amazon reviewed 238 proposals from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to host HQ2, the company's second headquarters in North America.
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Press Association, Engadget, The Week, GeekWire, Axios, Washingtonian and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
NBC News:
The Mueller effect: FARA filings soar in shadow of Manafort, Flynn probes — WASHINGTON — The data firm whose work for Donald Trump's campaign attracted the interest of Robert Mueller's investigators recently filed paperwork showing it had helped spread negative information about Qatar …
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Raw Story
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
3 more months of the Mueller investigation? Papadopoulos filing signals it's likely
3 more months of the Mueller investigation? Papadopoulos filing signals it's likely
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New York Magazine
Kim Kozlowski / Detroit News:
What MSU knew: 14 warned of Nassar abuse — 8 WOMEN REPORTED ABUSE CLAIMS, AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH REACHED PRESIDENT — Reports of sexual misconduct by Dr. Larry Nassar reached at least 14 Michigan State University representatives in the two decades before his arrest, with no fewer …
David Byler / Weekly Standard:
As Goes Trump, So Goes the GOP — Historically, when voters are unhappy with a president, they take it out on his party during the midterm elections. — Donald Trump is historically unpopular. At the end of 2017, the three major polling aggregators—the HuffPost Pollster, Real Clear Politics …
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Tillerson's staff prints out the President's tweets for him to read — Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's staff prints out President Donald Trump's tweets for him to read, Tillerson said Wednesday, noting he does not have any social media accounts of his own.
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Splinter and Outside the Beltway
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Mulvaney requests no funding for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Every quarter, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally requests its operating funds from the Federal Reserve. Last quarter, former director Richard Cordray asked for $217.1 million.
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Sorority sister speaks out on racist videos that got her booted from college — A student at the University of Alabama has been expelled from the school and kicked out of a sorority after she posted racist videos on social media in which she repeatedly used the n-word.
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WREG-TV, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, Washington Press, CBS Philly and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
With Trump's Visit to Pennsylvania, G.O.P. Scrambles to Save a House Seat — WASHINGTON — Republicans are scrambling to save a heavily conservative House seat in western Pennsylvania, dispatching President Trump to the district on Thursday while preparing a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Staffers at The Hill press management about the work of John Solomon — A group of newsroom staffers at The Hill have complained to management about stories written by John Solomon, the publication's executive vice president of digital video. The complaints were launched in December …
Lydia Polgreen / HuffPost:
Introducing HuffPost Opinion And HuffPost Personal — And some news regarding our contributors platform. — We live in a cacophonous world. Thousands of voices shout for our attention from our social media timelines and TV screens. It's hard to know what deserves our focus and what to tune out.
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