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Washington Post:
Trump's economic adviser: 'We're taking a look' at whether Google searches should be regulated — The Trump administration is “taking a look” at whether Google searches should be regulated by the government, said Larry Kudlow, President Trump's economic adviser, outside the White House Tuesday.
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Axios:
Go deeper: Tracing Trump's Google censorship tweet — President Trump tweeted this morning that Big Tech platforms, specifically Google, are suppressing conservative voices and news, while Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow later added that the administration is “taking a look” at whether Google searches should be regulated.
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Politico, Breitbart and The Guardian
John Fritze / USA Today:
Trump aide says president weighing regulations on Google search engine that he considers ‘rigged’
Trump aide says president weighing regulations on Google search engine that he considers ‘rigged’
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Mother Jones, CNN, Wall Street Journal and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
President Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results Against Him, Calls It ‘Very Dangerous’
President Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results Against Him, Calls It ‘Very Dangerous’
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Roll Call, TheBlaze, Mashable, Washington Post and Daily Wire, more at Techmeme »
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trump accuses Google of ‘suppressing’ conservative voices
Trump accuses Google of ‘suppressing’ conservative voices
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Q13 FOX News and Bloomberg
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President non grata: Trump often unwelcome and unwilling to perform basic rituals of the office — Shunned at two funerals and one (royal) wedding so far, President Trump may be well on his way to becoming president non grata. — The latest snub comes in the form of the upcoming funeral …
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Politico:
Ducey aims to please Trump with McCain fill-in — The Arizona governor has grown closer to the White House since cautiously embracing the president in 2016, but can't risk alienating moderate voters. — Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to replace the late John McCain …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
McCain conspiracists say his brain cancer was a hoax
McCain conspiracists say his brain cancer was a hoax
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Fox News, IJR and NTK Network
Ashley Killough / CNN:
GOP senator praises McCain but says he's ‘partially to blame’ for White House flag controversy
GOP senator praises McCain but says he's ‘partially to blame’ for White House flag controversy
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Breitbart, IJR, Washington Post, Second Nexus, MSNBC, HuffPost, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, USA Today, Townhall, Reuters, Mediaite and Political Wire
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Want to honor McCain, GOP? Grow a spine.
Want to honor McCain, GOP? Grow a spine.
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CNN, Vanity Fair and Breitbart
Washington Post:
‘I remember Pearl Harbor’: Inside Trump's hot and cold relationship with Japan's prime minister — During a tense meeting at the White House in June, President Trump caught Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe off guard with a pointed remark. — “I remember Pearl Harbor,” the president said …
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Raw Story
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Devin Nunes's Curious Trip to London — Earlier this month, as all eyes were on the courtroom dramas unfolding in Virginia—where President Donald Trump's campaign chairman was just convicted on bank- and tax-fraud charges—and in New York—where the president's longtime personal lawyer pleaded guilty …
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CNN, Raw Story and New York Times
Amy Chozick / Vogue:
Stormy Daniels Isn't Backing Down — Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels, photographed in New York. Zac Posen dress. Tiffany & Co. earrings. — Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 2018 — BY THE TIME I knock on the door of Stormy Daniels's room at the Roger Smith Hotel …
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Taylor Marsh and twitchy.com
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Source: FBI Agent Told Congress The Bureau Used Leaked Stories To Obtain Spy Warrants — FBI Special Agent Jonathan Moffa told Congress on Friday that the FBI has used leaked stories to obtain FISA warrants — Meadows' tweet was referring to Moffa's testimony, a source tells The Daily Caller News Foundation
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The Federalist and The Gateway Pundit
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
FBI agent says bureau leaked stories, then used them to get FISA warrants
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP lawmakers grill DOJ official Ohr over Trump dossier
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Far-right media misidentifies Jacksonville shooter as Trump-bashing Reddit user — The person who was misidentified as the Jacksonville shooter told NBC News, “My takeaway on this is there are a lot of idiots on the internet ... ” — A day after a competitive video gamer shot and killed two people …
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
Here Are The Rumors And Hoaxes We're Tracking About The Jacksonville Shooting
Here Are The Rumors And Hoaxes We're Tracking About The Jacksonville Shooting
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Common Dreams, USA Today and The Gateway Pundit
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Giuliani's telling admission: All that matters is that Mueller is undermined — In a new profile, the New York Times gets at a question we've all been asking for months: What on earth is Rudy Giuliani doing? Once known as “America's mayor,” he's become the fire-breathing legal spokesman …
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CBS Sacramento:
Student Who Took Classmate's MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement — EL DORADO (CBS13) — A Union Mine High School student is facing battery charges after an altercation in her classroom over a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” campaign hat.
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TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
SOURCES: China Hacked Clinton's Private Email Server — A Chinese-owned company penetrated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server, according to sources briefed on the matter. — The company inserted code that forwarded copies of Clinton's emails to the Chinese company in real time.
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The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Manafort Sought Deal in Next Trial, but Talks Broke Down — Negotiations stalled after Mueller raised issues — Paul Manafort's defense team held talks with prosecutors to resolve a second set of charges against the former Trump campaign chairman before he was convicted last week …
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Vox, Washington Monthly, JONATHAN TURLEY, Raw Story, Politico, emptywheel, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, New York Post, Axios, Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Lanny Davis Says He Was A Source For CNN's Trump Tower Story — Attorney Lanny Davis says he was an anonymous source in a July CNN story that reported his client, Michael Cohen, had privately claimed that President Trump had advance knowledge of the infamous Trump Tower meeting between his son …
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Bill Scher / Politico:
Is This the Stupidest Book Ever Written About Socialism? — The left-wing hosts of the insanely popular Chapo Trap House podcast have no idea what they're talking about, and their glib new book proves it. — Have you lived through the past three presidents and managed to still believe …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Mollie Tibbetts's father decries vitriol against Hispanics, saying they're ‘Iowans with better food’ — Rob Tibbetts spoke kind words about the Hispanic community during his daughter's funeral. — It did not take long after authorities in Iowa named a suspect in the killing …
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POLITICUSUSA and Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fox News Hasn't Always Shared Robert Driscoll's Credentials With Its Viewers — Fox News has repeatedly gone to former Justice Department official Robert Driscoll to comment on the Russia investigations, but what viewers don't hear is that he's also the attorney for Maria Butina, the suspected Russian spy charged with criminal counts.
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Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
The School Shootings That Weren't — How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? — We should know. But we don't. — This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.”
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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
CBS News:
Hurricane Maria caused an estimated 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, new study finds — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Maria killed far more people in Puerto Rico than initially thought, accounting for an estimated 2,975 deaths on the island from September 2017 through February 2018, according to a new analysis.
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Jerry Falwell Jr. says Sessions has lost evangelical support — Jerry Falwell Jr., a top conservative religious leader, said Monday he urged President Donald Trump to fire Jeff Sessions over his handling of investigations into Russian election meddling, saying the attorney general has lost evangelicals' support.
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, CBN News, Splinter, Mediaite, Associated Press, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham says any new attorney general must let Mueller finish his job
Lindsey Graham says any new attorney general must let Mueller finish his job
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Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
The Catholic abuse scandal now leads all the to way the Vatican — An ecclesial straight shooter. A reliable character. A serious man. That's how sources familiar with Carlo Maria Viganò describe the Italian archbishop, who served as the Vatican ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2016.
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David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Americans believe Cohen, don't want impeachment — Data: Survey Monkey online poll conducted August 22-24, 2018 among 4,362 U.S. adults. Total margin of error is ±3.0 percentage points. Modeled error estimates: African-American women ±7.0, age 18 to 34 ±4.5 …
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POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire, Joe.My.God. and NTK Network
Harvard Kennedy School:
Wendy R. Sherman appointed professor of practice at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the School's Center for Public Leadership — CAMBRIDGE, MA - Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, will join Harvard Kennedy School in January 2019 …
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
US consumer confidence rises to 18-year high — WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans' consumer confidence rose in August to the highest level in nearly 18 years as their assessment of current conditions improved further and their expectations about the future rebounded.
Haaretz:
NATO Confirms Russian Naval Build Up Off Syria, Calls for Restraint — ‘It is important that all actors in the region exercise restraint and refrain from worsening an already disastrous humanitarian situation in Syria,’ a NATO spokesman told Haaretz in a statement
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Kushner Cos. fined $210K by New York for false documents — NEW YORK (AP) — The Kushner family real estate company was fined $210,000 by New York City regulators on Monday following an Associated Press investigation earlier this year that showed it routinely filed false documents …
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