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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump campaign has paid portions of Michael Cohen's legal fees: Sources — The Trump campaign has spent nearly $228,000 to cover some of the legal expenses for President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, sources familiar with the payments tell ABC News, raising questions …
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NBC News:
Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation over ‘con job’ tweet — She says she was harmed by a Trump tweet that accused her of ‘a con job’ — Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Donald Trump for a tweet that said a forensic sketch of a man …
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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.
Reuters:
Israel's Netanyahu to make ‘significant’ announcement on Iran — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a televised announcement Monday evening (1700 GMT) in what his office said would be a “significant development” regarding the 2015 nuclear agreement between global powers and Iran.
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Noa Landau / Haaretz:
Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Based on Lies - Here's the Proof
Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Based on Lies - Here's the Proof
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Hyonhee Shin / Reuters:
Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.
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CNN:
Famed photographer among 29 killed in twin Afghanistan blasts — Journalists among dozens killed in Kabul bomb attacks — Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Eight journalists were among 29 people killed in a suicide attack in Kabul Monday, including a famed photographer who had written of the dangers of reporting in the Afghan capital.
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Associated Press:
Trump to attend the NRA convention in Dallas — President Donald Trump will be at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas on Friday. — A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend the group's annual meeting. Trump has been a strong supporter of the NRA and enjoyed their backing in his 2016 campaign.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
In Trump era, the death of the White House press conference — WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential news conference, a time-honored tradition going back generations, appears to be no longer. — More than a year has passed since President Donald Trump held the only solo news conference …
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Political Wire, Shareblue Media and The Week
ClickHole:
Resistance Setback: Robert Mueller Has Abandoned The Russia Investigation After Determining That The Real Crime Is How Low The Prices Are On Kinja Deals — Members of the resistance, our best shot at impeaching Donald Trump pretty much died on the table today: Special counsel Robert Mueller …
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Documents show ties between university, conservative donors — FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Newly released documents show Virginia's largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations.
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 …
Arthur Allen / Politico:
‘Who the hell is this person?’ Trump's Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project — A West Palm Beach doctor's ties to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago social circle have enabled him to hold up the biggest health information technology project in history — the transformation of the VA's digital records system.
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Daily Kos
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Icahn's oil refinery - sources — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Josh Hawley is trying to reassure Republicans he can still beat Claire McCaskill — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley moved Monday to quell spiraling anxiety among senior Republicans and top party donors that his bid to oust vulnerable Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is slowly slipping away.
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RealClearPolitics, Roll Call and Political Wire
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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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Parkland students criticize NRA over banned guns at upcoming Pence event
Parkland students criticize NRA over banned guns at upcoming Pence event
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Pelosi's giant first quarter — 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 of the 2016 cycle by nearly $10 million …
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Axios, KTLA, The Resurgent, The Week, Washington Times, Political Wire and Daily Kos
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Bill Gates got President Trump fired up about a universal flu vaccine — and also (maybe) got a job offer
Bill Gates got President Trump fired up about a universal flu vaccine — and also (maybe) got a job offer
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The Week, The Verge, The Daily Caller and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Acting Director of ICE Plans to Retire From Agency — Under Thomas Homan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests rose — WASHINGTON— Thomas Homan, the controversial acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, plans to retire and leave his post, three people familiar with his plans said.
Jason Barker / New York Times:
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right! — SEOUL, South Korea — On May 5, 1818, in the southern German town of Trier, in the picturesque wine-growing region of the Moselle Valley, Karl Marx was born. At the time Trier was one-tenth the size it is today, with a population of around 12,000.
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Don Blankenship's Mine Took This Man's Son, Brother And Nephew. Now Blankenship Wants His Vote. — To those who lost loved ones at Upper Big Branch, the former coal CEO's Senate run in West Virginia feels like harassment. — SHREWSBURY, W.Va. Don Blankenship had been out of prison …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
GorsuchStyle Garners a Gusher of Groans. But Is His Writing Really That Bad? — WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch arrived at the Supreme Court last year with a reputation as a fine writer. He promptly lost it. — A Twitter hashtag — #GorsuchStyle — is devoted to mocking his tendency …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The president is seeking to destroy journalism. Now let's debate dinner entertainment! … On Dec. 12, 2017, CNN's Jim Acosta appeared on-air to detail another disturbing episode in the media's struggles with the Trump White House. At issue was a “pool spray” — essentially an opportunity …
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Roll Call:
CQ Top Editor Steve Komarow Dies — Steve Komarow, a veteran foreign correspondent and newsroom leader who served as senior vice president and executive editor at CQ Roll Call, died Sunday after a recent accident and long illness. He was 61. — “Steve and I joined CQ Roll Call in January 2015 …
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Washington Post:
In private chat with senator, Trump hints at policy shift in Afghanistan — and a return to isolationism … In the days leading up to a key vote over the fate of his nominee for secretary of state, President Trump found a way to win over one of the biggest skeptics in the Senate.
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The Original Donald Trump — The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president. — Amid the aftershocks of Donald Trump's firing of James Comey last May, I went to see Angels in America …
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New York Times
Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Smiling Kanye meets with right-wing commentators Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk after his glowing praise of President Trump — Kanye West met with right-wing commentators Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk in Los Angeles on Sunday — Kirk, who is the founder of conservative group Turning Point USA …
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Christopher Miller / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
U.S. Confirms Delivery Of Javelin Antitank Missiles To Ukraine — KYIV — The United States has confirmed to RFE/RL its delivery of American-made, Javelin antitank missile systems to Ukraine in a move that is welcome in Kyiv but will almost certainly enrage Moscow amid a four-year conflict …
Jon Street / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Fired RedState Writer Slams Site Over Hypocrisy of Layoffs: We Were ‘Insufficiently Partisan’ — The conservative blog RedState experienced “mass firings” Friday because of what its parent company, Salem Media, characterized as a decision influenced by finances.
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