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Trump frustrated with Hicks' role in Porter scandal — Porter's ex-wife: I don't think he's changed — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Hope Hicks, his communications director and one of his closest confidantes, amid the fallout from the Rob Porter scandal …
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Washington Post:
Kelly offers account of Porter exit that some White House aides consider untrue … White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Friday morning instructed senior staff to communicate a version of events about the departure of staff secretary Rob Porter that contradicts the administration's previous accounts …
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Washington Post:
Dozens at White House lack permanent security clearances … Dozens of White House employees are awaiting permanent security clearances and have been working for months with temporary approvals to handle sensitive information while the FBI continues to probe their backgrounds, according to U.S. officials.
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emptywheel and Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Unwelcome Attention for John Kelly, the Man Enlisted to Bring Calm — WASHINGTON — Among the many people agitated this week over John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, was President Trump. And among the people the president called to express dissatisfaction, according to those close to him …
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Washington Post:
Top White House officials knew of abuse allegations against top aide for months — White House Counsel Donald McGahn knew one year ago that Staff Secretary Rob Porter's ex-wives accused him of domestic violence but allowed him to serve as an influential gatekeeper and aide to President Trump …
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Helena Andrews-Dyer / Washington Post:
Omarosa says she wouldn't vote for Trump again ‘in a million years’ … She claimed to be looking forward to “staying away from the media,” but that didn't stop Omarosa from dropping as many headline-making statements as she could during Thursday night's episode of “Celebrity Big Brother.”
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Kelly crisis engulfs the West Wing
John Kelly crisis engulfs the West Wing
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Jane Coaston / Vox:
The White House had to protect Rob Porter to save Donald Trump
The White House had to protect Rob Porter to save Donald Trump
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance
Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump on Rob Porter: ‘We wish him well ... He did a good job’
Trump on Rob Porter: ‘We wish him well ... He did a good job’
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
CNN: Trump Unhappy With Hicks And Handling Of Porter Response
CNN: Trump Unhappy With Hicks And Handling Of Porter Response
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Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Why the Hell Is Hope Hicks Getting Off Easy?
Tierney McAfee / People.com:
Inside Hope Hicks' Troubled Romances with Ousted Top Trump Aides Rob Porter and Corey Lewandowski
Inside Hope Hicks' Troubled Romances with Ousted Top Trump Aides Rob Porter and Corey Lewandowski
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Talking Points Memo, CNN and CNNMoney
Washington Post:
Breaking with tradition, Trump skips president's written intelligence report and relies on oral briefings … For much of the past year, President Trump has declined to participate in a practice followed by the past seven of his predecessors: He rarely if ever reads the President's Daily Brief …
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: Trump Has Intel Officials Present Daily Briefing Rather Than Reading It
WaPo: Trump Has Intel Officials Present Daily Briefing Rather Than Reading It
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Michael Lewis / Bloomberg:
Has Anyone Seen the President? — Michael Lewis goes to Washington in search of Trump and winds up watching the State of the Union with Steve Bannon. — Back when he was president, Barack Obama told me that only two people treated any interaction with him as a zero-sum game.
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CNBC
Jonathan M. Winer / Washington Post:
Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here's the truth. — Jonathan M. Winer, a Washington lawyer and consultant, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement and former special envoy for Libya. — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes …
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Ed Henry / Fox News:
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to contact dossier author Christopher Steele
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to contact dossier author Christopher Steele
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is Christopher Steele?
Who Is Christopher Steele?
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
The dumbest shutdown ever — Rand Paul and Nancy Pelosi have virtually nothing in common. But on Thursday night, the conservative Kentucky firebrand and San Francisco Democratic leader teamed up to push Washington into what Capitol Hill dwellers are calling the dumbest shutdown fight ever.
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Hot Air:
Rush On The GOP Budget: I Just Don't Worry Much About The National Debt Anymore
Rush On The GOP Budget: I Just Don't Worry Much About The National Debt Anymore
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump Signs Budget Deal to Raise Spending and Reopen Government
Trump Signs Budget Deal to Raise Spending and Reopen Government
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Maya Rao / Star Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan won't run for re-election in 8th District — The Democratic congressman from northern Minnesota said it's time ‘to pass the baton.’ — U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan said Friday that he will not run for re-election when his term ends in 2018. — “Now is the time for me to pass …
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Brian Bakst / mprnews.org:
MN Rep. Nolan says he won't seek re-election to Congress
MN Rep. Nolan says he won't seek re-election to Congress
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Axios
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue ‘anti-racist’ activists, documents show — Officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists and sought their help to target counter protesters after a violent 2016 rally, according to court documents
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Sen. Tim Kaine demands release of secret Trump war powers memo — WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine is demanding the release of a secret memo outlining President Trump's interpretation of his legal authority to wage war. — Kaine, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees …
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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
This Student Failed Her Assignment Because Her Professor Said “Australia Isn't A Country” — This is Ashley Arnold, a 27-year-old resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho. She's a stay-at-home mom completing an online sociology degree with Southern New Hampshire University.
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The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, VICE and Boing Boing
Rose Hackman / The Guardian:
The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses — Bay View is for many an idyllic community - but a lawsuit will test its rule that only practicing Christians can own property … Tucked away in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, somewhere along the winding roads that hug Great Lakes shores …
Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS — The company is preparing to begin the offering in Los Angeles with its ‘third-party merchants’ and then roll it out more broadly — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -4.68% is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses …
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Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
High-School Coach ‘Ignored’ Boy's Screams as Teammates Raped Him, Lawsuit Claims … La Vernia, Texas—population 1,200—has struggled to emerge from a cloud that covered the sports-obsessed town after rape allegations involving its most gifted athletes went public almost one year ago.
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San Antonio Express-News and Raw Story
Hollywood Reporter:
Jill Messick's Family Issues Blistering Statement on Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan — “Seeing her name in headlines again and again, as part of one person's attempt to gain more attention for her personal cause, along with Harvey's desperate attempt to vindicate himself, was devastating for her,” the family said.
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Give South Korea a gold medal — As the world's attention turns briefly away from President Trump and toward the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, it's worth focusing not just on the sports but also on this year's host country. South Korea is, in some senses, the most successful nation in the world …
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Mark Osborne / ABC News:
Pence bashes North Korea's military parade, endorses Trump's parade
Pence bashes North Korea's military parade, endorses Trump's parade
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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed:
YouTube Just Cut Off Ads On All Of Logan Paul's Videos — YouTube has temporarily suspended ads on the channels of Logan Paul, the YouTube star who filmed and uploaded a controversial video of a suicide victim in Japan's Aokigahara forest in December 2017. YouTube's decision …
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Will Stancil / The Atlantic:
Democrats' ‘Resistance’ to Trump Is Eroding, and So Are Their Poll Numbers — Remember “this is not normal?” — A year ago, it was the motto of the self-styled “Resistance”—the coalition of liberals, Democrats, and a few wayward conservatives who were implacably opposed to the Trump administration.