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Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court and the P.L.O. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will threaten to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court if it pursues an investigation of American troops in Afghanistan, opening a harsh new attack on an old nemesis of many on the political right.
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Townhall, New Republic, Axios, Washington Post, twitchy.com and Mediaite
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Trump Administration to Close Palestine Liberation Organization Office in Washington — The Trump administration is expected to announce Monday it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, widening a campaign of pressure amid stalled Middle East peace efforts.


GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events — Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe …
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DeSantis steps down from Congress to focus on governor's race
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Political Wire, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Beast, Washington Times and CBS Miami


Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump's ‘Lies’ — In a new tape played by Omarosa Manigault Newman on ‘The View,’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders can be heard confirming Trump's distortion of the Russia story. — With Bob Woodward's new book climbing the best-seller charts ahead …
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Exclusive: White House again changes phone policy amid heightened paranoia — Washington (CNN)After Omarosa Manigault Newman revealed last month that she secretly taped White House chief of staff John Kelly as he fired her in the Situation Room, a change was made to the West Wing's phone policy.
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NBC News, American Prospect and CNBC, more at Mediagazer »


Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? — The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech. — At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook …
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AOL, more at Techmeme »


The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering — How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia. — Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump. If he needs to discard friends, allies or wives along the way, so be it.
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Shakesville
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Michael Caputo Says He Figured Out the Identity of NYT Op-Ed Writer: She ‘Believes that She is a Hero’ — On Sunday, former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo claimed he knows who the author of the mysterious New York Times op-ed is and insisted the person behind the prose is a woman.
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Splinter and The Gateway Pundit
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I Am The Anonymous Iranian The NYT Published In 2009. The Trump Op-Ed Writer Is No Hero.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, NPR, The Federalist, Raw Story and The American Spectator


A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them — Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics to delete an article he had written …
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National Review and Louder With Crowder


Veteran Broadway actress asks: 'Where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?' — Veteran Broadway actress Carole Cook referenced Abraham Lincoln's assassin while responding to a question about President Trump — , asking: “Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?” — “Now will that get me in trouble?”
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twitchy.com
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Trump says he'll ‘write the real book’ to counter Woodward's — U.S. President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would “write the real book” to set the record straight on his administration, once again lashing out against veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward, whose incendiary book …
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ABC News, Shakesville, Associated Press and Shareblue Media
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Dem Who Compared Trump to Bin Laden Also Said ‘Nazis’ Work in White House
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The Daily Caller and NRCC


Inside the making of Ben Folds's ‘Mister Peepers’ — The Washington Post Magazine asked Ben Folds to write a song about anything. He chose Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Subscribe to The Washington Pos...


North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line — The newest intelligence shows Kim's regime has stepped up efforts to hide its nuclear weapons production, say three senior U.S. officials. — WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump issues a steady stream …
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Test Feed Using Fields, Defense One, Just Security, Talking Points Memo, Bustle, Bloomberg, Deadline, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Vox and Splinter


‘Scott Walker fatigue’ haunts Republicans — Signs that the Wisconsin governor is ripe to be taken down are everywhere. — GREEN BAY, Wisc. — There's every reason to believe this is the beginning of the end for Scott Walker. — His presidential bid crashed and burned.
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Splinter


Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds — (CNN)Rep. Mia Love's campaign has informed the Federal Election Commission that it will refund or redesignate less than half of what the government says was more than a million dollars improperly raised for a primary …
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Roll Call and Political Wire


Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’ — The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.
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The American Conservative


The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted — BROOKLYN—"Right now, I don't want to talk about it," Jerry Nadler told his curious, concerned constituent. “We don't want to talk about it.” — The man positioned to lead the House of Representatives' impeachment effort …
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Washington Monthly


Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina was paid to pursue access to Vladimir Putin for TV show — Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who stands accused of developing a covert influence operation in the United States, boasted of connections to high-ranking Kremlin officials and was even paid …
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Politico, Reuters, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Beast


State of The 2018 House Race — Dems do better in Dem precincts than GOP in GOP precincts; — Race, gender and education divide core support from persuadable voters — West Long Branch, NJ - The Monmouth University Poll finds the race for control of the House of Representatives to be tight …
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Political Wire


Trump touts an economic metric not seen in the U.S. since ... Bush — President Trump began his day Monday with a blizzard of tweets, some original, some retweets of supporters offering pro-Trump or anti-Trump-opponent messages. Those retweets were unusual; he doesn't often retweet people.
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New York Times, ThinkProgress, CNN, MSNBC and Shareblue Media


Allegations of racism at Orange County high school football game underscore broader tension in the Trump era — The fallout over allegations of racism at a recent Orange County high school football game erupted on social media over the weekend, reflecting the broader tension gripping the country in the Trump era.
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Orange County Register and Raw Story


Evacuations ordered for SC coast as Hurricane Florence nears, effective Tuesday — COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster will order evacuations along South Carolina's entire 187-mile coastline border starting at noon Tuesday, saying residents and tourists must get out of Hurricane Florence's …


Killing an Executive Order Is Harder Than You Think … This has been sitting in a browser tab for a while, and it's about time I either closed it or used it. So let's use it: … I only have one purpose here: to demonstrate the difficulty of repealing executive orders put in place by a previous administration.
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Sweden faces political impasse after inconclusive election — PM refuses calls to resign while second-placed Moderates rebuff overtures from far right — The leaders of Sweden's main left and rightwing parliamentary blocs have staked claims to form the next government …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, New York Times, Hullabaloo and Mashable


Shhhh! Dem leaders don't want to say ‘impeach.’ Bill Clinton's case explains why. — The top three Democratic leaders in the House — Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn — were all there in '98. — A majority of Democratic voters want President Donald Trump impeached, and …