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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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Washington Monthly, HBR.org, Raw Story and Mediaite
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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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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, CNBC, NBC News, Breitbart, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, The Week and Washington Free Beacon
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Pruitt Test — The President needs to show some loyalty to his leading reformer. — Donald Trump demands loyalty up the chain of command, but loyalty down has been another matter. The latest test of loyalty down will be whether Mr. Trump stands behind Scott Pruitt …
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Mother Jones, VICE News, The Daily Caller and New York Times
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
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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Splinter and ThinkProgress
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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RedState, Mediaite, Washington Post, NTK Network, Raw Story and Politico
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted
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Daily Kos, Earther, The Daily Beast, New Republic, Talking Points Memo, The Federalist and Washington Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Staffers Are Freaking Out Even More Than Usual Right Now
Trump Staffers Are Freaking Out Even More Than Usual Right Now
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Talking Points Memo, The Rush Limbaugh Show and thecut
Umair Irfan / Vox:
Scott Pruitt's ethics scandals aren't stopping him from gutting the EPA
Scott Pruitt's ethics scandals aren't stopping him from gutting the EPA
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo and Politico
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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Bloomberg:
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
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New York Magazine
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Putin Cronies
Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Putin Cronies
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, AlBoeNEWS, Political Wire and The Week
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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Associated Press:
Trump wants out of Syria, but don't say ‘timeline’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spoken: He wants U.S. troops and civilians out of Syria by the fall. But don't call it a “timeline.” — Wary of charges of hypocrisy for publicly telegraphing military strategy …
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Associated Press, Mother Jones, CNN and New York Magazine
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Just Jeopardized America's Biggest Asset in the Syria War, U.S. Officials Say
Trump Just Jeopardized America's Biggest Asset in the Syria War, U.S. Officials Say
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The American Conservative, Sputnik International, BPR and Washington Post
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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Phoebe Weston / Daily Mail:
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
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CANNONFIRE, NewsBusters and BGR
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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Shakesville and Hullabaloo
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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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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NBC News and Political Wire
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trey Gowdy says being in Congress was largely a waste of time
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year …
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The Daily Beast, Common Dreams, Washington Press, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Political Wire
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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Axios, New York Magazine, New York Times, CNN and Weekly Standard
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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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, CNBC, Raw Story and Political Wire
NBC News:
Without data-targeted ads, Facebook would look like a pay service, Sandberg says — Users' data are the lifeblood of Facebook, and if they wanted to opt out of all of the platform's data-driven advertising, they would have to pay for it, Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, told NBC News.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda
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The Week
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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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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NBC10 Boston, Breitbart, Althouse and Mashable
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 …
Tara Golshan / Vox:
If taxes aren't working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks? — The Republican 2018 messaging crisis, explained: They “backpedaled into cultural issues and it looked desperate.” — Republicans are trying to get Americans excited about their tax bill, but it's a tough sell.
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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Mashable
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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Politico:
Kander hires Des Moines Register scribe amid 2020 buzz — The Missouri Democrat raised his profile in a failed 2016 Senate bid. — Potential 2020 presidential candidate Jason Kander is hiring an Iowa-based communications director as his national organization staffs up.
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Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
He Says He's an Innocent Victim. Robert Mueller Says He's a Spy. — KIEV, Ukraine — The man sat at a restaurant table, grasping a glass of white wine. His sandy hair was close cropped, he wore a cardigan sweater and in the afternoon bustle he looked like just another office worker at lunch.
New York Times:
Kenya Barris, Creator of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Said to Seek an Exit From ABC — Kenya Barris, the A-list writer-producer behind the ABC comedy “black-ish,” has grown frustrated with his home network and is examining the possibility of making an early exit from his contract, according to three people familiar with the negotiations.
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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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Splinter