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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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F.B.I. Agent Peter Strzok, Who Criticized Trump in Texts, Is Fired — WASHINGTON — Peter Strzok, the F.B.I. senior counterintelligence agent who disparaged President Trump in inflammatory text messages and helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations …
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The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI fires Peter Strzok, agent who sent anti-Trump texts — Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent who came under withering criticism from Republicans for a series of anti-Trump text messages he sent during the 2016 campaign, was fired on Friday, his attorney said.
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ABC News, Mother Jones and Breitbart
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Omarosa Manigault Newman reveals recording she made of President Trump day after she was fired — The tape, which was played exclusively Monday on “Today” show, appears to show Trump having no idea that Newman had been dismissed by his Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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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.
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Axios
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
White House looking to stop Omarosa Manigault Newman from releasing more tapes — Omarosa Manigault Newman's former White House colleagues are looking into legal options to stop her from releasing more tapes and to punish her for secretly recording her conversation with Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly …
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The utter collapse of Donald Trump's ‘best people’ boast
The utter collapse of Donald Trump's ‘best people’ boast
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Washington Post, Fox News Insider and TheBlaze
Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Omarosa Releases New Tape Of Trump Appearing Unaware She Was Fired
Omarosa Releases New Tape Of Trump Appearing Unaware She Was Fired
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The Federalist, The Hill, ThinkProgress, Townhall, AOL, The Root and Althouse
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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Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Omarosa Manigault Newman Taped Her Firing by John Kelly
Omarosa Manigault Newman Taped Her Firing by John Kelly
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Politico, Weekly Standard, Washington Post, Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Axios, Raw Story, KTLA, CNN, Vox and ABC News
Kristen Welker / NBC News:
White House struggles to name a single senior African-American working in the West Wing
White House struggles to name a single senior African-American working in the West Wing
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Washington Free Beacon, Washington Monthly and The Root
David S. Glosser / Politico:
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle. — Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration. — It begins at the turn of the 20th century in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's diplomatic learning curve: Time zones, ‘Nambia’ and ‘Nipple’ — The president has often perplexed foreign officials and his own aides as he learns how to deal with the world beyond America's borders. — Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Foreign Policy Held Back by Struggle to Grasp Time Zones, Maps
Trump Foreign Policy Held Back by Struggle to Grasp Time Zones, Maps
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
There's a big tell in Trump's latest defense of Donald Jr. — President Trump has spent the past year and a half emphatically declaring that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, adamantly and angrily insisting that any suggestion to the contrary is nothing but a “hoax.”
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
2016 Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives — The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded …
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Real Clear Politics
Peter Beinart / The Forward:
I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs — Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my kids. Last weekend I can say, with some confidence, that I succeeded. — The weekend started on Rhodes, the Mediterranean island …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism — WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism. Attitudes toward socialism among Democrats have not changed materially since 2010 …
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New Republic, The Federalist, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Target Liberty and Daily Caller News Foundation
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. — An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices …
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New York Times:
The Rise and Fall of Paul Manafort: Greed, Deception and Ego — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his annual season tickets would soon be arriving at his 43rd-floor apartment at Trump Tower in New York.
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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
New coalition plans seven-figure campaign aimed at Puerto Rican voters — Critics of the Trump administration's response to the hurricanes that ravaged Puerto Rico last year are launching a seven-figure campaign to mobilize displaced Puerto Rican voters ahead of the midterm elections …
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Political Wire
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Sleepin’ Joe' hears alarm bells in Indiana Senate brawl — They call him ‘the accidental senator.’ Now, Democrat Joe Donnelly, one of the most endangered senators in the country, must prove he's no fluke. — INDIANAPOLIS — Most of the red-state Democratic senators have larger …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Joe Donnelly is running hard against the wind in Trump country
New York Post:
De Blasio lets security haul away Post reporter for asking question — Mayor de Blasio is a such a big believer in the free press that he let two bodyguards physically remove a credentialed Post reporter who had the temerity to ask him a question in public on Sunday.
Quarter / New York Times:
You Know Who the Tax Cuts Helped? Rich People — In 2018, Trump's tax plan was enacted, setting a new record — Stock buybacks by quarter — Among companies in the S&P 500 … Stock buybacks — Q1 2018 — In 2018, Trump's tax — plan was enacted, — setting a new record
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
She ran on responsible gun regulation, now she's accused of killing her campaign treasurer — ATLANTA - A former Georgia Congressional candidate has been charged with murder after her former campaign treasurer was found dead inside her apartment. — Kellie Collins, of Thomason …
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Online NewsHour:
An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes — An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world's largest yearly hacking convention …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
History will wonder why these men defended Trump but not their country — Imagine that U.S. military leaders spent most of 1941 warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Democratic Party of a coming Pearl Harbor attack. Then imagine history's harsh judgment against FDR's party …
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Hullabaloo and Daily Caller News Foundation
Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
HUD Moves to Shake Up Fair-Housing Enforcement — Ben Carson, secretary of HUD, wants to encourage more housing construction as a way to boost affordability — The Trump administration wants to shift the way it enforces an aspect of fair housing around the U.S., pivoting away from efforts …
Jessica Estepa / USA Today:
Bobby Goodlatte, son of retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, wants Democrat to win his father's seat — Bobby Goodlatte's dad, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been in Congress for most of his life. — But with the elder Goodlatte retiring after this year, the younger Goodlatte wants to see that seat go to a Democrat instead of a Republican.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Facebook's message to media: “We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic...That is the old world and there is no going back” — The Australian — the Murdoch-owned national paper — has an interesting (and aggressively paywalled) scoop about Facebook today …