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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Omarosa's surprise book: ‘Unhinged’ will come out in August — The publishing house Gallery Books has an August surprise for the president and the public: A “tell-all” book by former Trump administration aide, Omarosa Manigault-Newman. — The former “Apprentice” star worked in the White House Office …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event — The White House took retaliatory action against Kaitlan Collins, a White House reporter for CNN, after Collins asked President Trump questions at an Oval Office photo op on Wednesday. — Collins was representing …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House press corps showing unity after reporter barred from Rose Garden event — White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event — The ultra-competitive White House press corps is displaying something rare and refreshing: Solidarity. — Journalists reacted with dismay …
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Washington Post:
'I'm not going to be a punching bag anymore': Inside Michael Cohen's break with Trump — For the past decade, Michael Cohen worked as Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer. He was an eager supplicant, executing the wishes of his celebrity boss and forever seeking his attaboy affection.
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Weekly Standard:
CNN Derangement Syndrome — The White House disinvites Kaitlan Collins. — On Wednesday, White House staff informed a CNN White House reporter, Kaitlan Collins, that she was not permitted to attend an open press availability at the White House with President Donald Trump and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Robert Donachie / The Daily Caller:
Sources: Jim Jordan Officially Announcing Bid For Speaker — House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan will formally announce his campaign for speaker of the House Thursday at noon, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. — TheDCNF confirmed the announcement with two sources with direct knowledge of Jordan's plans.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump ponies up to stop Democratic House takeover
Trump ponies up to stop Democratic House takeover
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Toledo Blade:
DeVos' $40 million yacht vandalized at Huron dock — HURON, Ohio — A boat owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend while moored at a Huron dock, according to the Huron Police Department. — The Seaquest was moored at the Huron Boat Basin …
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Sessions defends deputy Rosenstein after impeachment move — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and took a swipe at fellow Republicans in Congress who moved to impeach Rosenstein, who oversees the federal probe of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Rosenstein
GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Rosenstein
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New York Times:
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election — Start exploring the map by searching for a place you know.
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Jacob Snow / ACLU:
Amazon's Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots — Amazon's face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern. In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool …
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New York Times:
Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry — WASHINGTON — For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.
New York Times:
A Kushner Ally Was Up for a Federal Post. Then the F.B.I. Began Digging. — Ken Kurson is a confidant of Rudolph W. Giuliani. He is a onetime speechwriter for Donald J. Trump. And he is a close friend of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who appointed Mr. Kurson to run his weekly newspaper, The New York Observer.
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Legal Opinions Or Political Commentary? A New Judge Exemplifies The Trump Era — Less than a year into a lifetime appointment, a 45-year-old federal appeals court judge named James Ho may embody President Trump's most enduring legacy. — Ho has shaken up the staid world of appellate law …
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
The heiress has no clothes. — I once flew to Germany for 19 hours to watch Ivanka Trump sit on a panel with a bunch of female leaders, and to be summoned by her later that evening for an off-the-record chat in her hotel lobby, where she ordered red wine in a white dress, which seems …
Dan Levin / New York Times:
'I'm Not the Only Young Conservative' — About 700 teenage conservatives visited the nation's capital this week for a four-day leadership conference organized by Turning Point USA, a group founded in 2012 to promote activism skills among high school and college students and help young conservatives network with leaders in the movement.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump-Created European Trade Crisis Averted by Fake Deal — Last night, the Trump administration announced with maximum fanfare that the trade war with the European Union was over. “This was a big day for free and fair trade!,” tweeted an excited President Trump.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
New Emails Show Michigan Republicans Plotting to Gerrymander Maps — WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed emails show Michigan Republicans angling to give their party a dominant position through gerrymandered maps and celebrating the plight of their Democratic rivals.
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Eve Peyser / Rolling Stone:
The Summer's Hottest Trend Is Owning the Libs — Conservatives love it earnestly, liberals love it ironically. How did we get here? — “Raise your hand if you've ever posted anything online to quote unquote own the libs,” President Trump's Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley recently asked a crowd of high schoolers.
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Adam Johnson / Salon:
MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen — Why is the supposed network of the anti-Trump #resistance totally ignoring the president's most devastating war? — As FAIR has noted before, to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the U.S …
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Whistleblower provides emails that show Stormy Daniels' arrest was pre-planned
Whistleblower provides emails that show Stormy Daniels' arrest was pre-planned
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Alison Young / USA Today:
Routine failures — For more than a decade, the experts who guide medical practices in the U.S. have been pushing doctors and hospitals to change how they treat pregnant women. — At least as far back as 2010, researchers in California began promoting “tool kits” of childbirth safety practices to reduce deaths and injuries.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
To Take the Senate, Democratic Group Will Spend Big in Red States — A heavily funded Democratic group will spend tens of millions of dollars to mobilize voters in the Republican-leaning states where control of the Senate is likely to be decided this November, stepping in to fill a void left …
The Daily Beast:
Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China … Henry Kissinger suggested to President Donald Trump that the United States should work with Russia to contain a rising China. — The former secretary of state—who famously engineered the tactic of establishing diplomatic relations …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
‘We are fighting for information about war’: Pentagon curbs media access — Defense Secretary James Mattis has not briefed reporters on-camera in the Pentagon since April, while his chief spokeswoman has not done so since May. — At a mid-July news conference at the Pentagon …
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
U.S. allies have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians from the air. After 22 died at a wedding, one village asks, ‘Why us?’ — RAQAH, Yemen — The ground where the wedding tent once stood was covered with children's slippers, broken musical instruments, pieces of festive clothing and other detritus of destroyed lives.
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Bloomberg:
The Cost of a Cup of Coffee in Caracas Just Hit 2,000,000 Bolivars — Just days after the International Monetary Fund issued an eye-catching forecast — inflation of 1,000,000 percent in Venezuela this year — the data on the ground suggests that even that number may turn out to be too low.
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Brian Ellsworth / Reuters:
Venezuela to remove five zeroes from ailing currency
Venezuela to remove five zeroes from ailing currency
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Washington Post:
Hundreds of Europeans who joined the “caliphate” are now back home and incarcerated. The new challenge: Keeping prisons from becoming recruitment centers for future terrorists. — BRUSSELS — A few months before his killing rampage, convicted robber and prison inmate Benjamin Herman had a jailhouse conversion of a sort.
David Byler / Weekly Standard:
Can Stacey Abrams Turn Georgia Blue? — On Tuesday night, Brian Kemp—the Georgia secretary of state and self-proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative” who owns a truck, talks about standing for the national anthem and happily supports President Trump—beat Lieutenant Gov. Casey Cagle …
Los Angeles Times:
Anna March? — She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors. The guests, more than 400 of L.A.'s literati: authors, editors, publishers, book reviewers, literary agents, the local independent presses.
Washington Post:
Once again, ‘fake news’ decried by Trump turns out to be true — “I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct. ... When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts. ... Before I make a statement, I need the facts.”
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘The Crown’ Casts Its Prince Charles, Queen Mother for Season 3 (Exclusive) — Josh O'Connor and Marion Bailey have joined the Netflix drama. — Season three of Netflix's The Crown continues to come into focus. — The Peter Morgan drama has found its new actors to take over the central roles …
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
A Single Trump Appointee Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer — He's the same guy who blocked a teenage migrant who'd been raped from obtaining an abortion. — A Trump appointee's decision to personally review requests to release migrant children from jail-like …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
How Trump Won Re-election in 2020 — A sneak peek at the Times's news analysis from Nov. 4, 2020. — Nov. 4, 2020 — In the end, a bitterly fought election came down to the old political aphorism, popularized during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 run against George H.W. Bush: “It's the economy, stupid.”
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RFA:
North Korea's Ruling Party Informs Officials Kim Regime Will Not Give Up Nukes — The Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party has decreed that North Korea will not relinquish its nuclear arsenal, which it termed a “precious legacy” of the country's late leaders, according to local sources …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House Intel chair calls for ban on electronic voting systems — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes — (R-Calif.) called for a ban on electronic voting systems in an interview that aired Thursday on Hill.TV's “Rising.” — “The one thing we've been warning about for many …
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