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New York Times:
Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Wealthy — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax cut mainly to the wealthy, a legally tenuous maneuver that would cut capital gains taxation and fulfill a long-held ambition of many investors and conservatives.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani just obliterated the goal posts on Trump-Russia collusion — President Trump's defense in the Russia investigation has been a study in goal-post moving — constantly watering down previous denials and raising the standard for what would constitute actual wrongdoing.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Rudy's Big Admission? — Rudy Giuliani made two TV appearances this morning, one on Fox and one on CNN. Both are pretty convoluted and a bit hard to follow. So they've led to various interpretations. But there's what I believe is one pretty big admission that is at least …
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The Daily Beast, Townhall, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and Political Wire
David Jackson / USA Today:
Rudy Giuliani says Donald Trump team preparing report to counter Robert Mueller — WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, says his team is preparing a “counter-report” designed to rebut any accusations that special counsel Robert Mueller makes in his expected report about the Russia investigation.
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Giuliani says he's not sure collusion is a crime despite Mueller investigation — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday that he's not sure collusion with Russia would be considered a crime. — But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Rudy on Mueller probe: “They don't have a goddamn thing”
Rudy on Mueller probe: “They don't have a goddamn thing”
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Tipping point for Donald Trump: Will his (alleged) crimes finally drive away his supporters?
Tipping point for Donald Trump: Will his (alleged) crimes finally drive away his supporters?
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CNN, Vox, JONATHAN TURLEY and The Federalist
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Study: ‘Medicare for all’ projected to cost $32.6 trillion — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders' “Medicare for all” plan would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a study by a university-based libertarian policy center. — That's trillion with a “T.”
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Charles Blahous / Mercatus Center:
The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System
The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System
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Matt Bruenig / Jacobin:
Even Libertarians Admit Medicare for All Would Save Trillions
Even Libertarians Admit Medicare for All Would Save Trillions
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New Republic and Splinter
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Bill Kristol Considering Run For President In 2020 — Bill Kristol, the former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, is considering challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. — Kristol, who is consistently one of the most vocal anti-Trump Republicans …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
99 Days to Go, and the Midterm Elections Battleground Is Not What Was Expected — The most competitive districts are only somewhat better educated and somewhat more suburban than the country as a whole. — The battleground in the fight for control of the House is starting to come into focus …
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Splinter, New Republic and Washington Post
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
100 Days to Go — With about 100 days to go until the 2018 elections …
Washington Post:
U.S. spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles — U.S. spy agencies are seeing signs that North Korea is constructing new missiles at a factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, according to officials familiar with the intelligence.
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters — Emma Best, a freedom of information activist, has published a large cache of Twitter direct messages between Wikileaks and some of its most fervent supporters, including ones showing antisemitic sentiment from Wikileaks.
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Michael Rubinkam / Associated Press:
States suing Trump administration, company over 3D guns — Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals and threaten public safety.
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Alyssa Milano / CNN:
A 3D printed gun is downloadable death
A 3D printed gun is downloadable death
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
FEMA official harassed women, hired some as possible sexual partners for male employees, agency chief says — The personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — who resigned just weeks ago — is under investigation after being accused of creating an atmosphere …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Splinter, NPR and The Daily Caller
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Why Dean Baquet Skipped The New York Times' Meeting With Trump — When President Trump broke an off-the-record agreement after he met with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, some wondered why Dean Baquet, the executive editor in charge of the journalism Trump has openly criticized …
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Politico, Reporters Without Borders, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Hullabaloo, Breitbart, New Yorker, New York Times, Splinter, Vox and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump says he's willing to meet Iranian President Rouhani without preconditions — President Trump declared Monday that he is willing to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani anytime and without preconditions, saying that he believes it is always better to meet with adversaries.
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James Oliphant / Reuters:
At meeting, Trump praises Italy's immigration policies
At meeting, Trump praises Italy's immigration policies
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New Republic and ThinkProgress
Liam Stack / New York Times:
‘Bigfoot Erotica’ Becomes an Issue in Virginia Congressional Campaign — Monster-themed pornography does exist. But Denver Riggleman, a Republican, said his writing on Bigfoot has not been pornographic. — Leslie Cockburn, a Democratic congressional nominee in Virginia …
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Grace Gottschling / Campus Reform:
UGA Dean attacked on Twitter for having GOP friend — The dean of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia recently issued an apology to those he had “offended” with a tweet congratulating a childhood friend on becoming the state's Republican candidate for governor.
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Margaret Renkl / New York Times:
How to Talk to a Racist — White liberals, you're doing it all wrong. — NASHVILLE — There are still white Southerners who honestly believe that American culture worked better for everyone, white and black alike, under segregation. There are still white Southerners who question how bad slavery really was.
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Sessions announces ‘religious liberty task force’ — announced Monday that the Department of Justice is creating a “religious liberty task force.” — Sessions said the task force, co-chaired by Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and the assistant attorney general …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In Florida, Not All Politics Are Local, as Trump Shapes Governor's Race — SARASOTA, Fla. — The Sarasota County Republican fair and rally last Saturday left little mystery about what is animating the party this year. — There was a “Trump Shop” outside the arena, selling T-shirts extolling the president's dominance.
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
DNC Chair Tom Perez Spotted Carrying $1,840 Designer Bag At Airport After Calling Socialism ‘Future’ Of Party — A sharp-eyed sleuth snapped a picture Friday of Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez at DC's Reagan National airport. The former Obama secretary of labor was standing in line …
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Slate:
The Abortions We Don't Talk About — When Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's crucial swing vote on many matters, announced his plan to retire last month, it was suddenly clear that Roe v. Wade, the decision guaranteeing a woman's right to abortion, could be substantially eroded or even overturned.
The Daily Beast:
Mystery Sting Targets U.S. Senator for Dirt on Russia Sanctions … A U.S. senator known for her outspoken criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin was hit with a bizarre impersonation attempt by someone hoping to get inside information on American sanctions targeting Russia …
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Raw Story
Bloomberg:
MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says — Difficult to attribute sudden turns to system failure: report — Plane missing since March 2014 is aviation's biggest mystery — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since 2014, was probably steered off course deliberately …
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Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and BloombergQuint
CNNMoney:
Do you have too much money in cash? — by Maurie Backman for the Motley Fool @CNNMoney — How to save $1,000 this year — Most Americans are behind on emergency savings, with a majority of Americans lacking the funds needed to cover six months' worth of living expenses.
Robert Epstein / USA Today:
What's going on with Donald Trump? Psychologist explains the president's lies, reversals — Trump's lies and reversals are not due to mental illness but because he reacts to people and situations in the moment, with no thought of future or past. — CONNECT
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Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
At Law Firms, Rainmakers Accused of Harassment Can Switch Jobs With Ease — Opaque hiring practices in legal industry often make prior sexual-harassment complaints easy to leave behind — The flowers arrived at Mayer Brown days after a prized new hire started at the law firm's New York office.
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David McCabe / Axios:
Scoop: 20 ways Democrats could crack down on Big Tech — In a policy paper obtained by Axios, Sen. Mark Warner's office laid out 20 different paths to address problems posed by Big Tech platforms — ranging from putting a price on individual users' data to funding media literacy programs.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Jordanian National Arrested in New York to Face Charges for a Conspiracy to Bring Aliens Into the United States — WASHINGTON - A Jordanian national residing in Monterrey, Mexico was arrested Saturday on arrival at JFK International Airport to face a criminal complaint issued in the Western District …
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