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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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ThinkProgress and 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, Political Wire, thecut and Jezebel
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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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New York Times, Bustle, Religion News Service, Conservative Review, Daily Wire, Scene and Heard, IJR and Political Wire
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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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Media Matters for America, Breitbart and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Raw Story, Bustle, NewsBusters, twitchy.com, Daily Wire, Hullabaloo and Splinter
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Atlantis pulls ads from Laura Ingraham's show
Atlantis pulls ads from Laura Ingraham's show
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POLITICUSUSA, The Federalist, Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire and Media Matters for America
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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USA Today and Mother Jones
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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.
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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New York Times, IJR, Splinter, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, CNN and Deadline
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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, Towleroad and NewsBusters
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
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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Washington Post, IJR, CBS Sacramento, Raw Story, Hollywood Life, Bustle, WTKR-TV and AOL
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Jayme Deerwester / USA Today:
Spokesman: Arnold Schwarzenegger stable after undergoing emergency open-heart surgery
Spokesman: Arnold Schwarzenegger stable after undergoing emergency open-heart surgery
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The Daily Caller and Deadline
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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Fox News, Talking Points Memo, IJR, Common Dreams, Hit & Run, VICE News, thecut, Splinter, AOL and TheBlaze
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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
Sarah Sarder / Dallas Morning News:
Texas felon who 'didn't even want to go vote' gets prison time for voting illegally
Texas felon who 'didn't even want to go vote' gets prison time for voting illegally
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The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
How Trump got to ‘yes’ on the biggest purge of Russian spies in U.S. history … In the days leading up to the largest expulsion of Russian spies in U.S. history, few people inside or outside the Trump administration knew exactly what the president would do.
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CANNONFIRE and Shakesville
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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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Raw Story, Vox, CNBC, Defense One and Mother Jones
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite and TVNewser
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Jeff McCall / The Hill:
CNN lost its way in struggle to find an audience
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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BBC, RedState, Daily Mail, Mashable and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo …
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo …
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The Daily Caller, Slate, The Atlantic, Mashable, VICE News, RAPPLER, The Daily Beast, The Verge, Raw Story, Daily Mail, Politico, 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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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, RedState, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
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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Washington Post, Politico, 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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ABC News, Washington Post, Hartford Courant, MyRecordJournal.com, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call, The Week, New York Magazine and ThinkProgress
James Cox / The Sun:
SIEGE IN GAZA Twelve killed by Israeli forces and 550 injured as thousands of Palestinians swarm the border, burn photos of Trump, and vow to protest for six weeks until the US embassy moves to Jerusalem — Protesters were seen burning posters of Donald Trump, throwing stones …
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Coffee Drinkers Need Cancer Warning, Judge Rules, Giving Sellers the Jitters — Coffee sellers are mulling how to fight a California judge's ruling that would require the beverage to be branded with cancer warning labels. — The National Coffee Association, whose members include Starbucks …
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Boing Boing, The Outline, Jezebel, IJR, Bustle, myfox8.com and WNEP-TV
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Coffee must carry cancer warning, California judge rules
Coffee must carry cancer warning, California judge rules
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Associated Press, IJR, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, Bustle, Gizmodo, Law & Crime and AOL
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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Crooked Timber, The Independent, Instapundit, Daily Wire, MelaniePhillips.com and New York Times
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 Week, The Daily Caller and Raw Story