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Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trump bashes CNN, NBC media executives — President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday morning at top media executives from NBC and CNN, continuing his tirade against media coverage that he considers unfair from outlets he has labeled “fake news.” — “The hatred and extreme bias of me by @CNN …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Did Trump just admit that he tried to fire Mueller and Sessions? — President Trump has made a habit out of admitting things — often via Twitter — that he perhaps shouldn't. Did he just do it again? — In a tweet Thursday morning, Trump called it “fake news” that now-outgoing White House Counsel …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone says he expects Mueller to charge him with a crime — The Mueller team wants “to frame me for some nonexistent crime to silence me and pressure me to testify against the president,” says Stone. — WASHINGTON — Days after he predicted the president's eldest son …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is a Snob Who Secretly Despises His Own Supporters — Deep in a Politico report about President Trump's attempt to build support for firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who Trump loathes for recusing himself from the investigation of a campaign he was part of, is a striking artifact of Trumpism.
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CBS News:
Lindsey Graham says Trump's stand on John McCain “pisses me off to no end”
Lindsey Graham says Trump's stand on John McCain “pisses me off to no end”
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The walls are closing in. And Trump's lawyers know it.
The walls are closing in. And Trump's lawyers know it.
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Politico:
Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions
Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions
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Haley Britzky / Axios:
Trump rages against fake everything
Trump rages against fake everything
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Winter is coming’: Allies fear Trump isn't prepared for gathering legal storm
‘Winter is coming’: Allies fear Trump isn't prepared for gathering legal storm
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
I Helped Create Insider Political Journalism. Now It's Time For It To Go Away. — Traditional political journalists were the last people to notice in 2016 that the world had changed. Candidate Donald Trump took advantage of a stubborn refusal to recognize the power of right-wing ideology …
New York Times:
National Enquirer Had Decades of Trump Dirt. He Wanted to Buy It All. — Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him.
New York Times:
How McCain Got the Last Word Against Trump — WASHINGTON — Not long after Senator John McCain learned last summer that he had terminal brain cancer, he began convening meetings every Friday in his Capitol Hill office with a group of trusted aides. The subject was his funeral.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / Fox News:
McCain's funeral will be attended by Obama, Bush and others: A list of notable people paying their respects
McCain's funeral will be attended by Obama, Bush and others: A list of notable people paying their respects
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Justice News:
California Man Charged with Making Violent Threats Against Boston Globe Employees — BOSTON - A California man was arrested today and charged with making violent threats against Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper's editorial response to political attacks on the media.
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BostonGlobe.com:
California man arrested by FBI on charges of threatening to shoot Boston Globe employees — A California man is facing federal charges for threatening to shoot Boston Globe employees whom he called an “enemy of the people” after the Globe launched a national newspaper campaign in support of the free press and the First Amendment.
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New York Times:
A Broken Relationship and Accusations of Emotional Abuse: The Case of Keith Ellison — MINNEAPOLIS — When Keith Ellison became the first Muslim elected to Congress in 2006, it made him an instant national star: a charismatic young black leader who was now a symbol of the Democratic Party's commitment to diversity and equal rights.
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Kate Davidson / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He'll Eliminate Pay Raises for Civilian Federal Employees Next Year — The president says federal agency budgets can not sustain 2019 pay increases — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said he will invoke his emergency authority to freeze pay for civilian federal workers next year, citing strained federal budgets.
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Lauren Meier / Axios:
Trump eliminates pay raises for civilian federal employees
Trump eliminates pay raises for civilian federal employees
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Rob Wile / Sacramento Bee:
Bank of America freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being US citizens — Saeed Moshfegh woke up earlier this month to discover the strangest thing: though he had plenty of money in his Bank of America account, he couldn't access it. — An Iranian getting his Ph.D in physics …
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Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Postal Service Accepts Blame for Release of Candidate's Security File, and Asks for It Back — WASHINGTON — The Postal Service on Thursday said it “deeply regrets our mistake in inappropriately releasing” the official personnel file of Abigail Spanberger, a former C.I.A. operative now running …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Top 2008 campaign aides shut out of McCain funeral — Campaign manager Steve Schmidt, senior adviser Nicolle Wallace, and longtime strategist John Weaver were snubbed, as was former running mate Sarah Palin. — John McCain's funeral will spotlight some of the late senator's political rivals …
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Brittany Martin / Los Angeles Magazine:
Your Favorite Burger Chain Just Donated a Bunch of Money to the Republican Party — In-N-Out just dropped $25,000 into the GOP's coffers — Orange County is shaping up to be one of the hottest political battlegrounds going into the midterm elections-and, it appears, Irvine-based In-N-Out Burger has cast their vote early.
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Grace Dobush / Fortune:
Left-Leaning Fast Food Fans Lose Appetite After In-N-Out Burger Donates To California Republicans
Left-Leaning Fast Food Fans Lose Appetite After In-N-Out Burger Donates To California Republicans
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Getting to Know White Voters — There are LOTS of opinions and narratives out there about white voters. … Most of these narratives are built on data supplied by the 2016 exit polls and the “education level” cross-tabs in current polling. However, new data and analysis of the 2016 vote suggest …
Walter Robinson / BostonGlobe.com:
Every attorney general in the country must force the Catholic Church to tell the truth — Walter V. Robinson is the Globe's editor-at-large. He led the Spotlight Team's investigation that uncovered the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal. — It is often said that for the Roman Catholic Church, rapid change can take decades.
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Conservative media move to front line of battle to undermine Pope Francis
Conservative media move to front line of battle to undermine Pope Francis
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The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani is Putting Together a ‘Counter-Report’ to Question Robert Mueller's ‘Legitimacy’ — It's being done with the explicit blessing of Trump who is ‘happy’ that this is part of his legal team's ‘strategy,’ the president's lawyer says. — President Donald Trump's legal team is crafting a …
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Take Salena Zito Neither Seriously Nor Literally On Trump Voters — Is the populist whisperer of Trump Country full of crap? — You might not know who Salena Zito is off the top of your head, but you're almost certainly familiar with her work. She writes in publications such as the New York Post …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Elizabeth Warren's 2020 Maneuvering Is Getting Even More Aggressive — Elizabeth Warren's had a deceptively busy last few weeks. She dropped one long-shot policy proposal that would try to remake corporate America, then another that aims to actually drain the Washington swamp.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis prosecutor says she will no longer accept cases from 28 city police officers … St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner enters the fourth floor library to read a prepared statement at a press conference at the Carnahan Courthouse, Wednesday, May 30, 2018, in St. Louis.
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Emily Tamkin / BuzzFeed News:
No Big Deal, Just A US President Telling A Former Russian President He Needs To Eat More — Washington, D.C. — As the US-Russia relationship continues to twist and turn, documents declassified on Thursday show just how much the position of the two countries has — and hasn't — changed.
Tim Elfrink / Miami New Times:
Ron DeSantis Was Reportedly an Admin of Racist Facebook Page … Click on a page called “Tea Party,” which boasts 94,000 followers and claims to be “the oldest and largest #TeaParty group on Facebook,” and you'll find that one of the first posts this morning is a glaringly racist meme showing side …
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Michael Morell / Washington Post:
Trump's team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden — Amid all the controversies and scandals from Washington dominating our news cycle, a major counterterrorism success by the United States last week did not get the attention it deserved: Government officials …
Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter:
Gerard Depardieu Accused of Sexual Assault (Report) — A French woman, believed to be an actress in her 20s, has reportedly filed a criminal complaint with French police against the 69-year-old. — French actor Gerard Depardieu has been accused of rape and sexual assault, according to a report from the BBC Thursday.
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CBN News:
Vice President Pence to CBN News: The Mainstream Media ‘Met Their Match’ in President Trump — WASHINGTON - In an exclusive interview with CBN News, Vice President Mike Pence said the mainstream media have “met their match” in President Donald Trump. — CBN's David Brody and Jenna Browder spent …
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Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“It Seems Like Iowa in 2007”: Is Beto O'Rourke the Left's Obama-Like Answer to Trump in 2020? — O'Rourke offers not just a path to victory in Texas but an antidote to the entire stupid artifice of American politics in the Trump era. He's authentic, full of energy, and stripped of consultant-driven sterility.
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Lauren Cooley / Washington Examiner:
Campus bans Sept. 11 memorial for ‘bias’ against Muslims — Administrators at Ripon College in Wisconsin have ruled that a Sept. 11 memorial cannot take place on campus because it may offend Muslim students. — The private school cited bias reports that were filed during …
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