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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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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 and Political Wire
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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 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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IJR, Splinter, New York Times, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, CNN, Mashable and Deadline
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
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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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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Washington Post:
How Trump got to ‘yes’ on the biggest purge of Russian spies in U.S. history
How Trump got to ‘yes’ on the biggest purge of Russian spies in U.S. history
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Shakesville
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
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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BBC, RedState, Daily Mail, Mashable and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
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
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
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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Media Matters for America, Conservative Review, Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Gateway Pundit
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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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POLITICUSUSA, The Federalist, Washington Times, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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, CNBC, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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Greg Walters / VICE News:
Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting
Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting
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Vox and Mother Jones
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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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 and WGN-TV
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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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
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, 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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Politico, RedState, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Hartford Courant, Roll Call, The Week, New York Magazine and ThinkProgress
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
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: AMAZON SLASHES OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS — ANNA, MARIANNE LEVINE and THEO MEYER are reporting that tech giant Amazon nixed multiple contract lobbying firms recently from its roster, including Squire Patton Boggs and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. “This was a specific project …
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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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Daily Kos, Raw Story, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Ricardo Cano / Arizona Republic:
Last Slide — Frustrated and desperate, Arizona educators are demanding 20 percent pay raises to address the state's teacher crisis and have threatened to take escalated action if state leaders don't respond with urgency. — About 2,500 teachers and their supporters — clad in a sea of red …
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Washington Post, New York Magazine and Vox
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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The Daily Caller and Raw Story