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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards — President Donald Trump's former aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out phony Fox News business cards, Mediaite has learned. — Gorka, who was fired from his nebulous role at the White House late last year …
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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. ‘a f—kup’ after he released emails about controversial meet with Russian lawyer, book says — President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f—kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News … It is “in the public interest” for a pair of senior White House officials to be excused from federal ethics laws so they can meet with Fox News, according to President Donald Trump's top lawyer.
Greg Price / Newsweek:
Melania Can't Wait to Divorce Donald Trump and Punishes Him With Her Fashion Choices, Omarosa Claims — First lady Melania Trump is eager for her husband, President Donald Trump, to leave office so that she can divorce him, and until then, deliberately chooses to “punish” …
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Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books — Sources say top officials were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting such books without the express permission of the president. — Long before Omarosa Manigault Newman lodged explosive claims against her former boss …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club — There's an under-the-radar perk being offered to staffers in President Donald Trump's administration — discounts on Trump-branded merchandise sold at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes — Omarosa releases a recording of her own firing — Washington (CNN)Secret tapes. Nondisclosure agreements. A lot of name calling. — The revelations surrounding Omarosa Manigault Newman's new memoir, and the ensuing fallout …
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say — The former White House aide and “Apprentice” contestant claims Trump could be heard using the “n-word” on the alleged audio recording, sources close to her confirm she told them in December.
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Politico:
Omarosa claims to have secretly recorded Jared and Ivanka
Omarosa claims to have secretly recorded Jared and Ivanka
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Washington Post:
‘Everyone signed one’: Trump is aggressive in his use of nondisclosure agreements, even in government
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
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Daily Mail:
The president tweeted that his onetime African-American outreach director had signed an NDA …
The president tweeted that his onetime African-American outreach director had signed an NDA …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event
Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event
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gofundme.com:
Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok — $25,031 of $150,000 goal Raised by 607 people in 3 hours — Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok — Peter Strzok, a man who has spent his entire life working to help keep us and our nation safe, has been fired. He needs your help.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts — The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts. — Aitan Goelman, Strzok's lawyer …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone — appears to be narrowing his focus on Roger Stone — in his investigation into Russian interference in the election, prompting widespread speculation that the longtime adviser to President Trump — is likely a target in the probe.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Peter Strzok Reacts To Firing On Newly Created Twitter Account
Peter Strzok Reacts To Firing On Newly Created Twitter Account
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kob.com:
Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State prosecutors' motion to detain five adults arrested after a raid in northern New Mexico earlier this month was denied by a judge on Monday. — Judge Sarah Backus made the determination …
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Matt Richardson / Fox News:
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ …
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ …
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Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Rapper Azealia Banks claims she was at Elon Musk's house over the weekend as he was ‘scrounging for investors’ — Rapper Azealia Banks claimed that she spent the weekend at Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk's house, setting social media ablaze. — Banks told Business Insider she saw Musk at home …
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Zoe Greenberg / New York Times:
What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused? — The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch. (He's Still Wrong.) — While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Bill Named for McCain Without Saying Senator's Name
Trump Signs Bill Named for McCain Without Saying Senator's Name
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Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
The Witch Hunt Continues — One of Stone's Rules is “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Even I may have taken exception to that rule last Friday. — If you followed the news last Friday, you know that my longtime friend Kristin Davis testified …
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Mueller Is Examining Roger Stone's Emails
Mueller Is Examining Roger Stone's Emails
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
'Where's the blue wave?' Voter data show Florida Democrats aren't surging — What blue wave? — While it's notched four consecutive wins in local bellwether races, Florida's Democratic Party has lost a share of its registered voters in Florida since 2016 and the percentage …
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Adrian Carrasquillo / New Republic:
Democrats Are Taking Latino Voters for Granted
Democrats Are Taking Latino Voters for Granted
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Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Today's Supreme Drop Is All Over the New York Post — A dramatic cover ad on the New York Post for the street wear company Supreme turned today's tabloid into an impossible to find commodity. — Rush hour commuters were hard-pressed to find a copy of The New York Post near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square on Monday.
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Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:
3 missing men at the Manafort trial — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman resumes today, it appears prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office have decided not to call three seemingly key figures. The absence of these witnesses offers …
Kellen Browning / Sacramento Bee:
Two men identified in fatal fight on I-5; witnesses say one chased the other with a bat — The two men who were killed early Sunday morning after a vehicle collision caused a fight on Interstate 5 in Natomas were identified Monday. — Their vehicles hit each other in the northbound lanes …
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Eric Holthaus / Grist:
Glacier National Park is on fire — and yes, warming is making things worse — This summer has felt like a global warming turning point. — Now, another milestone: Saturday was the hottest day in the history of Glacier National Park, and its first recorded time reaching 100 degrees F.
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Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum — On a recent visit to the federal prison in Victorville, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano was caught by surprise. Of the hundreds of immigrants detained there, he learned, possibly 40% had traveled from India seeking asylum.
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William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Save Yourself, Mr. President — When it comes to overseeing the FBI and Justice, he's all tweet and no action. — Even a summer respite from Washington at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey couldn't keep Donald Trump off Twitter . — Over the weekend the president went on a tear …
Bloomberg:
Kushner's Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch — Trump son-in-law met Center for National Interest in March '16 — Alleged Russian agent Butina used center to set up meetings — In March 2016, as the U.S. foreign policy establishment shunned presidential candidate Donald Trump …
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Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers — In May, the Justice Department told Americans to reboot their routers. But there's more to do — and NSA says it's up to device makers and the public. — LAS VEGAS — The Russian military is inside hundreds …