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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To “60 Minutes” Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview — Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday. — Reporting From Washington, DC … Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Stormy Daniels and Ted Kennedy — The Democrats are trying to make something out of Donald Trump's alleged dalliance, twelve years ago, with porn performer Stormy Daniels. I wrote about it here. Frankly, I don't think anyone cares. — But the story is interesting because it raises questions …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The First Porn President — WASHINGTON — Why not just go with Dirk Diggler? — I mean, if you're going to pick a fake name to pay off a porn star you've dallied with, why choose something bland like David Dennison? — If you are, after all, Donald Trump, the king of grandiosity …
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The Moderate Voice
Matt Gillow / The Independent:
Whisper it, but maybe Trump isn't that bad after all — There's a lot to criticise, but let's face it: unemployment is down, major corporations are paying their bills, he's arranged a meeting with Kim Jong-un and he's advocating for gun control — Mention the President of the United States …
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: “Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual” — President Trump addresses a campaign rally for Pennsylvania special House election candidate Rick Saccone. Saccone is the Republican candidate for the 18th Congressional district, a seat that was held by a Republican who resigned.
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Advocate, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Warren worries Kim would ‘take advantage’ of Trump in talks
Warren worries Kim would ‘take advantage’ of Trump in talks
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself
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Lisa Wardle / PennLive:
Trump says ‘the world is watching’ Pennsylvania during campaign rally for Saccone
Trump says ‘the world is watching’ Pennsylvania during campaign rally for Saccone
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Washington Post:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump again calls for the death penalty for drug dealers
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump again calls for the death penalty for drug dealers
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump touts GOP candidate — and talks drug dealers, 2020 and Oprah in whirlwind rally
Trump touts GOP candidate — and talks drug dealers, 2020 and Oprah in whirlwind rally
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Splinter
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.
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BBC:
Russian spy: Salisbury diners told to wash possessions — Up to 500 Salisbury pub-goers and diners have been told to wash possessions as a precaution after nerve agent traces were found. — Trace amounts of the substance used to poison ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Why Tamika Mallory Won't Condemn Farrakhan — When I was 17, I was a scruffy-headed biracial black and Jewish teenager, and a furious Louis Farrakhan hater. In the mid-1990s, Farrakhan's fame and influence was at its height; I had once been thrown out of a middle school gym class for calling the Nation of Islam leader a racist.
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The Daily Caller
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
CNN's Bizarre Blackout On Democrats' Farrakhan Scandal
CNN's Bizarre Blackout On Democrats' Farrakhan Scandal
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Power Line, Fox News Insider, Instapundit, NewsBusters, CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Elizabeth Warren refuses DNA test to prove Native American heritage — WASHINGTON - Sen. Elizabeth Warren batted down calls for her to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage in an interview that aired Sunday. — “I know who I am. And never used it for anything.
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Warren: 'I'm not running for president'
Warren: 'I'm not running for president'
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Alessia Grunberger / CNN:
Sen. Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020
Sen. Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020
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Jonathan Lis / Associated Press:
Vladimir Putin: Maybe ‘Jews With Russian Citizenship’ Meddled in U.S. Elections — Russia's Putin tells NBC ‘I do not care at all’ about alleged Russian meddling Israeli lawmaker says ‘hatred of Jews’ lies at the root of Putin's claim — Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested …
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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 …
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump wants new authority over polling places. Top election officials say no — WASHINGTON — President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact.
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel — SEE ALSO — Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says. — The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard …
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul. Now It May Need to Be Altered. — WASHINGTON — The legislative blitz that rocketed the $1.5 trillion tax cut through Congress in less than two months created a host of errors and ambiguities in the law that businesses big and small are just now discovering and scrambling to address.
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ThinkProgress and Political Wire
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy — Resistance must take the form of the affirmation of the values and institutions that the President has scorned and threatened. — Minute by minute, the wheels are coming off the clown car that is the Trump Administration.
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Althouse
Amy Held / NPR:
Steve Bannon Takes Anti-Establishment Message Overseas: ‘Let Them Call You Racists’ — Both have suffered political falls and on Saturday in Lille, France, Steve Bannon, the onetime chief White House strategist, and Marine Le Pen, who lost the French presidency to Emmanuel Macron in May …
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New York Times, France 24, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine and Mother Jones
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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