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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Another Special Election, Another Really Bad Sign For The GOP — One might describe Arizona's 8th Congressional District as ... nondescript. Covering portions of Phoenix's northern and western suburbs, including the Arizona Cardinals' home stadium, the district isn't all that geographically …
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New York Times:
Republicans Lost Support in Every Special Election Since Trump Became President — Republicans have fared far worse in recent special congressional elections compared with previous elections. — Republican margin of victory — In a special House election on Tuesday, Debbie Lesko …
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Arizona Republic, Washington Post and Splinter
New York Times:
Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District — CandidatePartyVotesPct. — Rep. — 82,294 — Hiral Tipirneni — Dem. — 73,188 — 155,482 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 143 precincts) — The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge …
Axios:
Trump's election nightmare — Top Republicans have conceded for months that they're likely lose the House in November's midterms. But some well-wired operatives now tell Axios that President Trump may face his real nightmare: losing the Senate, giving Democrats both ends of the Capitol, and one-third of the government.
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Arizona Republic, Washington Post and Bloomberg
Harry Enten / CNN:
Why the win for Republicans in Arizona 8 is still good for Democrats
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Washington Monthly, Shareblue Media and twitchy.com
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Debbie Lesko Wins Arizona Special Election for Congress, Rallying G.O.P.
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National Review, Outside the Beltway and Politico
Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
‘Blue Wave’ Fizzles as AP Declares Republican Winner of Arizona Special Congressional Election
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Mother Jones, AOL, CNN and New York Magazine
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Mulvaney's Advice to Bankers: Up Campaign Donations to Diminish Consumer Watchdog — WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations …
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New York Times:
Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship — KEYSER, W.Va. — Don Blankenship is running for the United States Senate as a proud West Virginian with Appalachian roots, but his primary residence is a $2.4 million villa with palm trees and an infinity pool near Las Vegas.
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Harry Reid says Trump is damaging the country but warns against impeachment — LAS VEGAS — Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said he is worried that U.S. institutions have been “decimated” under President Donald Trump and blames Republicans for being lax on Russian election meddling …
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CNN:
VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employee's door during overseas trip, sources say — (CNN)During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Sen. Tester: VA nominee handed out prescriptions ‘like candy’
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Bet $69 Million on Megyn Kelly—Then Viewers Vanished — The former Fox News star was supposed to bring a bigger audience for ‘Today,’ but ratings declines and high costs have dragged down a critical franchise — Megyn Kelly was supposed to bring star power to NBC News and a bigger …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications … A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and …
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Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
The officers pulled over a car whose Nevada registration had expired. The car was driven by a male friend of her daughter, who was a passenger in the back seat — The daughter had called her mother after the vehicle was pulled over as they were driving along Route 9W in Bergen County on March 31.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner — WASHINGTON — In the ceaseless churn of the Trump administration, there are many ways to leave the White House. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the ousted national security adviser, exited to the applause of colleagues who lined the West Wing parking lot.
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils A Public Option For Banking — The idea would provide a low-cost alternative to payday loans — and it might just save the Postal Service, too. — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require every U.S. post office …
Washington Post:
News organizations seek access to Mueller materials in Russia investigation … A coalition of news organizations, including The Washington Post, asked a federal court on Tuesday to unseal materials used by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to obtain search warrants in his investigation …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
CNN, news orgs ask court to unseal Manafort court documents
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Wall Street Journal:
Alito: What About Cases of Threat of Infiltration? — Justice Alito offers a somewhat less extreme hypothetical than the chief justice's airstrike question. He asks Mr. Katyal, Can you imagine any situation where the threat of infiltration by foreign enemies was so severe that the president …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
The Trump show goes to the Supreme Court
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Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress:
Unearthed photo reveals ‘New Yorker’ Steve Mnuchin enjoys solar eclipses after all — When the public first learned about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's trip aboard a (pricey) military jet to tour Fort Knox last August, it didn't take an astrologer to note the interesting timing of the visit …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump's Contact with Vietnam — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast — On Dec. 14, 2016, one month after his election, President-elect Donald Trump had a call with the prime minister of Vietnam. At a time when foreign governments were scrambling to contact Trump …
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. — The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy. — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Ronan Farrow: Hillary Clinton Tried to Cancel Interview Because I Was Reporting on Weinstein Story — Ronan Farrow appeared on Good Morning America Wednesday to talk about his new book, and made a revelation about an interview he was slated to have with Hillary Clinton.
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Tennessean.com:
Phil Bredesen holds narrow edge over Marsha Blackburn, new Mason-Dixon poll shows — Phil Bredesen and Marsha Blackburn are the leading candidates to replace Bob Corker in the U.S. Senate Michael Schwab/USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee — Another poll on the U.S. Senate race between former …
Jay Rosen / NYR Daily:
Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing — There is alive in the land an organized campaign to discredit the American press. This campaign is succeeding. Its roots are long. For decades, the Republican coalition has tried to hang together by hating on elites who claim to know things, like: “What is art?”
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian civilians helping Assad use military base back home - witnesses — MOLKINO, Russia (Reuters) - The Kremlin says it has nothing to do with Russian civilians fighting in Syria but on three recent occasions groups of men flying in from Damascus headed straight to a defense ministry base …
Chronicle of Higher Education:
Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He's Not Real. — Drew Cloud is everywhere. The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democrats Are Rushing Into a Job Guarantee. It Could Be a Huge Mistake. — Two years ago, the notion that the federal government would hire anybody who didn't have a job was so obscure that it did not even qualify for Bernie Sanders's blue-sky social-democratic wish list of a platform.
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Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
The Independent Poll: Heller, Rosen neck and neck in U.S. Senate race though Rosen still largely unknown; majority disapprove of Trump — Sen. Dean Heller is in a dead heat with Democratic challenger Rep. Jacky Rosen in one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races in the country …
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Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Is Largely Unusable, Chinese Scientists Say — Pyongyang's last blast rendered part of the site unusable and a new test would cause an ‘environmental catastrophe’ — BEIJING—A large part of North Korea's underground nuclear test facility is unusable due …
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Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, The Week and 38 North
New York Times:
Pruitt's Security Chief Moonlighted for Tabloid Publisher That Helped Trump — WASHINGTON — The former Secret Service agent who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on assignments for the tabloid news publisher American Media Inc. during …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Plans BuzzFeed-Set Docuseries ‘Follow This’ — The shortform series will follow the journalists at BuzzFeed News as they report a variety of stories. — Netflix is shining a spotlight on the journalists behind the news in an upcoming docuseries. — The streamer has ordered Follow This …
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The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Kruse / Politico:
How the Trump Show Gets Old — On September 20, 2004, the director of the Museum of Television & Radio in Los Angeles welcomed a packed crowd to an evening discussion “featuring the two people responsible for giving television audiences across America a mesmerizing cultural phenomenon. ...
Reason:
Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People's Cars … On June 21, 2016, Chicago police pulled Spencer Byrd over for a broken turn signal. Byrd says his signal wasn't broken, but that detail would soon be the least of his worries. Ever since, Byrd has been trapped …
Reena Flores / Politico:
‘Like vigilantes on the rampage’: Top donor blasts Democrats' response to #MeToo — Susie Tompkins Buell, a close friend of Hillary Clinton, called the ousting of Al Franken ‘unfair’ and ‘a stain on the Democrats’ — Susie Tompkins Buell, the prominent Democratic donor …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
GOP candidate gets Nazi sympathizer's endorsement after paying him $5k — Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward coincidentally paid $5,000 to Seb Gorka on the same day he endorsed her. Also coincidentally, this is the third time Gorka has been involved in such a transaction.
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Washington Post:
Trump can blame Democrats all he likes, but his nominee problems start with him — “DEMOCRATS ARE obstructing good (hopefully great) people wanting to give up a big portion of their life to work for our Government,” President Trump tweeted last week. “They are ‘slow walking’ all of my nominations — hundreds of people.
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Vox rewrites history to make Barbara Bush-hating professor the victim — Vox's fundamental problem isn't that many of its writers are astonishingly ignorant. It's that they are aggressively dishonest. — Consider, for example, how the website that promises to “explain the news” …
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Daily Wire, twitchy.com and Vox
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Macron to Congress: U.S. must step up on world stage — French President Emmanuel Macron issued an implicit condemnation of President Trump's “America First” outlook to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday: “We can choose isolation, withdrawal, and nationalism ... But closing the door …
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