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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 …
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live In Tragic Letter
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live In Tragic Letter
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The Daily Caller
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 — Remembering the life of Anthony Bourdain — Programming note: CNN will air “Remembering Anthony Bourdain,” a special report on the life and legacy of the chef, storyteller and writer, tonight at 10 p.m. ET. — New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain …
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Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate his first meal in Japan at a Starbucks. As he recounts in Kitchen Confidential, the 2000 memoir that made him a celebrity, he had been dispatched in 1998 by the owners of Les Halles, the New York restaurant where he was executive chef, to open a Tokyo branch.
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Helen Rosner / New Yorker:
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
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Jonathan Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
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New York Times, The Mary Sue and Vox
Anna Silman / The Cut:
Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn't
Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn't
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Corby Kummer / The Atlantic:
Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Remembering Anthony Bourdain
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Adam Putnam's office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn't log in — A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history. — For more than a year, the state of Florida failed …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Gun background check failure haunts ‘proud NRA sellout’ Putnam — MIAMI — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam's agency failed to conduct complete criminal background checks on concealed weapons permit applicants for more than a year, a failure that could have allowed tens of thousands …
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Florida Politics
Peter Navarro / New York Times:
The Era of American Complacency on Trade Is Over — President Trump arrived at the Group of 7 summit meeting in Canada on Friday amid an expression of “concern and disappointment” from the six other nations' finance ministers over United States trade policies.
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Trump says Russia should be reinstated in group of leading industrialized nations
Trump says Russia should be reinstated in group of leading industrialized nations
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump's call for Russia to join G7 faces swift backlash
Trump's call for Russia to join G7 faces swift backlash
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone
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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 …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Admits To Facilitating 9/11 Terror Attacks — Top Iranian official admits for first time Iran aided al Qaeda terrorists — Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives …
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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 …
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Special counsel Robert Mueller files witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort …
Special counsel Robert Mueller files witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller hits Manafort with new obstruction of justice charges
Mueller hits Manafort with new obstruction of justice charges
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Mueller Files New Indictment against Manafort for Witness Tampering
Mueller Files New Indictment against Manafort for Witness Tampering
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and New York Magazine
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.
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Anthony Cotton / Colorado Public Radio:
Sessions: US Will Enforce Federal Drug Laws Despite Gardner-Trump Marijuana Deal
Sessions: US Will Enforce Federal Drug Laws Despite Gardner-Trump Marijuana Deal
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Likely to Back Marijuana Bill, in Apparent Break With Sessions
Trump Says He's Likely to Back Marijuana Bill, in Apparent Break With Sessions
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Hot Air, Instapundit and Reason
Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: BuzzFeed Confirms It Knew About Ali Watkins' Relationship With Indicted Senate Official — Questions remain over whether BuzzFeed News acted ethically with a former employee, Ali Watkins, who had a romantic relationship with an indicted former security director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Press Groups Criticize the Seizing of a Times Reporter's Records — The revelation that federal prosecutors seized years' worth of email and phone records from a New York Times reporter drew criticism on Friday from news organizations and press rights groups, which expressed outrage …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump: First lady had ‘big operation,’ can't fly for a month — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said his wife, Melania, had a “big operation” to treat a kidney condition that lasted close to four hours, but that the first lady is “doing great” although she did not accompany him to Canada on Friday, per her doctors' orders.
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book”
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book”
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
John Kelly Instructed DHS Official Not To Email Staff To Avoid Public Scrutiny — “FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal accounts is real.” — When John Kelly was Secretary of Homeland Security, he instructed an official to refrain …
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Adam Weinstein / Task & Purpose:
I'm A US-Born Army Vet. Why Did Border Patrol Just Try To Arrest Me And My Wife? — Editor's note: Before publication, Task & Purpose reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a comment on the experiences Dennis White recounts below. A representative of the agency responded …
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Politico:
Trump's latest health care move squeezes Republicans — Striking protections for pre-existing conditions renews a fraught repeal fight. — Republicans who have tried to repeal Obamacare for nearly a decade believe the Trump administration is reviving a politically risky battle with a court filing …
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Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Gave Some Companies Access to Additional Data About Users' Friends — Special deals gave a small number of companies access to data after shutting off access for other developers — Facebook Inc. FB 0.49% struck customized data-sharing deals with a select group of companies …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Four Reasons Scott Pruitt's Luck May Be Running Out — The scandal-prone EPA director seemed untouchable. That could be changing. — Scott Pruitt has shown an astonishing ability to stay on as director of the Environmental Protection Agency through scandals that would have felled nearly anyone else.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We've Got a Problem. A Big Problem. — There are certain frameworks and situations in the law in which it does not matter why something happened, it simply matters that something has demonstrably happened, to establish the point, making the finding or act.
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Lisa J. Huriash / Sun-Sentinel:
Retired Secret Service agent had warned Stoneman Douglas about security failures — Two months before the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School, a retired Secret Service agent warned administrators that the school could be vulnerable to a gunman. — Sun Sentinel — Privacy Policy
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Canada warns immigrants in U.S. about heading north of the border — MIAMI — As President Trump travels north to Canada to attend the G7 summit, Canadian officials have been heading south to try to stem a wave of undocumented immigrants headed their way. — In what has become …
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Townhall
Kara Voght / Mother Jones:
This Evangelical Minister Helped Build the Religious Right. He Now Believes He Made a Terrible Mistake. — And that Donald Trump might mean the end for American evangelicalism. — The past four decades have seen an ever-tightening alliance between American evangelicals and the Republican Party …
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Raw Story