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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator's Texts — WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel's top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer …
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CBS News:
Hope Hicks' “white lies” testimony becomes a flashpoint for House Intel Committee — In a rare, on-the-record accounting of some of the House Intelligence committee's secret, closed-door proceedings, two members of the House Intelligence Committee explained to CBS News what led White House …
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Fox News:
Nunes: FBI may have violated criminal statutes in FISA application to spy on Trump adviser Carter Page — The FBI may have violated criminal statutes, as well as its own strict internal procedures, by using unverified information during the 2016 election to obtain a surveillance warrant …
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Nicolle Wallace / NBC News:
White House preparing for McMaster exit as early as next month — WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser as early as next month in a move orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five people familiar with the discussions.
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Many Trump Staffers Are Trying To Leave His Out-Of-Control White House — Even for this chaotic administration, the last few weeks have taken a toll on President Donald Trump and his staff. A tragic mass shooting, big-name staff departures, and a series of scandals …
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Associated Press:
Trump adrift: Tumult in West Wing amid exits, investigation
Trump adrift: Tumult in West Wing amid exits, investigation
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Hope Against Hope — Hope Hicks is kidding herself if she thinks …
Hope Against Hope — Hope Hicks is kidding herself if she thinks …
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Axios:
The wild wars within the Trump White House
The wild wars within the Trump White House
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The White House Didn't Break Hope Hicks Overnight
The White House Didn't Break Hope Hicks Overnight
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Matt Glassman / New York Times:
The Root of White House Chaos? A Weak President
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Kelly: I didn't want to leave DHS, but ‘God punished me’
Kelly: I didn't want to leave DHS, but ‘God punished me’
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CNN:
Exclusive: FBI counterintel investigating Ivanka Trump business deal — (CNN)US counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump's international business deals, according to two sources familiar with the matter. — The FBI has been looking into the negotiations …
NBC News:
Mueller eyes charges against Russians who stole, spread Democrats' emails — WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is assembling a case for criminal charges against Russians who carried out the hacking and leaking of private information designed to hurt Democrats in the 2016 election …
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Russia “Previewed” Plan to Disseminate Emails with Trump Campaign
Russia “Previewed” Plan to Disseminate Emails with Trump Campaign
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Report Is Expected to Criticize Andrew McCabe Over Media Disclosures — WASHINGTON — A Justice Department review is expected to criticize the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, for authorizing the disclosure of information about a continuing investigation to journalists …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ally Was in Talks to Earn Millions in Effort to End 1MDB Probe in U.S. — Emails indicate Republican donor and wife were negotiating fee if the Justice Department closed its investigation — A top Republican fundraiser close to President Donald Trump was in negotiations to earn tens …
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USA Today:
Voters vow to elect a Congress that stands up to Trump, poll shows — WASHINGTON — Americans are mad, and that is putting Republicans at risk. — A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds voters looking toward the midterm elections are overwhelmingly unhappy with the country's direction …
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Michael Dimock / Pew Research Center:
Defining generations: Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin — For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups. One lens often employed by researchers …
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Pew Research Center:
1. Generations' party identification, midterm voting preferences, views of Trump — Millennial voters continue to have the highest proportion of independents of any generation. But when their partisan leanings are taken into account, they also are the most Democratic generation.
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to Quit Amid Tense Relations Under Trump — MEXICO CITY — The United States ambassador to Mexico plans to resign from her post in May, according to a memo circulated on Thursday to embassy staff, the latest in a string of senior diplomatic departures from the region …
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CNNMoney:
Longtime Fox News exec who wrote controversial Olympics column out at network — Fox News exec slams Olympic committee's focus on diversity — John Moody, the longtime Fox News executive who wrote a controversial column about the US Olympic committee last month, is no longer with Fox News …
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CNN:
See HUD's $31,000 mahogany dining set — Washington (CNN)A $31,000 dining set the Department of Housing and Urban Development purchased, which raised eyebrows when first reported Tuesday, includes a table, sideboard, breakfront — all in mahogany — and 10 mahogany chairs with a blue velvet finish …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Ben Carson Tries to Cancel $31,000 Dining Furniture Purchase for HUD Office
Ben Carson Tries to Cancel $31,000 Dining Furniture Purchase for HUD Office
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Justin Wm. Moyer / Washington Post:
‘March For Our Lives’ gun-control rally bumped from Mall by ‘talent show’ … A planned rally against mass shootings can't be held on the Mall later this month because it conflicts with what's described in a National Park Service permit application as a “talent show.”
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Tennessean.com:
Mike Huckabee resigns from CMA Foundation board following controversy — Mike Huckabee and TBN president Matthew Crouch talk about the new show in Nashville — Less than one day after his appointment was announced, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has resigned from the CMA Foundation board of directors …
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Plans Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum and Markets Slump — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he will impose stiff tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, thwarting some of his top pro-trade advisers and rattling stock markets as the prospect of a global trade fight loomed.
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Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
Beer and cars could get more expensive because of Trump tariffs
Beer and cars could get more expensive because of Trump tariffs
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Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles declaration — President says Russia has new line of nuclear-capable weapons that can breach US defences … Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a new line of strategic, nuclear-capable weapons that would be able …
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Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Putin boasts military might with animation of Florida nuke strike
Putin boasts military might with animation of Florida nuke strike
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored ‘the Einstein visa’ — In 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rick Gates tells judge he's canceling trip due to threat invoking Russian mafia — Ex-Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty — Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates told a federal court Thursday afternoon that he and his wife believe it's “not prudent” …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Dark money group America First Policies is running a pro-Trump polling operation. Here is an inside look at its secretive work — America First Policies, a nonprofit group with close ties to President Donald Trump, has hired Trump's pollsters to conduct a wide range of political polling and research.
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Georgia Passes Bill That Stings Delta Over N.R.A. Position — ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that stripped out a tax break proposal highly coveted by Delta Air Lines — the most stinging punishment that America's pro-gun forces have leveled so far …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The ‘Experts’ Kobach Is Using To Defend His Voter Fraud Claims In Court — Next week, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will go to federal court to defend a voting restriction that he has for years tried to implement in his state. — To help Kobach make his case …
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Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
YouTube Terminates Account of InfoWars Bureau Chief — It's been a wild week for InfoWars's DC bureau chief Jerome Corsi. On Tuesday, Corsi, a proponent of the QAnon and Obama birther conspiracies, was riding high after being printed in USA Today, the country's highest-circulating paper.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Robert Kraft's much younger girlfriend secretly had a baby — There was speculation about Patriots owner Bob Kraft after his much younger girlfriend Ricki Noel Lander secretly had a baby — but he's confirmed that the child is not his. — Billionaire Kraft, who has four adult sons …
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Associated Press:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen charged over IS photos — PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism.
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