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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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New York Times:
What Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Obstruction, and What It Means — 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 a list of questions he wants answered in an interview.
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Washington Post:
Trump-allied House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as ‘last resort’ — Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special-counsel probe …
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Townhall, Common Dreams, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost, Raw Story, Mediaite, USA Today and Political Wire
NBC News:
Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump ‘idiot,’ say White House staffers — WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff John Kelly has eroded morale in the West Wing in recent months with comments to aides that include insulting the president's intelligence and casting himself …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Exclusive: Pence's doctor alerted WH aides about Ronny Jackson concerns last fall — Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence's physician privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Donald Trump's doctor may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, AOL, Outside the Beltway, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Splinter, Raw Story, Political Wire and Mediaite
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Sen. Isakson distances himself from Trump's attack on Tester
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Considering Kelly as Possible Candidate to Lead VA
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Politico, The Week and Washington Post
Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
Trump-Tester Dust-Up Could Heat Up MT Senate Race
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CNN
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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Teddy Wayne / McSweeney's:
More Appropriate White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Jokes for 2019 — Good evening, and welcome to the 2019 White House Correspondents' Association dinner. After last year's uproar, I've been instructed to use only dignified language and humor considered appropriate for our current cultural discourse.
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Washington Press, Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Online NewsHour:
Dave Chappelle says Michelle Wolf ‘nailed it’ at White House Correspondents Dinner
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Raw Story, The Daily Beast, IJR, Daily Wire and ThinkProgress
NPR:
Excerpts: ‘Fresh Air’ Interview with Michelle Wolf
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Adam Conover / New York Times:
Michelle Wolf Did What Comedians Are Supposed to Do
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USA Today, Washington Examiner and HuffPost
Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
Michelle Wolf likes to carve up human flesh but by carving up Trump's women in such a grotesquely …
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IJR
Deadspin:
You Can't Bully These Motherfuckers
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The Root, The Daily Beast, NewsBusters and The Week
Dan Evon / Snopes.com:
Was Comedian Michelle Wolf Once Arrested for Bestiality?
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Hullabaloo
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Shut up about Michelle Wolf if you've been silent on Trump's offenses
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NewsBusters
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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Axios
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Cohen responds to message sent by National Enquirer cover — Washington (CNN)A National Enquirer cover story targeting Michael Cohen could be a strong sign President Donald Trump is upset with his personal lawyer and turning against the man known for years as his “fixer,” a source close to Trump said.
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Political Wire, Mediaite, Raw Story, ABC News, HuffPost, Hot Air and POLITICUSUSA
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen Claimed He Talked With Trump the Day of the Stormy Daniels Deal … President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen was in communication with the then-presidential candidate the day Cohen wired hush money to Stormy Daniels, according to previously unreported tweets.
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Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, Washington Post and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Israel Says Secret Files Detail Iran's Nuclear Subterfuge — JERUSALEM — Revealing a huge archive of stolen Iranian nuclear plans, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accused Iran on Monday of lying for years about its efforts to build a nuclear weapon.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Israel Exposes Iran's Nuclear Lies, and the Limits of U.S. Intelligence
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New York Post, Wall Street Journal and Betsy's Page
Ben Brimelow / Business Insider:
Benjamin Netanyahu gives bizarre presentation saying Iran is cheating on nuclear deal
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The Times of Israel, Telegraph, CNN and Task & Purpose
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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RedState, Daily Wire and The Daily Beast
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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Talking Points Memo
Andrewramospix / WPIX 11 New York:
Cops called to UWS apartment for ‘burglary in progress’ but find black tenant, former White House staffer moving in — UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan — It was an unsolicited homecoming that left Bronx native Darren Martin unsettled. — After spending several years working on Capitol Hill …
Sean Illing / Vox:
Why this political scientist thinks the Democrats have to fight dirty — “The Republicans are behaving like a party that believes it will never be held accountable.” — In September 2016, an anonymous conservative writer published an essay called “The Flight 93 Election.”
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InsideSources, Shot in the Dark and Breitbart
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Population Bomb Was a Dud — Paul Ehrlich got it wrong because he never understood human potential. — “Hell is other people.” These oft-misquoted words were written by Jean-Paul Sartre. But it would take a Stanford biologist, Paul Ehrlich, to elevate them into a full-fledged ethos …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Blankenship slams ‘Cocaine Mitch’ in anti-McConnell ad — West Virginia Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is intensifying his offensive against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him “Cocaine Mitch” in a new TV ad released just over a week until the Republican primary.
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Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller and Don Blankenship
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Grayson says he'll challenge Soto in Florida's 9th — Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson announced Tuesday morning that he'll mount a primary challenge against his successor, Rep. Darren Michael Soto, setting up a major primary fight that Florida and Washington Democrats had hoped to avoid.
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Tampa Bay Times and Washington Free Beacon
Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
Media Misled on NRA Annual Meeting Gun Policy — A number of major media outlets misled their readers on Monday by inaccurately reporting on the gun-carry policy for the upcoming National Rifle Association convention. — Despite reports from outlets like CBS News, the Associated Press …
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89.3 KPCC, Associated Press and NPR
Andrew Hanna / Politico:
Starbucks drops Jewish group from bias training — Bowing to pressure from African-American activists, Starbucks excluded the Anti-Defamation League from an upcoming daylong anti-bias training session. — The ADL, whose mission is to fight anti-Semitism, will play an advisory role …
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Daily Wire, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Common Dreams
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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
The ADL Kicked Out of Leading Starbucks' Diversity Training
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Front Page Magazine
Rosie.com:
ME AND JOY REID — I WAS HONORED - — SO OFTEN IT WAS TAXING — I HAD PARKER — MORE BABIES WERE ON THE WAY — I LONGED TO BE HOME — AND SHUT OUT THE MAKE UP — THE SPOTLIGHT — THE NOISE — THIS WAS A WOMENS EVENT — NORA WAS THERE - — I CAUGHT HER EYE
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