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Laura Ingraham Says She'll Take Planned Vacation Amidst Controversy — Laura Ingraham is taking avacation next week. Now the question is whether a controversy swirling around the host will go on hiatus as well. — The popular Fox News Channel host - her “Ingraham Angle” …
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Ingraham announces break from her show amid backlash over Parkland student … Fox News host Laura Ingraham is taking vacation time even as advertisers flee her show “The Ingraham Angle” over a feud with a high school student who advocates gun control. — Ingraham on her show Friday night described …
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NRA board member Ted Nugent calls Parkland students poor, pathetic liars with no soul — Nugent: “The evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul” — From the March 30 edition of Newsmax's The Joe Pags Show: — Loading the player reg... TED NUGENT: The level of ignorance goes beyond stupidity.
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Ted Nugent: Parkland's Student-Activists Are ‘Soulless’ Liars — Classic rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent has attacked Parkland's teenage school shooting survivors-turned-gun control activists, calling them “mushy brained” and “soulless” liars. In an appearance on The Joe Pags Show late Friday …
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Roseanne Barr is tweeting about QAnon, a new Pizzagate-style conspiracy theory — The success of ABC's “Roseanne” reboot has brought new attention to comedian Roseanne Barr's belief in the absolutely crazy “QAnon” conspiracy theory. — Barr alluded to the theory on Twitter on Friday night, baffling her followers.
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Did Shulkin get fired or resign? This is why it matters — The White House is now asserting that recently departed Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin resigned. Shulkin has made it clear in his public comments that he was forced out. — While Washington often wraps firings …
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Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Nextgov and Talking Points Memo


Palestinians hold day of mourning after 773 ‘shot with live ammunition’ — At least 15 killed when Israeli soldiers open fire during mass demonstrations in Gaza — Hazem Balousha in Gaza City and Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem … Gaza hospitals, running low on blood and overstretched …
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The Outrage Over Kevin Williamson — You had the right to remain silent. Now every word you've ever uttered, and every one you ever will, can and will be held against you. — I'm sorry to have to write you, for two reasons. Sorry, first, that you have to endure having your character assailed …
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Trump accuses Amazon of ‘Post Office scam,’ falsely says The Post is its lobbyist … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump escalated his assault on Amazon on Saturday, accusing the online retail giant of a “Post Office scam” and falsely stating that The Washington Post operates as a lobbyist for Amazon.


The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour — Who wants to work on a weapon? — These kinds of leaks didn't happen when I started reporting on Facebook eight years ago. It was a tight-knit cult convinced of its mission to connect everyone, but with the discipline …
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Internal FBI report shows discrepancy between McCabe and Comey accounts — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)The internal FBI report that served as grounds for the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe includes key testimony from his former boss that shows a discrepancy with McCabe's public statements …
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Jerry Brown pardons five immigrants facing deportation — Amid a brewing legal battle with the Trump administration over California's liberal immigration policies, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday granted pre-Easter pardons to five immigrants facing possible deportation.
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Why Robert Mueller could be considering bribery charges — Randall D. Eliason teaches white-collar criminal law at George Washington University Law School. He blogs at Sidebarsblog.com. Follow @rdeliason. — President Trump's now-former attorney John Dowd allegedly told lawyers …
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Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? — Amazon ran a commercial on this year's Super Bowl that featured celebrities like Rebel Wilson, Cardi B and even the company's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, filling in for the retail giant's digital assistant Alexa.


Megachurch pastor charged with defrauding elderly investors — Federal authorities have charged the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Louisiana financial planner with defrauding elderly investors out of more than $1 million. — Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston and Gregory Alan Smith of Shreveport …


Trump Advisers Urge Tougher Russia Policy After Expulsions — WASHINGTON — Some senior Trump administration officials are pressing for more aggressive action toward Russia, hoping to persuade a reluctant President Trump to change his approach after a week of mass diplomatic expulsions …
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Russian Accused of Hacking U.S. Technology Firms Is Extradited
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One by one, European ambassadors learn they're being expelled from Russia
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From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump's business is under siege … The carefully maintained secrecy around President Trump's finances is under unprecedented assault a year into his presidency, with three different legal teams with different agendas trying to pry open the Trump Organization's books.


Teacher Anti-Trump Rant: Georgia Student Records Teacher Ripping MAGA Make America Great Again — On “Fox & Friends,” Abby Huntsman interviewed a Georgia middle school student who captured audio of her teacher ripping President Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” slogan.
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A Newly Released Document Shows 1,903 People Were Stopped Under Trump's First Travel Ban — The document, released under the Freedom on Information Act, was among hundreds of records made public by Customs and Border Protection this week. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Ann Coulter to Donald Trump: Beware the Former Trumpers — Donald Trump has a boatload of problems. Ann Coulter, the author of a 2016 book titled “In Trump We Trust,” is now one of them. — A week ago, when he signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill with nothing for his promised border wall …


Stephon Clark ‘deserved it,’ nurse wrote on Facebook. Now she's no longer working for Kaiser. — Kaiser Permanente has parted ways with a nurse whose Facebook comments about Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police on March 18, incited a social media firestorm after an activist put them in the spotlight.
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Nashville pastor molested at least 8 children during 20 years as church leader, police say — Metro police have arrested a pastor accused of molesting several children across two decades while he was leader of a South Nashville congregation. — Matthew Dennis Patterson, known as Denny …
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