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Axios:
Furious Trump trapped by hundreds of Woodward tapes — President Trump is livid at the betrayal and stunning allegations in Bob Woodward's forthcoming “Fear,” but limited in his ability to fight back because most of the interviews were caught on hundreds of hours of tape, officials tell Axios.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Unleashes on Woodward, Accuses Him of Making Up Quotes and Being a ‘Dem Operative’ — President Donald Trump is accusing veteran journalist Bob Woodward of running a “con” and being a “Dem operative.” — Earlier tonight, Trump tweeted out the statements from the White House …
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Washington Monthly, National Review, Politico and Townhall
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House unprepared for Woodward firestorm — The White House was caught flat-footed by the explosive content in “Fear,” Bob Woodward's new book on the Trump administration, as nobody on senior staff had seen a copy when the Washington Post published the explosive excerpts yesterday, according to sources with direct knowledge.
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Washington Post, The Hill, ABC News and The Guardian
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump's ‘Crazytown’ — Nothing in Bob Woodward's sober and grainy new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is especially surprising. This is a White House that has leaked from Day 1. We knew things were bad.
Gabriel Pogrund / Washington Post:
Southern Republican senators reject Trump's criticism of Sessions — Southern Republican senators defended Jeff Sessions after an explosive new book by Bob Woodward recounted how President Trump called his attorney general a “dumb Southerner” and mocked his accent.
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Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Bernstein calls on Kelly to resign following Woodward book
Bernstein calls on Kelly to resign following Woodward book
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Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Says Bob Woodward Has ‘A Lot Of Credibility Problems’
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Says Bob Woodward Has ‘A Lot Of Credibility Problems’
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Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Parkland victim's father and Kavanaugh: The handshake that wasn't — “I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence,” Fred Guttenberg, father of slain Parkland student Jaime Guttenberg, wrote on Twitter. — The father of a student killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas …
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Vox, The Federalist and RedState
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Elizabeth Price Foley / The Hill:
Dems can't ‘Bork’ Kavanaugh, and have only themselves to blame
Dems can't ‘Bork’ Kavanaugh, and have only themselves to blame
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Politico:
Liberal groups knock Schumer's handling of Kavanaugh nomination
Liberal groups knock Schumer's handling of Kavanaugh nomination
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Power Line, Breitbart, Axios and NTK Network
Hot Air:
Today's “Controversy”: Kavanaugh Declines Handshake From Father Of Murdered Parkland Student
Today's “Controversy”: Kavanaugh Declines Handshake From Father Of Murdered Parkland Student
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CBS News, New York Times, Hit & Run, IJR and Townhall
Irin Carmon / The Cut:
What Did Brett Kavanaugh Know About His Former Boss's Sexual Misconduct?
What Did Brett Kavanaugh Know About His Former Boss's Sexual Misconduct?
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Mother Jones
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Democrats Are Crazy — I was working today and couldn't watch …
The Democrats Are Crazy — I was working today and couldn't watch …
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TIME, The American Spectator, Althouse and CNN
KDFW:
Man arrested after crashing truck into FOX4 building in downtown Dallas — Image Gallery — A man was arrested Wednesday morning after crashing a truck into the side of the FOX4 building in downtown Dallas. — The man, after repeatedly crashing his vehicle into a side of the building …
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Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Man intentionally crashes truck into FOX 4 studios in Dallas, starts ‘ranting’ before arrest, officials say
Man intentionally crashes truck into FOX 4 studios in Dallas, starts ‘ranting’ before arrest, officials say
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NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and The Daily Caller
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Man Repeatedly Crashes Truck Into Dallas TV Station's Building
Man Repeatedly Crashes Truck Into Dallas TV Station's Building
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Dallas Morning News
BBC:
Salisbury Novichok poisoning: Two Russian nationals named as suspects — Two Russian nationals have been named as suspects in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. — The men, using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov …
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The Daily Caller
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Obama to Join Midterm Battle, Starting in California and Ohio — Former President Barack Obama is poised to plunge into the fray of the midterm campaign, returning to electoral politics with a frontal attack on Republican power in two states that are prime Democratic targets this fall: California and Ohio.
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, The Daily Beast and Roll Call
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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Obama coming to Southern California to campaign for Democrats in key House races
Obama coming to Southern California to campaign for Democrats in key House races
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Breitbart
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Puts GOP on Defensive Before Elections
Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Puts GOP on Defensive Before Elections
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Political Wire
The Daily Caller:
Full Transcript Of Trump's Oval Office Interview With The Daily Caller — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sat for an exclusive Oval Office interview Tuesday with The Daily Caller's Saagar Enjeti and Vince Coglianese for approximately 38 minutes. — The transcript is as follows:
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The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Critical, But Says Nike's Kaepernick Deal ‘Is What This Country Is All About’ — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Nike sent a “terrible message” this week by making former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick one of the faces representing the 30th anniversary of the company's “Just Do It” campaign.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Gives $10 Million to Super PAC in First Major Political Contribution — Bezos and wife are supporting With Honor, a super PAC aiming to elect military veterans from both parties to Congress — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife are making their first major foray …
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One America News Network, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Axios
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump suggests protesting should be illegal — President Trump has long derided the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” and lashed out at NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. On Tuesday, he took his attacks on free speech one step further, suggesting in an interview …
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POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Trump backs off government shutdown threat ahead of elections: report
Trump backs off government shutdown threat ahead of elections: report
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Political Wire
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Daily Caller Editor Wrote for an ‘Alt-Right’ Website Using a Pseudonym — The former Daily Caller writer and editor Scott Greer has severed all ties with the conservative website after acknowledging that he had written under a pseudonym for the white-supremacist Radix Journal.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Ayanna Pressley Upsets Capuano in Massachusetts House Race — BOSTON — Ayanna Pressley upended the Massachusetts political order on Tuesday, scoring a stunning upset of 10-term Representative Michael Capuano and positioning herself to become the first African-American woman to represent the state in Congress.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
POLITICO race ratings: 60 GOP House seats in danger — The Senate is a tightrope walk for Democrats. — Roughly 100 of the 240 Republican-controlled House seats are currently within Democratic reach, posing the most serious threat to the GOP majority since the party won control in 2010.
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Political Wire
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama to launch midterm campaigning this weekend
Obama to launch midterm campaigning this weekend
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ABC News
James Estrin / New York Times:
Photographing an Indelicate but Deadly Subject — PERPIGNAN, FRANCE: After years covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrea Bruce was asked by National Geographic in 2016 to undertake one of the most difficult assignments of her career. — The subject? Open defecation.
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Google's empty chair and Alex Jones: Key moments from Twitter, Facebook hearing — Despite relatively staid early lines of questioning from lawmakers, the Senate Intelligence committee's hearing on foreign electioneering on social media Wednesday swiftly turned into unconventional political theater …
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New York Times:
Mueller Will Accept Some Written Answers From Trump — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will accept written answers from President Trump on questions about whether his campaign conspired with Russia's election interference, Mr. Mueller's office told Mr. Trump's lawyers in a letter, two people briefed on it said on Tuesday.
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Ashley Kirzinger / The Henry J. Kaiser Family …:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - Late Summer 2018: The Election, Pre-Existing Conditions, and Surprises on Medical Bills — , Bryan Wu, Cailey Muñana, and Mollyann Brodie — Key Findings: — The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds recent political events weighing heavy …
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Mother Jones, CNN, Associated Press, HuffPost and STAT
TMZ.com:
Kim Kardashian Meets Donald Trump On Prison Reform, Freeing Another Prisoner — Kim Kardashian West has just entered the White House to meet with President Trump Wednesday morning to talk prison reform and also lobby the Prez to free another person who has been sentenced to life in prison for drug-related charges.
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Fox News, Hollywood Life, Washington Times and The Daily Caller
Salena Zito / New York Post:
The Twitter trolls attacking my work are all wrong — “Dad, it's not true,” I said, fighting to keep my voice steady through tears. — My 81-year-old father had just seen a Huffington Post headline — “Take Salena Zito Neither Seriously Nor Literally On Trump Voters” — with a picture of me next to it.
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