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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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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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Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Says Bob Woodward Has ‘A Lot Of Credibility Problems’ — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump addressed newly released excerpts from Bob Woodward's book on his administration, denying some specific allegations and accusing the author of credibility issues, in an exclusive Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller.
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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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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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Report: Everybody in the White House Considers Trump an Idiot
Report: Everybody in the White House Considers Trump an Idiot
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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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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, TIME and CNBC, more at Mediagazer »
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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Politico:
Schumer, Democrats wrestled over staging mass Kavanaugh walkout — The party decided that a made-for-TV moment could backfire, and instead opted for a strategy of maximum disruption. — Hours before Brett Kavanaugh arrived for his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday …
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Power Line, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Shareblue Media, ABC News and Political Wire
Paul Farrell / Heavy.com:
Zina Bash Is the Woman Sitting Behind Brett Kavanaugh
Zina Bash Is the Woman Sitting Behind Brett Kavanaugh
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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, CNN and Althouse
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, The New Neo, Axios, JONATHAN TURLEY and CNN
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.
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Ayanna Pressley Ousts 20-Year Incumbent Michael Capuano in Massachusetts Primary Shocker
Ayanna Pressley Ousts 20-Year Incumbent Michael Capuano in Massachusetts Primary Shocker
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Washington Free Beacon, Politico, ABC News, Washington Post and HuffPost
Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
Ayanna Pressley Upsets Rep. Capuano in Massachusetts Democratic Primary
Ayanna Pressley Upsets Rep. Capuano in Massachusetts Democratic Primary
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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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Associated Press:
The Latest: UK's May: poisoning suspects were Russian agents — LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain (all times local): — British Prime Minister Theresa May says the two prime suspects in the nerve-agent poisoning …
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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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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Now Twitter Edits The New Yorker — The venerable magazine hands the reins to the digital mob. — A common complaint of liberal journalists about conservative politicians is that the latter lack for courage. As in: Paul Ryan knows that Donald Trump is a bigot and a danger …
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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NBC News:
FBI Director Christopher Wray becomes the latest target for Trump's ire — Wray is the latest in a growing list of Justice Department officials who have angered the president, NBC News has learned. — WASHINGTON — In recent conversations with confidants, President Donald Trump …
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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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Political Wire and Axios
BNO News:
Pickup truck crashes into Dallas TV studio in apparent attack — googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad- 1465596721636-0'); }); — UPDATE: The suspect left papers and was “screaming about treason,” a Fox 4 employee has told WFAA-TV. Details soon.
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Daily Caller Editor Wrote For an ‘Alt-Right’ Website Using a Pseudonym — 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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American Greatness and Mediaite
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Heavily spliced Ted Cruz video falsely depicts Beto O'Rourke saying he's ‘grateful’ for flag burning — WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz's latest effort to inflame conservatives — a video in which Rep. Beto O'Rourke appears to express enthusiasm for flag burning — hinges on heavy splicing …
Omar Haj Kadour / Agence France-Presse:
Erdogan warns of ‘massacre’ in Syria's Idlib — Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, on Tuesday resumed air strikes on Idlib after a 22-day pause — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that dropping bombs and missiles on Syria's last rebel-held province …
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John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve — Firm, tarred by scandal, will pay creditors its remaining cash — Theranos Inc., the blood-testing company accused of perpetrating Silicon Valley's biggest fraud, will soon cease to exist. — In the wake of a high-profile scandal …
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Tom Nichols / Washington Post:
Want to save the GOP, Republicans? Vote for every Democrat on this year's ballot. — If the GOP is going to be a credible, center-right party, Republicans have to treat the 2018 election as a parliamentary-style housecleaning. — Naval War College and Harvard Extension School professor
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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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Politico:
Why Rahm bailed on reelection — The Chicago mayor might have won a third term, but only after a long, painful reelection slog. — CHICAGO — His polling numbers were sliding, and had even bottomed out in some city wards. With Chicagoans weary of the violence playing out in their neighborhoods …
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Jennifer Calfas / TIME:
‘Every Job is Worthwhile.’ Former Cosby Show Actor Speaks Out After Job-Shaming Photo Goes Viral — A former Cosby Show actor is speaking out after a photograph surfaced showing him working at a grocery store in what many perceived as an attempt to shame him for his job.
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Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Prepped Lawsuit Against NBC Over ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump attacked NBC's journalistic credibility and called into question the authenticity and legality of the “Access Hollywood” tape leaked during the 2016 election …
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Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center:
Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook — Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship with the social media platform. — Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings …
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