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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Ronny Jackson won't return to old job as Trump's physician — White House physician Ronny Jackson will not return to his role as the president's personal physician, according to two senior administration officials, after a string of allegations caused the Navy rear admiral to withdraw …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Pelosi's giant first quarter — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW: HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI raised $16.1 million for House Democrats in the first quarter of 2018, a massive pile of cash that brings her total this cycle to $66.7 million. She is outpacing her fundraising …
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Political Wire and STAT
Washington Post:
‘Ready, shoot, aim’: President Trump's loyalty tests cause hiring headaches
‘Ready, shoot, aim’: President Trump's loyalty tests cause hiring headaches
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Splinter
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Ronny Jackson won't return to job as Trump's physician
Ronny Jackson won't return to job as Trump's physician
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Molly Roberts / Washington Post:
Michelle Wolf got it just right … “Thank you!” — That's how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer's declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was “a disgrace.” Her response is instructive: To Wolf …
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Weekly Standard:
Joy Reid's Journalistic Ethics — Not a great weekend for the American news media. — It's hard to know if these are hard times or triumphant times for the mainstream news media. On the one hand, major news organizations—the New York Times, say, or the Washington Post …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Michelle Wolf's Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner
Michelle Wolf's Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner
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Jen Chaney / Vulture:
No, Michelle Wolf Didn't Joke About Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Looks
No, Michelle Wolf Didn't Joke About Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Looks
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Washington Post, The Stream, TIME, NBC News, Hit & Run and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Jamitis / RedState:
Don't Get Angry About Mean Insult Comics If You Helped Put One in the Oval Office
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
For the sake of journalism, stop the White House correspondents' dinner
For the sake of journalism, stop the White House correspondents' dinner
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump has already been ‘played’ … President Trump looks with disdain on those who get snookered, which is odd since he's the easiest of marks for anyone with a red carpet and a batch of insincere compliments. — His defensiveness about being “played” was evident when asked …
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Outside the Beltway and The Guardian
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Libya as a Model for Disarmament? North Korea May See It Very Differently
Libya as a Model for Disarmament? North Korea May See It Very Differently
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Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING. Huge Mother of All Explosions Hits Syrian City of Hama (VIDEO) — Right now reporting is sketchy and confused. This is the synopsis: Sunday evening, Damascus time, several Syrian Army bases were struck by what appear to be airstrikes. There was a major explosion at a Syrian Army base near the city of Hama.
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Zero Hedge, Sputnik International and Middle East Eye
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The Original Donald Trump — Amid the aftershocks of Donald Trump's firing of James Comey last May, I went to see Angels in America at the same theater in London, the National, where I'd first seen it as a New York Times drama critic some 25 years earlier. The play didn't transport me quite …
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New York Times
Paul Walsh / Star Tribune:
Former George W. Bush ethics lawyer ditches GOP, to seek U.S. Senate in Minn. as Democrat — Richard Painter will take on Tina Smith, who holds the seat now as Al Franken's successor. — Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll — MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters - so-called millennials - as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.
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Political Wire
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements as well as practical guidance to prosecutors on how to do their jobs.
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Wall Street Journal, Political Wire, Law & Crime, The Week, Shareblue Media, New York Magazine and Washington Monthly
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The NRA said guns will be banned during a Pence speech. Parkland students see hypocrisy. … The National Rifle Association has championed the idea of “a good guy with a gun,” but no firearms will be allowed when Vice President Pence speaks at its annual meeting — sparking criticism from Parkland …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The one-trick pony: Inside Trump's negotiating style — President Trump tells people he keeps the world guessing with his wild unpredictability. But those who work most closely with him say he's a one-trick pony in negotiations. — The trick: Threaten the outrageous, ratchet up the tension …
Associated Press:
White House mystery: Where is Macron's gifted oak tree? — WASHINGTON (AP) — A mystery is brewing at the White House about what happened to the oak tree President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted there last week. — The sapling was a gift from Macron on the occasion of his state visit.
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Ben Taub / New Yorker:
The Spy Who Came Home — Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. — Shortly after an evening nap, Patrick Skinner drove to the police station in the Third Precinct in Savannah, Georgia, wearing ill-fitting body armor. It was late December, and bitterly cold …
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post:
‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers' brains on an industrial scale — Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study Says — Gauges worn on troops' helmets and body armor register substantial blasts in combat and in training — WASHINGTON—Thousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Showdown builds between Comey, House: Just what did FBI director say about Michael Flynn? — There's an intense conflict brewing between some Capitol Hill Republicans and fired FBI director James Comey. The Republicans say Comey has been lying about what he told them in a March 2017 meeting.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Third RFE/RL Journalist Dies As Toll Rises In Kabul Suicide Bombings — KABUL — A pair of coordinated suicide bombings claimed to have been carried out by the Islamic State (IS) militant group have rocked central Kabul near the country's intelligence agency, killing at least 29 people …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Elaine Chao the enforcer — When he needs to send a message to his foes, Mitch McConnell is the master of subtlety. — What I'm hearing: At the Republican Study Committee meeting this past week, RSC Chairman Mark Walker told members the following story, according to a source …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Left vs. Left: Richard Cordray and Dennis Kucinich Battle for Governor of Ohio — AKRON, Ohio — Richard Cordray speaks softly and carries a big stack: lime-green index cards, pressed into his shirt pocket, near enough for any sudden onset of note-taking. — A former director …