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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials — In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal. Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Stunning Developments on Trump/Private Black Ops Oppo Targeting Obama Staffers
Stunning Developments on Trump/Private Black Ops Oppo Targeting Obama Staffers
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's GOP ‘warriors’ lead charge against Mueller — Trump has hailed a quartet of aggressive House Republicans whom Democrats say are trying to ‘sabotage’ the Russia probe. — They have demanded thousands of documents central to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials — (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes warned Sunday that he plans to urge lawmakers “this week” to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for failing to hand …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report
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Christopher Carbone / Fox News:
Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress
Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress
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CNN:
Giuliani: I'm ‘focused on the law more than the facts right now’ — (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he is still getting up to speed on the facts of the President's legal situation, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details at hand.
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Washington Post:
Giuliani pleased with his media tour: 'Everybody's reacting to us now' … After days of media appearances intended to explain President Trump's legal settlement with an adult-film star that only raised fresh questions about the payment, his new attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani on Sunday …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump divines his own truth without consequences
Trump divines his own truth without consequences
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye — I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely seven years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
Katherine Mangan / Chronicle of Higher Education:
He Makes a Joke. She Isn't Laughing: ‘Lingerie’ Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars — He says he was joking when he asked to be let off an elevator at the ladies' lingerie department. A female scholar who was attending the same annual meeting of the International Studies Association …
Washington Post:
Inside Melania Trump's complicated White House life: Separate schedules, different priorities … Donald and Melania Trump's remarkably separate daily routines begin with him getting up around 5:30 a.m., watching cable news shows and tweeting. — The first lady wakes in her own bedroom a bit later …
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Jessica Bakeman / WLRN Miami Herald News …:
Stoneman Douglas Shooter Was Assigned To Controversial Broward Discipline Program, Officials Now Say — Broward school district officials admitted Sunday that the confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman was assigned to a controversial disciplinary program …
Washington Post:
Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program — Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role …
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Jenna McLaughlin / CNN:
National security officials preparing contingency plans if Haspel's nomination fails
National security officials preparing contingency plans if Haspel's nomination fails
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Republicans in key election races turn down volume on Trump's tax cuts — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Right after Republicans in the U.S. Senate passed their income tax overhaul in December, delivering tax cuts to businesses and most American taxpayers, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was buoyant.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Media Can Have Ideological Diversity Without Conservatives — Donald Trump's election exposed the irrelevance of conservative intellectuals — and thereby, the incoherence of many a liberal publication's mission statement. — During the 2016 primaries, the right-wing intelligentsia mobilized in opposition to Trump.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Scott Pruitt's “miserable” bunker — President Trump is unhappy about a report in The Atlantic which says a member of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's press team has been shopping negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple outlets.
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
EPA clamps down on document requests linked to Pruitt
EPA clamps down on document requests linked to Pruitt
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Mueller puts politics above the law — finally found a federal judge to whom he could relate. Judge T.S. Ellis III on Friday blasted prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller — 's office as using their case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:
Boy regains consciousness after parents sign papers to donate his organs — A 13-year-old boy who suffered severe brain trauma in an accident regained consciousness after his parents signed paperwork to donate his organs. Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama, suffered the injury two months ago …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Republicans fear a Roy Moore redux in West Virginia — Republicans in D.C. are panicking over Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary. — The problem: Don Blankenship, a coal baron who's spent time in prison, is running a demagogic campaign in which he's repeatedly invoked the Chinese heritage …
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
Don Blankenship won't rule out third party bid in West Virginia senate race
Don Blankenship won't rule out third party bid in West Virginia senate race
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Save Barnes & Noble! — Barnes & Noble is in trouble. You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business. You feel it when you walk into one of the chain's stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games, DVDs (DVDs?) and books. And you really see the problems if you dig into the company's financial statements.
Washington Post:
Republicans whose jobs once seemed safe are struggling for a 2018 survival strategy — SALISBURY, N.C. — Republican Rep. Ted Budd opened the calendar on his iPhone during a campaign day last week to reveal a jam-packed schedule — wake up at 4:55 a.m., breakfast with veterans …
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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The Man Who Bought New York — Money hasn't made Stephen Schwarzman universally beloved. Who cares? — Last May, a familiar routine took place on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Katy Perry ascended the red carpet at the annual Costume Institute gala looking like the bride …
Wall Street Journal:
House Democrats Plan to Release 3,000 Russian-Linked Facebook Ads — Lawmakers on House Intelligence Committee could release trove of ads as soon as this week — Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are preparing to release 3,000 Russia-linked Facebook ads, according to people familiar …
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Pelosi: Democrats have cash and environment to win House — Speaking in Iowa: “Here in the heartland a new generation of Democrats is rising up” — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that House Democrats have the fundraising, the issues …