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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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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At McConnell's Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump intervened Monday in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, pleading with voters a day before the election to oppose the former mine operator Don Blankenship …
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The Atlantic, Hot Air and Politico
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore … If there's one person who has run the most Donald Trump-esque campaign since the 2016 election, it's probably Don Blankenship. And yet, Trump is trying to stop him.
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CNN, ABC News, Washington Monthly, Shareblue Media and Talking Points Memo
James Downie / Washington Post:
Giuliani stumbles into another fiasco … “He"ll get his facts straight," President Trump said Friday of his new personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “ I say, You know what? Learn before you speak. It's a lot easier. ” Yet there Giuliani was Sunday morning, speaking on ABC News's “This Week” with host George Stephanopolous.
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
State Dept.: Giuliani doesn't speak for US on foreign policy — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration sought to distance itself Monday from Rudy Giuliani's dramatic public statements about Iran and North Korea, saying that President Donald Trump's new lawyer does not speak for the president on matters of foreign policy.
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ‘not aware’ of other Trump hush agreements
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ‘not aware’ of other Trump hush agreements
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Washington Post, ABC News and Breitbart
David Fontana / Washington Post:
Washington is now a cool city. That's terrible news for American democracy. — Sparky's Espresso Cafe was a few blocks from my apartment off 14th Street NW, but in the years after I moved to Washington in 2006, it felt to me like home. To get there from my apartment …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump approval steady amid rising outlook for the country — WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating is holding steady in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, but his numbers on handling several key issues are climbing, as almost 6 in 10 say things in the country are going well.
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump unveils her platform, tells kids to ‘Be Best’
Melania Trump unveils her platform, tells kids to ‘Be Best’
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Melania Trump's popularity sees boost in new poll
Melania Trump's popularity sees boost in new poll
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ABC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and CNN
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Sessions: Parents, children entering U.S. illegally will be separated — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to take a tougher approach to families that enter the U.S. illegally by separating parents from their children, instead of keeping them in detention together.
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Political Wire, Washington Press and Raw Story
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Step Up Prosecution of Border-Crossing Parents
Trump Administration to Step Up Prosecution of Border-Crossing Parents
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National Review, New York Magazine and Jezebel
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 Daily 202: Rudy Giuliani is repeating seven mistakes that brought down previous Trump advisers
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The Atlantic, HuffPost, ThinkProgress and Politico
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 …
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Selection …:
Schiff Requests Intelligence Assessment of Effect of U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Deal on North Korea Negotiations — f t # e — Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee, sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats requesting …
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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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Vox, National Review, Taylor Marsh, Commentary Magazine, The American Conservative, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Althouse, twitchy.com, theGrio and The Week
Washington Post:
Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children's Health Insurance Program. — President Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping back more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, with the hope that it will temper conservative angst over ballooning budget deficits.
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Weekly Standard, Axios, Political Wire, Politico and Shareblue Media
NRA BLOG:
Lt. Colonel Oliver North Poised to Become NRA President — “Most exciting news for NRA members since Charlton Heston Became President of Our Association,” Wayne LaPierre said. — DALLAS - Lt. Colonel Oliver North, USMC (Ret.) will become President of the National Rifle Association …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Oliver North to be NRA's new president
Oliver North to be NRA's new president
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Washington Press, NPR, Political Wire, Joe.My.God., alicublog and Mediaite
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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Raw Story
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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Patterico's Pontifications, Power Line, Maggie's Farm and Conservative News Today
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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 …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Hatch to McCain: Invite Trump to your funeral — Sen. John McCain should reconsider his wish that President Donald Trump not attend McCain's funeral, said Sen. Orrin Hatch, the most senior GOP senator. — McCain prefers instead that Vice President Mike Pence attend his funeral rather than Trump …
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Political Wire, The Right Scoop, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Most Clinton Voters Now Say ‘People Like Them’ Were Better Off 50 Years Ago — It's a dramatic shift from 2016. — A year and a half after the 2016 election, voters who backed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton increasingly feel as though people like them are losing ground in America …
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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Columbia Journalism Review and FOX31 Denver, more at Mediagazer »
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Michael Roberts / Denver Westword:
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper”
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper”
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Splinter and Public News Service Newscasts, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Ryan noncommittal on vote to hold Sessions in contempt — Nunes threatens to hold Sessions in contempt — (CNN)Conservatives in the House of Representatives are making a push to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related …
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Political Wire, The Week and New York Post
Walter M. Shaub Jr / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago isn't the ‘Winter White House.’ It's just an embarrassing cash grab. … The “Southern White House” is a nearly perfect symbol of the Trump administration's ethical failings. President Trump has on a number of occasions tweeted or spoken the phrase “Southern White House” …
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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Daily Wire, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Power Line and twitchy.com
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 …
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr's urging — Roseanne Barr hopes to teach tolerance and compassion in the next installment of her ABC sitcom. — On Tuesday's episode of Roseanne, a Muslim family living next door to the Conners elicits such fear in Roseanne …
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