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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ANOTHER ex-wife of Trump aide Rob Porter - who is dating Hope Hicks - tells DailyMail.com he choked, punched and belittled her about her weight her during their five-year marriage  — Colbie Holderness, 37, a senior analyst for the U.S. government and the first wife of Rob Porter …
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The Intercept:
Former Wives of Top White House Aide Rob Porter Both Told FBI He Abused Them  —  As the FBI conducted a background check on an incoming senior White House official last year, the bureau learned of the man's history of domestic abuse.  Rob Porter, a top aide to President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Atlantic, The Week and Mediaite
Daily Mail:
Hope Hicks, 29, was spotted stepping out of her D.C. apartment with White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter ten days ago  —  ‘I want to be very clear when I say this,’ Willoughby said.  'I don't want to be married to him.  I would not recommend anyone to date him or marry him.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Beyond Disbelief”: John Kelly's Defense of Rob Porter Roils the West Wing  —  Staff Secretary Rob Porter, who has been accused of abusing his former wives, is Kelly's right hand—and dating Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest confidantes.  But Kelly's declaration that Porter is a man of …
CNN:
Former White House aide's ex-wives detail abuse allegations  —  White House responds to Rob Porter resignation  —  (CNN)Rob Porter, a top White House aide with regular access to President Donald Trump abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid abuse allegations from two ex-wives …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigns amid abuse allegations  —  White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned today after his two ex-wives came forward with abuse allegations.  —  What we're hearing: Nobody pressured him to resign, per multiple officials.
CNN:
White House officials knew about Porter's abuse allegations and scrambled to protect him  —  (CNN)Allegations of domestic abuse levied against top White House staffer Rob Porter by his ex-wives were known among senior aides to President Donald Trump for months, even as his stock …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House aide Rob Porter resigns after allegations from ex-wives  —  White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a mostly unknown but deeply influential aide who spends almost every day by President Donald Trump's side, said Wednesday he plans to resign following abuse allegations from his ex-wives.
Discussion: Vox and Above the Law
CNN:
White House aide denies abuse allegations but resigns
The Daily Beast:
Trump White House Tried, and Failed, to Keep Aide Rob Porter After Accusations of Wife-Beating Surfaced
Discussion: RedState
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Senior White House official to resign following allegations of abuse
New York Times:
Rob Porter, White House Aide, Resigns After Accusations of Abuse
Discussion: The Week
Del Quentin Wilber / Wall Street Journal:
Texts From 2016 Show FBI Employees Preparing Obama Briefing on Russia  —  Exchange doesn't relate to Clinton email probe, as a Republican senator suggests  —  Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief Barack Obama about Russia's interference in that year's election …
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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
FBI lovers' latest text messages: Obama ‘wants to know everything’  —  Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we're doing.”
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Obama Text from FBI Agent Hyped by Fox News Reportedly Was Not About Clinton Probe  —  So if you've been plugged into the news today, you may have seen the news of more Peter Strzok-Lisa Page texts being released.  The text getting the most attention is the one reading …
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Right-wing media obsesses over FBI text message story; hours later it's debunked  —  Members of the pro-Trump media acted like they hit the goldmine on Wednesday morning.  Led by Fox News, these outlets went into a frenzy over what they presented as an explosive story that not only cast former President Obama …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News' latest ‘bombshell’ on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud
hsgac.senate.gov:
Chairman Johnson Releases Interim Report Including Strzok-Page FBI Text Messages
Discussion: NewsBusters and The Last Refuge
NBC News:
Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, says top U.S. official  —  The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.
Discussion: CNBC, New York Post, Splinter and NBC News
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: Quincy Jones  —  In both music and manner, Quincy Jones has always registered — from afar, anyway — as smooth, sophisticated, and impeccably well-connected.  (That's what earning 28 Grammy awards and co-producing Michael Jackson's biggest-selling albums will do.)
Washington Post:
Sweeping budget deal would add $400 billion in federal spending, end months of partisan wrangling … Congressional leaders on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping budget deal that would add about $400 billion in federal spending over the next two years, delivering the military funding boost demanded …
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Associated Press:
Pelosi stages talkathon to push for vote for ‘dreamers’
Discussion: Axios and The Week
Terri Peters / TODAY.com:
Meet the first Gerber baby with Down syndrome; his name is Lucas!  —  The 2018 Gerber baby is Lucas Warren, a 1-year-old from Dalton, Georgia who is the first child with Down syndrome to be named a Gerber baby since the contest's start in 2010.  —  “He's very outgoing and never meets a stranger …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Hair Illusion Came Undone and We All Missed It  —  Last Friday, at the end of one of those frenetic weeks of news that now happen every week, President Trump boarded Air Force One.  The wind whipped across the tarmac with unusual force.  Trump, who normally has a MAGA hat for such occasions, was unusually unprepared.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
NEW: Criminal Referral Confirms Nunes Memo's Explosive Claims Of FISA Abuse  —  A criminal referral from top Senate investigators confirms explosive charges in last week's House Intelligence Committee memo regarding abuse of surveillance authorities at the FBI and Department of Justice.
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CBS News:
How CBS News reported the last national military parade in 1991  —  The White House confirmed Tuesday that President Trump has requested the military begin preparations for a parade in Washington D.C. The last time a national military parade was held in the capital was June 1991 to celebrate the U.S. victory in the first Gulf War.
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ABC News:
Trump's call for big military parade gets mixed reaction on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Washington Post:
‘Tanks, but no tanks’: D.C. officials pan Trump's proposed grand military parade
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats flipped a Missouri state legislature seat that Trump won by 28 points  —  Special elections are painting a bleak outlook for the GOP.  —  Democrats had another good Tuesday night of special elections, this time in Missouri, where Mike Revis won a 3-point victory in House District 97 …
Discussion: Politico
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Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Democrats snag Missouri House seat, Republicans hang onto 3 others in special election
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Democrats Win Special Election In Missouri District That Went Big For Trump
Kerry Lotzof / nhm.ac.uk:
Cheddar Man: Mesolithic Britain's blue-eyed boy  —  Ancient DNA from Cheddar Man, a Mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in Britain.
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Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Openly gay figure skater Adam Rippon declined chance to speak with Vice President Pence  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Vice President Pence is set to arrive here soon to lead the official U.S. delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic opening ceremony, a delegation that is making a strong political statement …
Maya Dukmasova / Chicago Reader:
Ten women sign letter accusing Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of sexual harassment and assault  —  Ten former students of Northwestern University professor Alec Klein have issued a public letter accusing the award-winning journalist and Medill Justice Project director …
 
 
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Telegraph:
George Soros, the man who ‘broke the Bank of England’, backing secret plot to thwart Brexit
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on MS-13 gang and stock market
Discussion: Breitbart
Jeff Hirsh / WKRC:
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Treason, Trump, and the Democrats
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Pruitt suggests warming can help humans
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Gabriel Bell / Salon:
Here's what the critics are saying about “Black Panther” — it's a “masterpiece”
The Daily Beast:
Cash for Coalition Against Trump Going Into Consultants' Pockets Instead
Discussion: Splinter and Eschaton
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How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
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