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Jill McCabe / Washington Post:
The president attacked my reputation. It's time to set the record straight. — Jill McCabe, an emergency room pediatrician, is married to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. — I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Pruitt Had a $50-a-Day Condo Linked to Lobbyists. Their Client's Project Got Approved. — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company's pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt …
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EPA explored private jet lease for Pruitt's travels last year — Aides to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt last year considered leasing a private jet on a month-to-month basis to accommodate his travel needs, according to current and former agency officials.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House considered firing Pruitt — White House chief of staff John Kelly has considered the firing of embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt in the coming months as part of a wave of ousters of top officials causing headaches for the president, a senior administration official told POLITICO.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist-Owned Pad Was GOP Fundraising Hub
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist-Owned Pad Was GOP Fundraising Hub
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
White House Probes EPA Chief Pruitt Over His Links to Lobbyist
White House Probes EPA Chief Pruitt Over His Links to Lobbyist
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Like, ‘How Can I F—k with Him?’”: Trump's War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal — With the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos. — For the first time in Donald Trump's presidency, the West Wing soap opera appears …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
To Trump, It's the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To Its Editor, That's Baloney. — Amazon does not own The Washington Post. President Trump, however — impervious to certain facts and armed with a Twitter account — has tried hard to convince the public otherwise.
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Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Markets That Climbed the Trump Bump Are Tumbling Down From It
Markets That Climbed the Trump Bump Are Tumbling Down From It
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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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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’
Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’
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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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Says Laura Ingraham Will Return
Fox News Says Laura Ingraham Will Return
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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Into U.A.E. Influence Broadens — Special counsel's latest inquiry into the activities of a U.S. ally suggests he is looking more closely at foreign influence in Washington — WASHINGTON—Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked questions about the work of a private consulting firm …
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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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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges
Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges
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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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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump is wrong about Amazon on all counts — President Trump gets results. His attacks on Amazon have tanked the company's stock. — It's hard to think of a more pointlessly destructive act of presidential jawboning in our history. The online retailer is a jewel of our market economy …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump moves to force Stormy Daniels suit into arbitration — Lawyers for President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to order that an arbitrator resolve a dispute with Stormy Daniels, a former adult film actress, over an alleged “hush money” agreement reached weeks before the 2016 presidential election …
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump attorney seeks to force porn star's lawsuit into arbitration
Trump attorney seeks to force porn star's lawsuit into arbitration
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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 …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump leads Kasich, Flake among likely NH GOP voters — leads a pair of potential Republican challengers in a theoretical 2020 New Hampshire primary, a survey published Monday showed. — The American Research Group poll, reported first by BuzzFeed News, found Trump leads Ohio Gov. John Kasich …
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USA Today:
The ‘condom snorting challenge’ is every parent's worst nightmare … A disturbing new viral trend has teenagers snorting unwrapped condoms as part of the “Condom Challenge.” For more on the story here is Zachary Devita. Buzz60 — Viral videos posted on social media show teenagers snorting condoms …
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TMZ.com:
Tiger Woods' Ex-GF Threatened Over NDA — Tiger Woods got his ex-girlfriend Kristin Smith to sign a non-disclosure agreement to make sure she kept her mouth shut about their nuclear breakup ... but she wants out of their deal — and now they're locked in a nasty legal war.
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump heats up rhetoric on border, immigration as some supporters grow impatient — President Trump's sharp shift in tone on immigration this week from would-be dealmaker back to the hard-line stance he campaigned on comes amid signs that some of his conservative base is growing impatient …
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump's Governing Just Like Obama With Congress Gridlocked — President has signed more executive orders than predecessor — He's griped to confidants about congressional inaction — President Donald Trump has entered what his predecessor called the “pen-and-phone” phase of his presidency …
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New York Times:
Russia Presses Trump for White House Meeting With Putin — MOSCOW — Russia sought to move beyond last week's diplomatic confrontation with the West on Monday by pressing President Trump for a White House meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin that would undercut the perception …
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.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Stormy Effect’: Trump's support falls with women, rises with men in new poll — 's support among women plunged this month as he battled controversies surrounding alleged affairs with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, according to a new poll.
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Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data — (Update: Late on Monday Grindr said it would stop sharing HIV status information with other companies.) — The gay hookup app Grindr, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users across the world …
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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.