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The Definitive Story Of How Trump's Team Worked The Trump Moscow Deal During The Campaign — On the day of the third Republican presidential debate, Trump personally signed the letter of intent. — All through the hot summer campaign of 2016, as Donald Trump and his aides dismissed talk …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Republicans in the middle of an immigration nightmare
Playbook: Republicans in the middle of an immigration nightmare
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New York Times:
Show Starring Avenatti and Scaramucci Is Being Pitched to Television Executives — A television show featuring Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who is suing President Trump on behalf of a pornographic film actress, and the former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was pitched …
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New York Times:
Responding to Leaks, White House Limits Number of Staff in Daily Meeting — WASHINGTON — The White House communications office has canceled a large daily morning meeting in response to the leak of a joke about Senator John McCain being close to death that a staff member made at one of those meetings …
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Political Wire, IJR and The Hill
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Mueller's office files unredacted memo outlining scope of Russia probe: filing — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office notified a federal court in Virginia on Thursday it had filed under seal an unredacted memorandum that is expected to shed light on the scope …
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David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Mueller Reveals Basis for Manafort Probe to Skeptical Judge
Mueller Reveals Basis for Manafort Probe to Skeptical Judge
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Axios
Erin Banco / New Jersey Online:
As Mueller probes Seychelles meetings, details emerge on Russian plane: exclusive
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Kushners Near Deal With Qatar-Linked Company for Troubled Tower — The company controlled by the family of the White House adviser Jared Kushner is close to receiving a bailout of its financially troubled flagship building by a company with ties to the government of Qatar, according to executives briefed on the deal.
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New York Post:
Racist lawyer runs scared from cameras outside home — The Midtown lawyer who was caught on video hurling racist comments at Spanish-speaking restaurant workers refused to comment outside his home Thursday while shielding himself from reporters. — Aaron Schlossberg, 42 …
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New York Daily News:
Manhattan lawyer keeps big mouth shut after racist restaurant rant goes viral — Big-mouthed bigot Aaron Schlossberg is suddenly saying nada. — The unwitting star of a viral video, in which he delivered a racist rant in a Midtown restaurant, emerged Thursday from his Manhattan apartment without any comment on his sudden notoriety.
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
WATCH: Racist NYC lawyer tries to hide in his umbrella as he flees reporters outside his home
WATCH: Racist NYC lawyer tries to hide in his umbrella as he flees reporters outside his home
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thenewcivilrightsmovement.com and Gothamist
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
On a Willful Lie from the Press — This claim is omnipresent on social media and beyond: … Peruse Twitter or Facebook right now, and you'll see this line everywhere — and not solely in the feeds of left-leaning journalists or from admitted critics of the president.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’ in Rant — WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at undocumented immigrants during a White House meeting on Wednesday, warning in front of news cameras that dangerous people were clamoring to breach the country's borders and branding such people “animals.”
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The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at a California Sanctuary State Roundtable
Remarks by President Trump at a California Sanctuary State Roundtable
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall:
Fake News: Media and Democrats Lie Repeatedly About President Trump Calling Illegal Immigrants ‘Animals’
Fake News: Media and Democrats Lie Repeatedly About President Trump Calling Illegal Immigrants ‘Animals’
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
10 Key Takeaways From The New York Times' Error-Ridden Defense Of FBI Spying On Trump Campaign — It's reasonable to assume that much of the new information in the New York Times report relates to leakers' fears about information that will be coming out in the inspector general report.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge Prof With CIA, MI6 Ties Met With Trump Adviser During Campaign, Beyond
EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge Prof With CIA, MI6 Ties Met With Trump Adviser During Campaign, Beyond
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Spinning a Crossfire Hurricane: The Times on the FBI's Trump Investigation
Spinning a Crossfire Hurricane: The Times on the FBI's Trump Investigation
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Scott Waldmann / Science:
Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise — The Earth is not warming. The White Cliffs of Dover are tumbling into the sea and causing sea levels to rise. Global warming is helping grow the Antarctic ice sheet. — Those are some of the skeptical assertions echoed …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani just watered down Trump's Russia collusion denial — again — This is now at least the seventh time the goal posts have been moved — all in one direction.
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Rudy Giuliani Doubles Down That Trump Can't Be Indicted Even If He Shoots Someone
Rudy Giuliani Doubles Down That Trump Can't Be Indicted Even If He Shoots Someone
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Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost:
Rudy Giuliani Offers A Head-Spinning New Defense Of Trump
Rudy Giuliani Offers A Head-Spinning New Defense Of Trump
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Washington Post, MSNBC, Jamie Dupree - AJC and Breitbart
Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania Republicans hit the panic button over Senate nominee Lou Barletta — Senior Republicans are sounding the alarm about Rep. Lou Barletta's, R-Pa., struggling Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, fretting that his lackadaisical, disorganized effort will hand a third term to incumbent Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.
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Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Democrats' Drive for 25 in the House: An Update
The Democrats' Drive for 25 in the House: An Update
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The Forward
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Republicans are betting it all on aging white Trump voters
Republicans are betting it all on aging white Trump voters
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Bad Liars — ICE claimed a Dreamer was “gang-affiliated” and tried to deport him. A federal judge ruled that ICE was lying. — On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez shot down the federal government's efforts to strip Daniel Ramirez Medina of his DACA status.
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Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
A Top Adviser to the South Korean President Wants to ‘Get Rid Of’ the U.S. Alliance — SEOUL, South Korea—A top adviser to South Korea's president says he would eventually like to see the U.S.-South Korea alliance end. In language that sounded almost Trump-like, Chung In Moon …
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Jessica Garrison / BuzzFeed:
The Life Of One Of America's Bloodiest Hitmen — “True Evil has a face you know and a voice you trust.” — “Look, Jose,” the cop said to the genial grandfather sitting across the desk. “The fact is, you're being charged with murder.” — Tim McWhorter, the chief investigator …
Justice News:
Arizona Men Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With $23 Million Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme In Connection With Purported Fundraising For Numerous Scam Political Action Committees — Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr. …
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The Daily Beast
Jessica Chia / New York Daily News:
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock claimed Americans needed to wake up to government plot to seize guns — A man who met Stephen Paddock less than a month before the Las Vegas massacre said the mass shooter ranted about a government plot to confiscate guns and called for the American public …
Washington Post:
McConnell warns control of the Senate is ‘absolutely’ in play in midterm elections — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Thursday that control of the Senate is “absolutely” in play in the midterm elections, identifying the nine battleground states he believes will decide the outcome in November.
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Kyle Rempfer / Air Force Times:
Air Force A-10s called in to hold off Taliban attack on major Afghan city … Air Force A-10 Warthogs are over Farah city, Afghanistan, in an attempt to prevent the city's fall to Taliban forces during the first major assault against a provincial capital since the Taliban began their annual fighting season.
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Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
How Mueller's First Year Compares To Watergate, Iran-Contra And Whitewater — It's a big day for Robert Mueller and his team: One year ago today, Mueller was appointed to lead the special counsel investigation into possible ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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Phil Klay / New Yorker:
The Lesson of Eric Greitens, and the Navy SEALs Who Tried to Warn Us — The charges facing the embattled governor of Missouri have stunned voters, but in the tight-knit Naval Special Warfare community, Greitens has been a divisive figure for years. — The Missouri legislature is scheduled …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Poll: Just 13 percent of Americans consider Trump honest and trustworthy — Only thirteen percent of Americans said they would consider President Trump — to be honest and trustworthy, according to a new Survey Monkey tracking poll. — Trump's honesty and trustworthiness score …
CBS Los Angeles:
Starbucks Facing More Racism Allegations After Latino Customer Receives Cup With ‘Beaner’ On The Label — LA CAÑADA (CBSLA) — Nearly two weeks ahead of their day of nationwide racial bias training, coffee chain Starbucks is facing new accusations of racism after a Latino customer discovered …
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