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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset”: Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA — The president will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend. McMaster is likely next to go. Then Jivanka.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Dined with Fox News' Seb Gorka and Jesse Watters at the White House This Week … On Monday night, President Donald Trump welcomed Seb Gorka back into the White House—not for a job but for a meal. — The president was joined for dinner in the White House residence by Fox News personalities …
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Politico:
Search for Hicks replacement turns into West Wing food fight — Various White House factions are backing different candidates for communications director, while Trump is soliciting advice from Hicks on potential successors. — President Donald Trump on Thursday evening poked his head …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Planning Begins for Kim Jong-un Meeting Some Trump Aides Believe Will Never Happen — WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump accepted an invitation to meet Kim Jong-un of North Korea, the White House began planning on Friday a high-level diplomatic encounter so risky and seemingly far-fetched …
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump makes a mess of North Korea talks hours after announcing them — Even Trump doesn't know what Trump agreed to with North Korea. — Trump's hastily reached decision to accept an invitation to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sent the White House into a tailspin …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump's bold stroke on North Korea dissolves into confusion
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Damage control at White House to reverse Trump's stunning blunder
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Will Kim Jong Un — like every other dictator — sucker Trump?
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts on Trump-North Korea meeting: 'He can't even make a deal with a porn star'
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Tom Llamas / ABC News:
Michael Cohen dismisses claims of email as proof that Trump knew about payment to porn star to buy her silence — The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says emails show President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen was using his Trump Organization email just days before the 2016 election …
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Denver Nicks / Rolling Stone:
One Night with Stormy Daniels, the Hero America Needs — Frozen g-strings, squirt guns and hot wax - how Trump's alleged porn-star fling is unapologetically cashing in on a presidential scandal — Frozen g-strings, squirt guns and hot wax - how Trump's alleged porn-star fling is unapologetically cashing in on a presidential scandal
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NBC News:
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements — President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The President and the Porn Star: A Story's Slow Rise Above the Din
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Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump lawyer's payment to porn star draws comparisons to John Edwards case
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Seek Deal With Mueller to Speed End of Russia Probe — Legal team seek to use interview with president as leverage in negotiations — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to negotiate a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview …
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Trump lawyers seek to offer Mueller an interview in exchange for wrapping up probe: report — are reportedly considering asking special counsel Robert Mueller — to set a hard end date for his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election as one of the preconditions for an interview with president.
Leslie Dyste / KTVU-TV:
3 hostages taken, shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home — Woman on lockdown at Yountville Veterans Home speaks with KTVU — YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - Three people were taken as hostages and shots were fired at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville — the largest in the United States …
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Fox News:
Veterans Home of California in Yountville on lockdown after reports of shots fired, officials say
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NBC Bay Area:
Gunman Opens Fire, Takes Hostages at Yountville Veterans Home
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Washington Post:
In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant … Donald Trump was so eager to have Vladimir Putin attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that he wrote a personal letter to the Russian president inviting him to the event, according to multiple people familiar with the document.
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Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
NRA sues Florida over gun bill same day Gov. Scott signed it into law — The National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit this afternoon against the state to block a law that had just been signed by Gov. Rick Scott that prohibits gun sales to anyone between the ages of 18 and 21.
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Steve Almasy / CNN:
NRA sues Florida to block new gun law
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump's Latest Pardon Shows The Best Way To Get One: Go On Fox News — By comparing his case to Hillary Clinton's, a Navy sailor and his lawyer were able to grab Fox's attention — and the president's. — WASHINGTON A former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized possession …
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Trump pardons former Navy sailor imprisoned for taking photos on nuclear submarine, White House says
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump getting a parade but tanks won't roll down Pennsylvania avenue — Here's how other countries do military parades — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will get his military parade, but it is unlikely to mirror the Paris Bastille Day event which inspired …
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Kayleigh McEnany / CNN:
Jared Kushner is quietly tackling Washington's swamp — Kayleigh McEnany is the national spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. Prior to joining the RNC, McEnany was a CNN political commentator. She earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and BSFS from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.
New York Times:
The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate. Trump's Chief of Staff Stopped Him. — Want the latest climate news in your inbox? You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter. — John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment. Now He Wants to Destroy Europe's. — MILAN — Stephen K. Bannon leaned back in an armchair opposite a copy of a painting by an Italian old master and explained his modest efforts to build a vast network of European populists to demolish the Continent's political establishment.
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
A Review Of ‘The Shape Of Water,’ From A Guy Who Had Sex With A Dolphin — “I find a dolphin a lot more sexy than that thing was,” said Malcolm Brenner. — In 2010, journalist Malcolm Brenner released his autobiographical novel, Wet Goddess. A few years later, Brenner was the subject …
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Daily Wire
Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Germany and France to postpone eurozone reform plan: report — Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron were to present reform proposals at the European Council summit later this month. — Paris and Berlin have postponed plans to propose an ambitious reform of the eurozone at the upcoming EU leader's summit …
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Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Malmström meets US counterpart in effort to avert trade war — The EU's trade chief Cecilia Malmström will meet her American and Japanese counterparts in Brussels Saturday in an effort to carve out exemptions from steep steel and aluminium tariffs and avert a global trade war.
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KQCA-TV:
Bay Area coffee shop won't serve police for ‘safety of customers’ — Hasta Muerte Coffee: ‘We need support of the actual community to keep this place safe, not police’ — HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT — A coffee shop in Oakland is refusing to serve law enforcement officers for the …
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