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HuffPost:
Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile — Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists. — Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.
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The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God., Snopes.com, Splinter and The Week
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' network launches digital ad blitz supporting Democrat Heidi Heitkamp as midterms near — Americans for Prosperity is unleashing a digital advertising campaign on Friday thanking North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp for cosponsoring the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protect Act.
Discussion:
Roll Call, Political Wire and Washington Times
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Television Academy Blocks Media From Tonight's Honors Ceremony Featuring Samantha Bee — In the wake of the Samantha Bee controversy whereby she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t”, the Television Academy has put the kibosh on any press tonight attending its 11th Annual Television Academy Honors ceremony …
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The Federalist, infowars.com, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Patterico's Pontifications, The Week, Fox News and Mediaite
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Michael Schneider / IndieWire:
Samantha Bee Addresses Controversy: ‘We Spent the Day Wrestling With the Repercussions of One Bad Word’
Samantha Bee Addresses Controversy: ‘We Spent the Day Wrestling With the Repercussions of One Bad Word’
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The Week, Breitbart, The Wrap, Conservative News Today, Hot Air, Daily Wire, NewsBusters, Deadline, The Last Tradition, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, IJR and CNN
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton resurfaces Trump meeting with Ted Nugent, who once called Hillary C-word
Chelsea Clinton resurfaces Trump meeting with Ted Nugent, who once called Hillary C-word
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Shareblue Media, Breitbart, HuffPost, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Week
Peggy Drexler / CNN:
Samantha Bee's message was right even if her word wasn't
Samantha Bee's message was right even if her word wasn't
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The Federalist, ABC News, National Review and Daily Wire
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
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ThinkProgress, Townhall and Fox News
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's tariffs on US allies will shrink the savings Americans gained from tax cuts — The U.S. says it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from allies such as Canada, Mexico and the European Union. — While the White House acknowledges that these measures will lead to higher prices …
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Hit & Run and NTK Network
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum
Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum
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Power Line, New Yorker, Axios, Politico, The Week, NTK Network, CNBC, Talking Points Memo, NBC News and The Mahablog
Scott Gilmore / Macleans.ca:
Trade sanctions against America won't work. Sanctioning Trump himself might.
Trade sanctions against America won't work. Sanctioning Trump himself might.
Jennifer A. Hillman / New York Times:
Trump Tariffs Threaten National Security
Trump Tariffs Threaten National Security
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Washington Post, Conservative News Today, MSNBC and The Daily Caller
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
We Ran Out of Words to Describe How Good the Jobs Numbers Are — The economy is in a sweet spot, with steady growth and broad improvement in the labor market. — The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for “good” in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.
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Washington Free Beacon
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CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / Associated Press:
US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct.
US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct.
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Sean Hannity
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century
Unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century
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Townhall, JustOneMinute, USA Today, The Week, Small Dead Animals, CNBC and Scared Monkeys
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Added 223,000 Jobs in May; Unemployment Rate at 3.8%
U.S. Added 223,000 Jobs in May; Unemployment Rate at 3.8%
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National Review, Business Insider, NPR, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
Brian Contreras / Stanford Daily:
Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct ‘opposition research’ on student — Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron '20 and Max Minshull '20 reveal coordination on …
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Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, bradford-delong.com and Roll Call
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Prepares Lifeline for Money-Losing Coal Power Plants — Energy Department is weighing emergency electricity reserve — Move would be unprecedented intervention in energy markets — Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity …
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New Republic, ThinkProgress, CNBC, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller, Shareblue Media, The Week and BloombergQuint
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Niall Ferguson wanted opposition research on a student.
Niall Ferguson wanted opposition research on a student.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump breaks protocol, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released — President Trump on Friday broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Crooked Media, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Vox, Mother Jones, New Republic, Bloomberg, ThinkProgress, Politico, Breitbart, CNNMoney, CNBC, IJR, New York Times, AOL, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump tweet previewing jobs report appears to break protocol: Experts
Trump tweet previewing jobs report appears to break protocol: Experts
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Politico
John Brennan / Washington Post:
I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House — John Brennan served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017. — My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.
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CNN, Politico, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Raw Story and Washington Times
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NBC News:
Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller — WASHINGTON — A close friend of Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his proximity to some key meetings between Trump associates and foreign officials, according to five people familiar with the matter.
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Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
EPA's Pruitt spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens from Washington jewelry store — The account manager at the Tiny Jewel Box, which calls itself Washington's “premier destination for fine jewelry and watches,” had promised to expedite the order of a dozen customized silver fountain pens …
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ThinkProgress and Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Kim's Letter to Trump Expresses Interest in Nuclear Summit — North Korean official aims to hand-deliver the letter to Trump on Friday — WASHINGTON—One of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's top lieutenants is expected to hand-deliver a letter to President Donald Trump in the White House …
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CNBC
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say — A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.
Discussion:
Political Wire
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Ran as a Renegade. Now He's Trying to Keep Them at Bay. — IUKA, Miss. — When Chris McDaniel first ran for Senate four years ago, his campaign became a cause for disaffected and restless Republicans across the country. Activists waving “Don't Tread on Me” flags flooded Mississippi.
People.com:
Santa Fe Victim's Mom Challenged President Trump in Private Meeting for Calling Shooter ‘Wacky’ — The mother of a teenage girl killed earlier this month in a massacre at Santa Fe High School in Texas tells PEOPLE she challenged President Donald Trump's views on gun violence during …
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Shareblue Media, Washington Post and Splinter
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JONATHAN LEMIRE / Associated Press:
Trump meets with families affected by Texas shooting
Trump meets with families affected by Texas shooting
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HuffPost, Raw Story, MSNBC, New York Magazine, Joe.My.God., The Week, Eschaton and Shareblue Media
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying. BSO said no. — During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
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IJR, Conservative News Today, The Resurgent, WSVN-TV, Louder With Crowder, Daily Wire and twitchy.com
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Your defenses of Dinesh D'Souza are garbage — “Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?” asks the character of Bob Loblaw, an attorney, in the sitcom “Arrested Development.” — That line, which was written as a joke, is being repurposed to defend President Trump's pardon …
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The Daily Caller
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Sought Help From Democrats in Fight With Trump — WASHINGTON — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives.
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘He Pretty Much Gave In to Whatever They Asked For’ — Trump says he's a master negotiator. Those who've actually dealt with him beg to differ. — In 1985, Tony Schwartz, a writer for New York magazine, was sitting in Donald Trump's office in Trump Tower interviewing him for a story.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Here's the Email Russian Hackers Used to Try to Break Into State Voting Systems — Just days before the 2016 presidential election, hackers identified by the National Security Agency as working for Russia attempted to breach American voting systems. Among their specific targets were the computers …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Curious Case of Mr. Downer — His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question. — To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …
Discussion:
Power Line
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
John Bolton's Deputy Draws Ire of Jewish, Muslim Groups — Trump supporters defend appointment of Fred Fleitz to National Security Council post — WASHINGTON—Jewish and Muslim groups are objecting to the appointment of a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst to a top White House post …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
A Radical Pick for the National Security Council
A Radical Pick for the National Security Council
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The Week and Media Matters for America