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Job Changes for E.P.A. Officials Who Questioned Scott Pruitt — WASHINGTON — At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management …
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is in hot water over a condo. It turns out that in 2017 he stayed for several months in a room co-owned by the wife of a bigshot energy lobbyist, and at one point met with a representative of that firm in his EPA office while he was staying there.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Pruitt fell behind on payments for his $50-a-night condo rental — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt was at times slow to pay the rent on his $50-per-night lease in a Capitol Hill condo, according to two people with knowledge of the situation — forcing his lobbyist landlord to pester him for payment.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Lobbyist married to Pruitt's ex-landlord speaks out as EPA administrator's troubles deepen
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: ‘He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein’
Julianna Goldman / CBS News:
Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency
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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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Bloomberg:
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Putin Cronies
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Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Targets Allies of Putin in Latest Round of Sanctions
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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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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner — President Trump said in a radio interview aired Friday that the U.S. isn't in a trade war because the trade war is “already lost,” and said he “probably won't” attend …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner again
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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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Adviser says, 'Blame China, don't blame Trump'
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Gordon G. Chang / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Right to Say He's Not Launching a Trade War With China. He's Doing Something Bigger.
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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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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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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda — THE BIG IDEA: Leaders of the conservative Koch political network are mad about President Trump's tariffs, the failure to protect “dreamers” and runaway government spending. They're frustrated that congressional leaders …
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NBC News:
Without data-targeted ads, Facebook would look like a pay service, Sandberg says
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Christina Farr / CNBC:
Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
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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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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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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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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Mueller probe tracking down Trump business partners, with Cohen a focus of queries — WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators this week questioned an associate of the Trump Organization who was involved in overseas deals with President Donald Trump's company in recent years.
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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 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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Political Wire and Raw Story
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seized bank accounts in Manafort probe — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial institutions last year just one day before former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing Thursday.
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CNN:
Lewandowski to Democrats: I'm not answering your ‘f—ing’ questions — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains language some people may find offensive. — (CNN)Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn't going to answer their “fucking” questions.
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Mexican president rebukes Trump over border threats … VERACRUZ, Mexico — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto delivered his most direct public rebuke of President Trump on Thursday afternoon, in a national address that characterized Mexico as willing to cooperate with the United States …
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Juli Briskman / Washington Post:
Why I'm suing for my right to flip off the president — Juli Briskman is a marketing and public relations professional living in Sterling. — One sunny Saturday last fall, I hopped on my bike and headed out for a ride near my home in Virginia. President Trump decided to spend …
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