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Bloomberg:
EPA Chief's $50-a-Night Rental Said to Raise White House Angst — Pruitt apartment questions follow first-class flight reports — Washington lease is compared to an Airbnb-style arrangement — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's lease at a Washington apartment owned …
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John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA chief Pruitt joined by family in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’ — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's adult daughter used a second room in the Capitol Hill condo co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, ABC News has learned …
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Associated Press
Washington Post:
Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience … An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administration's efforts …
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Mother Jones and Political Wire
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests — The office in the White House tasked with vetting and selecting candidates for key administration posts has struggled to recruit top candidates at a quick pace due to a small team and top staff with little experience …
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I'm Not Going to Keep Watching. — It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist. In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible. I wasn't going to watch the reboot …
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Washington Post, NewsBusters and IJR
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
ABC is about to announce Season 2 of ‘Roseanne’ reboot — Pro-Trump ‘Roseanne’ returns with strong ratings — Just days after “Roseanne” made a blockbuster return, ABC is set to order a second season, according to a source at the network. — The move is a no-brainer.
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IJR, Splinter, New York Times, Mediaite, CNN, The Daily Caller, Deadline and Mashable
Associated Press:
AP-NORC/MTV Poll: Young people run from Trump — NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of young people believe President Donald Trump is racist, dishonest and “mentally unfit” for office, according to a new survey that finds the nation's youngest potential voters are more concerned about the Republican's performance …
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Axios, AOL, Political Wire and CNN
NBC News:
Trump tells aides not to talk publicly about Russia policy moves — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's national security advisers spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new U.S. weapons to Ukraine to aid in the country's fight against Russian-backed separatists …
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Washington Monthly, VICE News, Sputnik International, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott — Parkland student and pro-gun control activist David Hogg has teamed up with liberal activist group Media Matters to push a boycott campaign against Fox News host Laura Ingraham. — Ingraham knocked Hogg for complaining about colleges that rejected his applications.
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Media Matters for America, Breitbart and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Cheryl K. Chumley / Washington Times:
David Hogg would've made a good brownshirt
David Hogg would've made a good brownshirt
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Bustle, twitchy.com, Hullabaloo, NewsBusters and Splinter
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo — “I've always thought our ‘open but punitive’ stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers.” — The publication of a June 2016 memo describing the consequences of Facebook's growth-at-all-costs triggered …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed — Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” …
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Slate, The Atlantic, Mashable, VICE News, RAPPLER, The Daily Beast, The Verge, Raw Story, Politico, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Gizmodo and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Courier-Journal:
Kentucky teachers shut down schools in protest over the pension bill. Here's what we know — James Crisp/Special to Courier Journal — A wave of school closures have swept Kentucky as teachers across the state, frustrated by a controversial pension reform bill passed Thursday night, requested substitutes or called in sick.
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Mitch Mitchell / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Tarrant County woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegally voting in 2016 — FORT WORTH — A judge sentenced a Rendon woman to five years in prison Wednesday for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election while she was on supervised release from a 2011 fraud conviction.
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation
Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation
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New Republic and Jezebel
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: AMAZON SLASHES OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS — ANNA, MARIANNE LEVINE and THEO MEYER are reporting that tech giant Amazon nixed multiple contract lobbying firms recently from its roster, including Squire Patton Boggs and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. “This was a specific project …
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BuzzFeed, IJR, Washington Times, The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Politico and Raw Story
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Affirmative Action for Reactionaries — Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul. Thus I've occasionally read Kevin Williamson …
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RedState, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Greg Walters / VICE News:
Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting — In August 2016, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. The Gulfstream G550 (registration M-ALAY) landed shortly after midnight and …
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Raw Story, Vox, CNBC, Defense One and Mother Jones
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton fires back at critics: No one told a man who lost an election to shut up — is striking back at critics telling her to “shut up” following her 2016 loss, saying, “They never said that to any man who was not elected.” — “I was really struck by how people said that to me …
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New Jersey Online, Splinter, Jezebel, Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Bustle, twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit
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Jessica Remo / New Jersey Online:
Hillary Clinton got $7K less than Snooki for Rutgers speech. Does it get any worse?
Hillary Clinton got $7K less than Snooki for Rutgers speech. Does it get any worse?
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IJR, The Root, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Hartford Courant:
Elizabeth Esty Must Resign — Elizabeth Esty will likely spend the next several days defending her failure to take strong steps to protect a woman who'd been threatened and bullied — by a member of her own staff — by blaming the system and talking about the good she's done in Congress.
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Politico, Washington Post, The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
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Dan Freedman / Connecticut Post:
Esty under scrutiny over handling of alleged abuse
Esty under scrutiny over handling of alleged abuse
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Washington Post, MyRecordJournal.com, Hartford Courant, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call, The Week, New York Magazine and ThinkProgress
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Congressman: FBI Report Says Andrew McCabe ‘Lied Four Times’ About Media Leaks — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied four times, including to James Comey, about his authorization of leaks to the media, according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with an internal FBI report recommending McCabe's firing.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
McCabe legal defense fund raises nearly $400K in less than a day
McCabe legal defense fund raises nearly $400K in less than a day
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The Federalist, Mother Jones, RedState, Axios and Washington Post
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally — American once touted as possible ambassador to EU tells of being detained at Boston airport and subpoenaed by Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia inquiry … A controversial London-based academic with close ties to Nigel Farage …
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Shakesville, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone: Sam Nunberg Is a ‘Lying Asshole’ and ‘Psycho’ … Two former aides to Donald Trump waged a war of words against each other this week, using cable news and social media as their battlefields. — Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Trump's, took to his personal Instagram page …
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Federal workers spill on life in Trump's Washington — One Health and Human Services employee swore off online dating after potential suitors repeatedly got upset that he worked for the Trump administration. An Education Department fellow eagerly returned to teaching after listening to Betsy DeVos bash public schools.
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Jezebel, The Daily Caller and Raw Story