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Laila Bassam / Reuters:
Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning — BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government and its allies have absorbed a U.S.-led attack on Saturday and the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from Russia, a senior official in a regional alliance that backs Damascus said.
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New York Times:
U.S., Britain and France Strike Syria Over Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack — WASHINGTON — The United States and European allies launched airstrikes on Friday night against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Trump sought to punish President Bashar al-Assad …
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Washington Post:
Damascus defiant as U.S. strikes prove more limited than feared … BEIRUT — Syria, Russia and Iran shrugged off strikes on Saturday by the United States and its allies against three Syrian chemical weapons facilities, which drew angry condemnations but no indication that there would be a wider escalation.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump supporters slam decision to launch strikes against Syria — Prominent supporters of President Trump — are expressing skepticism over his decision to launch airstrikes against Syria, slamming the move as overly aggressive and unnecessary. — Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson …
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Washington Post:
After Syria attack, U.S. and Russia tensions rise but fears ease of wider military confrontation … Western leaders warned Syria on Saturday that they could launch further missile strikes if chemical weapons are used again, while the pre-dawn attacks were denounced by Damascus and its backers …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump: ‘Mission Accomplished’ on Syria
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Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Rachel Maddow Raises ‘Wag the Dog’ Possibility as Trump Orders Syria Strikes
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GOV.UK:
PM statement on Syria: 14 April 2018
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Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Trump supporters rip decision to strike Syria
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Pentagon says Syria strikes “successfully hit every target” — live updates
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NBC News:
Trump announces strikes on Syria following suspected chemical weapons attack by Assad forces
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New York Times:
President Trump on Syria Strikes: Full Transcript and Video
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Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Trump's strikes on Syria risk retaliation, escalation in a war he wants to avoid
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's visiting Prague would be a huge development in the Russia investigation … McClatchy reported on Friday evening that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team has evidence of a trip by President Trump's personal lawyer to Prague in the late summer of 2016.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Real Investigation — The one in the Southern District of New York, involving Michael Cohen and apparent hush-money payoffs, is a serious peril for Trump. — President Trump now has real legal peril. The potential jeopardy stems from the investigation that came to light this week …
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen May Learn the Hard Way That There's No Such Thing As Consigliere-Client Privilege … Before he became President Trump's self-styled consigliere, Michael Cohen made a fortune in the taxi business. — So, he certainly had the means and the ability to have hopped a cab …
CNN:
Exclusive: FBI seized recordings between Trump's lawyer and Stormy Daniels' former lawyer
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DOJ Alumni Statement:
DOJ Alumni Statement Regarding Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, and the Rule of Law — We, the undersigned, are proud alumni of the United States Department of Justice. We served this institution out of a commitment to the founding American principles that our democratic republic depends upon …
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Liam Daniel Pierce / VICE Sports:
Mexican Boxer Destroys American Fighter Wearing Trump Wall Shorts — American super-featherweight Rod Salka came in rocking a wall-themed set of trunks with “America 1st” written on them. He left with the same shorts and a big old L, by way of Mexico's Francisco Vargas.
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Philly.com:
Video of two black men being removed from a Philadelphia Starbucks draws outrage, investigation — A video of two African American men being removed from a Philadelphia Starbucks has drawn national outrage and an “internal investigation” by police after it was posted earlier this week.
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Kakistocracy, a 374-year-old word that means ‘government by the worst,’ just broke the dictionary … Today was a productive vocabulary day in the United States of America. — The learning began in the morning, when former CIA director John O. Brennan tweeted at President Trump …
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Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
The anti-anti-Trump cohort has a fatal flaw in its thinking — President Trump — shedding staff, shredding norms — remains defiant, with little evidence that his critics are persuading supporters to abandon him. For some Trump opponents, this has led to new introspection about the effectiveness of “the resistance.”
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Republicans lose their favorite campaign message: Repealing Obamacare — Michigan GOP Rep. Mike Bishop's campaign website doesn't mention Obamacare, even though Web archives show it once prominently featured promises to vigorously fight the 2010 health-care law.
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Milos Forman, Oscar-Winning Director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' Dies at 86 — LOS ANGELES — Milos Forman, a filmmaker who challenged Hollywood with his subversive touch, and twice directed movies that won the Oscar for best picture, died on Friday. He was 86.
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Marcy Wheeler / New York Times:
Trump Pardoned Libby to Protect Himself From Mueller — “There is a cloud over the White House as to what happened. Don't you think the F.B.I., the grand jury, the American people are entitled to a straight answer?” — With those words, uttered over a decade ago, Patrick Fitzgerald …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's miserable crew has never been so desperate — These are desperate times for the quislings of Trump. The cost of collaborating with President Trump in the continued debasement of American democracy is becoming far too high. Fifteen months into his presidency …
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