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Associated Press:
Interior mum on whether Zinke spent $139K on office door — WASHINGTON (AP) — Records show the Interior Department spent nearly $139,000 last year for construction at the agency that was labeled on a work order as “Secretary's Door.” — A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke …
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Alex Pareene / Splinter:
If You Truly Care About Speech, You Will Invite Me to Your Office to Personally Call You a Dipshit — Civil society requires the toleration of the expression of opposing viewpoints, no matter how personally discomforting you may find them. Therefore, it would be profoundly hypocritical …
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David French / National Review:
The Sliming of Bari Weiss — s a New York Times columnist, she gets pilloried for decrying intolerance and bias, exactly as she did at Columbia a decade ago. — If you follow at all the ideological war that's erupted around the New York Times editorial page, then you know Bari Weiss.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
NYT's Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel
NYT's Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel
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Oleg Deripaska / The Daily Caller:
The Ever-Changing ‘Russia Narrative’ In American Politics Is Cynically False Public Manipulation — In the comedy movie “Wag the Dog,” a fictitious U.S. president is on the cusp of losing an election over a real scandal. So a political spin doctor and Hollywood producer hired …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Kim Jong Un invites President Trump to meet — Washington (CNN)North Korea has invited President Donald Trump to meet their leader Kim Jong Un according to a senior US official and a former US senior official. — Trump told reporters Thursday that South Korea will make a “major announcement” concerning North Korea at 7 p.m. ET.
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Fox News:
Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump, official says
Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump, official says
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Ben Westcott / CNN:
South Korean officials leave for US with message from North Korea to Trump
South Korean officials leave for US with message from North Korea to Trump
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CNN:
Trump upset with Sanders over Stormy Daniels response — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is upset with White House press secretary Sarah Sanders over her responses Wednesday regarding his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, a source close to the White House tells CNN.
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CNN:
Trump lawyer Cohen seen at Mar-a-Lago amid porn star drama
Trump lawyer Cohen seen at Mar-a-Lago amid porn star drama
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Three potential calamities for Trump — aside from Mueller
Three potential calamities for Trump — aside from Mueller
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Yahoo:
Miss Universe in Moscow: How Trump's beauty contest spawned a business deal with Russians and a bond with Putin — This is the first of two excerpts adapted from — Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff …
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Associated Press:
Judge to Trump: Muting, not blocking followers, may end suit — NEW YORK (AP) — A judge is recommending that President Donald Trump mute rather than block some Twitter followers to resolve a First Amendment lawsuit. — Manhattan federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald (rees BUHK'-wahld) …
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Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
U.S. judge questions whether Trump can block Twitter users
U.S. judge questions whether Trump can block Twitter users
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Axios:
Exclusive polls: Big warning signs for Senate Democrats — Five Senate Democrats would lose to a Republican candidate if the election were held today and three have approval ratings under 50%, according to new Axios/SurveyMonkey polls. — Keep reading — 352 WORDS
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Rebecca Berg / CNN:
Amid renewed scrutiny, Erik Prince to host fundraiser for Russia-friendly congressman — (CNN)Blackwater founder Erik Prince will host a fundraiser this month for Russia-friendly Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, as Prince faces new questions over a 2017 meeting currently being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Rohrabacher under fire over Russia ties
Science:
The spread of true and false news online — 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Media Lab, E14-526, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. — 2MIT, E62-364, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. — See all authors and affiliations — Vol. 359, Issue 6380, pp.
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
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Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Trump orders stiff trade tariffs, unswayed by grim warnings — WASHINGTON (AP) — Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to fight back against an “assault on our country” by foreign competitors.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Peter Navarro wants Gary Cohn's job, terrifying D.C. — President Trump's spirit animal Peter Navarro is telling associates he wants Gary Cohn's job as the president's chief economic adviser. — What we're hearing: Publicly, Navarro has been coy, telling Bloomberg TV he's not in the running for the job.
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Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
A team asked Derrius Guice if he likes men — The calendar says 2018. Some NFL locker rooms remain trapped in 1960. — Running back Derrius Guice said in a Wednesday night appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio that a team asked him at the Scouting Combine if he likes men.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's private meeting with the video-game industry — and its critics … Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the video-game industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Senior adviser at HUD spread conspiracy theory that Clinton campaign chairman was Satanist — (CNN)A senior adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development spread a false conspiracy theory that claimed Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign chairman took part in a Satanic ritual, a CNN KFile review of his tweets show.
HuffPost:
This Anti-Semitic Term Was Casually Used During A White House Briefing — Its use came a day after it was used to describe a Jewish White House official, sparking concern on social media. — There's perhaps never a bad time to stretch or rethink one's vocabulary.
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StarWars.com:
Jon Favreau to Executive Produce and Write Live-Action Star Wars Series — The director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book will helm the series for Disney's new direct-to-consumer platform. — Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Emmy-nominated producer and actor Jon Favreau has signed …
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CNN:
Marist poll: Trump's job approval at the highest since taking office — Washington (CNN)A new Marist poll puts President Donald Trump's job approval rating at 42%, his highest in that poll since he took office. — The poll, which was conducted Monday and Tuesday, found that some 50% disapproved of the President's job performance.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
David Chase Revives ‘The Sopranos’ With New Line Prequel Movie ‘The Many Saints Of Newark’ — EXCLUSIVE: David Chase is finally ready to return to the New Jersey turf of his iconic creation The Sopranos. New Line has purchased the screenplay The Many Saints of Newark …
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Jonathan Mattise / Associated Press:
Ex-Tennessee governor's Senate campaign fears it was hacked — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's campaign for U.S. Senate told the FBI on Thursday that it fears it has been hacked, amid growing concern that candidates in the 2018 election could be targets of cyberattacks.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Jared Kushner Tried To Sell His Newspaper To Trump's Political Enemies — Just days before heading to a West Wing job, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was secretly engaged in talks to sell his struggling news organization, the New York Observer, to Clinton megadonor …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
How Russian Trolls Crept Into the Trump Campaign's Facebook Messages — WASHINGTON — When the message from Matt Skiber arrived in the mailbox of the Facebook account for Donald J. Trump's Florida campaign in early August 2016, it raised no flags, despite its slightly awkward attempts at colloquial American English.
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Trolls Tried to Torpedo Mitt Romney's Shot at Secretary of State — Online campaign targeted the ex-GOP nominee as Donald Trump considered him in late 2016 — Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online “trolls” flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney …
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Bloomberg:
Wall Street Denied in Latest Rewrite of Senate Banking Bill — Crapo declines to make changes that big lenders lobbied for — Deutsche Bank, HSBC won't be freed from Fed's tough oversight — Wall Street banks don't have much to celebrate in what's probably the final version …
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The Intercept
New York Times:
15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries — The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary women — and so many others — did not have obituaries in The New York Times. Until now. — BY AMISHA PADNANI AND JESSICA BENNETT
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Tom Nichols / Washington Post:
Trump is delivering what he promised: A government with no experts … President Trump kept an important campaign promise this week. Not the one about tariffs — that was incidental — but the one where he vowed to give his supporters the satisfaction of seeing him ignore experts.