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Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel — WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.
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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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Jennifer Rutledge / Conservative Action Project:
Conservatives Stand with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Conservatives Stand with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt
White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt
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New Yorker:
What About “The Breakfast Club”? — Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo. — Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version of “The Breakfast Club,” …
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump adviser played key role in pursuit of possible Clinton emails from dark web before election — (CNN)A Donald Trump foreign policy adviser pushed government agencies to review materials from the dark web in the summer of 2016 that he thought were Hillary Clinton's deleted emails …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump begins informal prep for potential Mueller interview — White House won't commit to Trump-Mueller meet — (CNN)President Donald Trump has begun the initial steps of preparing for a possible interview with the special counsel, a White House official and a person familiar …
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Arizona Republic:
Backpage founder charged by feds after human-trafficking investigation — A founder of the New Times tabloid has been charged in Phoenix in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation. — Authorities had spent months probing whether Backpage …
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Laura Lollman / KASW-TV:
Backpage.com shut down by FBI, several indicted on crimes related to sex trafficking
Backpage.com shut down by FBI, several indicted on crimes related to sex trafficking
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Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Backpage Has Been Taken Down By The US Government And Sex Workers Aren't Happy
Backpage Has Been Taken Down By The US Government And Sex Workers Aren't Happy
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Dallas Morning News:
Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress — This is a developing story. — WASHINGTON — Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned from Congress Friday afternoon, less than four months after dropping reelection plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns from Congress
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns from Congress
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety — A South Carolina Republican congressman is not backing down from critics after he pulled out his own personal — and loaded — .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Kevin Williamson, Thought Criminal — Our society is in need of those who will resist the temptation of surrendering to the logic of the mob. … D — ear Superfluous Readers, — Albert Jay Nock was one of the great editors of all time, from a writer's perspective. Or rather, from a good writer's perspective.
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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
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Imagine a Genocide
Imagine a Genocide
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Sweden mom charged in brutal slaying of her 7-year-old son — Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter, District Attorney Sandra Doorley and Brockport Central School District Superintendent talk about the murder of 7 year-old Abraham E. Cardenas, and the arrest of his mother 36 year-old Hanane Mouhib, Shawn Dowd
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Facebook suspends data firm hired by Vote Leave over alleged Cambridge Analytica ties — AggregateIQ, which played a pivotal role in the Brexit campaign, suspended after reports it may have improperly obtained user data … Facebook has suspended the Canadian data firm …
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New York Times:
Kushner Partner in 666 Fifth Ave. Says It Has Deal to Sell — The Kushner family appeared on Friday to have struck a deal to buy out its partner in the troubled Fifth Avenue skyscraper at the center of its real estate empire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tanya Gold / Spectator USA:
The fall of Milo Yiannopoulos … It seems the phenomenon of Milo Yiannopoulos - the brief, bright arc of his invention - is over. I do not want him to fall without being understood so I will tell you the strange tale of our encounters last year. Monsters should be understood, and pitied, for our own sakes.
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.
Michelle Fabio / Forbes:
Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And ‘Media Influencers’ — In today's installment of “I'm Not Terrified, You Are,” Bloomberg Law reports on a FedBizOpps.gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the relatively benign-sounding subject, “Media Monitoring Services.”
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ICE raids meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee; 97 immigrants arrested … Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee late Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
For McMaster, Pomp Under Bittersweet Circumstances — WASHINGTON — President Trump's national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, handed off his duties to John R. Bolton on Friday, a bittersweet departure from the White House in which he played down personal animosities with Mr. Trump …
Neal Gabler / New York Times:
‘Chappaquiddick’ Distorts a Tragedy — Senator Edward Kennedy, one of the most famous members of America's most famous family, understood that he belonged as much to popular culture as to political culture. Now, nine years after his death, comes a movie about the event that …
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Dow tumbles 572 points as trade war fears pummel stocks — Dow tumbles as trade war fears pummel stocks — Stocks tumbled Friday as trade tensions between the United States and China heated up. — The Dow closed down 572 points, a drop of 2.3%, after President Trump threatened to escalate a confrontation with China over trade.
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