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Anna R. Schecter / NBC News:
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files — In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice …
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New York Times:
The Questions Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Obstruction, and What They Mean — The questions show the special counsel's focus on obstruction of justice and touch on some surprising other areas. — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently provided President Trump's lawyers …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction — WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump — Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller — , said Tuesday he believes President Trump — leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends
Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Robert Mueller's former assistant explains how grammar errors prove ‘leaked questions’ came from Trump
Robert Mueller's former assistant explains how grammar errors prove ‘leaked questions’ came from Trump
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
NBC staffers felt pressured to sign letter defending Brokaw — Female staffers at NBC News are complaining they felt under huge pressure to sign the “women's letter” defending Tom Brokaw against sexual harassment allegations. — After former colleague Linda Vester claimed he …
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Variety:
NBC News Urged Its Anchors to Report on Supportive Tom Brokaw Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
NBC News Urged Its Anchors to Report on Supportive Tom Brokaw Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
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Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
White House revises statement saying Iran ‘has’ secret nuclear weapons program — The White House on Monday night revised a public statement that said Iran currently has a secret nuclear weapons program, an assertion that contradicts what international observers have concluded.
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White House Joins Netanyahu In Making Case for Iran Deal
White House Joins Netanyahu In Making Case for Iran Deal
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Statement by the Press Secretary on Israel's Announcement Related to Iranian Nuclear Weapons Development
Statement by the Press Secretary on Israel's Announcement Related to Iranian Nuclear Weapons Development
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Haaretz:
U.S. Officials: Israeli F-15s Struck Syrian Base Storing Iranian Anti-aircraft Missiles — More details soon... Zen Subscribe now — Israeli F-15 fighter jets struck a military base near Hama on Sunday after Iran had transferred a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles there, three U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Michael Cohen Hit With New Taxi Taxes, Owes New York $282,000 — Michael Cohen, already under pressure from a federal criminal investigation into his business and financial dealings, has been hit this month with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies.
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Cohen responds to message sent by National Enquirer cover
Cohen responds to message sent by National Enquirer cover
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Has Michael Cohen Already Flipped on Donald Trump?
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of a Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice — The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies — A few years before he started working for Donald Trump …
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
How Michelle Wolf Blasted Open the Fictions of Journalism in the Age of Trump — On Saturday, the comedian Michelle Wolf, performing at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, delivered the most consequential monologue so far of the Donald Trump era.
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Terry Gross / NPR:
Comic Michelle Wolf Responds To Backlash: 'I'm Glad I Stuck To My Guns'
Comic Michelle Wolf Responds To Backlash: 'I'm Glad I Stuck To My Guns'
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The rhetoric of our era has reached its vile peak
The rhetoric of our era has reached its vile peak
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House panel expected to interview EPA chief Scott Pruitt's former head of security in conduct probe — The House Oversight Committee is expected to interview Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's former head of security Wednesday, the latest indication …
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Kyra Phillips / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA whistleblower says Pruitt ‘lied’ to Congress
EXCLUSIVE: EPA whistleblower says Pruitt ‘lied’ to Congress
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare … President Trump's former top health official on Tuesday said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act.
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Meet the Schlapps, Washington's Trump-Era ‘It Couple’ — WASHINGTON — Matt Schlapp, the pro-Trump chairman of the American Conservative Union, had a remarkable on-air clash not long ago with his old friend Michael Steele, an anti-Trump former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
The Guy Who Threw His Shoes At George W. Bush Is Running For President Of Iraq — This guy, Muntazar al-Zaidi, is running for president of Iraq, and if you're not excited about that, you may not be used to seeing him from the front. … Here's the vantage point most people will recognize him from …
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Was In Moscow Just Weeks Before Court Documents Were Unsealed — Joseph Mifsud's trip to Moscow coincided with an official visit by the king of Saudi Arabia. — Reporting From — London — Joseph Mifsud, the enigmatic Maltese professor …
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
US starts processing asylum seekers slammed by Trump — TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space. But the migrants who crossed Mexico in a caravan may face a long legal path.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CIA Official Says Some Torture Videotapes May Still Exist … Some videotapes recording the torture of a CIA detainee may have survived the 2005 destruction facilitated by Donald Trump's nominee to run the agency. That's according to an ex-CIA analyst who reviewed massive amounts …
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds — The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported on Tuesday. Since 2004, at least nine such diseases …
Caleb Howe / Daily Wire:
The Truth About RedState's Layoffs, From A Non-Liar — I really didn't feel like defending RedState this week, all things considered, but I've been put in that position by flatly inaccurate information that was spread through a conservative email newsletter. — In that newsletter, The Transom, Ben Domenech called me a liar.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon — Digital First Media's financials — revealed here — show how the company has ridden its deep cuts to nearly $160 million in profits and the highest margins in the business.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
We must rally around Joy Reid … Joy Reid deserves everyone's support. The most destructive and insidious hacker in journalistic history is on the loose, ready to snatch another career. — Reid, who hosts “AM Joy” on MSNBC, is somehow hanging onto hers.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Carl Higbie, who works at pro-Trump group, says racist comments were ‘statistical observation,’ ‘out of context’ — (CNN)Carl Higbie, a top staffer at an advocacy group closely aligned with President Donald Trump, said on a radio show that past racist comments he made had been taken …
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Is This Artichoke Kosher? Rome Defends a Classic Jewish Dish — LADISPOLI, Italy — As women wearing artichoke body paint caressed artichoke sculptures shaped like an owl, a snowman and a cobra at this seaside town's 68th annual Festival of the Artichoke, Ada Di Porto stood inside a tent …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates — Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is a felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, hiding $900,000 from tax authorities and making false statements under oath. To hear him tell it …
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke wants to debate Ted Cruz 6 times, including twice in Spanish — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's campaign sent a letter to senior staff of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz proposing six debates across Texas, two of them in Spanish. — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, has invited U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz …
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
US Sen. Baldwin talks about late mother's opioid addiction — MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is running for re-election this year in Wisconsin, opened up Tuesday for the first time about her mother's mental illness and prescription drug addiction …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obama officials insisted Iran had to ‘come clean’ on nukes, now they say it's old news that Iran was lying all along — In the wake of Monday's revelations from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that intelligence officials had captured a cache of Iran's secret nuclear files detailing …
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Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Two Men Sentenced for Serial Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Using Grindr … For several weeks, four men used the social-media app Grindr to lure gay men into divulging their home addresses. Then they barged in, tied their victims up with tape, assaulted them, and spat out gay slurs.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
'I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes': Trying to figure out what matters in today's news cycle … Benjamin Wittes, a legal commentator with a large Twitter following, was on an airplane last month when the FBI raided the office of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Page Six:
New Weinstein suit alleges he raped, threatened producer — A former producer of the Netflix show “Marco Polo” was repeatedly raped and threatened by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein over a period of five years, a new lawsuit charges. — Alexandra Canosa detailed the years …