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Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone's Claim of a 2016 Julian Assange Meeting Draws Scrutiny — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked about an email during grand jury testimony — The special counsel investigating alleged links between Trump campaign associates and Russians is looking …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sinclair responds to criticism of media-bashing promos — Sinclair forces stations to air media-bashing promos, criticism goes viral — Critics are calling Sinclair's promos pro-Trump propaganda. Now the company is defending the initiative, and calling it something much more mundane …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
‘Fake News’ Threat to Media; Editorial Decisions, Outside Actors at Fault — Trump less trusted than CNN, MSNBC, and Fox as info source — West Long Branch, NJ - The news about “fake news” is not good, according to the Monmouth University Poll. Large majorities of the American public believe …
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Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News states support for Laura Ingraham despite advertiser fallout — Fox News is standing by its embattled host Laura Ingraham, who has seen advertisers flee her show over a tweet aimed at Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg. — “We cannot and will not allow voices …
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Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
Russian bots are tweeting their support of embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham … Embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham has found some unlikely allies: Russian bots. — Russian-linked Twitter accounts have rallied around the conservative talk-show host, who has come under fire …
Bill O'Reilly / No Spin News:
Sponsor Boycott of Laura Ingraham
Sponsor Boycott of Laura Ingraham
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Elizabeth Esty:
From being a room parent in a first grade classroom to serving on the library board, town council, state house and U.S. Congress, I went into public service to fight for equality, justice, and fairness. It is one of the greatest honors of my life that the people of Connecticut's Fifth District elected me to represent them in Congress.
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The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump ‘Cherishes’ Lou Dobbs So Much He Puts Him on Speakerphone for Oval Office Meetings … It is difficult to fully understand the Trump presidency without first understanding Lou Dobbs, the Fox Business powerhouse host and one of the main precursors to Trumpism.
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CNN:
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump hears from immigration hardliners
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump hears from immigration hardliners
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges … The Trump administration will pressure U.S. immigration judges to process cases faster by establishing a quota system tied to their annual performance reviews, according to new Justice Department directives.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
New Quotas for Immigration Judges as Trump Administration Seeks Faster Deportations — Rules were laid out in a message sent Friday to immigration judges — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has notified immigration judges that it will begin evaluating their job performance based …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
At Chicago nightclub, George Papadopoulos allegedly makes explosive new claim about Jeff Sessions — At a London bar in May 2016, after numerous drinks, Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos bragged to an Australian diplomat the Russians had obtained damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
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A Waspy Chick / The Forward:
How Dare Jewish Men Keep Breaking Up With Me — Editor's note: The following is a satirical response to a March 29 Washington Post op-ed entitled, “I am tired of being a Jewish man's rebellion.” — Hi there, readers! It's me, a woman who will now cutesily compare myself to Carrie Bradshaw …
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Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
EPA threatens to revoke California's ability to set emissions standards as the Trump administration moves to abandon fuel mileage goals … The Trump administration openly threatened one of the cornerstones of California's environmental protections Monday, saying that it may revoke …
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Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data — The gay hookup app Grindr, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users across the world, has been providing its users' HIV status to two other companies, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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Don Sweeney / Sacramento Bee:
Why are teens snorting condoms? Here are five things to know about latest online fad — While it sounds like an April Fool's joke, educators are warning about a “condom challenge” being spread online by YouTube videos and social media. — Also known as the “snorting condom challenge” …
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Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
A Betrayal — The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. — IF HENRY IS KILLED, his death can be traced to a quiet moment in the fall of 2016, when he sat slouched in his usual seat by the door in 11th-grade English class.
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Courier-Journal:
Public schools in all 120 Kentucky counties are closed Monday — Teachers and students gathered in Frankfort on Friday to speak against the pension bill that passed unexpectedly the night before. Many teachers called in sick Friday. Andy Beshear says he will sue. Astrid Hacker/ Louisville Courier Journal
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Teachers are walking out in multiple states. Blame GOP economics.
Teachers are walking out in multiple states. Blame GOP economics.
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Washington Post:
Trump proposed Putin visit Washington in March 20 phone call, Kremlin says — President Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the two leaders could meet in the White House, a Kremlin aide told Russian media Monday, Russian news agencies said. — No specific preparations for such a meeting have taken place, the aide said.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Falsely Accused Parkland School Shooter Sues Alex Jones' InfoWars for Defamation … Marcel Fontaine, who was falsely declared a suspect in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting by conspiracy-theorist website InfoWars, is now suing Alex Jones for more than a million dollars.
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Bloomberg:
Stocks' Second-Quarter Start Is the Worst Since the Great Depression — If you feel like the second quarter has begun badly, you'd be right. — U.S. stocks are on track to have their worst April start since 1929, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The S&P 500 index slumped 2.4 percent …
Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Third Woman Sues to Void Secrecy Pact Linked to Trump — A former employee of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team sued the organization to nullify a non-disclosure agreement she signed as part of her job, saying it muzzled her from airing discrimination claims.
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Be Skeptical Of Anyone Who Tells You They Know How Democrats Can Win In November — It's old news by now that Democratic candidates have done unusually well in Trump-era elections so far, suggesting that the 2018 midterms will be a good cycle for the party. So why keep writing about them?
Oleksiy Kuzmenko / bellingcat:
The Curious Case of David Jewberg, the Fake Senior Pentagon Russia Analyst — Summary: — “Senior Pentagon Russia Analyst LTC David Jewberg” maintained a popular Facebook page and was frequently quoted in Ukrainian and Russian media as a Pentagon insider related to topics concerning Ukraine and Russia.
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Mike Parker / Daily Express:
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: My secret battle with depression — HOLLYWOOD'S highest-paid star has told of his secret battle with depression and his agony over witnessing his mother's attempted suicide. Former world wrestling champion Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson declared: “Struggle and pain is real.
Bloomberg:
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel — Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel, according to people familiar with the plans, Bloomberg News' Ian King and Mark Gurman report.
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Jim Acosta Yelled At Trump While He Was Coloring With Children At White House Easter Egg Roll — Donald Trump was participating in the White House Easter Egg Roll Monday when a CNN correspondent began shouting questions at him. — During the event, families of reporters …
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Marley Jay / Associated Press:
Tech woes, worsening tensions with China sink US stocks — NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply on Monday as investors responded to rising trade tensions between the United States and China and mounting scrutiny of big technology companies from consumers and politicians.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Breast cancer page scrubbed from women's health website: report — A webpage that focused on breast cancer was reportedly scrubbed from the website of the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) Office on Women's Health (OWH). — The changes on WomensHealth.gov …
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The Hill:
Bolton could be the first national security chief to prioritize religious freedom — Among the Trump administration's early successes, two stand out particularly, and incoming National Security Advisor John Bolton has the chance to take both to the next level.
Page Six:
Is Anna Wintour out at Vogue? — It is almost beyond the fashion world's wildest imagination, but the chatter coming out of Condé Nast and the publishing industry has reached a deafening crescendo — Anna Wintour could be on her way out of Condé and Vogue as artistic director.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Saudi Crown Prince: Iran's Supreme Leader ‘Makes Hitler Look Good’ — This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right enemies. Among those who would celebrate his end are the leaders of ISIS, al-Qaeda …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama eases into post-presidential life — President Obama is by all appearances enjoying his post-White House life. — In the 14 months since he stepped out of the Oval Office, Obama's moments in the spotlight have been few and far between. — But when he has popped up …
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Americans tell Interior to take a hike over proposed national park fee increase … Interior Department officials are backing away from a plan to dramatically increase entrance fees at the most popular national parks after receiving more than 100,000 public comments from Americans nearly unanimously opposed to the idea.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller's office defends deal with Dutch lawyer to waive public records rights — Lawyer linked to ex-Trump aide pleads guilty — (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is defending an agreement it made with a Dutch lawyer tied to former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates to waive his right to request public records.
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