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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's protective detail broke down the door at the Capitol Hill condo where he was living, believing he was unconscious and unresponsive and needed rescue …
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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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Washington Post:
As new details emerge, Scott Pruitt's housing arrangements come under scrutiny … Scott Pruitt's unusual housing arrangement during much of last year — when he paid a lobbyist a modest sum each night for staying in a Capitol Hill condo she co-owned — has generated a new round of scrutiny …
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John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA chief Pruitt joined by family in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’
EXCLUSIVE: EPA chief Pruitt joined by family in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’
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Ralph Peters / Washington Post:
Why I left Fox News … You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room. A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Ex-Fox News contributor: I was silenced on Russia because I didn't back Trump
Ex-Fox News contributor: I was silenced on Russia because I didn't back Trump
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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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests
WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests
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Cheryl K. Chumley / Washington Times:
David Hogg would've made a good brownshirt — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high-schooler who seems to have set himself up as Laura Ingraham's arch nemesis, has been making national television rounds of late, pretty much calling for adults to step aside …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Atlantis pulls ads from Laura Ingraham's show
Atlantis pulls ads from Laura Ingraham's show
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James Doubek / NPR:
Advertisers Ditch Laura Ingraham After She Mocks Parkland Activist
Advertisers Ditch Laura Ingraham After She Mocks Parkland Activist
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott
David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott
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New York Times:
Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times From Behind or the Side, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds — Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was killed by the Sacramento police in his grandmother's backyard, was shot eight times from behind or the side, according to a private autopsy commissioned by his family.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Stephon Clark was shot eight times, mostly in his back, according to autopsy requested by his family … Stephon Clark, the unarmed 22-year-old killed by Sacramento police officers earlier this month, was shot eight times, with most of the bullets hitting him in the back …
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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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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 …
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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
ABC is about to announce Season 2 of ‘Roseanne’ reboot
ABC is about to announce Season 2 of ‘Roseanne’ reboot
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New York Times, WNEP-TV, IJR, Splinter, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and CNN
TMZ.com:
Arnold Schwarzenegger — Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery — EXCLUSIVE — 10:40 AM PT — Arnold's people just told us the following ... the procedure was “to replace a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Schwarzenegger in ‘stable condition’ after heart surgery, spokesman says
Schwarzenegger in ‘stable condition’ after heart surgery, spokesman says
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Saba Hamedy / CNN:
‘Clueless’ star Stacey Dash withdraws from congressional race — Washington (CNN)"Clueless" star and former Fox News commentator Stacey Dash is withdrawing her congressional bid, a representative for the actress confirmed to CNN Friday. — “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family …
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Washington Post:
Congressman alleges McCabe lied to Comey, hinting at rift between FBI officials … The FBI's disciplinary office found that ousted deputy director Andrew McCabe lied to his boss, then-director James B. Comey, in October 2016 about having authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Congressman: FBI Report Says Andrew McCabe ‘Lied Four Times’ About Media Leaks
Congressman: FBI Report Says Andrew McCabe ‘Lied Four Times’ About Media Leaks
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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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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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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Denying Genetics Isn't Shutting Down Racism, It's Fueling It — Last weekend, a rather seismic op-ed appeared in the New York Times, and it was for a while one of the most popular pieces in the newspaper. It's by David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, who carefully advanced …
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Vanita Gupta / Washington Post:
The bitter lie behind the census's citizenship question — Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department from 2014 to 2017. — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed a crucial test of leadership this week.
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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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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Noor Salman, widow of Pulse nightclub gunman, found not guilty on all counts — Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen, was found not guilty Friday in the only trial to stem from the deadly June 2016 shooting rampage. — Salman, 31, was accused of helping her husband plan …
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Noor Salman Is Acquitted in Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Noor Salman Is Acquitted in Pulse Nightclub Shooting
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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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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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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
A Huge Caravan Of Central Americans Is Headed For The US, And No One In Mexico Is Stopping Them — “If we all protect each other, we'll get through this together.” — Reporting From — San Pedro Tapanatepec, Mexico — Taking a drag from her cigarette, a Mexican immigration agent looked …
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The Gateway Pundit, ImmigrationReform.com and Axios
NBC New York:
Teen Mob Randomly Beats Man to Death on NJ Street: Prosecutors — Man Beaten to Death by Mob on NJ Street — Two teens have been arrested after a New Jersey man was beaten to death on the street by eight people in a seemingly random attack. — Police said the other suspects …
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