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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC finance chair Steve Wynn resigns after sexual harassment allegations — Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn on Saturday stepped down as Republican National Committee finance chairman, according to three senior Republicans briefed on the decision. — The decision followed a Friday report …
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Washington Post:
Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair, GOP official says. Wynn stepped down a day after a report alleged sexual misconduct. — “Today I accepted Steve Wynn's resignation as Republican National Committee Finance Chair,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement.
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Scandal-ridden GOP donor spoke at Mar-a-Lago last week — Washington (CNN)Reports surfaced Friday that Republican donor and fundraiser Steve Wynn faced several allegations of sexual misconduct, per a story in the Wall Street Journal. Just a week prior, the Las Vegas mogul spoke at an RNC fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago.
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CNNMoney:
Wynn Resorts board launches investigation into sexual misconduct allegations
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Republicans are urged to return their own scandal-engulfed major donor's money
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New York Times:
The Follower Factory — Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market. — Celebrities, athletes, pundits and politicians are buying millions of fake followers. — While the world's social media platforms look the other way.
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Courier-Journal:
Reporter rushes to Kentucky school shooting - and learns the alleged gunman is her son … BENTON, Ky. — It was a journalist's worst nightmare. — The editor of the Marshall County Daily Online raced to the county's high school Tuesday morning after reports that shots had been fired.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Counsel Quietly Trying to Corral Trump While Pushing G.O.P.'s Agenda — WASHINGTON — When Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, moved into his corner office on the West Wing's second floor last January, he chose not to decorate its walls or fill its glass-paneled shelving with personal items.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump sought release of classified Russia memo, putting him at odds with Justice Department … On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document that they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Trump made clear his desire: release the memo.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Who is the White House counsel who reportedly threatened to resign?
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Raw Story
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Russian bots retweeted Trump nearly 500,000 times in final weeks of 2016 campaign — Russian-linked automated Twitter accounts, or bots, retweeted Donald Trump almost half a million times in the final weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Twitter told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Susannah Bryan / Sun-Sentinel:
Mayor sought illegal funds for political allies, records allege — Sun Sentinel — Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who was removed from office Friday after being snared in an FBI sting, solicited illegal campaign contributions not only for herself but for two political allies, court documents say.
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Carolina A. Miranda / L.A. Times Guild:
Tronc execs need to come clean about their plans for the LA Times — Dear Colleagues: — As journalists, we demand transparency from the people we cover. As employees of the Los Angeles Times, we demand the same of the executives who run our company. — This week, various media reports …
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Rep. Devin Nunes' hometown paper nails him for being “Trump's stooge” — The Fresno Bee, a daily newspaper in Fresno, CA, issued a savage takedown of GOP Rep. Devin Nunes on Friday, blasting the congressman for being “Trump's stooge” and “doing the dirty work” of the White House.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Data shows Trump's DC hotel was pricier and emptier than peers in 2017 — Washington (CNN)Just a few months before President Donald Trump moved into the White House, his presence was already firmly established in downtown Washington, just a few blocks from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Scumbag and liar’: Ex-White House ethics chief hammers Trump apologist Jack Kingston for attacking Mueller investigation — During a CNN panel discussion on a report that President Donald Trump asked White House lawyer Doug McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller …
Arizona Capitol Times:
Legislative staffers say pro-Trump supporters called them ‘illegal’ for being dark-skinned — Navajo legislator also says protesters asked him if he is in the U.S. illegally — Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include strong denials from pro-Trump protesters of allegations …
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Raw Story
New York Post:
Michael Wolff's ugly, sexist smear of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley — UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, one of the Trump administration's brightest stars, has been forced to deny an ugly, sexist rumor fueled by sleazeball Michael Wolff. — On Bill Maher's HBO program, Wolff — author of a best-selling …
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Power Line
Amy Sullivan / Politico:
Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President — If Donald Trump gets a little bored on his flight home from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he can always page through a book handed to him by a delegate not long after he arrived: “God and Donald Trump.”
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The Week
New York Times:
'It's a Massacre': Taliban Bomb in Ambulance Kills 95 in Kabul — KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb placed in an ambulance set off a huge explosion on a busy Kabul street on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and injuring at least 158 others, Afghan officials said.
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