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New York Times:
F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing — WASHINGTON — The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing …
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Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman — DRIVING THE DAY — AT 4:46 P.M. yesterday afternoon, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP delivered REP. DAN DONOVAN (R-N.Y.) an endorsement the lawmaker had long been waiting for. Donovan is running against MICHAEL GRIMM, a former House Republican who was recently in prison.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
How Trump's Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’ — WASHINGTON — Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump's victory. — “What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Email snafu reveals White House outreach to Obama and Clinton alumni — Recipients of a blast email were asked to ‘amplify’ Trump's policy on Iran — baffling some who have sharply disagreed with the president in public. — President Donald Trump is better known for speaking directly to his base than trying to win over his critics.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Yes, the FBI Was Investigating the Trump Campaign When It Spied — Trey Gowdy and Marco Rubio evidently paid little attention to testimony before their own committees on how Obama officials made the Trump campaign the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. — Well, well, well.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ‘spygate’ offensive loses steam — Legal experts and Trump critics say the defections have exposed cracks in the president's narrative. — President Donald Trump's claim that the FBI embedded a spy in his campaign for political purposes began to crumble Wednesday after a prominent Republican …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Trey Gowdy Didn't Even See Documents He Claims Exonerate FBI On Spygate: Reports
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney reveals his 2016 presidential vote — SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney revealed Wednesday who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election. — His wife, Ann Romney. — “I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president,” …
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Prosecutors in Michael Cohen case piecing together shredded documents from raid — Federal prosecutors sorting through materials seized from Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, said Wednesday they needed more time to piece together the contents of a shredder taken in an FBI raid.
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Chicago Tribune:
Illinois approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years after deadline — The Illinois House voted on the federal Equal Rights Amendment, more than 35 years after the deadline to ratify it passed. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) — Privacy Policy — The Illinois House voted Wednesday night …
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Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun-Times:
Dawn of an ERA? State House passes Equal Rights Amendment — 95 years later
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BuzzFeed:
Joy Reid Promoted An Infamous 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary On Her Old Blog — The MSNBC host, who has recently come under fire for claiming her blog was hacked, encouraged her readers to watch “Loose Change.” — MSNBC host Joy Reid encouraged readers of her now-defunct blog to watch …
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Associated Press:
Trump plans to go ahead with steel, aluminum tariffs on EU — President Donald Trump's administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that could provoke retaliatory tariffs and inflame trans-Atlantic trade tensions.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
California Democrats Don't Have a Reliable Farm Team — Preemptive finger-pointing is already starting among Democrats as they grow increasingly concerned that Tuesday's California primary could deal a painful blow to their hopes of recapturing the House of Representatives.
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JONATHAN LEMIRE, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO / Asso …:
Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG — WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president's inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general's job.
Washington Post:
Pompeo and North Korean official will try to salvage nuclear summit with New York skyline below them — NEW YORK — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold a crucial meeting Thursday morning with the right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to see if they can salvage …
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Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Satellite Images Show North Korea Scrubbed Nuclear Test Site Before Unilaterally Destroying It
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Immigration Policy Veers From Abhorrent to Evil — We as a nation have crossed so many ugly lines recently, yet one new policy of President Trump's particularly haunts me. I'm speaking of the administration's tactic of seizing children from desperate refugees at the border.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mitch McConnell's record-breaking reign — The 76-year-old senator has made clear he plans to run again in 2020 and keep leading the Republican conference. — One of Mitch McConnell's toughest tasks is the daily head count he conducts of his 50-member caucus.
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Charles Davis / The Daily Beast:
What Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions? … Shortly after the 2016 election, Jill Stein raised more than $7 million from shell-shocked liberals eager to pursue a swing-state recount. Nearly two years later, the U.S. Green Party's last candidate for president is still spending that money.
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy, Along With Many Questions — For more than four years, questions swirled about the shooting death of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. After all, there were only three witnesses to how the entire episode unfolded …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
‘I Will Never Roll on Donald Trump,’ Promises Definitely Innocent Adviser Roger Stone — Roger Stone, a longtime confidante to Donald Trump, appeared on the Alex Jones show to ask listeners to fund his legal defense. Stone's associates have been questioned by Robert Mueller's investigators …
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The Daily Beast and MSNBC
Alexandra Jardine / Ad Age:
Gunning is Imperial Woodpecker's first female director, Chen joins Stink — Lisa Gunning is signing with Imperial Woodpecker for first-time representation as a director in the U.S. She is the first woman to join the roster at Imperial Woodpecker. Gunning worked for many years as a film …
Page Six:
Kim Kardashian meets with Trump to discuss prison reform … It was the commander and cheeks! — Kim Kardashian strutted into the Oval Office on Wednesday for a sit-down with President Donald Trump to discuss criminal justice issues — including an imprisoned drug offender she discovered on Twitter.
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Tyler McCarthy / Fox News:
Roseanne Barr says she may fight ABC firing, retweets claim Michelle Obama was behind ouster — Roseanne Barr made it clear on Wednesday she's considering fighting ABC's move to cancel her revival after her racist tweet — and the comic even pushed an accusation that former first lady Michelle Obama was behind her ouster.
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Candace Taylor / Wall Street Journal:
AOL's Steve Case Sells Estate to Saudi Government for $43 Million — The embassy of Saudi Arabia has bought ‘Merrywood,’ a childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, setting a record for the most expensive home ever sold in the Washington, D.C., area. — AOL co-founder Steve Case …
ProPublica:
Pictures From an Interrogation: Drawings by Abu Zubaydah — Sketches by the terror suspect, who has been held in CIA captivity since 2002, have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. They are published here for the first time. — The CIA spent years trying to probe the mind of Abu Zubaydah …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Arizona governor huddles with John and Cindy McCain — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday quietly met with Sen. John McCain — (R) and his wife, Cindy, at the couple's home outside Sedona, Ariz., GOP sources in the state told The Hill. — The meeting, which was not on the governor's official schedule …
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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News Steamrolls Cable News Competition With Big Win In May Ratings — What happened to the rise of MSNBC? After showing historic growth—and a few months in 2017 when Rachel Maddow took the title of most-watched host in all of cable news, beating Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity …
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
STX Beats Lawsuit Over ‘Happytime Murders’ Trailer With ‘Ejaculating Puppets’ — Sesame Workshop filed its trademark infringement lawsuit last week — The lawsuit over “The Happytime Murders” trailer featuring “ejaculating puppets” reached an explosive climax on Wednesday …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Bolton Installs Anti-Muslim Wingnut As NSC Chief of Staff — When Donald Trump first took office, his national security adviser was a man who believed that the Florida Democratic Party was working to impose Sharia law on the Sunshine State — and that America's southern border was lined …
Ross K. Baker / USA Today:
House Republicans may lose their majority by backing Trump's wall, dissing Dreamers — According to campaign ad data from Kantar Media, Republican House candidates for 2018 are openly flaunting hardline stances on immigration policy. Deirdre Shesgreen reports.
miamiherald:
'You're all going to die.' Nikolas Cruz made cellphone videos plotting Parkland attack. — Nikolas Cruz reached for his cellphone before his rifle. — Sometime before killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, Cruz recorded three cellphone videos discussing his plan to murder students and staff.
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Alex Pareene / Splinter:
Chuck Schumer Is Not Cutting It — I'm not sure there's a better possible illustration of “not up to the challenges of the political moment” than Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer standing outside a Washington filling station demanding that President Trump lower gas prices.
Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Jerry Jones: President made it clear that he wasn't letting anthem issue go — The first snippets of testimony have emerged from the depositions taken in the Colin Kaepernick collusion grievance. And it's becoming even more obvious that the NFL changed its anthem policy at the direct behest of the President.
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