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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Rudy Giuliani is repeating seven mistakes that brought down previous Trump advisers … THE BIG IDEA: — Rudy Giuliani has neither reduced Donald Trump's legal exposure nor helped him in the court of public opinion during his weeklong media blitz, but the former …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Exclusive: Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals — Republicans are panicking as internal polls show Don Blankenship, a coal baron who spent time in jail for a mining disaster that killed 29 workers, surging into the lead in the West Virginia Senate GOP primary …
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Yikes: Two Internal Polls Show Don Blankenship Leading In WV On Eve Of Senate Primary
Yikes: Two Internal Polls Show Don Blankenship Leading In WV On Eve Of Senate Primary
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At McConnell's Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship
At McConnell's Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship
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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 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
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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 …
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
Broward Schools Lied to Sen. Rubio About Parkland Shooter's Record
Broward Schools Lied to Sen. Rubio About Parkland Shooter's Record
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New York Times:
‘Smoke and Mirrors’: Emails Detail Pruitt's Drive for Secrecy at the E.P.A. — WASHINGTON — The invitation-only breakfast at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington gathered 250 executives from the nation's largest electric utilities, assembled in a ballroom to meet with Scott Pruitt …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report — The FBI and DOJ have been burying the investigators' questionable judgments and information helpful to Flynn. — Cute how this works: Kick off the week with some “the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted” bombast …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's GOP ‘warriors’ lead charge against Mueller
Trump's GOP ‘warriors’ lead charge against Mueller
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
People think she's a Parkland ‘crisis actor.’ It's terrifying. — NEW YORK — The strangers mocked her on social media. They called her old boss, saying she should be arrested. Now she feared one was stalking her. — Emma Gonzalez became an Internet obsession after a gunman killed 17 people …
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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 …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's popularity jumps in new CNN poll — (CNN)First lady Melania Trump has in recent weeks experienced a significant surge in support, a new CNN poll reveals, including among women and Democrats. — In a poll conducted by SSRS last week, 57% say they have a favorable impression of Trump, up from 47% in January.
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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.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense … Rudolph W. Giuliani has been all over TV in recent days- making damaging concessions, opening up the possibility President Trump used a slush fund to pay off many women and, worst of all, floating the idea Trump doesn't need to respond to a subpoena because he is president.
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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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E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No wonder there's an exodus from religion … Do you wonder why the proportion of Americans declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion has skyrocketed in recent decades? — This trend is especially pronounced among adults under 30, roughly 40 percent of whom claim …
Denver Newspaper Guild:
Denver Post Newsroom Statement on Resignation of Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett — To our readers: — Newspapers tell the truth. — They must. Always. — That is why we, the newsroom of The Denver Post, are outraged at the unconscionable censorship imposed on our now-former editorial page editor, Chuck Plunkett.
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Bloomberg:
Pence to Call on Venezuela to Suspend May 20 Elections, Sources Say — Vice President Mike Pence plans to call Monday on Venezuela to suspend its presidential election later this month because of corruption concerns, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Pence to announce new Venezuela sanctions in speech on Monday: aide
George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Shocker: Republican candidate says ‘I was just wrong’ — and Obama was right — ORLANDO — Candidates rarely admit being wrong about anything. — It's even more rare for a candidate in a Republican primary to say he was wrong and former President Barack Obama was right.
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Obama's calorie rule kicks in thanks to Trump — An oft-forgotten provision of Obamacare is being pushed over the finish line by Trump's FDA. — One of Barack Obama's top food policy rules has escaped Donald Trump's war on regulations. — Starting Monday, calorie counts will have to be posted …
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
This American Is A General For A Foreign Army Accused Of War Crimes In Yemen — “We would call him ‘Little Napoleon.’” — Stephen Toumajan spent most of his professional life as an officer in the US Army — but these days the country he serves is not the US but the United Arab Emirates.
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Metro wants to rebuild 20 station platforms in three years, creating SafeTrack-like disruptions — There will be no service on Metro's Blue and Yellow lines south of Reagan National Airport for 98 days beginning in May 2019, as the transit agency embarks on a full-scale platform rebuilding …
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
How Can the M.T.A. Rescue the Subway When It Struggles to Deliver Basics? — An order of 300 new subway cars should have arrived in New York City by January 2017, months before the system was officially declared to be in crisis. — Instead, only 32 of those cars are now on the tracks.
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.
Joe Uchill / Axios:
Carter Page: Senate Intel Committee was literal torture — Former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page tweeted that the Senate Intelligence Committee “should consider their own Witch Hunt tactics before harassing others this week” as it weighs the appointment of CIA Gina Haspel who once oversaw a black site …
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul — Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image. — If I get addicted to vaping, I thought, in March, I will always remember this Texas strip mall.
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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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