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The Verge:
A note from the editorial leadership of The Verge — Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment — Since announcing her new job with The New York Times, a widespread campaign of harassment has targeted Verge reporter Sarah Jeong for a number of tweets she wrote years ago.
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The Federalist, Hollywood Life, twitchy.com and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
IRONY: Social Media Mob Comes For Sarah Jeong, Who Cheered Social Media Mobbing Of Others — I've already argued today that Sarah Jeong, the new New York Times editorial board member, shouldn't be fired for her old racist tweets, since social media mobbing has become far too prevalent …
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twitchy.com
Danielle Rhoades Ha / The New York Times Company:
Statements in Response to Criticism of the Hiring of Sarah Jeong to the Editorial Board in Opinion
Statements in Response to Criticism of the Hiring of Sarah Jeong to the Editorial Board in Opinion
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The American Spectator, Gothamist, Breitbart and National Review, more at Mediagazer »
David French / National Review:
Yes, Anti-White Racism Exists
Yes, Anti-White Racism Exists
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The Federalist, Hit & Run, Sputnik International, Law & Liberty, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, twitchy.com and Fox News
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Times Can Hire and Fire Whomever It Likes
The Times Can Hire and Fire Whomever It Likes
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Hot Air, twitchy.com, American Greatness, Power Line, Patterico's Pontifications and The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Top Trump Donor Agreed to Pay Michael Cohen $10 Million for Nuclear Project Push — Consulting deal with Franklin L. Haney could have been among the most lucrative struck by president's then-personal attorney — A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president's …
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The Week, Splinter, CNBC, Hill Reporter, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, WHNT-TV, Political Wire, Mother Jones and New Republic
Nick Hopkins / The Guardian:
Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow — Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy — US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart …
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Washington Post, The Week, KTLA, AOL, Axios and Political Wire
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Suspected Russian spy caught working inside US embassy in Moscow
Suspected Russian spy caught working inside US embassy in Moscow
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WIS-TV and twitchy.com
Associated Press:
Trump trashes media as ‘fake, fake disgusting news’ at rally — WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Thundering that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent.
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NBC News:
Hours after White House warns of new election meddling, Trump again points to ‘Russian hoax’ — Earlier Thursday, several of Trump's top lieutenants took to the White House briefing room to warn of the latest threat. — WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — It's still a “hoax” to President Donald Trump.
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
In Tennessee Senate Race, Bredesen Tries To Prove He Can Overcome Political Tribalism — In the Trump era, the phrase “all politics is local” may feel like an anachronism. But in Tennessee, Phil Bredesen is trying to prove that national partisan divides can be overcome in the most surprising Senate battleground of 2018.
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Christopher Donato / ABC News:
Results now official in Tennessee primary elections
Results now official in Tennessee primary elections
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Axios
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Trump takes us-versus-them media war to new heights — When CNN's Jim Acosta was booed and cursed at a campaign rally for President Trump — this week, many political observers said it exemplified how much the media environment has changed under the current administration — and that is a sign of what's to come.
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump administration splits over journalists as ‘enemy of the people’
Trump administration splits over journalists as ‘enemy of the people’
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Townhall, ABC News, mailchi.mp and Breitbart
Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaints Against 10 Trump Administration Officials
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaints Against 10 Trump Administration Officials
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The Hill
Sarah Polus / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. co-hosts Dinesh D'Souza's very conservative D.C. film premiere — The red carpet for the screening of far-right filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's new documentary was all business. There's no time for chitchat about who is wearing what when you've got an entire liberal ideology to topple.
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Politico, KTLA, Hill Reporter, Mediaite, New Republic, YouTube and The Week
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Ted Hesson / Politico:
Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents — The Trump administration on Thursday informed a federal judge that it isn't responsible for locating deported parents separated forcibly from their children at the southern border. — DOJ said in a court filing …
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One America News Network and New Republic
Washington Post:
Manafort's bookkeeper testifies against him, alleging efforts to inflate income — Paul Manafort's longtime bookkeeper testified against him Thursday, telling a Virginia jury that his seven-figure lifestyle lasted until about 2015 when the cash ran out, the bills piled up …
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Crooks and Liars and The Week
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Hazel Jones / Daily Mail:
'Many didn't notice it as keenly as I did because I knew him way back when. They thought Trump was being Trump, off the cuff,' Omarosa writes. 'But I knew something wasn't right' — Omarosa was beside herself when the president contradicted the White House party line that FBI head James Comey …
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New York Post, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, AOL, Hollywood Life, Second Nexus and Mediaite
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump to make Mueller sit-down call within 10 days — President Donald Trump and his legal team are likely to decide whether to grant special counsel Robert Mueller an interview with Trump within a “week to 10 days,” Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Thursday.
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, CNN and The Week
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Arizona Republic:
Last Slide — A Southwest Key employee accused of molesting eight teenage boys at a migrant shelter in Mesa is scheduled to go on trial this month, according to court documents. — Levian Pacheco, a youth care worker at the Mesa facility, is alleged to have abused two of the teens …
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The Daily Beast:
National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls and Circulation Drops … Shortly after the feds raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's now estranged personal attorney and longtime enforcer, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker went into a state of calculated retreat.
VICE:
What Goes on Outside Trump Rallies Is an American Nightmare — The coral of Tampa's Florida State Fairgrounds entrance arcs against an ominously graying Tuesday evening sky. Everyone waits for Donald Trump outside, even though it smells like rain. The Secret Service checkpoint doesn't help …
Wall Street Journal:
Trudeau Faces Growing Doubts Over Canada's Refugee Policy — New poll shows intensifying concerns over surge of asylum seekers entering by foot from the U.S. — OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's open-arms policy on refugees is facing pushback at home.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
It's True: Trump Is Lying More, and He's Doing It on Purpose. — On Thursday, the Washington Post published a remarkable story on its front page revealing a recent spike in the number of “false and misleading claims” made by President Trump. In his first year as President, Trump made 2,140 false claims, according to the Post.
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CNN, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Monthly
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Bodies Keep Shrinking on This Island, and Scientists Aren't Sure Why — The Indonesian island of Flores has given rise to smaller hominins, humans and even elephants. — In 2003, researchers digging in a mountain cave on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered astonishing fossils of a tiny …
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Science News
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Tim Allen breaks silence on Roseanne firing: ‘Who makes up these rules?’ — Tim Allen is opening up about the other conservative sitcom star whose show was canceled by ABC — Roseanne Barr. — Asked whether the network was right to fire Barr over her racist tweet last May, Allen replied …
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Breitbart
Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
Our Rebuttal to Kris Kobach's Critique — Press representatives for the Kansas gubernatorial candidate have disseminated charges that a ProPublica article about Kobach's campaigns for anti-immigration ordinances is inaccurate and biased. We respond. — Earlier today, the press team …
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New York Times and MSNBC
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC warns donors to steer clear of Kochs — The move escalates the fight between President Donald Trump and the powerful network. — The Republican National Committee is sending a warning shot to major GOP donors not to play ball with the powerful Koch political network …
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One America News Network, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, Raw Story, TheBlaze, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China — If ethnic cleansing takes place in China and nobody is able to hear it, does it make a sound? That's what millions of Muslims inside the People's Republic are asking as they watch the Chinese government expand a network of internment camps …
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
New Age author Marianne Williamson ‘looking into’ 2020 presidential run — A presidential bid by the author would mark the first celebrity campaign for the White House against Donald Trump — New Age author Marianne Williamson was in Iowa earlier this week meeting with Democratic activists …
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Hot Air and Political Wire
Foreign Policy:
Internal Documents Show How Trump Administration Misled Public on Poverty — Economic advisors questioned the administration's data but were ignored. — After a U.N. agency issued a report in May on the state of poverty in the United States, concluding that 40 million Americans are poor …
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Splinter
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
White Americans support welfare programs — but only for themselves, says new research — New study shows white Americans love government support programs — that is, if they're the beneficiaries — Donald Trump's administration recently decided to give $12 billion to farmers hurt …
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Apple's $1 Trillion Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies — U.S. Steel. General Motors. AT&T. Exxon Mobil. — Small potatoes. — Apple on Thursday reached a milestone that these icons of capitalism never dreamed of: a market value of more than $1 trillion.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump's Inaccurate Claims About Highways, Immigration and Beyoncé From a Pennsylvania Rally — President Trump said his campaign rallies drew larger crowds than concerts for Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen. That was one of 15 inaccurate claims he made. — THE FACTS