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Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day' — (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a “rigged system” that still doesn't have the “right people” in place to fix it …
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New York Times:
Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry — WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades. He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration …
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Washington Post:
‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center. — These are the darkest days in at least half a year …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day. — Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trade War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing — We've known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things). But up to this point that hasn't mattered much. He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor …
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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Trump vows to tax European cars if the EU fights back with tariff on U.S. goods
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Larry Kudlow / The Hill:
Trump must think twice about tariffs
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Prompt Global Threats of Retaliation
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Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it — Surprise action in extraordinary all-day Saturday session on gun measures — TALLAHASSEE — On a day filled with emotion, the Florida Senate Saturday debated measures in response to the Parkland tragedy to spend millions …
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HuffPost:
Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast — Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies. — Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …
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Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America — Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics? I'd imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly. The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters:
Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative
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Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
When Should Cultural Institutions Say No to Tainted Funding? — On Monday afternoon, Jerry Saltz, the longtime art critic at New York Magazine, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has gone nearly once a week for three decades. After two hours of taking in “Golden Kingdoms …
Dan Merica / CNN:
A presidential milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs — WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Jokes Melania Might Leave Him at Gridiron Dinner … Just a few hours after he suggested that perhaps America should follow China's lead with the whole “president for life” thing, President Donald Trump took the stage to tell some jokes at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner …
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CNNMoney:
Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel — Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories — Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels for far-right website InfoWars and its founder, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …
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Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute — On July 27, 2017, near the end of the one of the most compelling hearings yet on the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered an extraordinary insight. It shot through the proceedings like a comet.
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice — President Trump will face an obstruction of justice charge from special counsel Robert Mueller, former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted. — “You technically have an obstruction of justice case that already exists …
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The Daily Caller
Daniel Ellsberg / CBS News:
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates — A man apparently shot himself beyond the north fence line outside the White House Saturday, a law enforcement official told CBS News' Pat Milton. U.S. Secret Service responded to the sound of shots fired.
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue — “We have a reached a tipping point.” — Fueled by anti-Trump backlash, a surge of women are putting their names on the ballot and running for office in Texas, with potentially momentous implications for the balance of power in the deep red state.
Michelle Krupa / CNN:
Philando Castile charity wipes out kids' lunch debt in district where he worked — Teacher: Philando Castile was a role model for kids — (CNN)One by one. — That's how Philando Castile, who was killed by a police officer during a 2016 traffic stop, used to help kids who couldn't afford lunch.
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Mother Jones
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump — A right-wing online “university” is on track for a billion views in 2018, its professors are some of the best-known conservatives in media, and its founder wants to put it in real schools. So how come you've never heard of it?
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