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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump and Omarosa Had a ‘F*cking Weird’ Fight With Vietnam Vets … Early on in the Donald Trump administration, the president vested many of his nearest and dearest with tasks they were woefully unprepared for—and Apprentice superstar Omarosa Manigault Newman was no exception.
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Talking Points Memo, New Republic, VICE, Observer, IndieWire, Media Matters for America, Gizmodo, CNN, Raw Story, Mother Jones, Splinter and Boing Boing
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Yahoo:
Judge says Trump campaign screwed up on wording of confidentiality agreements — A Manhattan judge issued a ruling on Thursday that thwarted the Trump campaign's attempts to keep a lawsuit out of open court, with potential implications for the looming battle over fired Trump aide Omarosa …
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Splinter, Political Wire and Weekly Standard
Christopher Barca / m.qchron.com:
Ocasio-Cortez bans press from town hall — MEDIA WAS BARRED AFTER REPORTERS ‘MOBBED’ HER AT AN EARLIER EVENT — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her “listening tour” throughout the district, like the one held a day earlier in Corona, are “intended for lively …
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Washington Times, Townhall, Hot Air, Louder With Crowder, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be facing really intense scrutiny
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be facing really intense scrutiny
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Hit & Run and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, more at Mediagazer »
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Banned the Media From Her Latest Town Hall Event
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Banned the Media From Her Latest Town Hall Event
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The Rush Limbaugh Show
Fox News:
DOJ's Bruce Ohr wrote Christopher Steele was 'very concerned about Comey's firing — afraid they will be exposed' — A collection of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's emails, texts and handwritten notes, reviewed by Fox News, reveals that he was deeply connected to the unverified Steele dossier …
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RedState, Sara A. Carter, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller News Foundation and LifeZette
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Was Bruce Ohr Doing? — Justice releases some damning documents, but much of the truth is still classified. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have continued to insist they did nothing wrong in their Trump-Russia investigation.
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Press needs to restore its credibility on FBI and Justice Department — I will never call the mainstream media “the enemy of the people.” But I will call them out for having strayed from fairly reporting some of the biggest stories of the last two years. No matter how egregious their errors …
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Liberty Unyielding
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
Bruce Ohr could be out of a job if Trump strips his security clearance
Bruce Ohr could be out of a job if Trump strips his security clearance
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New York Times, CNBC and Vox
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Hero Exposed as Pro-Trump Gamer … In the world of #Resistance Twitter, @GuardianRover was a hero. As a former intelligence operative and Delta Force soldier, the person behind the account used a cartoon secret agent avatar and the alias “Mr. Smith” …
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Daily Kos and Daily Caller News Foundation
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Bill Nelson wasn't making things up when he said Russians hacked Florida election systems — Sen. Bill Nelson, who is in a tough reelection fight, was blasted for saying 10 days ago that Russians had penetrated his state's election systems. — WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat …
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RedState, Townhall, Washington Post, Tampa Bay Times, FLA News Online, Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com
NBC News:
Officials worry Trump may back Erik Prince plan to privatize war in Afghanistan — “I know he's frustrated,” Blackwater founder Prince said of the president. “He gave the Pentagon what they wanted. And they haven't delivered.” — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump …
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New Republic, Washington Monthly, Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year — Elon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure. “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” he said. “It was excruciating.” — The year has only gotten …
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Alex Jones of Infowars Destroyed Evidence Related to Sandy Hook Suits, Motion Says — WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the families of two Sandy Hook shooting victims are accusing the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media business of intentionally destroying evidence relevant …
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New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: Manafort trial is a ‘very sad day for our country’ — President Donald Trump on Friday refused to say whether Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman who's been wrapped up in the special counsel's Russia investigation, could count on a pardon from the White House.
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press, ABC News and Talking Points Memo
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller's team has 3 times the evidence for Paul Manafort's next trial than his current trial
Mueller's team has 3 times the evidence for Paul Manafort's next trial than his current trial
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The Rush Limbaugh Show, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
Melania Trump, a Mysterious First Lady, Weathers a Chaotic White House — WASHINGTON — Hours after Melania Trump moved into the White House in June of last year, she peered out a window and took in a stunning view of the Washington Monument: “Looking forward to the memories we'll make in our new home! …
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AOL, The Daily Beast and Splinter
Dan Desai Martin / Shareblue Media:
Trump will ditch US for Veterans Day because he can't have his parade — Since Trump's $92 million military parade in Washington, D.C., was canceled, he's decided to up and leave the country in November so he can watch a parade somewhere else. — Trump is abandoning veterans this Veterans …
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Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trump cancels military parade, feuds with D.C. mayor over ballooning cost
Trump cancels military parade, feuds with D.C. mayor over ballooning cost
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ABC News, The Moderate Voice, One America News Network, IJR, The Week, Politico and CNBC
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Rigged Witch Hunt,” Meet Trump's “Red Wave” — Donald Trump's Presidency is often described as a reality-show version of the White House, with Trump himself as the producer, director, and main character. There's something to the metaphor, of course; Trump is a showman …
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Washington Post, Weekly Standard, American Prospect and New York Times
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Manafort judge says he's received threats — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The judge in the tax and bank fraud trial against one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort — said Friday he's been threatened over the case, denying a request from media outlets to release the names and addresses of the jurors.
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The Federalist and Joe.My.God.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Debt-Shaming of Stacey Abrams — Our pernicious double standard on politicians who owe money. — The campaign for governor of Georgia is a supersaturated microcosm of American politics right now, offering the starkest possible choice between irreconcilable visions of the country's future.
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox News, CNN Hired Ex-Trump Aides Bound by NDAs. That's ‘Journalistic Malpractice,’ Experts Say. … “If you're not allowed legally to disparage the president or his family or anything they have to do with, any company they have or asset they have, why can we believe anything you say?”
Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Metro Times:
Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!' — More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).
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Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Detroit legislator apologizes for racial slurs
Detroit legislator apologizes for racial slurs
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ABC News, RedState and Washington Free Beacon
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Court throws out EPA delay of Obama chemical plant safety rule — A federal court Friday threw out the Trump administration's attempt to delay a chemical plant safety regulation written by the Obama administration. — In a major blow to the Trump administration, the Court of Appeals …
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County — Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren't accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn't make sense. — Election officials …
Morning Call:
Lehigh Valley velodrome board put Pennsylvania congressional candidate Marty Nothstein on leave after sexual misconduct allegation — Congressional candidate Marty Nothstein was the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation prior to leaving his job this summer as leader …
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Roll Call, ThinkProgress and Political Wire
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Free-speech conservatives, this is your call to arms — To all those supposed constitutional conservatives out there, consider this your call to arms: The First Amendment is under direct attack, and this time from a much more powerful foe than misguided college freshmen.
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Daily Kos
Austin Ruse / Crisis Magazine:
Rod Was Right and I Was Wrong — I became casual friends with Rod Dreher when he lived in Brooklyn with the beautiful Julie, and I lived in Manhattan alone. Newly married and not yet a father, he was writing movie reviews for the New York Post; this was before his move to National Review and ever-increasing fame.
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The American Conservative
Axios:
Robert Gates joins intelligence leaders condemning Trump for Brennan slap — Dr. Robert Gates has added his name to a stunning list of former intelligence officials who signed a letter criticizing President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance.
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ABC News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul to ask Trump to lift sanctions on Russian leaders — (R-Ky.) says he will ask President Trump — this weekend to lift sanctions against top Russian officials so they can visit the United States later this year. — Paul said members of both bodies of Russia's legislature …
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DC Tribune
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Signs of Trump-Putin collaboration, starting years before the campaign? — Shane Harris is a staff writer at The Washington Post. He covers intelligence and national security and the Russia investigation. — Of all the allegations contained in the “Steele dossier,” …
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Shakesville
David French / National Review:
The New York Times Runs a Sloppy, Specious Democratic Hit on Brett Kavanaugh — Once again, the Left has taken a swing at one of the most qualified SCOTUS nominees in history. Once again, it has missed. — What does the word “primarily” mean? If you look it up in a dictionary, the definition is plain enough.
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New York Times, Washington Free Beacon and New Republic
Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:
What to Care About When Everything Is Terrible — In the Trump presidency, everything is a distraction from everything else, because it all matters. — Ms. Jurecic is the managing editor of Lawfare. — As of Thursday, 565 migrant children — 24 of them under the age of five …
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KTLA
Joe Johnson / Athens Daily News:
Half-naked Athens woman punches officer — A 32-year-old Athens woman was arrested early Wednesday after she created a disturbance on Bray Street and then fought with a police officer, Athens-Clarke County police said. — Police said they responded to the area at about 12:30 a.m. on a report …