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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani on His Odd Cable News Blitz: I Was Trying to Kill a New York Times Story … Throughout Monday, President Donald Trump's lawyer and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani went on a chaotic media tour, with each subsequent interview seeming to atone or clean up for a key element laid out in a previous appearance.
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Contemptor, Breitbart, Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
How Trump Allies Shifted Their Defense as Evidence of Contacts With Russians Grew — WASHINGTON — In the days after the 2016 presidential election, Donald J. Trump's advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between Russians and members of the campaign team: There were none.
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Mother Jones, The Guardian, HuffPost, Washington Free Beacon, Raw Story, CNN, Washington Post and CNBC
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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Washington Post, Axios and Raw Story
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Collusion Isn't a Crime, But Aiding and Abetting Is
Collusion Isn't a Crime, But Aiding and Abetting Is
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BloombergQuint, Washington Post, Contemptor and MSNBC
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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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.
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Politico, RedState, The Diplomat, NPR, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, MSNBC, Raw Story, Daily Kos, VICE News, The Week, ABC News, Shareblue Media, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Power Line, Vox, Townhall, BloombergQuint, Hot Air, CNBC, Axios, Daily Wire and Political Wire
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
In a new book, Bob Woodward plans to reveal the ‘harrowing life’ inside Donald Trump's White House — In the worldwide capital of leaks and anonymous dishing that is Washington, secrets can be almost impossible to keep. — But somehow over the past 19 months, the fact that America's …
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News and Corporate Information …, New York Times, HuffPost, Deadline and Raw Story
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott edges Nelson by 3 in Senate race poll — Outspent by nearly 3-1, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is trailing Gov. Rick Scott by a marginal 3 percentage points in a new poll of what could be the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history. — Scott leads Nelson 47-44 percent …
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Associated Press, Political Wire and NTK Network
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In Florida, Not All Politics Are Local, as Trump Shapes Governor's Race
In Florida, Not All Politics Are Local, as Trump Shapes Governor's Race
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Sun-Sentinel, Florida Politics and YouTube
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump says Koch brothers are a ‘total joke’ — Koch Network distances from Trump divisiveness — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump railed Tuesday against billionaire conservative brothers Charles and David Koch, accusing them of being against key components of his populist agenda …
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Washington Post, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, Fox News Insider and The Gateway Pundit
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Trump administration must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without consent, judge rules — A federal judge on Monday found that U.S. government officials have been giving psychotropic medication to migrant children at a Texas facility without first seeking the consent …
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Reveal, The Week and Shakesville
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Washington Post:
'He doesn't like bullies': The story of the 37-year-old who took over the New York Times and is taking on Trump — The new reporter was sharp, humble and eager to learn. Arthur had snazzier shoes than his colleagues at the Oregonian, but this was the only hint that he was a Sulzberger …
Duncan Campbell / ComputerWeekly.com:
Briton ran pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign that helped Trump deny Russian links — A British IT manager and former hacker from Darlington ran a disinformation campaign that duped former US intelligence agents and provided Donald Trump with manufactured “evidence” to deny that Russia interfered with the US election
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Trump Hits Mexico for Murders and Praises Limbaugh While Watching (and Tweeting) Fox and Friends — Once again, Donald Trump is treating the world to his morning live-tweets about his favorite TV show, Fox & Friends. And why wouldn't it be his favorite, when the segment above starts …
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Washington Post
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Even if you loathe Trump, vote Republican — We are just under 100 days from the Nov. 6 midterms, and Republicans are in much better shape than most prognosticators would have imagined even six months ago, much less than at the 100-day mark of President Trump's tenure.
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Contemptor
Associated Press:
Northern California wildfire 9th most destructive in history — LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and CNN
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Jose A. Del Real / New York Times:
'All That Matters Is We're Alive': California Fire Evacuees Crowd Into Shelters
'All That Matters Is We're Alive': California Fire Evacuees Crowd Into Shelters
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CNN and Washington Post
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He's Not the Same — Parents reunited with young children are reporting mental health issues. One 5-year-old boy has started a new life with his mother in Philadelphia, but signs of trauma remain. — PHILADELPHIA — Before they were separated …
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump Is Putting Indelible Conservative Stamp on Judiciary — WASHINGTON — With another judge expected to be confirmed Tuesday by the Senate, President Trump and Senate Republicans are leaving an ever-expanding imprint on the judiciary, nudging powerful appeals courts rightward through …
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Political Wire
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
WCCO Exclusive: Al Franken's 1st Sit-Down Interview Since Senate Resignation — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Sen. Al Franken returned to Minnesota for his first public appearance here since resigning from the U.S. Senate. — In an exclusive interview with WCCO-TV, he talked about how much he misses his old job.
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CNN, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Roll Call and Washington Free Beacon
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon To Start Creating Space Force — Even Before Congress Approves It — Within months, DoD will start standing up a new combatant command, a new space-procurement agency, and a new Space Operations Force. — The U.S. Defense Department this week will take the first steps …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Jesse Watters: Trump Wants the ‘Best and Brightest’ Immigrants, Not 'Some Guy's Uncle from Zimbabwe' — The Five held a conversation on Monday about President Donald Trump's demands that Congress throw support behind an omnibus bill that will provide funding for tougher immigration policies.
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
White, and in the minority — She speaks English. Her co-workers don't. Inside a rural chicken plant, whites struggle to fit in. — It was minutes before the end of the first shift, and the beginning of the second, and the hallways at the chicken plant swarmed with workers coming and going.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
This will never be normal — One of the current complaints of the Trump right concerns the treatment given to Alex Jones by Facebook, which has temporarily banned the Internet radio host for videos that violated “community standards.” According to Lou Dobbs of the Fox Business Network, “freedom of speech [is] under attack.”
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He's Going to Fieldstrip These Guys”: Inside the Trump 2020 Campaign's Wild, Disorganized Attempt to “Keep America Great” — The president is running his re-election campaign precisely the way he governs—playing three opposing power centers off each other, and listening mainly to his own instincts.
Abbie Bennett / The Charlotte Observer:
Black civil rights champion who helped desegregate UNC dies at 94 — J. Kenneth Lee was one of the first black students to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His legacy has shaped the university, state and nation ever since. — Lee was one of four black students …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Tom Steyer's $110 million plan to redefine the Democrats — The billionaire investor is on a collision course with party leaders. — Tom Steyer has set plans to spend at least $110 million in 2018, making the billionaire investor the largest single source of campaign cash on the left …
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Washington Post
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
A winning theme for Democrats? Kids. — Democrats have been casting about for a winning theme this November. Here's one suggestion: Kids. — After all, despite once declaring themselves the party of family values, Republican politicians have more recently ceded this territory.
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
When will Democrats condemn the left's growing turn to violence? — Last week, a man was indicted for threatening to kill Republican Rep. Diane Black. “They were serious enough threats that the grand jury did take action,” Black said in an interview with Fox News.
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Media Matters for America
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump intervenes in FBI headquarters project — President Trump has become personally involved in plotting a new FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, an interest that for now has left the project in limbo and the agency stranded in a building that no longer suits its needs …
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DCist and Blue Virginia
Lindsay Wise / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After right slams Yoder on immigration, he pledges to work with Trump to ‘fix this’ — WASHINGTON — Laura Ingraham was furious with Kevin Yoder. — The Fox News Channel talk show host fired off a tweet to her 2.3 million followers, urging them to tell the Republican congressman from Kansas …