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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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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again — Because there is broad consensus that Donald Trump is a lewd degenerate, nothing Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress and director, told “60 Minutes” about their alleged 2006 sexual encounter was particularly astonishing.
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Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
EXCLUSIVE: Stormy Daniels' Friend Alana Evans: I'm Also Going to Sue Michael Cohen
EXCLUSIVE: Stormy Daniels' Friend Alana Evans: I'm Also Going to Sue Michael Cohen
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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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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
‘The speaker is not resigning:’ Ryan's office dismisses GOP lawmaker's rumor
‘The speaker is not resigning:’ Ryan's office dismisses GOP lawmaker's rumor
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Paul Ryan denies rumor he will resign
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.
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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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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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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
White House Watch: Will There Be a Bolton Purge?
White House Watch: Will There Be a Bolton Purge?
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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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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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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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The Daily Beast:
Whistleblower: Canadian Company Helped Republicans Target Voters — The whistleblower who exposed the data-harvesting tactics of Cambridge Analytica told a British government panel that a Canadian company worked on software that was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
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CNN:
Multiple suspicious packages sent to DC area military installations — Washington (CNN)The FBI has taken custody of multiple suspicious packages sent to military locations in the Washington, DC area, a law enforcement official said Monday. The official said two of the packages were sent to Fort Belvoir and Fort McNair.
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New York Times:
After Stormy Daniels, Republicans Face a Referendum on Trump's Conduct — WASHINGTON — When Representative Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania announced on Sunday that he would join more than 40 other congressional Republicans not seeking re-election in November, he left no doubt about the reason …
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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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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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