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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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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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Political Wire
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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ThinkProgress
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, thecut, Political Wire and Jezebel
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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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
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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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RedState and Joe.My.God.
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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USA Today and Mother Jones
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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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 and Breitbart
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 and Media Matters for America
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, IJR, Splinter, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and CNN
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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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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CBS Dallas, CBS New York and The Daily Caller
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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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, The Gateway Pundit, Defense One, RedState and Mother Jones
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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NBC News, Political Wire, Shakesville, Politico, Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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
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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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
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Noor Salman Is Acquitted in Pulse Nightclub Shooting — ORLANDO, Fla. — Noor Salman, the widow of the man who gunned down dozens of people at the Pulse nightclub two years ago, was found not guilty by a federal jury on Friday of helping her husband carry out a terrorist attack in the name of the Islamic State.
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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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Crooked Timber, The Independent, Instapundit, Daily Wire, MelaniePhillips.com and New York Times
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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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Coffee must carry cancer warning, California judge rules
Coffee must carry cancer warning, California judge rules
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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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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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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
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.
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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