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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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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”
Trump: “Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual”
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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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Michael Tackett / New York Times:
White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away — GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump. She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat. But she is open to another Republican.
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Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation
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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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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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left ‘mob’ for her woes. But maybe she deserves them. … After retracting public comments three times in a little over a month, New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss defended her columns and tweets Friday, claiming a social media “mob” …
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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Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
No Republican candidates on the Utah ballot this year? It's a possibility after planned fix falters. — Imagine this year's ballot with no Utah candidates listed as Republicans. — Or, alternatively, the ballot listing only those Republicans who gathered signatures, while others who went through the GOP convention are shut out.
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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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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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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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump Won Ohio Handily. Populist Democrats Want to Win It Back. — LORAIN, Ohio — President Trump's decree placing punitive tariffs on foreign steel raised an outcry in Washington: Republican leaders in Congress warned darkly of a market-rattling trade war.
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 …