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New York Times:
Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response — President Trump is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump in talks with impeachment lawyer as aide reveals new concerns — As the reality of the Russia inquiry sets in, Trump is ominously looking to an impeachment lawyer for help. — Trump reportedly initiated discussions with an impeachment lawyer this week, signaling that he may be more worried …
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Splinter, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
After once predicting quick end to Mueller probe, White House now looking to expand legal team
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Former Trump aide speaks to Mueller, believes Russia probe is ‘not a witch hunt’
Former Trump aide speaks to Mueller, believes Russia probe is ‘not a witch hunt’
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Associated Press, The Hill, The Daily Caller, RedState, Washington Times and Politico
Hannah Seligson / The Intercept:
Ivanka Trump Backed Flynn and Manafort. She Discussed Firing Comey. How Has She Evaded Mueller's Investigation?
Ivanka Trump Backed Flynn and Manafort. She Discussed Firing Comey. How Has She Evaded Mueller's Investigation?
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Raw Story
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
How Stormy Daniels could impact the Russia investigation
How Stormy Daniels could impact the Russia investigation
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The Daily Caller and Shareblue Media
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself — MOON TOWNSHIP, PA — President Donald Trump got business out of the way quickly Saturday night - urging voters to elect Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone, who's locked in an unexpectedly tough special election battle in Pennsylvania …
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Raw Story, Victory Girls Blog, NPR and Mediaite
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New York Times:
‘Is There Anything More Fun Than a Trump Rally?’ — MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The trip was ostensibly an effort to help Republicans stave off a deflating defeat in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that President Trump won by 20 points. — And in a rally at Pittsburgh's airport …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
The GOP's messages don't seem to be working in Pennsylvania. Is that a warning sign?
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump to rally for endangered Republican in Pennsylvania
Trump to rally for endangered Republican in Pennsylvania
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The Gateway Pundit
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Warren: 'I'm not running for president' — Sen. Elizabeth Warren insisted Saturday that she was not running for the White House in 2020, but the Massachusetts Democrat repeatedly dodged on whether she would serve her full six-year term if she wins re-election to the Senate this November.
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Outside the Beltway
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Alessia Grunberger / CNN:
Sen. Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020 — Who is Elizabeth Warren? — (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020. — “I am not running for president in 2020,” Warren told CNN's Jim Acosta on Saturday. — Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Plumes Seen at Plutonium Plant May Belie Kim's Disarmament Talk — North Korea appears to be making new nuclear bomb fuel, satellite imagery shows, even as its leader, Kim Jong-un, has expressed willingness to negotiate atomic disarmament with President Trump.
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New York Times:
Trump's Abrupt ‘Yes’ to North Korea: The 45 Minutes That Could Alter History
Trump's Abrupt ‘Yes’ to North Korea: The 45 Minutes That Could Alter History
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NBC News, The Guardian, Mediaite, Al Jazeera English, Axios and HeraldScotland
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump says he believes North Korea's missile test promise
Trump says he believes North Korea's missile test promise
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One America News Network, Bloomberg, Raw Story, News & Guts Media, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Axios
New York Times:
The Missing Obama Millions — Much of the political commentary since the presidential election has focused on two groups of party switchers: those who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 and those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Steve Bannon: ‘Let them call you racist ... Wear it as a badge of honor’ — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday told a crowd of far-right French politicians to let people label them as “racist,” and to consider it “a badge of honor.”
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Associated Press, Reuters, Mother Jones, Mediaite and New York Times
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James McAuley / Washington Post:
‘Let them call you racists’: Steve Bannon delivers fighting speech to France's National Front
‘Let them call you racists’: Steve Bannon delivers fighting speech to France's National Front
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USA Today, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and The Guardian
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Fox News host Jesse Watters to divorce after cheating on wife with 25-year-old employee — Fox News is in sleazy Watters yet again. — The network's prominent host Jesse Watters — who dined on Monday with President Trump — is in the midst of divorce due to an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer.
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
How One Child's Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria — The genetic mutation arose 7,300 years ago in just one person in West Africa, scientists reported on Thursday. Its advantage: a shield against rampant malaria. — Thousands of years ago, a special child was born in the Sahara.
Storm Durham:
I was fired today. I was fired by a Department of Virginia... Social Services the people who are supposed to be there to keep kids safe and develop families into better people for each other. I was fired today due to having a concealed carry permit. Was my gun on me?
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Breitbart, IJR, RedState, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
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New York Times:
Out of Public View, Trumps and Kushners Are Talking Business — LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Jared Kushner's family company recently began construction on an oceanfront development in this Jersey Shore city, a project that has the strong backing of local officials, who agreed to support it with $20 million in bonds.
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Raw Story
Erin Donnelly / Yahoo:
Teen waitress gets college scholarship after photo of her cutting up a 78-year-old diner's food goes viral — act of kindness has reaped a huge reward for one Texas teen. — Evoni Williams, who works in a La Marque, Texas, Waffle House to save money for college, was photographed by a diner …
Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation … one of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent political history—is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Donald Trump. The president won four-fifths of the votes of white evangelical Christians.
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer — At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. I was writing an article about his appeal to his voter base and wanted to confirm a few quotations. — Soon I noticed something peculiar.
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Boing Boing