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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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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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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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Daily Mail, Mashable and Raw Story
Will Oremus / Slate:
Can Facebook Fix Itself Before the Midterms? It's Trying.
Can Facebook Fix Itself Before the Midterms? It's Trying.
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Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Gizmodo and Facebook, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Source: Mueller pushed for Gates' help on collusion — (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team last year made clear it wanted former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates' help, not so much against his former business partner Paul Manafort, but with its central mission: investigating the Trump campaign's contact with the Russians.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: AMAZON SLASHES OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS — ANNA …
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: AMAZON SLASHES OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS — ANNA …
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New York Times:
Wooing Saudi Business, Tabloid Mogul Had a Powerful Friend: Trump
Wooing Saudi Business, Tabloid Mogul Had a Powerful Friend: Trump
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources
Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources
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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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James Doubek / NPR:
Advertisers Ditch Laura Ingraham After She Mocks Parkland Activist — Multiple companies say they're pulling their advertisements from conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham's show after she sent a tweet mocking Parkland shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg.
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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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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Laura Ingraham, Facing Boycott, Apologizes for Taunting Parkland Survivor David Hogg
Laura Ingraham, Facing Boycott, Apologizes for Taunting Parkland Survivor David Hogg
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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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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Roseanne Keeps Promoting QAnon, the Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory That Makes Pizzagate Look Tame
Roseanne Keeps Promoting QAnon, the Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory That Makes Pizzagate Look Tame
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I'm Not Going to Keep Watching.
The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I'm Not Going to Keep Watching.
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Washington Post, IJR and Towleroad
Washington Post:
Trump's pick to head veterans department faces skepticism over his experience … The White House was thrown on the defensive Thursday over President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, forcing officials to fend off mounting skepticism that Ronny L. Jackson …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Veterans Affairs Shake-Up Stirs New Fears of Privatized Care
Veterans Affairs Shake-Up Stirs New Fears of Privatized Care
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Ariane Lange / BuzzFeed:
The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon — Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice were teenage Ren & Stimpy fans who wanted to make cartoons. They say they were preyed upon by the creator of the show, John Kricfalusi, who admitted to having had a 16-year-old girlfriend when approached by BuzzFeed News.
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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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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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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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Dan Freedman / Connecticut Post:
Esty under scrutiny over handling of alleged abuse — A former staff member for Rep. Elizabeth Esty said she was punched, screamed at and threatened with death by the congresswoman's then-chief of staff, who after being fired in 2016, went to work for Sandy Hook Promise on Esty's recommendation.
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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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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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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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New York Times:
Hope Hicks Is Gone, and It's Not Clear Who Can Replace Her — WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director who worked behind the scenes to direct the president through multiple professional crises — and decided to resign after she found herself exhausted by them — has left the building.
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Keith BieryGolick / Cincinnati.com:
Student shot at Madison Schools in Ohio gets detention for school-shooting protest — MADISON TWP. - In 2016, he was shot in his school's cafeteria while eating chicken nuggets. He remembers falling on the ground, unsure what happened, watching students run away from him.
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Motives Behind the Trump Administration's New Census Question on Citizenship — Nine years ago, two Republican senators, David Vitter, of Louisiana, and Robert Bennett, of Utah, tried to introduce a measure to change the way that the federal government conducts the census.
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Yasser Okbi / Jerusalem Post:
Report: Israeli stealth fighters fly over Iran — Two IAF F-35 Adir fighter jets entered Iranian airspace undetected, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. — Two Israeli F-35 fighter jets entered Iranian airspace over the past month, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Thursday.
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