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Associated Press:
$30,000 rumor? Tabloid paid for, spiked, salacious Trump tip — NEW YORK (AP) — Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she'd had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid's parent made a $30,000 payment …
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence — Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
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RADAR:
Prez Love Child Shocker! Ex-Trump Worker Peddling Rumor Donald Has Illegitimate Child — Fake news or an Oval Office bombshell? You be the judge. — PRESIDENT Donald Trump fathered a secret love child with a Trump Organization employee — a gorgeous 29-year-old medical graduate who is currently living in California!
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New York Times:
Investigators Focus on Another Trump Ally: The National Enquirer — President Trump has long had ties to the nation's major media players. But his connections with the country's largest tabloid publisher, American Media Inc., run deeper than most. — A former top executive …
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Axios:
Ryan may be forced to leave speakership by summer — Paul Ryan said he plans to remain as speaker and not call an early leadership election, but well-wired Republicans tell Jonathan Swan and me that Ryan may be forced out sooner. — What we're hearing: One source close to leadership told us …
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Takes Out Paul Ryan, and 'It's Going to Be a Civil War' … The news that Paul Ryan is retiring from Congress was received by grim-faced members of the GOP caucus finally realizing what they've done, and what's coming. Ryan pulled the ripcord today after a 19-year career in Congress …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Allies and House Republicans to Paul Ryan: Get Out Now … House Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement announcement Wednesday morning set off a round of heartburn within the White House and among its allies over the damage that may be done in what's left of his term.
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Kaitlyn Burton / Politico:
Trump's push to redo $1.3T spending bill he signed sparks GOP revolt — A regretful President Donald Trump wants to roll back spending in a massive omnibus bill he signed into law, but Republicans who helped craft the legislation are in open revolt. — “My attitude is, your word is your bond …
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Secure Freedom Minute:
Jim Jordan for Speaker — This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. — House Speaker Paul Ryan's announcement yesterday that he will not seek reelection offers congressional Republicans an opportunity to pull out of the political death-spiral that imperils their majority and invites the impeachment of President Trump.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Eight brutal months are coming up
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan is abandoning the ship before it sinks
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Salon, The Cook Political Report and Balloon Juice
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
What Ryan Wrought — No one person bears singular blame …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Bannon pitches White House on plan to cripple Mueller probe and protect Trump … Stephen K. Bannon, who was ousted as White House chief strategist last summer but has remained in touch with some members of President Trump's circle, is pitching a plan to West Wing aides and congressional allies …
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pompeo failed to disclose Chinese business connection — WASHINGTON — CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose last year that he owned a Kansas business that imported oilfield equipment from a company owned by the Chinese government. — That omission, on the questionnaire Pompeo …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's would-be secretary of state has an Islamophobia problem
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Pompeo failed to disclose ownership of business connected to China
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The Week
Washington Post:
Broad attack on Syria would face risk from air defenses, escalation with Russia … President Trump's desire to prevent future chemical attacks in Syria has fueled speculation that the U.S. leader may authorize an attack that is more far-reaching than the one he launched a year ago.
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Madeleine Marr / miamiherald:
This Parkland teacher left his gun in a public bathroom. It was loaded, BSO says. — Not the most normal sight: a gun left in the bathroom stall. — But that's exactly what went down on Sunday in a men's room at the Deerfield Beach Pier. — The circumstances of how the Glock 9mm got there are unusual.
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Bob Norman / WPLG-TV:
Parkland teacher faces charge after his gun is fired in public bathroom
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Jessica Bakeman / miamiherald:
Broward Schools rejects plan to arm staff after Parkland shootings
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Court Pick Thinks Planned Parenthood ‘Kills Over 150,000 Females A Year’ — Wendy Vitter refused to tell senators if she still agrees with a speech she gave at a 2013 anti-abortion rally. — WASHINGTON One of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees, Wendy Vitter …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Trump judicial nominee refuses to say if landmark civil rights opinion was correctly decided
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New York Times:
Scott Pruitt's Idea to Update an E.P.A. Keepsake: Less E.P.A., More Pruitt — When Scott Pruitt wanted to refashion the Environmental Protection Agency's “challenge coin” — a type of souvenir medallion with military origins that has become a status symbol among civilians …
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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Here are some of the threats made against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich compares FBI raid of Trump lawyer to Nazi secret police — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich tore into the FBI after its raid of President Trump — ‘s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, likening agents’ actions to those of the secret police during the Nazi regime.
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New York Times:
Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records on ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds — For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. — But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened …
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Cindy Adams / Page Six:
Women are lining up to date Rudy Giuliani — The about-to-be-consciously uncoupled Rudy Giuliani is coming off to Upper East Side sex kittens like catnip. They're purring at him. Sidling — if not actually front-ling — in his direction. — It seems power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Kansas City Star:
Woman: Sexual encounter with Greitens was not consensual. Lawmakers find her credible — When she tried to leave, sobbing after a non-consensual sexual encounter, she says the man who would be governor physically stopped her. — What happened next, she testified under oath …
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes. — Ask our reporter, Cecilia Kang, questions about the Facebook hearings now on The New York Times Politics Facebook page. — When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn't expect to see much.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Justice Dept. turns over document that launched Russia probe — A day after Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, threatened the impeachment of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department on Wednesday turned …
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Rosenstein lets Nunes, Gowdy review FBI memo that kick-started Russia probe
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