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Homeland Security Secretary Was Close to Resigning After Trump Berated Her — WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure …
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Richard Gonzales / NPR:
John Kelly: Despite ‘Times Of Great Frustration,’ No Regrets Taking White House Job — President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, said that he's never seriously considered leaving his job and indicated that he's in lock-step with the president on many issues.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Kelly says Trump ‘somewhat embarrassed’ by Russia probe — The tumultuous relationship between Trump, Kelly — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is “somewhat embarrassed” by special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, White House chief of staff John Kelly says.
The Hill:
White House official mocked ‘dying’ McCain at internal meeting — A White House official mocked Sen. John McCain — 's brain cancer diagnosis at an internal meeting on Thursday, a day after the Arizona Republican announced his opposition to President Trump — 's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox Military Guest: Torture Is Good, ‘It Worked on John McCain’
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: That's not what he told me! …
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Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Political Trump and diplomatic Trump
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CNN:
White House aide joked of ‘dying’ McCain
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House official derides McCain over Haspel opposition: 'He's dying anyway'
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Media Matters for America:
Military analyst on Fox advocates for torture: “It worked on John [McCain]. That's why they call him ‘Songbird John’”
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
My journey to North Korea with the secretary of state … The State Department normally craves elaborate planning and procedures for everything. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's 13-hour visit to North Korea had little of that. — I had a view of the improvisational quality of his trip because …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Lizard Wisdom — We're all educated by our peers, and, over the years, a good portion of Donald Trump's peers have been thugs. Operating in the New York construction world meant dealing with S&A Concrete, co-owned by “Fat Tony” Salerno of the Genovese crime family …
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Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
Damage to North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Worse Than Previously Thought
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CNN Report: Evil Trump Kidnaps Three People From North Korean Paradise
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump on Kim Jong-un: Once a ‘Madman,’ Now a ‘Very Honorable’ Leader
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
Who is paying Michael Avenatti? — So exactly who is paying Michael Avenatti? And is he a lawyer, an opposition researcher, a journalist, or a campaign operative? — He wants to make the discussion all about where Michael Cohen, President Trump — 's personal attorney, got his money but …
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CNN:
Alt-right web domain names registered to company that paid Cohen
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Was this a slush fund for more than paying off a porn star?
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Washington Post:
At Sean Hannity properties in low-income areas, an aggressive approach to rent collection … PERRY, Ga. — For years, Fox News host Sean Hannity has poured his fortune into a surprising side venture: a vast portfolio of rental properties in working-class neighborhoods.
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John Haltiwanger / Business Insider:
Russia reportedly targeted Fox host Sean Hannity's fans in its social media propaganda campaign
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
House Democrats Release 3,500 Russia-Linked Facebook Ads
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
About That FBI ‘Source’ — Did the bureau engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign? — The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly … The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Tell us how this ends … So what's next with Iran? Even if you think President Trump has made a big mistake in withdrawing from the nuclear agreement, as I do, that's not the end of the story. Where does this bumpy road lead? — What's distressing about the Iran question is that nobody …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices — WASHINGTON — President Trump will lay out on Friday a broad strategy to reduce prescription drug prices, but in a break from one of his most popular campaign promises, he will not call for Medicare to negotiate lower prices …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Blankenship wants to ‘make sure’ Morrisey doesn't win Senate bid — Ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship, who lost the GOP primary bid in West Virginia this week, is actively plotting how to undercut state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's Senate candidacy. — Greg Thomas, an adviser …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Wipeout of Obama's Legacy — President Obama's legacy is rapidly vanishing. The decision by President Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran is the biggest blow, but it's only the latest. The elimination of the individual mandate and canceling the yearly bailout …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Loyalty, unease in Trump's Midwest — Voters gave Trump a chance. Some remain all in. Others have grown weary of the chaos. — After eight years of displeasure with the presidency of Barack Obama and faced with a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Dennis Schminke of Austin …
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Cornell student strips during thesis presentation to protest professor — A Cornell University senior stripped to her bra and underwear during her thesis presentation — and got two dozen others to join in — to protest her professor's contention the week before that her clothing was inappropriate.
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Washington Post:
Cohen's $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show — Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney Michael Cohen for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending …
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Adam Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Insider Poll: Doubts about Bill Nelson beating Rick Scott grow — Among more than 200 experts and veterans of Florida politics surveyed in the latest Tampa Bay Times Florida Insider Poll, nearly six in 10 this week said they expect Florida's Republican governor to unseat the three-term Democratic Senator.
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Stella Bugbee / The Cut:
Who Is Anna Wintour Asking Us to Forgive in Her Editor's Letter? — Anna Wintour is our Fashion Pope, the infallible ruler of Vogue, fashion's Vatican. Both because of her reputation — which is the stuff of pop-culture legend — and the reality of her power, she's not someone anyone in the industry dares cross.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
How the Online Left Fuels the Right — I think I know what it feels like to be “red-pilled,” the alt-right's preferred metaphor for losing one's faith in received assumptions and turning toward ideas that once seemed dangerous. — For me, it happened over several visits to the West Bank.
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Washington Post:
Gina Haspel fails the test — GINA HASPEL, President Trump's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, faced a clear test when she appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. After a 33-year career at the agency, she may be, in many respects …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Video shows woman calling police over barbecue at Lake Merritt — A video of a confrontation over a charcoal barbecue at Lake Merritt is attracting national attention after being shared and viewed thousands of times since its initial posting. — A white woman was in disagreement …
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Goodbye, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine.’ And thank you. … When the television gods give you a gift, maybe it's churlish to ask for even more from them. That's the best way to describe how I feel about “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” Fox's wonderfully funny, deeply felt police comedy, which the network chose not to renew on Thursday.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Adviser for pro-Trump group caught saying Nazis should have done more — An adviser for the pro-Trump group America First Policies was caught on camera saying, 'The only thing the Nazis didn't get right is they didn't keep f*cking going!' — Former Trump campaign adviser Juan Pablo Andrade …
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