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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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ThinkProgress, Axios, ABC News, New York Magazine, Raw Story and Political Wire
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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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VICE News, Sputnik International, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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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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Shakesville
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Russian ambassador says ‘atmosphere in Washington is poison’
Russian ambassador says ‘atmosphere in Washington is poison’
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The Daily Caller and Politico
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
U.S.-Russian relations worst Ambassador Antonov can remember
U.S.-Russian relations worst Ambassador Antonov can remember
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Washington Post
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 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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New York Times, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, CNN, Mashable and Deadline
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, The Verge, The Daily Beast, RAPPLER, VICE News, The Guardian, Raw Story, Politico, Daily Mail, Mother Jones, Gizmodo and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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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, more at Techmeme »
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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Raw Story, Media Matters for America, AOL, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., Daily Kos and Political Wire
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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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Washington Post, BuzzFeed, New York Times, Reuters, IJR, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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
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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The Daily Beast, Althouse and Jihad Watch
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Emilee Speck / WKMG:
WATCH LIVE: Verdict reached in trial for widow of Pulse gunman
WATCH LIVE: Verdict reached in trial for widow of Pulse gunman
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Talking Points Memo
Lexington Herald-Leader:
Lexington, more than 15 other districts cancel school over teacher absences after pension vote — Kentucky's two largest school districts in Jefferson and Fayette counties were among 26 across the state that closed schools Friday after hundreds of school employees refused to work following the legislature's passage of pension reform.
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Jacobin
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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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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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The Federalist, Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, Political Wire and Scene and Heard
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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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, thecut, Splinter, AOL, Political Wire and TheBlaze
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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
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, Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Bustle, Jezebel, 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 Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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, RedState, Mother Jones, Axios and Washington Post
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
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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Daily Kos, Raw Story, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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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Gizmodo, Weekly Standard, thecut, PerezHilton, IndieWire, AOL, Law & Crime, news.avclub.com, Althouse and Jezebel
New York Times:
A Coup at Veterans Affairs — If you're like us, your initial reaction upon hearing that President Trump had picked his personal physician to head the Department of Veterans Affairs was: “What? You mean the guy who looks like a retired Grateful Dead roadie and said ‘unequivocally’ that Mr. Trump …
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Salon, Hullabaloo, POLITICUSUSA, Politico, Washington Monthly and Little Green Footballs
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
House Intel Committee Findings Contradict Kushner's Testimony — Jared Kushner and his attorneys likely did not enjoy something they read when the House Intelligence Committee released its findings on Russian election interference last Thursday. The report, drafted by Chairman Devin Nunes …
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
Syria bomb kills 2 coalition troops, including an American — KOBANI, Syria (AP) — A roadside bomb in northern Syria killed two coalition personnel, including an American, and wounded five others in a rare attack since the U.S.-led coalition sent troops into the war-torn country …
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New York Times and Axios
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