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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
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
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Donna Borak / CNN:
US imposes sanctions against Russian oligarchs and government officials
US imposes sanctions against Russian oligarchs and government officials
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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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Political Wire, AlBoeNEWS and The Week
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
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner
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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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner again
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner again
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New York Times:
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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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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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
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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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USA Today:
Donald Trump needs to fire EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, not promote him
Donald Trump needs to fire EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, not promote him
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Vox, Legal Planet and Washington Post
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: ‘He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein’
Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: ‘He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein’
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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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Phoebe Weston / Daily Mail:
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
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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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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.
Trump's Right to Say He's Not Launching a Trade War With China. He's Doing Something Bigger.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Adviser says, 'Blame China, don't blame Trump'
The Latest: Adviser says, 'Blame China, don't blame Trump'
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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’
Trump wants out of Syria, but don't say ‘timeline’
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Mother Jones, Associated Press, 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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BPR, Washington Post and New York Times
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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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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trey Gowdy says being in Congress was largely a waste of time
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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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.
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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