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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh's Time in White House Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action — WASHINGTON — As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be …
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Here's Another Brett Kavanaugh Email Republicans Didn't Want You To See — Kavanaugh and his bros were planning a sailing weekend. — A major issue in Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings is Democratic anger over the limited release of documents related to his time working for President George W. Bush.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Marc Kasowitz denies Kavanaugh ever spoke to anyone at his firm about Mueller probe, contradicting Kamala Harris claim — “There have been no discussions regarding Robert Mueller's investigation between Judge Kavanaugh and anyone at our firm,” a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz said in a statement first provided to CNBC on Thursday.
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Sen. Cory Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh emails in combative Supreme Court confirmation hearing — The ongoing partisan battle over whether documents from Brett Kavanaugh's work at the George W. Bush White House should be made public continued to dominate the nominee's Supreme Court …
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Jenavieve Hatch / HuffPost:
Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’ At Confirmation Hearing
Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’ At Confirmation Hearing
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh hearing: Nominee declines to condemn Trump's attacks on judiciary
Kavanaugh hearing: Nominee declines to condemn Trump's attacks on judiciary
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
There's Now A Big Dumb Fight Over How Dems Released Kavanaugh Docs
There's Now A Big Dumb Fight Over How Dems Released Kavanaugh Docs
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings
Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings
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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
White House officials flagged Trump's behavior to psychiatrist last year — White House officials reached out to a noted Yale University psychiatrist last fall out of concern over President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior. — Dr. Bandy Lee, who edited the best-selling book …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office — (CNN)Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seizing on an explosive op-ed from an anonymous administration official, said Thursday that it's time to use constitutional powers to remove President Donald Trump office if top officials don't think he can do the job.
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Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's nightmare: “The snakes are everywhere” — President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward. He's deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Who Is a Senior Administration Official? It Depends — WASHINGTON — It is a perfectly Washington construction — inscrutable, important-sounding, soaked in self-regard. — “Senior administration official.” — Could be anybody, really. Or could it? The only consensus on Thursday: It wasn't me.
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Politico:
White House aides turn on each other in hunt for op-ed author
White House aides turn on each other in hunt for op-ed author
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
I am the real Resistance, the Resistance within the Trump administration
I am the real Resistance, the Resistance within the Trump administration
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Warren calls for 25th Amendment to be invoked against Trump
Warren calls for 25th Amendment to be invoked against Trump
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Twitter bans Alex Jones and InfoWars — Why Facebook, YouTube and Apple are removing InfoWars content — Twitter banned far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from its platform Thursday afternoon, a month after several of its Silicon Valley counterparts did so.
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The Daily Beast:
Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars — A video of him berating a CNN reporter with ‘the eyes of a rat’ was the final violation after a series of them by Infowars and its founder. — Twitter banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so.
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BuzzFeed:
After Multiple Provocations, Twitter Bans Alex Jones And Infowars — “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts' previous violations.” — After weeks of equivocation …
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts
Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts
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Mattathias Schwartz / New Yorker:
Facebook and Twitter's Rehearsed Dance on Capitol Hill
Facebook and Twitter's Rehearsed Dance on Capitol Hill
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened — Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’ — A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump's inauguration …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors use grand jury as investigation of Andrew McCabe intensifies — Federal prosecutors have for months been using a grand jury to investigate former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe — an indication that the probe into whether he misled officials exploring his role …
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Grand Jury Looking Into Case Of Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Dead even: AJC/Channel 2 poll shows Georgia governor's race is tied — The race for Georgia governor couldn't be closer just two months before the election, as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News poll showed Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp deadlocked at 45 percent.
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Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
State Senate Candidate Julia Salazar Was Arrested in 2011 On Suspicion of Criminal Use of Personal Information — Julia Salazar, the Democratic Socialist candidate running for New York State Senate, was arrested in 2011 on allegations of fraudulently attempting to access the bank account of Kai Hernandez …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/Marist poll: It's a neck-and-neck Senate race in Tennessee — Democrat Phil Bredesen gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, compared with 46 percent for Republican Marsha Blackburn. — WASHINGTON — Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Marsha Blackburn are running neck and neck …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants — The Trump administration said Thursday it is preparing to circumvent limits on the government's ability to hold minors in immigration jails by withdrawing from the Flores Settlement Agreement …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin plans to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban
Trump admin plans to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Scoop: George Papadopoulos Spills on Mueller Cooperation in First TV Interview With Jake Tapper — George Papadopoulos, the former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign and a figures at the center of the Russia investigation, will appear in his first-ever T.V. interview with CNN's Jake Tapper …
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Russia warns US of pending attack in Syrian area with US troops — Washington (CNN)Russia has warned the US military twice in the last week that its forces, along with Syrian regime units, are prepared to attack in an area where dozens of US troops are located, according to several US defense officials.
Economist:
Donald Trump's approval ratings are pulled down by college-educated whites — His current numbers are only just above the low point of December 2017 — ANYONE wondering how long it takes Americans to digest the news that their president has been implicated in a conspiracy …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CNN Trumpkin Star Scottie Nell Hughes Now Working for RT, the Kremlin's News Outlet — Once among the most prominent pro-Trump cable-news stars, Scottie Nell Hughes is now apparently working for RT, the Kremlin-backed propaganda outlet. — It appears Scottie Nell Hughes has a new job …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Giuliani to AP: Trump will not answer obstruction questions — NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators' questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Ethics Committee to investigate Reps. Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins — The House Ethics Committee voted Thursday to investigate Reps. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) and Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), a move that comes after the lawmakers were indicted in separate cases within the past month.
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts — WASHINGTON — After the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, started scaling back consumer protections for student borrowers last year, six states and the District of Columbia sped up their own efforts …
NBC News:
Obama won't hold ‘punches’ as he kicks off midterm campaign push — The former president is expected to frame election as choice between an “inclusive” or “fearful” America, aides say. — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is set to launch a political offensive designed to focus …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Live From the Battleground Districts: Polls of the Key Races for House Control — In a first, the Upshot and Siena College will publish polling results in real time. — Over the next two months, The New York Times will talk to more voters than ever before.
Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:
Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82 — The ex-jock from Florida starred in ‘Deliverance’ and ‘Boogie Nights’ but preferred making such populist, fun fare as ‘Smokey and the Bandit,’ ‘The Cannonball Run’ and ‘Starting Over.’ — Burt Reynolds, the charismatic star …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
U.S. Treasury Imposes Sanctions on Assad Regime's Key ISIS Intermediary and a Petroleum Procurement Network — Nine targets designated for facilitating petroleum shipments and financing to the Syrian Regime — Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …
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