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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
SEE IT: Cynthia Nixon Orders Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With... Lox And Capers — There's something about New York's endless supply of authentic eateries that transforms aspiring politicians into weird aliens who've never before encountered the concept of food: Back in the 1970s …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
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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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
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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Pete Madden / ABC News:
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, One America News Network, The Daily Beast, Reuters and POLITICUSUSA
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Airwars / The Daily Beast:
Putin Is Pushing for Total Victory in Syria No Matter How Many Civilians Die
Putin Is Pushing for Total Victory in Syria No Matter How Many Civilians Die
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
Judge silences both sides in alleged Russian spy Butina's case
Judge silences both sides in alleged Russian spy Butina's case
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. judge orders accused Russian agent Butina kept in jail
U.S. judge orders accused Russian agent Butina kept in jail
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Washington Times
Mark Landler / New York Times:
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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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Ken Starr says he considered perjury charges against Hillary Clinton, in explosive new memoir — Former independent counsel Ken Starr writes in his new memoir that he considered — but ultimately abandoned — the idea of perjury charges against then-first lady Hillary Clinton after her …
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
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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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
The Last 2018 Primary Briefing: New Hampshire, Rhode Island And New York — All good things must come to an end. After six months, 19 election days and seven live blogs, it's time to say goodbye to primary season. But before you grieve, a parting gift: three consecutive nights of electiony goodness.
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
New York State Attorney General Race Remains a Tossup, New Poll Shows
New York State Attorney General Race Remains a Tossup, New Poll Shows
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump approval down 6 points in a month, hits low among independents — WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen 6 points in the last month and stands at a new low among political independents, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Seanna Adcox / Post and Courier:
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 …
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Donald Trump / Associated Press:
The Latest: South Carolina to evacuate coast
The Latest: South Carolina to evacuate coast
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Washington Post:
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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Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis steps down from Congress to focus on governor's race
DeSantis steps down from Congress to focus on governor's race
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Washington Free Beacon, CBS Miami, The Daily Beast, Political Wire and Washington Times
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Adam Clymer, Political Reporter, Editor and Pollster, Dies at 81 — Adam Clymer, who covered congressional intrigue, eight presidential campaigns and the downfall of both Nikita S. Khrushchev and Richard M. Nixon as a reporter and editor for The New York Times and other newspapers, died early Monday at his home in Washington.
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
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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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Circus of Resistance — The resistance to Donald Trump …
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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...
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
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, Daily Wire and Louder With Crowder
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Who Will Replace Chris Collins, the Indicted Congressman, on the Ballot? Perhaps No One — After Representative Chris Collins was indicted last month, the Republican from western New York seemed to leave no doubt about his immediate political future: There was none.
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Political Wire
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
New Texts Reveal FBI Leaked Information to the Press to Damage Trump — Rep. Meadows sent a letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein saying a “review of the new documents raises greave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations”
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The Daily Caller
Martina Navratilova / New York Times:
What Serena Got Wrong — Just because the guys might be able to get away with it doesn't mean it's acceptable. — Ms. Navratilova is a broadcaster, former tennis champion and human rights activist. — Serena Williams has part of it right. There is a huge double standard for women …
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
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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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
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
Robert Herguth / Chicago Sun-Times:
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
NBC News:
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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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
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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CNN:
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
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
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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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
‘Tone deaf’ Playboy Club opens in New York, defying the #MeToo era — Club to open more than 30 years after Hefner declared Bunnies ‘a symbol of the past’ and 32 years after the city's original closed — A Playboy Club, replete with “alluring Playboy Bunny hostesses” and a …
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