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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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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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Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides — In early March, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt approached the White House with a request: He wanted substantial pay raises for two of his closest aides.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist-Owned Pad Was GOP Fundraising Hub
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“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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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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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 …


Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government — (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former …
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Mueller Was Authorized to Investigate Paul Manafort's Work for Ukraine — Special Counsel Robert Mueller was authorized in a secret memo to investigate former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's work for the Ukrainian government, in addition to alleged collusion with Russian officials to interfere in the 2016 elections.
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Court poised to hand down 1st sentence in Mueller probe
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Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’ — David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said he dislikes and fundamentally distrusts the print media, which he believes “serves no real purpose.” In emails to New York, Smith said that print …
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Sinclair responds to criticism of media-bashing promos
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Trump said Sinclair ‘is far superior to CNN.’ What we know about the conservative media giant.
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Fox News: Look, We're Not Sinclair
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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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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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Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018 — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018. It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.


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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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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Fox News Says Laura Ingraham Will Return
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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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Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges
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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 …


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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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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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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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 …


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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Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster. … The headlines called it a non-event when Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided not to appoint a special counsel to look into the special counsel after all.


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 …


Afghan woman shot in face builds new life in Canada after US rejection — Shakila Zareen, 23, lost much of her face after being shot by her husband but, after multiple surgeries and seeing her hopes of resettlement dashed, she has a new home in Vancouver — Ashifa Kassam in Toronto and Sune Engel Rasmussen