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Bloomberg:
FBI's Wray Opposes GOP Memo Release, Citing Inaccuracies — Trump overheard saying memo ‘100 percent’ should be released — Republicans say memo raises doubts about Russia probe — FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on thwarted Sessions resignation, source says — In the weeks before special counsel Robert Mueller's team interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department turned over a cache of internal correspondence, including documents related …
Washington Post:
Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks of 2016 election … The Justice Department's inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch …
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. officials appealed to White House to halt release of memo alleging FBI abuses related to author of Trump dossier … Top Justice Department officials made a last-ditch plea Monday to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly about the dangers of publicly releasing a memo alleging abuses …
CNN:
Trump's lawyers argue Mueller has not met threshold for presidential interview
Trump's lawyers argue Mueller has not met threshold for presidential interview
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The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Won't Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo
Devin Nunes Won't Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Seeks Interview With Ex-Spokesman for Trump's Legal Team
Mueller Seeks Interview With Ex-Spokesman for Trump's Legal Team
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Eric Columbus / Washington Post:
Mueller won't indict Trump. But here's what he can do.
CBS News:
Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll — Views of the speech — Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved. — How did the speech make you feel?
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Ryan Struyk / CNN:
CNN Instant poll: Trump gets least positive reaction in at least 20 years — Washington (CNN)Almost half of Americans who watched President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address — 48% — say they had a “very positive” impression of the speech, down from 57% of speech-watchers …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump arrived at State of the Union separately from the President — Washington (CNN)In a break with longstanding tradition, Melania Trump opted to ride with the guests she invited to share her first lady's box during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
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NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump's State Of The Union Address
FACT CHECK: Trump's State Of The Union Address
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Washington Post:
A divisive and misleading State of the Union
A divisive and misleading State of the Union
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Trump campaign: Send us $1 and we'll scroll your name during State of the Union live stream
Trump campaign: Send us $1 and we'll scroll your name during State of the Union live stream
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Kennedy responds to Trump: ‘We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country’
Kennedy responds to Trump: ‘We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country’
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigns amid tobacco stock furor — Fitzgerald's departure comes less than a day after Politico revealed she bought stock in a tobacco company within a month of taking her job.
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Trump's top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts — The Trump administration's top public health official bought shares in a tobacco company one month into her leadership of the agency charged with reducing tobacco use — the leading cause of preventable disease …
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Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
CDC director who traded tobacco stock resigns — Trump's top public health official resigned Wednesday amid mounting questions about financial conflicts of interest. — Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald's resignation comes one day after POLITICO reported that one month into her tenure as CDC director …
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Debra Goldschmidt / CNN:
CDC Director Fitzgerald resigns
CDC Director Fitzgerald resigns
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Victor Cha / Washington Post:
Giving North Korea a ‘bloody nose’ carries a huge risk to Americans — Victor Cha is a professor at Georgetown University and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. — North Korea, if not stopped, will build an arsenal with multiple nuclear missiles meant …
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Russian spy chiefs met in Washington with CIA director to discuss counterterrorism … Two top Russian spy chiefs traveled to Washington last week to discuss counterterrorism issues with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, but the unusual visit also raised concerns among some U.S. officials that Moscow …
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CBS News:
CIA director Mike Pompeo met with Russian counterpart in U.S.
CIA director Mike Pompeo met with Russian counterpart in U.S.
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Okerr / Lawfare:
The Dubious Legal Claim Behind #ReleaseTheMemo — It seems likely that the House Intelligence Committee will soon #ReleaseTheMemo. According to press reports, the memo claims that the FISA application to monitor Trump campaign advisor Carter Page included information sourced …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Real Aim of the Secret Memo Is the Mueller Investigation — WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said on Tuesday that he wanted Americans to see a secret memo that portrays the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation as scandalous, he also said he cautioned his Republican colleagues …
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Amanda Carpenter / Politico:
I'm a Republican. Why Is My Party Gaslighting America?
I'm a Republican. Why Is My Party Gaslighting America?
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Hillary Clinton:
The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women. I've tried to do so here at home, around the world, and in the organizations I've run. I started in my twenties, and four decades later I'm nowhere near being done. I'm proud that it's the work I'm most associated with …
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Allison Graves / PolitiFact:
Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech — President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment of American life in his first State of the Union address — but several of his points were factually flawed. — “This is our new American moment,” Trump said.
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President Donald Trump / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's claims in his State of Union address
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's claims in his State of Union address
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In Joe Kennedy's speech, Democrats rediscovered Barack Obama's compelling vision — America is about equality, across all dimensions. — No State of the Union response speech has ever been a truly great speech, but Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) delivered what's probably the best entry in the genre that I've ever heard Tuesday night.
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Kennedy responds for the Democrats
Kennedy responds for the Democrats
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ABC:
The Cabinet Files reveal national security breaches, NBN negotiations, welfare reform plans — Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security. — This was not a leak — here's what it took to unlock national secrets
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Congressman Luis Gutierrez:
GUTIÉRREZ ON STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS — Issues: — 4th District of Illinois, Other — Washington, DC - Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) issued a statement after listening to the President's State of the Union address. Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez is a Member …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's immigration ‘compromise’ is a trick
Trump's immigration ‘compromise’ is a trick
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New York Times:
A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together — LOS ANGELES — When an ambitious Civil War colonel from Ohio seized control of a fledgling daily newspaper here in the late 19th century, Los Angeles was a rough-hewed frontier town with no paved streets and a population of a few thousand people.