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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hope Hicks to Resign as White House Communications Director — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump's longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she was resigning. — Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign without …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump family v. John Kelly — The Trump family — and the president's oldest son, Don Jr., in particular — was angry about the overwhelmingly negative TV coverage about Jared Kushner last night, and feels White House Chief of Staff Kelly is hanging Jared out to dry, a source familiar with the situation tells Axios.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump — WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Kushner bombshell: Fox buries unflattering story for Trump White House...again — This is why Trump loves ‘Fox & Friends’ — Jared Kushner's downgraded security clearance is the top story for nearly every major news organization in America, but on Fox News, the stunning development has itself been downgraded.
NBC News:
Trump slammed Clinton over handling of classified info. That looks like hypocrisy now — First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter — Jared Kushner loses access to highly classified information 3:04
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Meet the 29-year-old WH communications director
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Jared Kushner
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Little white lies could be a very big problem for Hope Hicks
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Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
NRA directly appealed to Trump against raising age for firearms purchases
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NBC News:
Mueller asking if Trump knew about hacked Democratic emails before release — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses pointed questions about whether Donald Trump was aware that Democratic emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved …
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CNN:
Mueller team asks about Trump's Russian business dealings as he weighed a run for president — (CNN)Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trump's business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered …
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Julie Creswell / New York Times:
Dick's, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles — One of the nation's largest sports retailers, Dick's Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores. — The retailer also said that it would no longer …
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Alex Daugherty / miamiherald:
Rubio bill would let young adults in D.C. purchase the AR-15 — WASHINGTON — Last week, Marco Rubio stared into the eyes of a father who lost his daughter during the nation's deadliest high school shooting and made an announcement: Young adults should not be able to purchase guns.
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Bob Eller / Talking Points Memo:
Father Of FL Shooting Survivor Says He Edited Email Used To Discredit CNN
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Rubio's approval rating hits all-time low in Florida: poll
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Stephen Maloney / WGNO:
Armed social studies teacher arrested after shooting at Georgia high school — DALTON, GA. - An armed social studies teacher has been arrested after shots were fired at a high school in a small town in northern Georgia. — Fifty-three-year-old Jesse Randall Davidson …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
PBS launching new conservative political talk show — NEW YORK (AP) — Columnist Michael Gerson and commentator Amy Holmes are teaming to start a conservative-oriented talk show on PBS that takes its cue from William F. Buckley's “Firing Line,” which aired from 1966 to 1999.
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Ben Schreckinger / GQ:
Steve Bannon Is Hatching His Comeback — In a wide-ranging and challenging conversation, Donald Trump's former strategist tells GQ's Ben Schreckinger why the #MeToo movement amazes him, why the Chinese enrage him, and why his secret new venture—a project to “weaponize ideas”—excites him.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Is Reluctant to Escalate the Cyber War With Russia — Putin has proven he will retaliate. — Democrats are furious. Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community have no doubt that Russian trolls, bots and hackers are planning to meddle in the midterm elections this fall …
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People.com:
Oprah Winfrey Reveals the One Thing That Could Make Her Run for President — There's only one thing that could make Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020. — Amid calls for her to consider a run for the White House — from fans as well as her closest friends — “I went into prayer,” …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
Why I'm Writing Captain America — Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics. To say it is more difficult than it looks is to commit oneself to criminal understatement. Writers don't write comics so much as they draw them with words.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Sessions defends himself after Trump bashed him on Twitter — Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared to rebuff criticism from Donald Trump Wednesday, vowing to do his job with “integrity and honor” after the president said it was “disgraceful” that Sessions asked an internal watchdog …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jeff Sessions Issues Statement After Trump Attack: I Will Do My Job ‘With Integrity and Honor’
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Liz Ruskin / Alaska Public Media:
Rep. Young suggests guns could've saved Jews during Holocaust — Speaking at a conference in Juneau last week, Alaska Congressman Don Young argued against gun control by suggesting Jews might not have died in the Holocaust if they had been armed. — Listen now
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Jerome R. Corsi / USA Today:
Arm qualified, willing teachers and staff — Allowing teachers and school staff the right to carry weapons provides the possibility of a near instant response: Opposing view — Even in the best of circumstances, police responding to a school shooting need time to deploy, arrive on the scene and engage.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
USA Today Runs Op-Ed From Jerome Corsi, InfoWars D.C. Bureau Chief
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New York Times:
With AR-15s, Mass Shooters Attack With the Rifle Firepower Typically Used by Infantry Troops — A Marine shooting a standard rifle used by the military. — The gunman firing a civilian variant during the Parkland shooting. … Since 2007, at least 173 people have been killed in mass shootings …
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Bloomberg:
Manafort Joined Trump as Ukraine Work Dried Up, Cash Woes Rose — Fixer said to visit 17 times in 2014-15, with unpaid bills — Gates cooperation gives Mueller view on Manafort's cash hunt — Among the enduring curiosities of Donald Trump's presidential run was his announcement …
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Danny Vinik / Politico:
Press secretary quits FEMA, citing ‘boys club’ — Resignation comes after top public affairs leader left the agency amid pressure over its response to hurricanes. — Two top public-affairs officers of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have resigned over the past month …
Nature:
An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum — Abstract — After stars formed in the early Universe, their ultraviolet light is expected, eventually, to have penetrated the primordial hydrogen gas and altered the excitation state of its 21-centimetre hyperfine line.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The GOP's Tax-Cut Narrative Is Already Unraveling — The big Republican tax cut isn't even three months old yet. But it's already confounding. — For months, critics (like me) predicted that the new law would be a handout for large corporations, which would drive up their stock prices and enrich wealthy investors.
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Alex Leary / Tampa Bay Times:
Trump shuts out Bill Nelson from meeting on guns — The Democrat hasn't been invited to a White House meeting on guns to be held Wednesday. — WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump this afternoon will discuss gun legislation with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, seeking momentum amid concerns …
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