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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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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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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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U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Selection …:
Schiff Requests Intelligence Assessment of Effect of U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Deal on North Korea Negotiations
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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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, Raw Story and IJR
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 …
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, WND, HuffPost and ThinkProgress
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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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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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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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
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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump grows frustrated with Giuliani as Stormy drama rages on — President Donald Trump has shaken up his legal team in the last three weeks - and he's still not happy. — The president has been griping to associates that Rudy Giuliani, his new personal attorney, has failed to shut down the Stormy Daniels hush money saga.
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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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 …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump to announce decision on Iran deal Tuesday — President Trump intends to announce his decision on the future of the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, days ahead of a self-imposed deadline and amid signals that he will withdraw the United States three years after the Obama administration signed the pact.
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Axios, Politico and One America News Network
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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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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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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 …
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” …
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Gina Haspel's Lose-Lose Proposition for Democrats — Confirmation hearings aren't supposed to be fun, exactly, but some turn out to be far more brutal than others. A dramatic showdown seems likely for President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as CIA Director, Gina Haspel …
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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
Christopher Baldwin / Gainesville Sun:
UF apologizes for ‘aggressive’ graduation usher — “I had just started ... and he picked me up and turned me around, which I thought was kind of embarrassing and degrading to be handled in that manner,” the graduate said. — University of Florida President Kent Fuchs issued an apology …
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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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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 …
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Elon Musk quietly dating musician Grimes — Elon Musk has been keeping everyone guessing about his love life, but sources exclusively revealed to Page Six that he has been quietly dating hip musician Grimes — who will walk the red carpet with him at Monday's Met Gala.