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Axios:
Trump's real plan for 2018 — President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that Axios' Jonathan Swan calls “science fiction.” — It's the strangest of year-ahead plans for a party that controls …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Reckoning with Women Awaits Trump — Donald Trump is the least mysterious figure in the history of the American Presidency. His infantile character, duplicity, cold-heartedness, and self-dealing greed are evident not merely to the majority of the poll-answering electorate but …
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Washington Monthly, Philly.com, Hullabaloo and CNN
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Twisted: Trump says Porter sick, guilty; defends him publicly
Twisted: Trump says Porter sick, guilty; defends him publicly
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
In big reversal, new Trump budget will give up on longtime Republican goal of eliminating deficit … President Trump on Monday will offer a budget plan that falls far short of eliminating the government's deficit over 10 years, conceding that huge tax cuts and new spending increases …
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The Week, Associated Press, Political Wire and Axios
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May ‘Spike’ on Deficit — Mulvaney says Trump's economic moves ‘not a sugar high’ — OMB is adjusting 2018, 2019 budgets after spending bill passed — The U.S. will post a larger budget deficit this year and could see a “spike” …
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Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Trump plan will drop GOP's traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years
Trump plan will drop GOP's traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years
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Reuters
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump to demand tough budget cuts for domestic programs
Trump to demand tough budget cuts for domestic programs
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and TheBlaze
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump wanted to ‘lock her up’ for far less … Candidate Donald Trump used, more than any other issue, Hillary Clinton's home email server to argue that she was unfit for office and, moreover, that there were grounds for sending her to jail. The eerie chants, more common in banana republics …
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Exclusive: CIA Ex-Director Brennan's Perjury Peril — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump …
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The Gateway Pundit and Real Clear Politics
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
First-class travel distinguishes Scott Pruitt's EPA tenure … Just days after helping orchestrate the United States' exit from a global climate accord last June, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt embarked on a whirlwind tour aimed at championing President Trump's agenda at home and abroad.
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, The Week and Splinter
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: PELOSI pulls in nearly 50 million bucks for House Dems in 2017 …
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: PELOSI pulls in nearly 50 million bucks for House Dems in 2017 …
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israelhayom.com, Joe.My.God., thecut and The Week
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse. — In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an alarm. A few weeks before the 2016 election …
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Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
USA Today:
Harvey Weinstein forced staff to manage his sexual conquests, civil rights suit says — Harvey Weinstein was once at the very top of Hollywood. As accusations of his sexual predation came to light, it didn't just trigger his downfall. It ushered in a tidal wave of exposure of sexual impropriety in the film industry.
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Washington Post:
Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe … A week after he won the election, President Trump promised that his administration would round up millions of immigrant gang members and drug dealers. And after he took office …
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New York Magazine and The Week
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Pence: The United States is ready to talk with North Korea — Despite the mutual chilliness between U.S. and North Korean officials in South Korea last week, behind the scenes real progress was made toward a new diplomatic opening that could result in direct talks without preconditions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's ‘10-Foot-Tall Baby’
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's ‘10-Foot-Tall Baby’
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Breitbart, One America News Network and Raw Story
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Obamas' official portraits unveiled — Washington (CNN)Barack and Michelle Obama re-emerged on the public stage Monday in Washington, only this time for an event that has nothing to do with politics. — The former first couple's official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian's National …
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The Daily Caller, Towleroad and theGrio
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
MeToo will have staying power, Ruth Bader Ginsburg insists — RBG says Clinton was criticized worse than men — New York (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg believes the “#MeToo” movement will have “staying power” and that she doesn't worry about a serious backlash.
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New York Times:
Is Devin Nunes Obstructing Justice? — As public scrutiny exposes deep flaws in the memo from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, about alleged F.B.I. surveillance abuses, the committee's Republicans are increasingly downplaying its significance.
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The Daily Caller
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
I'm still a Republican, but my party needs to be fumigated: Tom Nichols — One day we'll be needed to recreate the GOP as a center-right party rather than a vehicle for inane populist keggers. For now, I hope Democrats win Congress in 2018. — Republicans once believed in limited government …
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
In eastern Kentucky, a rural county struggles without a steady supply of clean water … Across the steep hills and hollows of this remote Appalachian county, many do not trust what flows out of their faucets — if anything flows at all. — Sometimes they get no water. Other times just a trickle.
Felipe Villamor / New York Times:
Duterte Draws Fire for Crude Threat to Female Rebels in Philippines — MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine strongman who has earned a reputation for dirty tactics and language, was criticized on Monday for having boasted that he had ordered soldiers to shoot female communist guerrillas in the genitals.
Ken White / Popehat:
Lawsplainer: “Fruit of The Poisonous Tree” And The Special Counsel Investigation — I have a question. — I deserve this. … Of course it is. — It's about fruits and trees and some kind of poison or something? — Where did you pick that up?
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell's immigration gamble — Mitch McConnell is taking the reins of an immigration debate that may prompt a fix for “Dreamers” — or quickly spiral out of control. — Usually careful with his every move, the Senate majority leader is taking a gamble this week with his pledge for a free …
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Bloomberg, Splinter, Wall Street Journal and ImmigrationProf Blog
Chris Arnold / NPR:
Trump Administration Plans To Defang Consumer Protection Watchdog — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the financial crisis to protect Americans from being ripped off by financial firms. — Now, President Trump's interim appointee to run the bureau Mick Mulvaney …
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CNBC
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton, a favorite GOP foil, plans discreet 2018 strategy — There was a long line for selfies with Hillary Clinton last week at a Georgetown soiree for Lanny Davis, a Clinton loyalist whose latest book blames former FBI director James B. Comey for her 2016 presidential defeat.