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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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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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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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Talking Points Memo, The Rush Limbaugh Show and thecut
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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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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ThinkProgress, Vox and Daily Caller News Foundation
Umair Irfan / Vox:
3 environmental regulations Scott Pruitt has been dismantling amid his scandals
3 environmental regulations Scott Pruitt has been dismantling amid his scandals
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ThinkProgress, Politico and Talking Points Memo
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner again
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night
Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night
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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. … Hours ago, President Trump, acting under the authority of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, instructed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to consider the imposition of tariffs on $100 billion of Chinese goods.
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Daniel Griswold / Los Angeles Times:
There's no ‘pot of gold’ at the end of a trade war with China
There's no ‘pot of gold’ at the end of a trade war with China
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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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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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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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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:
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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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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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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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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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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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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Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Former postman found with 400kg of undelivered mail in Italy — Man who quit his job in Turin in 2017 says he didn't deliver any mail for three years because his salary was too low … A former Italian postman is facing charges after police found 400kg of undelivered mail stashed in his home in the northern city of Turin.
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