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Washington Post:
A note to readers  —  I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months.  I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I'm afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.  —  In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen.
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter  —  Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed …
Washington Post:
Fridays without Charles  —  FRIDAY HAS always been Charles's day.  Since long ago, before digital news, when space meant just a strip across the top of a printed page, we knew to save space on Friday's page for Charles Krauthammer.  Charles always filled the space, with just the right number of words, and the most acute words, too.
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live In Tragic Letter
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61  —  New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died.  He was 61.  —  CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.  —  “It is with extraordinary sadness …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61  —  The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir “Kitchen Confidential” about the dark corners of New York's restaurants started a career in television, died on Friday at 61.  —  For the past several years, Mr. Bourdain hosted the show …
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
Travels with Anthony Bourdain
Discussion: NPR, CityLab and East Bay Times
Anna Silman / The Cut:
Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn't
Discussion: New York Times, ThinkProgress, Vox and Eater
Wesley J. Smith / National Review:
On Bourdain and the American Suicide Crisis
Discussion: naked capitalism, Eater and CBS Chicago
Corby Kummer / The Atlantic:
Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Discussion: WTVR-TV, KTLA and New Republic
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks.
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: BuzzFeed Confirms It Knew About Ali Watkins' Relationship With Indicted Senate Official
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Mueller Adds Obstruction Charge on Manafort and Indicts His Right-Hand Man  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, brought new obstruction charges on Friday against President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and added allegations against a close associate …
Discussion: Axios and Joe.My.God.
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New York Times:
With Mueller Closing In, Manafort's Allies Abandon Him  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel's accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Raw Story
CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller files witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
Mueller Indicts Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort's Ukraine Fixer
Discussion: Raw Story
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Encouraged Trump to Pardon Marcus Garvey … One of Donald Trump's longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone  —  From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades.  —  The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was less than forty-eight hours away …
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
How Trump Helps Putin  —  Traditionally, the outgoing president writes a personal letter to his successor, offering wisdom and best wishes.  President Obama duly left such a letter for President Trump, as President Bush did eight years earlier.  —  Imagine if Vladimir Putin, the Russian president …
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
France's Macron threatens rare rebuke of U.S. at G-7, Trump fires back
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Fulfilling Russia's Dream of Splitting the Western Alliance
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Democratic donors push Mark Warner to enter 2020 race as moderate alternative to Warren, Sanders  — Mark Warner, the Democratic Senator from Virginia, is getting pushed by some the party's biggest financiers to run for president in 2020, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Guy Benson / Townhall:   Manchin: Come to Think of It, Endorsing Hillary in 2016 Was Actually a Mistake
Politico:   ‘Cryin’ Chuck' might just get the last laugh
Washington Post:
China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare  —  Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare — including secret plans to develop …
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he is likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana … President Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Politico and The Week
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Associated Press:   APNewsBreak: US lifts secrecy on foreign lobbying opinions
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he ‘probably’ will support bill to protect states that have legalized marijuana
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico's violence  —  Editor's note: This column has been updated from the original online version with a statement from ICE.  —  Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated high school in Des Moines last month.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP leaders craft framework to break immigration impasse
Discussion: Axios
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
When's the Caps parade?  Tuesday morning, on Constitution Avenue  —  Washington, D.C., which is no stranger to pomp and circumstance, will be celebrating a major sports victory for the first time in 26 years after the Washington Capitals' Stanley Cup victory in Las Vegas Thursday night.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Michael Wolff is back with “Fire and Fury” II  —  After torching the White House with “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff is coming back for more:  —  Wolff tells me he has signed with the same publisher, Henry Holt, for a sequel — although he says it's unclear what that means …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book”  —  It's not true President Trump doesn't read.  It's just exceptionally hard to get him to do it.  —  So the workarounds by savvy aides have become legendary in the West Wing.  Many of them revolve around the briefing binder that goes …
NBC News:
U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit  —  WASHINGTON — China may not have a seat at the table during President Donald Trump's upcoming nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but U.S. officials say they are preparing to counter the Chinese spies …
Discussion: The Week and Vox
 
 
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Daily Mail:
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Khaleda Rahman / Reuters:
Austria's right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 foreign …
Washington Post:
Trump is waging a trade war in the dumbest way possible
Maria Lencki / The College Fix:
Public university prohibits ‘harsh text messages’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NYT Reporters Say ‘F**k The Military,’ Promote Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories, Tweet The N-Word
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The ‘What, Me Worry?’ President
Discussion: New York Times
USA Today:
Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends
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One Koch Brother Forces The Other Out Of The Family Business
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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