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Wanda Sykes quits ‘Roseanne’ after Barr's Twitter rant — Roseanne apologizes for Valerie Jarrett tweet — Roseanne Barr, one of ABC's biggest stars, apologized after a bizarre, racist Twitter rant Tuesday morning, and then announced she's “now leaving Twitter.” — ABC had no immediate comment.
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
ABC has canceled ‘Roseanne’ after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rampage. — This post has been updated. — ABC announced Tuesday that it has canceled “Roseanne” after the show's star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic Twitter rampage Monday.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Roseanne Rips Ex-Obama Aide Valerie Jarrett: ‘Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes Had a Child’ — Comedian uses racially charged joke about African American Obama adviser — Roseanne Barr waded into racial waters on Monday, suggesting that former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Roseanne Barr Goes on Wild (And Racist) Tweetstorm About Clintons, George Soros, Chris Cillizza — UPDATE 1:45 p.m. EST: ABC has cancelled Roseanne. — ABC cancels Roseanne. ABC President Channing Dungey: “Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Roseanne’ canceled after star's racist tweet — ABC canceled the relaunched “Roseanne” program on Tuesday amid an uproar over a racist tweet by Roseanne Barr, the show's lead actor, about Valerie Jarrett, a longtime adviser and close friend of former President Barack Obama's.
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Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter:
Roseanne Barr Dropped By ICM Partners After Racist Tweet — YOUTUBE — The agency called her tweet about about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett “disgraceful and unacceptable.” — ICM Partners has dropped Roseanne Barr following her racist tweet about former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
‘Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC — ABC has pulled the plug on the revival “Roseanne.” — The move comes after series star Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter Tuesday morning referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
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Jane Coaston / Vox:
Roseanne goes full conspiracy theorist on Chelsea Clinton
Roseanne goes full conspiracy theorist on Chelsea Clinton
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Roseanne Barr Incites Fury With Racist Tweet, and Her Show Is Canceled by ABC
Roseanne Barr Incites Fury With Racist Tweet, and Her Show Is Canceled by ABC
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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
‘Roseanne’ canceled after Roseanne Barr's racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett
‘Roseanne’ canceled after Roseanne Barr's racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC Following Racist Tweet
‘Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC Following Racist Tweet
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Giuliani says Trump won't sit for Mueller interview unless all FBI source documents can be reviewed — President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Tuesday that Trump will not agree to an interview with the special counsel until prosecutors allow the president's legal team …
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Kremlin says Mueller's Russia investigation is pointless
Kremlin says Mueller's Russia investigation is pointless
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller team moves another case toward sentencing
Meduza.io:
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is shot and killed in Kiev — Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was reportedly shot and killed in Kiev on Tuesday, May 29. According to fellow journalist Ayder Muzhdabaev, he was shot in the back while at home. A source told the website Obozrevatel.com …
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Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria — CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO — At least 4,645 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its devastation across Puerto Rico last year, according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday, an estimate that far exceeds …
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Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed:
A New Study Says Nearly 6,000 Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria. The Government Still Says 64 People Died.
A New Study Says Nearly 6,000 Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria. The Government Still Says 64 People Died.
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Sheri Fink / New York Times:
New Study Estimates Hurricane Maria Death Toll in Puerto Rico Could Exceed 4,000
New Study Estimates Hurricane Maria Death Toll in Puerto Rico Could Exceed 4,000
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Obama Says 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These? — Democrats and media revisionists try to make eight years of abuse disappear. — At a Las Vegas tech conference last week, former president Barack Obama told an audience that his presidency had been scandal-free.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Obama Administration's Hypocritical Pretext for Spying on the Trump Campaign
The Obama Administration's Hypocritical Pretext for Spying on the Trump Campaign
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Grassley: Fusion GPS Founder Gave ‘Extremely Misleading’ Testimony About Trump Work — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is accusing Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson of giving “extremely misleading” statements, if not telling “outright lies,” during Senate testimony in 2017.
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Fight Over Trump Jr.'s Testimony Simmers in the Senate
Jessica Pressler / The Cut:
Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey's fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. — Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It — It started with money, as it so often does in New York.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Porn Leads To School Shootings, GOP Congresswoman Says — “I think that is a big part” of the spike in such attacks, Rep. Diane Black asserts. — WASHINGTON Does anyone know what kind of porn Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) is watching? — Whatever it is, the 67-year-old Black …
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Bloomberg:
Inside the Pro-Trump Effort to Keep Black Voters From the Polls — Breitbart News landed an election scoop that went viral in August 2016: “Exclusive: ‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters... by Campaigning for Trump.”
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CNN:
Supreme Court clears the way for controversial Arkansas abortion law — Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a controversial Arkansas law that blocks medication-induced abortions to go into effect. — The law, passed in 2015, says that any physician who “gives …
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Alveda King / Washington Examiner:
If Starbucks wants to end racism, it'll stop funding Planned Parenthood
If Starbucks wants to end racism, it'll stop funding Planned Parenthood
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Megyn Kelly attacks Starbucks for allowing anyone to use bathroom: ‘Do you really want to deal with homeless people?’ — NBC host Megyn Kelly on Tuesday lashed out at Starbucks over a policy that allows anyone to sit in the store or use the bathrooms — even if they are not paying customers.
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Jennifer Calfas / TIME:
Please Don't Roast Marshmallows Over the Erupting Hawaii Volcano, USGS Warns — The U.S. Geological Survey took a break from giving serious updates about Hawaii's Kilauea volcanic eruption to confirm that no, you should not roast marshmallows over the scorching hot volcanic vents.
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Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
Missouri Gov. Greitens expected to resign today amid sexual misconduct scandal, sources say — Embattled Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is expected to resign Tuesday amid a sexual misconduct scandal and allegations of misuse of a charity donor list, sources told Fox News.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Ross goes from Trump ‘killer’ to ‘past his prime’ — Investor Wilbur Ross was brought into the administration as one of President Donald Trump's “killers” — but in recent months, the commerce secretary has been increasingly marginalized, with his agency widely seen in the White House as a mess.
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We Built A Twitter Ratio Bot That Tracks All Your Terrible Tweets — No bad tweet left behind. — Whatever Twitter was originally intended to be, it certainly wasn't this. Nazis roam free, celebrities melt down daily, entire news cycles run their course in a matter of minutes …