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Trump Weighing Senator Mike Lee for Supreme Court Vacancy, Sources Say — President sees confirmation advantage for GOP member of Senate — Lee opposition to Roe abortion ruling may complicate chances — President Donald Trump has asked advisers their opinions …
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Chuck Schumer Is Secretly Sabotaging the Next Democratic President — President Trump periodically registers his totally correct opinion that the legislative filibuster is a stupid relic that the Senate should abolish. Senate Republicans continue to oppose him out of the highly rational belief …
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Good News: The Supreme Court Just Lost Its Conservative Majority — After joining the majority on a raft of right-wing decisions aimed at crippling organized labor, abortion access, antitrust regulation, and other longtime targets of the conservative movement, Justice Anthony Kennedy finally retired from the Supreme Court.
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Jeff Flake says he won't stall Supreme Court pick over tariff dispute — U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday he would not try to strong-arm the Trump administration on tariffs — or other issues — by withholding his support from a Supreme Court nominee. — The outgoing Arizona Republican …
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So Much For the Institutions — Kennedy's retirement proves …
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Inside the coming campaign to block Trump's Supreme Court pick
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Sens. Collins and Murkowski become early focus of Senate's court fight
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The fate of the Supreme Court could ride on these 2 senators
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Trump takes over America
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Kennedy's Replacement Should Be Judge Amy Coney Barrett
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Shooting reported at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis — A shooting has occurred at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to reports from Gazette staff. — Anne Arundel County Police confirmed there was an “active shooter” …
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Five dead, others ‘gravely injured’ in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis — A shooting has occurred at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to reports from Gazette staff. — The Baltimore Sun
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Sheriff: Multiple people dead in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis — Multiple people have been shot at The Capital-Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. The Baltimore Sun, which owns the Annapolis newspaper, says a reporter told them of the shooting Thursday afternoon.
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‘Multiple’ deaths, suspect caught after reports of shots fired outside Maryland newspaper office, sheriff says — A suspect was apprehended following reports of shots fired and multiple fatalities in Annapolis, Maryland, Thursday afternoon outside the Capital Gazette newsroom, Anne Arundel Sheriff Ron Bateman told Fox News.
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Annapolis Maryland Newspaper Shooting: Sheriff Says Multiple Deaths
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Jill Abramson, Ex-New York Times Editor: The ‘Narcissistic’ NYT Is Making ‘Horrible Mistakes,’ Needs a ‘Course Correction’ … It may not have been the tweet heard ‘round the world, but it was certainly heard—like a thunderclap—at The New York Times’ headquarters at 620 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory points to a media failure that keeps repeating
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Barbara Lee, a stalwart of the left, considering bid for House Democratic leadership
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Trump Consults Advisers About Possible Replacement for Chief of Staff John Kelly — Kelly is Expected to Leave White House This Summer After One Year in Job — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has consulted with advisers in recent weeks about whom he should tap as his next chief of staff …
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Trump's short list for potential John Kelly replacements — President Trump is consulting with advisers about replacing Chief of Staff John Kelly, the WSJ's Rebecca Ballhaus and Peter Nicholas first reported. — What we're hearing: Sources with direct knowledge of the situation have confirmed …


CBS News interview with ICE whistleblower interrupted by surprise visit from government agents — In his first television interview, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson James Schwab opens up about why he abruptly resigned in March. Schwab admits both the Obama …
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Ex-Aide to Roger Stone Is Subpoenaed in Russia Investigation — A former aide to Roger J. Stone Jr., the longtime Trump adviser and self-described “dirty trickster,” was subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury hearing evidence in the Russia investigation and to hand over documents …
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House Passes Resolution Demanding Justice Dept. Turn Over Documents — WASHINGTON — The House voted along party lines on Thursday to give the Justice Department seven days to produce sensitive documents about the Russia investigation, as conservative Republicans pointedly accused the leaders …
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Sean Hannity blames Maxine Waters for shooting at Maryland newsroom — Hannity: “I've been saying now for days that something horrible was going to happen because of the rhetoric. Really Maxine?” — From the June 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: — Loading the player reg...
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Special counsel eyeing Russians granted unusual access to Trump inauguration parties — Several billionaires with deep ties to Russia attended exclusive, invitation-only receptions during Donald Trump's inauguration festivities, guest lists obtained by ABC News show.
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Scott Pruitt Personally Involved in ‘Ratf*cking’ Ex-Aides Who He Feels Betrayed Him … On May 18, a top aide to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt testified to a congressional committee that she had been tasked with procuring her boss a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel …


Scoop: Trump's private NATO trashing rattles allies — You've already read a hundred stories about President Trump's clashes with some of America's closest allies at the G7 summit in Canada. But we've got new details from his private conversations with heads of state that have put …


President Trump announces a major U.S. Steel expansion — that isn't happening — “The head of U.S. Steel called me the other day, and he said, 'We're opening up six major facilities and expanding facilities that have never been expanded.' They haven't been opened in many, many years.”
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Shifting Public Views on Legal Immigration Into the U.S. — Many unaware that most immigrants in the U.S. are here legally — While there has been considerable attention on illegal immigration into the U.S. recently, opinions about legal immigration have undergone a long-term change.
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Faster Feiler, Faster! — The Feiler Faster Thesis posits that the pace of social change is accelerated by the increasing rapidity of the technology used by journalists to report the news, which whets the public's appetite for more and even faster news, thus in effect creating even more news.
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‘Get Out of My Vagina!’ Whoopi Rages at McCain in Meltdown Over SCOTUS, Abortion on ‘View’ — Thursday's The View started off with an astounding nearly 10-minute-long meltdown over Justice Kennedy's retirement from the Supreme Court, and the second chance for President Trump to appoint …
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What Do The Teens Know About This Tweet That We Don't? — Eighty-thousand retweets for, uh, this. — On the evening of June 22, 21-year-old Karter Machen decided to tweet. — “I'm not a party guy,” he wrote, “but I'd be down if someone threw a real roaring 20's party for 2020.


Former ICE Chief Counsel Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft Scheme — Former Chief Counsel Raphael A. Sanchez of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) was sentenced to 48 months in prison …
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Trump Administration Report Warns: Separating Families Is a Lousy Idea … The Trump State Department released a global trafficking report Thursday that admonishes foreign governments not to institutionalize children caught up in smuggling—an awkward do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do moment …
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Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone — As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as three years old are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.


Walgreens, CVS and Rite-Aid lose $11 billion in value after Amazon buys online pharmacy PillPack — Shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance, CVS Health and Rite Aid plunge as investors worry a new deal by Amazon to acquire online pharmacy PillPack will disrupt the drugstore market.
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