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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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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Charges against Omarosa filed by Trump campaign, ‘millions’ sought — President Trump's campaign organization Tuesday filed charges against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman, claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her new book …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump campaign files arbitration against Omarosa for violating nondisclosure contract — A senior Trump campaign official confirms to ABC News, the campaign has filed arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman Tuesday morning in New York for allegations that she violated her non-disclosure agreement with the Trump campaign.
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Politico, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Lynne Patton / TwitLonger:
Official Statement on Omarosa Manigault-Newman — My name is Lynne Patton and I am a senior official in the Trump Administration. — White House leadership, both past and present, can confirm that I was the closest confidante & friend to Ms. Manigault-Newman during her tenure at the White House …
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Breitbart, The American Mirror, Contemptor, The Week and The Guardian
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements — FORT DRUM, N.Y. — President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Monday something his aides have declined to confirm for months: that his White House had aides sign nondisclosure agreements.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump calls Omarosa a ‘dog’ in latest attack on ex-aide — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, the only African-American to have served in a senior role in the White House, as a “dog.”
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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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Washington Monthly, The Atlantic and France 24
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. 'a f …
President Trump called Donald Jr. 'a f …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Omarosa puts Trump on his heels
POLITICO Playbook: Omarosa puts Trump on his heels
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Washington Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Daily Kos
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say
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Townhall, The Daily Banter, FOX31 Denver, theGrio, ABC News, Conservative News Today, Contemptor and twitchy.com
Frank Scheck / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett
Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett
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ThinkProgress, Breitbart and Conservative News Today
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards
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Washington Post, Politico, Splinter and Talking Points Memo
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House
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Talking Points Memo, The Root and Shareblue Media
Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books
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Greg Price / Newsweek:
Melania Can't Wait to Divorce Donald Trump and Punishes Him With Her Fashion Choices, Omarosa Claims
Melania Can't Wait to Divorce Donald Trump and Punishes Him With Her Fashion Choices, Omarosa Claims
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime, VICE, Daily Wire, Raw Story and Deadline
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Welcome to the Resistance, Omarosa
Welcome to the Resistance, Omarosa
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TMZ.com, Daily Kos, Raw Story, NPR and Shareblue Media
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Roger Stone shares image of himself and Trump as ‘Space Force’ wearing swastikas — on Monday shared a digitally altered image on Instagram of himself, President Trump — and several other people serving in or aligned with the administration wearing spacesuits with swastikas on them.
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Political Wire and Towleroad Gay News
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Mueller Homes In On Stone, Combs Through His Emails
Mueller Homes In On Stone, Combs Through His Emails
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POLITICUSUSA, Law & Crime, Raw Story and Mother Jones
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Tight Race in CD03 — Low awareness of either candidate — West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur faces a tough challenge from former national security adviser Andy Kim in the race for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
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Roll Call and Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As Trump keeps raging at Mueller, another poll shows his lies are failing — Because so many of us got it wrong in 2016, we often tend to reflexively tell ourselves that President Trump must be working some kind of hidden magic over public opinion that we're all missing.
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Reuters, Conservative News Today, The Daily Caller and CNN
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Bloomberg:
Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job — Stephen Calk sought U.S. Army secretary job, treasury post — Email request surfaced at Manafort fraud trial on Monday — Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job …
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Political Wire and Politico
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Manafort attorneys opt to skip defense, proceed to closing arguments — Attorneys for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is on trial for financial crimes in federal district court Alexandria, Virginia, will not call additional witnesses to present a defense.
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The Gateway Pundit
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.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Star Seth Abramson Wants to Turn His Threads Into a Book … Over the past two years, New Hampshire professor and writer Seth Abramson has cultivated a #resistance Twitter following of more than 500,000 by posting lengthy threads prognosticating about the direction …
Cory Bergman / Factal Blog:
Introducing Factal from the founders of Breaking News — When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company. — There were many personal stories from Breaking News users who were caught …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead — Antifascists, according to their own doctrine, fight fascism. Sounds simple enough. — Granted, members of the loosely organized Antifa movement define “fascism” vaguely …
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New York Times:
Trump's Sabotage of Obamacare Is Illegal — A president doesn't have the right to dispense with laws he dislikes. — Mr. Bagley and Ms. Gluck are law professors. — From the moment he took office, President Trump has used all aspects of his executive power to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
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Balkinization and Shakesville
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on H.R. 5515 — Today, I have signed into law H.R. 5515, “an Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy …
Politico:
Swedish PM to arsonists: ‘What the hell are you up to?’ — Cars were set alight across Sweden overnight in what police believe was a coordinated attack orchestrated on social media. — About 80 cars were set on fire in western Sweden, in and around Gothenburg, and there were further incidents in Stockholm and Malmö.
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Deflation of the Academic Brand — When self-professed experts are wrong over and over, for decades, what's the value of a university degree? — Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise.
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
Never Corbyn — An appeal for sanity. — Can a right-wing American writer help spark a resistance movement inside the U.K. Labour party? Probably not. But these aren't ordinary times. There is a great danger looming inside Labour. Its shadow extends from the British Isles across the West, including the United States.
Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete — With the odd firing of Peter Strzok, the president has cleansed the bureau of the men who started the Russia investigation. This is not normal. — The announcement Monday morning that former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok had been fired likely brings …
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Iranians Posing As Anti-Immigrant Americans Online — The Iranians are trying to defeat legislation that would eliminate the per-country cap on employment-based green cards, which would force them to wait behind Indian visa-holders, who were in line for green cards first.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won — Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard. — The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening …
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Bloomberg:
Turkey Crisis Tests Putin's Powers in Global Game With U.S. — Russia cautious amid divisions between U.S. and Turkey — Erdogan warns U.S. he may seek new allies as Putin ties grow — Turkey's political conflict with the U.S. and the crisis engulfing its currency offer …
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Handler of alleged spy Butina tied to suspicious U.S.-Russia exchange program — Russian politician Alexander Torshin's meetings with American students, coupled with his role managing alleged covert Russian agent Mariia Butina, suggest he may be a more important Kremlin operative than previously known.
Maria Cramer / BostonGlobe.com:
Agencies set ‘trap’ for immigrants seeking legal status, ACLU says — Two federal immigration agencies coordinated a campaign to bring unauthorized immigrants who were seeking legal residency in for interviews at government offices, where they were then arrested and in some cases deported, according to internal agency communications.
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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.
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Washington Square News, Daily Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Front Page Magazine
Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times:
Firefighter from Utah dies battling Mendocino Complex, the largest wildfire in California — A firefighter from Utah died Monday battling the largest wildfire in recorded California history, marking the latest fatality in a fire season that has taken a grim toll on first responders.
Aviva Shen / The Appeal:
NEW ORLEANS COURT ORDERED TO STOP FUNDING ITSELF ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR — The criminal court was funneling millions of dollars a year from poor communities to itself. — New Orleans courts will need to drastically revamp the way they treat poor defendants after two orders handed …