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E.P.A. Aide Questioned Deleting Sensitive Meeting Details. Then She Was Fired. — WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the subject of numerous investigations into claims that he used agency resources for personal benefit …
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How Scott Pruitt's ‘Ratf*cked’ Aides Brought Down the EPA Boss … Minutes before President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Scott Pruitt, his top environmental regulator, one of his former aides accused him of firing another for questioning a potentially illegal purge of official agency records.
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Inside Scott Pruitt's Tumultuous Final Months as EPA Administrator — Many members of his inner sanctum apparently couldn't stand their boss. — On April 11, a top Environmental Protection Agency official texted me that something strange was happening. — Moments before, the source told me …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Pruitt Blew It — EPA administrator Scott Pruitt had enemies who were out to get him because he is a Republican, a conservative, a high-ranking member of the Trump administration, and an environmental deregulator. But it wasn't liberals, the media, or deep staters who made him get large raises …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
How the New Acting E.P.A. Chief Differs From Scott Pruitt
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New York Times:
We'll All Be Paying for Scott Pruitt for Ages
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Washington Post:
Move to omit controversial cardinal's name from Pruitt's schedule prompted protests
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Scott Pruitt / Fox News:
Scott Pruitt's full resignation letter to President Trump
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Pruitt survived months of controversy by preserving his relationship with Trump
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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Fourth Ohio State wrestler says Rep. Jim Jordan knew about sexual abuse when he was coach — The wrestler said Jordan, a former assistant coach at Ohio State, took part in locker-room conversations where athletes discussed the abuse. — A fourth former Ohio State University wrestler came forward Thursday …
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Associated Press:
AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits — SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.
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Kang In-sun / Digital Chosunilbo:
Pompeo Brings ‘Rocket Man’ CD for Kim Jong-un — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea on Thursday for denuclearization talks and brought two gifts for leader Kim Jong-un. — One is a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and the other an Elton John CD with his song “Rocket Man.”
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Pompeo Arrives in North Korea to Try to Curb Its Nuclear Program
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Assails Critics and Mocks #MeToo. What About Putin? 'He's Fine' — GREAT FALLS, Mont. — President Trump lobbed personal and derogatory attacks at two Democratic senators, mocked the #MeToo movement and vouched for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday during a freewheeling …
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Trump stumps in Montana: 'It's time to retire liberal Democrat Jon Tester'
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Against China Is Officially Underway — WASHINGTON — A trade war between the world's two largest economies officially began on Friday morning as the Trump administration followed through with its threat to impose tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese products …
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Republicans on Russia trip face scorn and ridicule from critics at home — Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that interfered in the U.S. presidential election and continues to deny it.
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Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Trump Administration in Chaotic Scramble to Reunify Migrant Families — Faced with a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the southwest border, federal authorities are calling in volunteers to sort through records and resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Trump Narrows Supreme Court Shortlist To 3 — With 2 On The Inside Track — President Trump has narrowed his list of Supreme Court candidates to three, according to two sources close to the process. — The three are Judges Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Raymond Kethledge with Kavanaugh …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Michael Cohen tells friends he doesn't think Trump would pardon him — (CNN)Michael Cohen has recently told friends that he is pessimistic that President Donald Trump will offer him a pardon — one more indication that Cohen does not believe his former boss will have his back.
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Elaine Lies / Reuters:
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in Japan as ‘historic’ rain falls; two dead — TOKYO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people across a wide swathe of western and central Japan were evacuated from their homes on Friday as torrential rains pounded the nation, flooding rivers …
Kevin Wallevand / WDAY-TV:
Ed Schultz, former Fargo radio personality, has died — Ed Schultz listens to a caller during a broadcast of his nationally syndicated liberal talk show on Feb. 9, 2006. There's no reason a left-leaning show can't be successful, he says. “The last time I checked, liberals drive vehicles,” he says.
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Helmut Schmidt / WDAY-TV:
Ed Schultz, local and national broadcast personality, died at Washington, D.C., home from natural causes
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
The U.S. labor shortage is reaching a critical point — Private payrolls grew less than expected in June, likely due not just to a slowdown in hiring but also a decline in the labor pool. — America's labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
John Kelly, Scott Pruitt, and the Epic Turnover of the Trump Administration — What does the endless death watch for the President's chief of staff tell us about the worst-run White House of modern times? — Is John Kelly finally on his way out? Now that President Trump has accepted …
Washington Post:
As tariffs near, Trump's business empire retains ties to China — As the Trump administration initiates a possible trade war with China, the president's businesses continue to benefit from partnerships involving the Chinese government, via state-backed companies and investors.
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
U.S. Added 213,000 Jobs in June; Unemployment Ticks Up to 4% — The Labor Department released its monthly hiring and unemployment figures on Friday morning, providing one of the better snapshots of the state of the American economy. — The Numbers — 213,000 jobs were added last month.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Will the FBI Come Clean? — Lawmakers demand the truth about the origin of the 2016 Trump investigation. — In the trench war between congressional Republicans and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we have arrived at a crucial battle. A House resolution sets Friday as the deadline …
Axios:
Trump makes NATO nightmare a reality — President Trump's harsh blast at NATO during a rally last night in Helena, Mont., was Europeans' worst nightmare come to life, Western diplomatic sources tell Jonathan Swan and me: — Trump portrayed the alliance as one-sided, transactional and bad for the U.S. …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why. — Women have more options, for one. But a new poll also shows that financial insecurity is altering a generation's choices. — Americans are having fewer babies. At first, researchers thought the declining fertility rate …
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New York Times:
Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Front-Runner, Once Argued Broad Grounds for Impeachment — WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the front-runner to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, once argued that President Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying to his staff …
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Indiana governor, legislative leaders call for AG to resign — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the two GOP Statehouse leaders on Thursday called for Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign amid what they called credible claims that Hill drunkenly groped four women …
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