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Axios:
Scoop: Rob Porter telling different story than John Kelly — White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter is telling associates that some senior White House officials strongly encouraged him to “stay and fight,” and claims he “never misrepresented anything” to Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Politico, New York Magazine, ABC News, Political Wire and Washington Post
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Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro blames Barack Obama for Rob Porter wife-beating scandal — Fox News host Jeanine Pirro suggested that former President Barack Obama was to blame for the scandal surrounding ex-Trump aide Rob Porter. — Porter never received full security clearance and was ousted …
New York Times:
‘No Fire, No Fury?’ Trump Is on Board With a Jeanine Pirro Book to Rebut Michael Wolff — Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News personality and longtime friend and champion of President Trump, has discussed with him the possibility of a book project to counter the damning portrayal of his presidency …
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RedState, Business Insider, The Guardian, TheBlaze and Mediaite
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Conway on Porter's alleged abuse: ‘I have no reason not to believe these women’
Conway on Porter's alleged abuse: ‘I have no reason not to believe these women’
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast, KTLA, Mediaite and fox13now.com
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 2-11-18: Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway
‘This Week’ Transcript 2-11-18: Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway
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Shareblue Media and The Week
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
White House On Defense Amid Fallout Over Rob Porter
William J. Antholis / Politico:
Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too
Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too
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Shareblue Media, The Guardian and Washington Post
David Siders / Politico:
Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site — LOS ANGELES — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet.
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The Hill, Mother Jones, RedState, Vox, Mediaite and Political Wire
Reuters:
North Korea judged winner of diplomatic gold at Olympics — PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - North Korea has emerged as the early favorite to grab one of the Winter Olympics' most important medals: the diplomatic gold. — That is the assessment of a former South Korean government minister …
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Axios, CNN, ABC News and twitchy.com
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Karolos Grohmann / Reuters:
Games organizers confirm cyber attack, won't reveal source — PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirmed on Sunday that the Games had fallen victim to a cyber attack during Friday's opening ceremony, but they refused to reveal the source.
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The Guardian, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Week
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
The ‘Ivanka Trump of North Korea’ captivates people in the South at the Olympics … GANGNEUNG, South Korea — They marveled at her barely-there makeup and her lack of bling. They commented on her plain black outfits and simple purse. They noted the flower-shaped clip that kept her hair back in a no-nonsense style.
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Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a commercially run venture, NASA document shows. … The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Squirms as Trump Veers Off Script With Abuse Remarks — WASHINGTON — President Trump's approval ratings have been nudging upward and his party's political standing is improving, but the president's unceasing habit of making inflammatory and insensitive remarks is galvanizing opposition against him …
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New York Post, The Guardian, twitchy.com, Mashable, Mediaite, Deadline and Washington Monthly
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Christine Emba / Washington Post:
Due process hasn't changed. Donald Trump should.
Due process hasn't changed. Donald Trump should.
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ThinkProgress, New York Times and ABC News
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Gillibrand: If Trump wants due process, we'll have hearings on allegations against him
Gillibrand: If Trump wants due process, we'll have hearings on allegations against him
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Mother Jones, twitchy.com, Mediaite, The Root, Washington Free Beacon, AOL, Bangor Daily News, CBS New York, Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Vox
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
America shames Trump for smearing domestic violence victims
America shames Trump for smearing domestic violence victims
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Business Insider, Raw Story, Dan Rather, Chicago Tribune and Washington Post
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Shows Us the Way — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump slipped into the Oval Office through a wormhole of confusion about the American identity. — We weren't winning wars anymore. They just went on and on and on, with inexplicable and deceptive aims and so many lives and limbs and trillions lost.
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Outside groups pummel vulnerable senators in early wave of television advertising — WASHINGTON — The midterm congressional elections are months away, but well-funded outside groups already are dominating the airwaves in what will be a multi-million dollar brawl for control of the Senate.
CNNMoney:
Why the bond market is freaking out Wall Street — Dow plunges 1,000 points and sinks into correction — 1. Blame the bonds: The normally boring bond market is causing serious drama on Wall Street. — An avalanche of selling sent the Dow and S&P 500 careening 5% lower last week …
CNN:
Senator seeking admin records on Trump's sale of Palm Beach mansion to Russian — (CNN)A senator is asking the Treasury Department to turn over records of a lucrative real estate sale Donald Trump made to a Russian billionaire as the Senate Finance Committee looks into Trump's ties to Russians.
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AOL
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Kimberly Leonard / Washington Examiner:
Sen. Ron Wyden calls for investigation into Trump's mansion sale to Russian
Sen. Ron Wyden calls for investigation into Trump's mansion sale to Russian
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RedState
Dean Baker / cepr.net:
NYT Misleads Readers: “Ballooning Deficits” Do Not Add Urgency to Republican Efforts to Cut Medicaid and Other Programs — The NYT should have its presses washed out with soap. In an article about plans to impose work requirements for Medicaid it told readers:
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