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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Lobbyist couple had to change the locks on Pruitt — Scott Pruitt was only supposed to be living in the Capitol Hill condominium that has become a focal point of his latest ethics controversy for six weeks last year while he got settled in Washington - but the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt — Trump resists calls for Pruitt resignation as White House reviews controversies — WASHINGTON—White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that he is convinced Environmental Protection …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
What's Driving Trump's Attacks on Amazon? It's Personal — President's attacks on e-commerce company stem from its CEO Jeff Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post, which Trump says covers him unfairly, say people close to the White House — Early in President Donald Trump's term …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Staffers Are Freaking Out Even More Than Usual Right Now — Axios editor Mike Allen is a consummate Establishmentarian who has spent his career laboring to win the approval of elites in both parties. Yesterday, Allen published a column headlined “The case for extreme worry.”
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New York Times:
Chief of Staff Advised a Resistant Trump to Fire the E.P.A. Chief
Chief of Staff Advised a Resistant Trump to Fire the E.P.A. Chief
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Pruitt Test
Trump's Pruitt Test
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Lobbyist married to Pruitt's ex-landlord speaks out as EPA administrator's troubles deepen
Playbook scoop: Lobbyist married to Pruitt's ex-landlord speaks out as EPA administrator's troubles deepen
Associated Press:
Inside a White House in tumult, John Kelly's clout dwindles
Inside a White House in tumult, John Kelly's clout dwindles
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity — WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs …
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals. — Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning — The firing of Kevin Williamson from The Atlantic on the day he was set to give an opening Q&A in their offices was sadly unsurprising given the pattern of these types of hires. It is an incident that will be referred to largely as a …
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Kevin Williamson is wrong. Hanging women who have an abortion is not pro-life
Kevin Williamson is wrong. Hanging women who have an abortion is not pro-life
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Trump threat of $100 billion tariffs will ‘wake up’ China, Mitt Romney says — SANDY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump's proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn't think it would lead to trade war.
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Madeleine Albright / New York Times:
Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late? — Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II. — On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump — likened her husband's presidency to having “the good parent” at home at a women's leadership conference on Thursday. — At the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, Obama appeared to take shots at President Trump
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Virginia Kruta / The Daily Caller:
Michelle Obama: My Husband Was ‘The Good Parent,’ Trump Is ‘The Fun Parent’
Michelle Obama: My Husband Was ‘The Good Parent,’ Trump Is ‘The Fun Parent’
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Mark Zuckerberg:
With important elections coming up in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan and more countries in the next year, one of my top priorities for 2018 is making sure we support positive discourse and prevent interference in these elections. — After we identified Russian interference in the 2016 US elections …
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Facebook:
Making Ads and Pages More Transparent — We believe that when you visit a Page or see an ad on Facebook it should be clear who it's coming from. We also think it's important for people to be able to see the other ads a Page is running, even if they're not directed at you.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night — The president's top economic adviser has spent the past week tirelessly pushing the White House's controversial trade proposals. — National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow appears to have been blindsided …
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner again
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner again
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes — Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust? — You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook plans to let everyone unsend messages, won't let Zuckerberg until then
Facebook plans to let everyone unsend messages, won't let Zuckerberg until then
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Daily Mail:
Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence — Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl — As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.
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Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Mueller obtains evidence about Seychelles meeting — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year, when he described a meeting in Seychelles with a Russian financier close …
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YouTube:
Republican Trey Gowdy Was Known For Being Hyperpartisan — Until Trump (HBO) … South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man. He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.
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Denver Post:
As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved … The photo on the left shows 142 members of The Denver Post's newsroom staff in the newspaper's lobby on May 15, 2013, a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts — The good news for Republicans is that President Trump's approval rating has, on balance, ticked up from 38 percent to 40 percent since January as attention has shifted from unpopular GOP proposals on healthcare and taxes to the economy, tariffs and Stormy Daniels.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Anthony Scaramucci on Bannon and back-stabbing in DC — It has taken a Herculean effort to pin down Anthony Scaramucci. Our lunch was originally scheduled for last November. Then Scaramucci stumbled on an old tweet by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber, which compared the language he used …
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
A key Virginia GOP state senator says he is willing to break ranks and vote to expand Medicaid … RICHMOND — Virginia could be on the cusp of expanding Medicaid to 400,000 low-income residents, after a veteran Republican state senator said Friday he is willing to split with his party …
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Washington Post:
Rallying Nation — In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans are joining protests and getting political — Tens of millions of Americans have joined protests and rallies in the past two years, their activism often driven by admiration or outrage toward President Trump …
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