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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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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
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 …
Axios:
Why Trump thinks he's winning his war on media — Nothing helps President Trump more — or tightens his hold on his base more securely — than his cozy, mutually beneficial relationship with conservative TV. Trump's feedback loop, including cable-news coverage, and mainstream media squawking …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Fox News: Look, We're Not Sinclair — One Fox News insider said the comparison between the cable news network and Sinclair was ludicrous and the local TV anchors in a viral video “looked like hostage victims.” … A viral video showing dozens of local TV anchors delivering the same politicized segment …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
To Trump, It's the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To Its Editor, That's Baloney.
To Trump, It's the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To Its Editor, That's Baloney.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Wants to Promote Sinclair? Let Him.
Trump Wants to Promote Sinclair? Let Him.
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
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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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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Washington Post:
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 considered firing Pruitt
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
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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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
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.
Wall Street Journal:
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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Trish Turner / ABC News:
Court poised to hand down 1st sentence in Mueller probe
Court poised to hand down 1st sentence in Mueller probe
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Mueller Found a Very Dishonest Way to Shroud His Investigation in Secrecy
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 …
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
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.
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Washington Post:
That caravan of migrants Trump was tweeting about? Mexico stopped it. … VERACRUZ, Mexico — The Mexican government on Monday evening moved to break up the caravan of migrants moving through southern Mexico, with immigration officials registering the travelers and suggesting …
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Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Markets That Climbed the Trump Bump Are Tumbling Down From It — Percentage change from Jan. 26 peak … Feb. — March — April — S. & P. 500 — Percentage change from Jan. 26 peak … Feb. — March — April — The Trump Bump is becoming the Trump Slump.
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Michael McCaul / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
No, the Postal Service isn't losing a fortune on Amazon
No, the Postal Service isn't losing a fortune on Amazon
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New York Times:
What Is Your City's Twin? — Let's imagine that you're looking for a job and want to live in a city similar to your hometown. — Or, hypothetically, let's say you run a large technology company that is searching for the location of another headquarters, and you want a place that feels like home.
Dennis Ross / Washington Post:
If Trump walks away from the Iran deal, Tehran will win — Dennis Ross, a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute, served in senior national security positions in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations. — I was not a fan of the Iran nuclear deal.
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Clouds form over Iran deal as Trump deadline nears
Clouds form over Iran deal as Trump deadline nears
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
'I can't breathe': Asheville police video shows white officer beating, choking black jaywalking suspect … Johnnie Rush was trying to get home from a long shift at the Cracker Barrel. — Then he got stopped for jaywalking — an encounter with the police department in Asheville, N.C. …
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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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National Review:
Conservative Criticism of Trump Is Not Deluded — A response to Rich Lowry — One of the more significant frustrations of the Trump era is the lack of precise terminology for the debates required of it. One such term is “Never Trump.” It is vague enough to include a broad spectrum …
Corey Robin:
Why is the media—including the liberal media—supporting these teachers' strikes? — I've been amazed—in a good way—at how positive is the media coverage of all these teacher wildcat strikes and actions in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona. Particularly from liberal media outlets.
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Eric X. Li / Washington Post:
Why Xi's lifting of term limits is a good thing — Eric X. Li is a Shanghai venture capitalist and a trustee and chairman of the advisory committee of Fudan University's China Institute. — SHANGHAI — Western media and the Chinese chattering classes have been in an uproar since China's …
Michael Jones / The College Fix:
University event aims to combat ‘Christian Privilege’ — George Washington University diversity workshop to be held four days after Easter — Just four days after Easter, George Washington University will host a training session for students and faculty that teaches that Christians …
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Putin Leaks Details To Embarrass Trump And Show Him Who's The Boss — Former Obama National Security Council spokesperson Ned Price said that the Russians are intentionally leaking details of Putin's conversations with Trump to gain leverage and embarrass Trump. — Video of Price on MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber:
Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
Grindr Will Stop Sharing Users' HIV Data With Other Companies — The popular gay dating app made the announcement late Monday, but also said that it was being unfairly targeted. “It's being conflated with Cambridge Analytica,” Grindr's chief security officer said.
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Gabrielle Banks / Houston Chronicle:
Former aide to U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman turned government witness says, “I just do what I'm told” — The second of two key government witnesses took the stand late Monday in Houston in the federal fraud trial of former U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, telling jurors his main duty …
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Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
A 5-year-old looking for candy found a gun instead, then fatally shot his brother … Seven-year-old Jermon Perry was playing video games in an upstairs bedroom at his family's duplex in south St. Louis on Saturday when a single gunshot hit him in the head. The boy was still alive when his mother, Michelle Lawson, rushed upstairs.
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