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CBS News:
Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word — President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape. The president tweeted Monday night, “I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have.
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Political Wire, The Week and New York Times
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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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Talking Points Memo and Splinter
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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Mediaite and Political Wire
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue Media:
Trump calls a black woman a ‘dog’ to prove he's not racist — Yes, Trump is racist. Very, very racist. And he always has been. — Trump is horribly racist. But we've known that all along. — He launched his campaign in 2016 by calling Mexicans rapists. He says predominantly Latino immigrants are “animals.”
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The Week, France 24 and Populist Media
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House — NEW YORK — Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, says Republicans will hold the House this fall and the economy will be a big reason why. — “These are very good times and the midterms will be a report card on that …
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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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ABC News, Bloomberg, Conservative News Today, twitchy.com, Raw Story, AOL, Breitbart and Contemptor
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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Washington Post, Daily Mail, Raw Story, The Week, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Omarosa puts Trump on his heels — DRIVING THE DAY — AN OMAROSA OBSERVATION ... THIS IS the second time PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has been entangled with a woman who is equally adept at playing the media. First it was Stormy Daniels. Now it seems like Omarosa has gotten in Trump's head.
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
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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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, VICE, Raw Story, Mediaite, CNN and ThinkProgress
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Splinter
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes
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CNNMoney, theGrio, RightWire, BuzzFeed News, Hot Air, NPR and Law & Crime
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements
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ABC News, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, New York Post, Law & Crime, Daily Wire and Talking Points Memo
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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MSNBC, Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime and Deadline
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump has no black senior White House staff
Trump has no black senior White House staff
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Popular Information, FiveThirtyEight and New York Daily News
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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Lucia Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Antifa's violent confrontations with police, journalists mar otherwise peaceful rally counterprotesters — Members of Antifa were seen launching eggs, fireworks and water bottles at police officers and the Secret Service, beating people in the street and threatening members of the media during the uber-left …
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Conservative Tribune, twitchy.com, Daily Wire, Vox, The Daily Caller and RightWire
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead
Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead
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Daily Wire, Liberty Unyielding, twitchy.com, National Review and theGrio
Caleb Ecarma / USA Today:
I was at the sad white supremacists gathering. It didn't fool me. Their movement is rising.
I was at the sad white supremacists gathering. It didn't fool me. Their movement is rising.
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Liberty Unyielding, Mediaite and ThinkProgress
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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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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Albuquerque Journal, Clarion Project, TheBlaze and Jihad Watch
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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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Townhall, CNN and Daily Wire
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.
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Mother Jones
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BBC:
Westminster car crash: Man arrested on suspicion of terror offences — A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament. — The vehicle swerved into cyclists and pedestrians shortly after 07:30 BST, injuring three people.
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Townhall, VICE News, Politico, Towleroad Gay News and The Guardian
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Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
British police say car crash outside British Parliament was terror attack
British police say car crash outside British Parliament was terror attack
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Fox News and twitchy.com
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.
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Washington Square News and Front Page Magazine
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Gonzales poll: Hogan leads Jealous by 16 points in Maryland governor's race — With less than three months until the general election, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealousaccording to a new poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies.
CNN:
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts — Banker testifies after unexplained recess — (CNN)Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is now officially part of the trove of evidence in Paul Manafort's criminal trial, as part of an email exchange …
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POLITICUSUSA
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The media's blatant hypocrisy — even about media-bashing — Welcome to the age of self-congratulatory media. “Democracy dies in darkness” goes the ridiculous tagline on The Washington Post's front page. Reporters openly call themselves heroes and firefighters.
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The Tracinski Letter
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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KTLA
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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Daily Wire
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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Consequence of Sound and Gizmodo
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Tom Steyer plans to register 100,000 millennials to vote — Tom Steyer's NextGen America organization is working to register 100,000 students in one month at college campuses across 11 states as part of its “Welcome Week” program launching this week. — Why it matters: This is the group's …
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Political Wire
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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Observer
Carlo Muñoz / Washington Times:
Taliban blindsides U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive — The Taliban is on the verge of dramatically expanding its control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench …