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Elise Young / Bloomberg:
Mortal Again: Christie Blocked at VIP Entrance to Newark Airport — Police officer sends him to Terminal B with rest of nobodies — Three days out of office and Port Authority ends prized perk — Meet Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and current nobody at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump's baffling tweet about CHIP and the government shutdown, explained — The president tweets a policy position — and it's the opposite of what congressional Republicans want. — President Trump appeared to throw a wrench into congressional budget negotiations on Thursday morning …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell plans for shutdown — Mitch McConnell is making contingency plans for the growing possibility of a government shutdown. — The Senate majority leader intends to keep the chamber in session through the weekend and stage a series of votes designed to put Democrats from conservative states …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Shutdown looms as Republicans struggle for votes
Shutdown looms as Republicans struggle for votes
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Blows Up Republican Plan To Blame Democrats For Blocking CHIP
Trump Blows Up Republican Plan To Blame Democrats For Blocking CHIP
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DEMOCRATS, IT'S NOW OR NEVER FOR DREAMERS
DEMOCRATS, IT'S NOW OR NEVER FOR DREAMERS
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CBS News:
Most Americans support DACA, but oppose border wall - CBS News poll
Most Americans support DACA, but oppose border wall - CBS News poll
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Shutdown Threat Looms: Senate Dems Stiffen Spines, House In Chaos
Shutdown Threat Looms: Senate Dems Stiffen Spines, House In Chaos
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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.
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
Hungarian Police Have A Warrant Out For Former Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka — Gorka's warrant on gun charges was in effect the entire time he was in the White House. — Former Trump White House staffer Sebastian Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in Hungary, according to the Hungarian police's website.
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Murray Waas / Foreign Policy:
Trump Ordered Bannon to Limit Testimony — The president relied on a key legal advisor, but his advice could have a downside — President Donald Trump personally made the decision to curtail the testimony of former chief White House political strategist Steve Bannon before the House …
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Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Activists say Tom Cotton has issued do-not-call-or-write notice to some constituents. UPDATE. Such letters sent in ‘extreme circumstances’ says Cotton's office. — Ozark Indivisible, the activist group that has been pressing members of Congress from Arkansas on health care …
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Stormy Daniels Once Claimed She Spanked Donald Trump With a Forbes Magazine — Last week, the Wall Street Journal triggered a new scandal for President Donald Trump when it reported that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a decade-old sexual relationship …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Accusations of ‘Frat House’ Behavior Trail ‘LA Times’ Publisher's Career — The Los Angeles Times has given prominent coverage to recent revelations of sexual harassment of women by prominent men, particularly in entertainment and media. Yet a review by NPR finds that the newspaper's own CEO and publisher …
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Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
Trump's HHS director compares anti-abortion activists to Holocaust victims — Roger Severino, director of civil rights at the Health Department, made this disgusting comparison at an official press conference announcing a new Trump policy. — Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services …
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Office of Civil Rights / Latest News Releases:
HHS Announces New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division
HHS Announces New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump administration announces new ‘conscience and religious freedom’ division at HHS
Trump administration announces new ‘conscience and religious freedom’ division at HHS
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Maya Rajamani / Newsweek:
Hillary Clinton could still become president if Russia probe finds conspiracy evidence — Nearly a year after President Donald Trump's inauguration, a Harvard University professor says 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could still become commander in chief.
Wall Street Journal:
Talking to Trump: A How-To Guide — Insights from more than 50 people the president met with in his first year in office — President Donald Trump has received huge public exposure in his first year through blanket TV coverage, speeches and tweets. But what is he like in person?
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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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Kelly risks a Steve Bannon moment
John Kelly risks a Steve Bannon moment
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Politico:
House panel releases transcript of interview with Fusion GPS co-founder — A House panel on Thursday released the transcript of congressional investigators' November interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, whose firm was behind a dossier that alleged a secret Kremlin effort to influence President Donald Trump.
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
One year after Trump's inauguration, no one will say how they spent the extra money — WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after President Trump's inauguration, the committee that raised a record $106.7 million for the event has not disclosed how much surplus money it still has or provided a final accounting of its finances.
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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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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The GOV'T shuts down Fri.: What we see happening …
The GOV'T shuts down Fri.: What we see happening …
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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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CBS News:
Dylan Farrow details her sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen — Only on “CBS This Morning,” Dylan Farrow is speaking candidly for the first time on television about her sexual assault allegations against her adoptive father, actor and director Woody Allen.
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Patrick Sisson / Curbed:
Apple announces second campus, promises to bring 20,000 jobs — Part of $350 billion U.S. investment, it may set off Amazon #HQ2-like scramble among cities — On the heels of the frenzied competition between cities for Amazon's HQ2, Apple announced earlier today that it will also be building …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
NYPD officers raid Newsweek headquarters — About two dozen NYPD offficers and investigators from the Manhattan district attorney's office raided the offices of Newsweek and its parent company, IBT Media, on Thursday. — IBT Media was co-founded by Jonathan Davis and Etienne Uzac.
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Bloomberg:
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought — Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber? — A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations …
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The Guardian:
The boss, the boyfriend and the FBI: the Italian woman in the eye of the Trump-Russia inquiry — No wonder Robert Mueller's investigation came knocking — imona Mangiante never expected that a flirtation that began on LinkedIn would lead to a subpoena to appear before federal agents working …
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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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi is going to be a guest judge on 'RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars' — She might be more familiar with democracy, but top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi is soon going to show her expertise on a certain kind of monarchy: The California congresswoman is slated to appear as a guest judge …
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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 …
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Linda Borg / providencejournal.com:
Hendricken principal retires over racially charged video clip — WARWICK, R.I. — The principal of Bishop Hendricken High School has retired after school officials became aware of a brief video that shows him using racist and anti-Semitic language. — In an email that went out to Hendricken parents …
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.
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