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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Talks of Bringing Back Rob Porter, Aide Accused of Spousal Abuse — WASHINGTON — President Trump has stayed in touch with Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary who stepped down after allegations that he had abused his two former wives came to light, according …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Larry Kudlow asks Gary Cohn's National Economic Council staff to stay on
Larry Kudlow asks Gary Cohn's National Economic Council staff to stay on
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Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels accuses Trump attorney of defamation … Stormy Daniels ramped up her legal battle against President Trump on Monday, alleging in court that his personal attorney Michael Cohen defamed her by insinuating that she lied about an affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
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Washington Post:
‘Not in a punch-back mode’: Why Trump has been largely silent on Stormy Daniels … The counterpuncher, so far, has held his punch. — President Trump exercised uncharacteristic public restraint Monday following a “60 Minutes” interview in which adult film star Stormy Daniels described …
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Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
EXCLUSIVE: Stormy Daniels' Friend Alana Evans: I'm Also Going to Sue Michael Cohen … Stormy Daniels might not be the only porn star suing President Trump's attorney. Alana Evans, a fellow adult-film actress, is planning her own defamation case against Michael Cohen, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again
Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Attracts 22 Million Viewers to ‘60 Minutes’
Stormy Daniels Attracts 22 Million Viewers to ‘60 Minutes’
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The Daily Beast:
Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan Latest Lawyers to Decline to Join Trump's Legal Team … Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump. Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him, and that they couldn't do it.
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“A Target, Not a Witness”: Will Trump's Legal B-Team Collapse Before Mueller? — The president's struggle to recruit experienced lawyers could mask more ominous concerns. “As far as I can tell, Ty Cobb is the only attorney left on the Trump team with experience handling federal criminal investigations,” says one former prosecutor.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Top Republican Lawyer: No One's Asking to Be on Trump's Legal Team
Top Republican Lawyer: No One's Asking to Be on Trump's Legal Team
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Department of Commerce:
U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Reinstatement of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Decennial Census — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Citizenship question on 2020 census may result in undercount — The size of your child's kindergarten class. Homeland security funds for your community. Natural disaster preparation. Highway and mass transit resources. Health care and emergency room services.
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Politico:
Census to add controversial question on citizenship status — The 2020 U.S. Census will include a controversial question about citizenship status, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, a move that sparked outrage from Congressional Democrats, civil rights groups and liberal state attorneys general.
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Ray Hagar / Nevada NewsMakers:
Rumor is Ryan will resign as U.S. House Speaker; Scalise will replace him, Amodei says — Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House. — Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that's around Capitol Hill.
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Courtney Han / ABC News:
High school students marching 4 days to Paul Ryan's office for gun restrictions
High school students marching 4 days to Paul Ryan's office for gun restrictions
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Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Nevada lawmaker: ‘Rumor mill’ says Ryan headed for exit
Nevada lawmaker: ‘Rumor mill’ says Ryan headed for exit
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Paul Ryan denies rumor he will resign
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. — Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once-adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm …
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Hans A. von Spakovsky / Fox News:
Did Facebook's ‘favors’ for the Obama campaign constitute a violation of federal law?
Did Facebook's ‘favors’ for the Obama campaign constitute a violation of federal law?
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CNBC and The American Spectator
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Silicon Valley has gone from liberating to creepy. Next stop, government regulation.
Paul Seamus Ryan / Just Security:
Cambridge Analytica and Its Foreign National Staff Violated U.S. Laws
Cambridge Analytica and Its Foreign National Staff Violated U.S. Laws
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Probes Loans to Kushner's Business — White House attorneys are examining whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to Jared Kushner's family business may have violated any criminal laws or federal ethics regulations, according to a letter from a federal ethics agency.
CNN:
CNN Poll: 42% approve of Trump, highest in 11 months — WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating has rebounded to its highest level since the 100-day mark of his presidency, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, even as his approval ratings for handling major issues remain largely negative.
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Trump's approval rating is *this* close to Obama's and Reagan's
Trump's approval rating is *this* close to Obama's and Reagan's
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Tim Hrenchir / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Linda Brown, center of Brown v. Board case, dies at 76 — Linda Brown, who as a little girl in Topeka was at the center of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation in the United States, has died at age 76. — Brown's sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson …
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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Linda Brown, Symbol of Landmark Desegregation Case, Dies
Linda Brown, Symbol of Landmark Desegregation Case, Dies
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show — Cambridge Analytica may have had access to the personal information of tens of millions of unwitting Americans, but a genuine debate has emerged about whether the company had the sophistication to put that data effectively …
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David Dayen / New Republic:
Trump's Theater of Trade — The traditional media has spent the past few years being duped by grandiose Donald Trump announcements that wind up leading nowhere. They're traveling that path again on the administration's trade agenda. But this cycle of misinformation and overhype has a cost …
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Teenage Demagogues — Stoneman Douglas students' passion is not wisdom — All you needed to know about student activist David Hogg's speech at the “March for Our Lives” in Washington, D.C., over the weekend was that he affixed a price tag on the microphone to symbolize …
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CBS News:
Jimmy Carter says John Bolton as national security adviser is “worst mistake” Trump has made — Former President Jimmy Carter says President Trump's choice of John Bolton as his new national security adviser is “the worst mistake” Mr. Trump has made. — “I have been concerned at some of the things he's decided.
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Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
CBS Video Confusing. Hogg Was on Campus. — UPDATE: This video shows Hogg apparently in a closet during the shooting: — His comments quoted below to CBS still don't make sense. Did he leave campus and then violate the lockdown to enter campus and interview students? How did he get home and back?
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Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:
Sheriff: Maryland high school shooter died by shooting himself — Austin Wyatt Rollins, the 17-year-old who opened fire on classmates at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland last week, injuring one and killing another, died by shooting himself in the head, officials investigating the case said Monday.
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Sara Ganim / CNN:
Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn't important — Washington (CNN)Several employees at the Interior Department have told CNN that Secretary Ryan Zinke repeatedly says that he won't focus on diversity, an apparent talking point that has upset many people within the agency.
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