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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Trump booked himself for his first TV interview in months — Last week, on his wife's birthday, President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News' “Fox and Friends” for a freewheeling phone interview — his first TV interview in months — where he made news on a variety of topics.
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels — WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Turns to Outsiders, Not White House Staff, for Key Advice — The perils of that approach were evident Friday when Rudy Giuliani clarified his comments on the$130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is increasingly relying on longtime outside advisers rather …
Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:
Rudy's interview and Trump's lies create a crisis — Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst and author, most recently, of “American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst”, and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Follow him on Twitter @JeffreyToobin.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani tries to clarify comments on Trump's reimbursement of payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
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Politico:
Full text: Rudy Giuliani issues statement clarifying his earlier remarks
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani goes from 'America's Mayor' to Trump's chump
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FOX News Radio:
Rudy Giuliani: Michael Avenatti Is A Complete Jerk Who Should Turn In His Law License
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump walks back Giuliani: 'He'll get his facts straight'
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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of ‘lying,’ trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!' — Giuliani: Mueller investigation should be dismissed — A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation … A federal judge in Virginia on Friday grilled lawyers from the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III about the motivations for bringing a bank and tax fraud case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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CNN:
Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump — (CNN)A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Friday in the bank fraud case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, at one point saying he believes that Mueller's motivation …
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New York Times:
Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller's Investigators — WASHINGTON — When the United States sought to punish Russia last month for its election interference and other aggressions, it targeted some of Russia's wealthiest men, imposing sanctions on those viewed …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin — Inside the mystery behind the President's surprise invitation to Russia's leader, and his team's struggle to figure out what to do about it. — Late on Monday evening, the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, started making calls to European allies.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999 — More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have until January 2020 to leave the country or face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Trump Administration Ends Protected Status for Thousands of Hondurans
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Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen Announcement on Temporary Protected Status for Honduras
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Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who've lived in the US for 20 years to get out
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Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Kerry quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft — WASHINGTON — John Kerry's bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle — Vice President Mike Pence's physician has resigned, the latest fallout from the collapse of Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs. — Dr. Jennifer Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House …
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Trump Is Fighting A Computer Program That Has Decided To Kill Humans — Before Alex Jones headed to court to face his ex-wife today, he told Infowars listeners that President Trump is part of an effort to fight against a sentient computer program that has decided to kill all humans.
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Connecticut Court Reverses Murder Conviction of Michael Skakel — The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a surprising reversal of its own decision less than two years ago, ruled on Friday to vacate the conviction of Michael C. Skakel, who had been found guilty of bludgeoning his neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records. Then he doesn't read them. — (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was livid. — For months, he had been demanding a fully uncensored version of a highly sensitive document from the Justice Department explaining …
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Washington Post:
As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility — The West Wing shouting match was so loud that more than a dozen staffers heard it. — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cursed and yelled at White House counsel Donald McGahn during …
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape. He Became A Progressive Star Anyway. — For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them. — On April 28, 2008, Sarah Schacht received an email that terrified her.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Most voters have become numb to each new Trump scandal because they don't believe what he says anyway — Most Americans have considered Trump dishonest throughout his time in office. They judge his character indecent. But that no longer drives change in their judgments of his presidency.
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The Daily Beast:
Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property — Qatar's mission to the United Nations bought an apartment valued at $6.5 million in New York's Trump World Tower on Jan. 17, one month after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump was not violating the Emoluments Clause …
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Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment — In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of multiple acts of corruption, some of which preceded his appointment to the federal bench …
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Washington Post:
Behind Erik Prince's China venture — The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders. But is it against U.S. interests? — Beijing's International Security Defense College, which boasts of becoming “the largest private security training school in China …
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New York Times:
Sex Abuse Scandal's Latest Casualty: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature — STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's most prestigious accolade for writing, will not be awarded this year, for the first time since 1949, as the fallout from a sexual abuse scandal that has battered …
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state — weeks after Trump savaged Amazon over its policies — The update comes after President Donald Trump has attacked Amazon over the issue of sales tax collection. — The Trump Organization quietly updated …
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
DeVos lost millions in embattled start-up: report — 's family has reportedly lost tens of millions of dollars from their investment in embattled medical-testing startup Theranos, according to newly unsealed documents. — DeVos's family was among a list of prominent figures who lost a total …
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Michael Isaac Stein / The Lens:
Actors were paid to support Entergy's power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings — Last October, about 50 people in bright orange shirts filed into City Hall for a public hearing on Entergy's request to build a $210 million power plant in eastern New Orleans. Their shirts read, “Clean Energy.
Benjy Egel / Sacramento Bee:
Revolutionary data: California tops U.K., now world's fifth-largest economy — The Golden State is getting even richer. — California is now the world's fifth-largest economy, according to data released Friday morning by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its 2017 Gross State Product …
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