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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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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: What State is telling embassies about Jerusalem
Playbook scoop: What State is telling embassies about Jerusalem
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Washington Press and Joe.My.God.
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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The Daily Beast and The Daily Signal
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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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CNN, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
Damage to North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Worse Than Previously Thought
Damage to North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Worse Than Previously Thought
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The Week
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Political Trump and diplomatic Trump
The Note: Political Trump and diplomatic Trump
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One America News Network and Politico
The Babylon Bee:
CNN Report: Evil Trump Kidnaps Three People From North Korean Paradise
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
Trump on Kim Jong-un: Once a ‘Madman,’ Now a ‘Very Honorable’ Leader
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Washington Press, Outside the Beltway and Bustle
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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Just Security
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Haaretz:
Iran's Rohani: Tehran Does Not Want ‘New Tensions’ in Region
Iran's Rohani: Tehran Does Not Want ‘New Tensions’ in Region
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CNN, New York Times and Sputnik International
Philip Stephens / Financial Times:
How Europe should react to Donald Trump
How Europe should react to Donald Trump
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MelaniePhillips.com
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
Alt-right web domain names registered to company that paid Cohen
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Vox, Raw Story and Massively Overpowered
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Was this a slush fund for more than paying off a porn star?
Was this a slush fund for more than paying off a porn star?
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Daily Wire, Hullabaloo and Salon
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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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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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Michael Cohen just got caught making the same mistake as General Flynn
Michael Cohen just got caught making the same mistake as General Flynn
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Bloomberg and Law & Crime
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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CNN, Outside the Beltway, Vox and HuffPost
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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New York Magazine
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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Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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 …
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 …
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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Mediaite, Raw Story and ThinkProgress
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.
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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TheBlaze, Front Page Magazine and AOL
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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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Political Wire
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.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Let Them Eat Trump Steaks — In general, Donald Trump is notoriously uninterested in policy details. It has long been obvious, for example, that he never bothered to find out what his one major legislative victory, the 2017 tax cut, actually did. Similarly, it's pretty clear that he had no idea …
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BloombergQuint and The Daily Caller
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 …
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
House Democrats Release 3,500 Russia-Linked Facebook Ads — ON THURSDAY, DEMOCRATS on the House Intelligence Committee published more than 3,500 Facebook and Instagram ads linked to the Russian propaganda group Internet Research Agency, making it the largest trove of these ads the public has seen to date.
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John Haltiwanger / Business Insider:
Russia reportedly targeted Fox host Sean Hannity's fans in its social media propaganda campaign
Russia reportedly targeted Fox host Sean Hannity's fans in its social media propaganda campaign
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