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New York Times:
Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans — WASHINGTON — President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does …
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Daily Kos, Shareblue Media and Raw Story
Axios:
Trump sets Tester trap, calls for resignation — President Trump went after Sen. Jon Tester Saturday morning for releasing allegations against his pick for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson. — Why it matters: Jackson's confirmation process was already rocky before Tester's team released …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Calls on Montana Democrat to Resign in Fight Over Failed V.A. Nomination — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Saturday called for the resignation of Senator Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat who helped thwart his effort to install the White House physician in the cabinet …
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Axios, CBS News, Washington Press, Mother Jones, CNN, KTLA and Fox News
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Says Records Don't Match Accusation Against Jackson
White House Says Records Don't Match Accusation Against Jackson
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The Federalist, USA Today, Splinter, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Nic White / Daily Mail:
Trump Tower is on fire in Azerbaijan capital Baku just weeks after deadly blaze at building in New York — Firefighters are desperately battling to contain a fire raging through a Trump hotel tower in Azerbaijan. — The fire broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey Trump International Hotel …
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Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Trump Tower fire: Hotel in Azerbaijan capital Baku ablaze just weeks after deadly inferno at New York building — There were no reports of injuries in the unfinished hotel — Avengers: Infinity War solved a surprising mystery from the MCU — World's biggest active geyser erupts for the third time in three weeks
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Joe.My.God.
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Joy Reid apologizes for ‘hurtful’ LGBT comments, doesn't ‘believe’ she wrote anti-gay posts — MSNBC host Joy Reid apologized on Saturday for her past comments about the LGBT community, but the liberal commentator was still reticent to admit she'd written old blog posts attributed to her.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC's Joy Reid Says, “I Genuinely Do Not Believe I Wrote Those Hateful Things”
MSNBC's Joy Reid Says, “I Genuinely Do Not Believe I Wrote Those Hateful Things”
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Will There Always Be an England?
Will There Always Be an England?
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Vox, The American Conservative and BBC
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Paying the Price for Not Being a Trump Humper — Yes, there is a price to be paid. Yes, it is necessary some of us are willing to pay it. — Just a few thoughts on the purging at RedState today and the price to be paid for deviating from the tribe. I know that price too well.
Tyler Schmall / New York Post:
A lot of Americans think they'd probably try sex with a robot — Being a “sex machine” is about to take on a whole new meaning, because according to new research, four in 10 Americans say they would have sex with a robot. — A new study asked 2,000 Americans their thoughts around the concept of …
Emma Kate Protis / Delta News Hub:
Couple achieves ‘Diamond Status’ in Delta-themed wedding — It's the rare bride who can say with a straight face: “I actually told him I'd rather have Diamond Status than the diamond ring.” — Airline fanatics and Medallions Bess Wohlner and Jeremy Simons recently pledged their love in a Delta-themed wedding.
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER RUNS KKK RECRUITMENT FLYER IN FULL ON FRONT PAGE — A Virginia newspaper has come under fire from its readers after it ran a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyer in full on its front page. — The Westmoreland News ran a story on how KKK recruitment flyers and DVDs …
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Nicole Chavez / CNN:
Texas voter ID law can go into effect, appeals court panel rules — (CNN)Texas will be allowed to enforce its voter ID law in the upcoming elections, a federal appeals court has ruled. — In the 2-1 decision, a panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned …
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Texas Attorney General … and Associated Press
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Comey Confirms: In Clinton Emails Caper, the Fix Was In — He knew Obama's Justice Department would sweep Hillary's violations under the rug, so he played along. — While promoting his memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, former FBI director James Comey sat for what turned …
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New York Times:
Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction — Dr. Fitzpatrick is director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Dr. Senner is a scientist who studies migratory shorebirds. — A worldwide catastrophe is underway among an extraordinary group of birds — the marathon migrants we know as shorebirds.
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Golf course that called the police on black women loses business, faces call for state investigation … In the days after white golf course owners called the police on five African American women they said were not playing fast enough, a Pennsylvania state senator has called for an investigation …
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ThinkProgress, Senator Vincent Hughes and Governor Tom Wolf
BBC:
Alfie Evans: Legal battle toddler dies — Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old toddler at the centre of a High Court legal battle, has died, nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn. — The boy from Merseyside, who had a degenerative brain condition, died at 02:30 BST, his father Tom Evans said.
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Fox News, CNN, IJR, Hot Air, NBC News, The Resurgent, The Week, TheBlaze and PJ Media Home
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP report: Clapper told CNN host about Trump dossier in 2017 — Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — has admitted to lawmakers that he discussed the “Steele dossier” about President Trump — and Russia with a CNN journalist in early 2017, according to a report …
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Mediaite and Fox News Insider
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats were looking at suburban districts. Now they're glancing toward rural ones too. — Last year, as a wave of special elections popped up, every smart Democrat wanted to focus on one seat. “Watch the special election for Tom Price's seat in suburban Atlanta,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney …
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ has second biggest opening day box office ever — The Marvel model for success — “Avengers: Infinity War” made $106 million at the domestic box office on its opening day Friday, making it the second biggest opening day in history.
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NBC News
Louis Lucero II / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Delayed as Judge Cites ‘Likely’ Indictment of Michael Cohen — A federal judge in California on Friday ordered a three-month delay in the lawsuit brought by the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford against President Trump, citing what he called the likelihood …
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Judge puts Stormy Daniels case on hold for 90 days, citing likelihood Michael Cohen will be indicted
Judge puts Stormy Daniels case on hold for 90 days, citing likelihood Michael Cohen will be indicted
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Politico
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Oppo researcher leaves the White House — Michael Roman, a former Koch operative, served as the right-hand man to the White House's top attorney. — Michael Roman, a longtime opposition researcher who worked in the White House counsel's office, has left the Trump administration.
The University of Chicago Press:
The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences — Abstract — We document a large and consequential bias in how Americans perceive the major political parties: people tend to considerably overestimate the extent to which party supporters belong to party-stereotypical groups.
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump rebrands diplomatic norms as events in Asia, Europe and elsewhere spin on his axis — President Trump on Friday placed himself at the center of the remarkable summit between the leaders of North and South Korea, taking credit for bold and innovative diplomacy that may open a path to peace where other leaders failed.
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Axios, One America News Network and Althouse
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