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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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The Guardian:
Ten journalists among 36 killed in Afghanistan attacks
Discussion: VICE News
Shah Marai / Liste:
When hope is gone  —  Kabul — The time after the American invasion …
Discussion: KTLA and WPIX 11 New York
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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Agence France-Presse:
Trump can have Nobel Peace Prize: S. Korea president
Discussion: Axios and Yonhap News Agency
Rory Cooper / The Daily Beast:   Trump Is Unethical, Dishonest, and Norm-Busting. So What Do We Say if He Helps Solve North Korea?
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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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 …
Discussion: Townhall, Mediaite and Raw Story
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Weekly Standard:   Joy Reid's Journalistic Ethics
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 …
Discussion: The Week
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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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Bill Gates got President Trump fired up about a universal flu vaccine — and also (maybe) got a job offer
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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.
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 …
Associated Press:
Mystery solved: Why Trump-Macron friendship tree vanished  —  PARIS (AP) — The French president's office says there's nothing mysterious about the disappearance of an oak tree he planted on the White House lawn.  —  It was put in quarantine, like other plants or animals brought into U.S. territory.
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CNN:
The mystery of the missing White House tree has been solved
Discussion: RedState, NPR and Althouse
Washington Post:
‘Ready, shoot, aim’: President Trump's loyalty tests cause hiring headaches  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then the star of President Trump's early Cabinet, was assembling his staff and picked Sarah Isgur Flores as his top spokeswoman.  —  There was just one problem: She had criticized Trump …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Ronny Jackson won't return to old job as Trump's physician
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump tweets White House Correspondents' Dinner ‘is DEAD as we know it’
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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Times
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
GOP civil war in Ohio threatens another special election loss  —  Republicans' latest special election headache is unfolding in central Ohio, where a chaotic primary has divided the party and stoked fears of losing another seat in Donald Trump territory to Democrats.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
EU Expected To Expand Russia Sanctions Over Presidential Poll In Crimea  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union is set to sanction five people who, according to the bloc, helped organize the Russian presidential election in the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea in March.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Mic faces an uncertain future in a post-Facebook world  —  June 2015 was an ebullient time for Mic.com.  The company closed a $17 million funding round.  The news site for millennials was chasing hard-hitting stories about the racially fraught police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, and sexism in gaming.
 
 
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Amy Spiro / Jerusalem Post:
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Washington Post:
Meet the little-known ‘big fish’ megadonor setting the tone for GOP primary races
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Daniel Kruger / Wall Street Journal:
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos was asked, again, about visiting struggling schools. A staffer interjected.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
The steep price of the Trumpian circus
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NBC News:
GOP candidates' circular firing squad ahead of Indiana Senate primary
Discussion: National Journal
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
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