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Washington Post:
Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations — Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke submitted his resignation to the White House Saturday, facing intense pressure from the White House amid multiple probes tied to his real estate dealings in Montana and conduct while in office.
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Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke's likely replacement has been ‘the man behind the curtain’
Zinke's likely replacement has been ‘the man behind the curtain’
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New York Times, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Axios
Bloomberg:
Trump's Interior Chief Zinke to Step Down Amid Ethics Probes
Trump's Interior Chief Zinke to Step Down Amid Ethics Probes
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New York Times:
Ryan Zinke, Face of Trump Environmental Rollbacks, Is Leaving Interior Department
Ryan Zinke, Face of Trump Environmental Rollbacks, Is Leaving Interior Department
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Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke to leave Interior amid scandals
Zinke to leave Interior amid scandals
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
A Guide to the Ryan Zinke Investigations
A Guide to the Ryan Zinke Investigations
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BuzzFeed News and Mediaite
Shirley Wang / WBUR:
My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley 14:24 … Play — When Charles Barkley's mother, Charcey Glenn, passed away in June 2015, Barkley's hometown of Leeds, Alabama, came to the funeral to pay respects. But there was also an unexpected guest. — Barkley's friends couldn't quite place him.
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Washington Post:
Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation — Two years after Donald Trump won the presidency, nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation. — Trump's private company is contending with civil suits digging …
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New York Times:
As the Trumps Dodged Taxes, Their Tenants Paid a Price — They were collateral damage as Donald J. Trump and his siblings dodged inheritance taxes and gained control of their father's fortune: thousands of renters in an empire of unassuming red-brick buildings scattered across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
New York Times:
How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments — This year's McKinsey & Company retreat in China was one to remember. — Hundreds of the company's consultants frolicked in the desert, riding camels over sand dunes and mingling in tents linked by red carpets.
New York Times:
What the Lawless Obamacare Ruling Means — It's not based on a solid legal argument. It's an exercise in raw judicial power. — Mr. Adler is a professor of law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Abbe R. Gluck is a professor of law and the faculty director …
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David Nather / Axios:
You should take the Obamacare ruling seriously
You should take the Obamacare ruling seriously
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump makes unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery — President Trump made an unscheduled visit to Arlington National Cemetery on a rainy Saturday, following weeks of criticism for skipping ceremonial visits in the United States and abroad that other presidents have made and for his lack …
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Political Wire
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump makes first trip to Arlington National Cemetery since Veterans Day criticism
Trump makes first trip to Arlington National Cemetery since Veterans Day criticism
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Townhall, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Biden, Sanders top early look at possible Democratic hopefuls in 2020 caucuses — Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders top the list of potential presidential candidates preferred by Iowa's likely Democratic caucusgoers, reflecting their belief that it will take political experience to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020.
Ace of Spades HQ:
Weekly Standard Shuts Down — There's a lot of whining by NeverTrumpers that this is terrible because we need dissenting voices in media, and the closing of the Weekly Standard means that we must all “kneel” to one rich arrogant man's ego. — Well, you know who might agree with that?
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Philip Ewing / NPR:
The Russia Investigations: An Unfinished Case Looks Weaker Than Ever — This week in the Russia investigations: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison ... Maria Butina pleaded guilty ... but the finish line looks no closer — The shifting sands
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
After a petition called Gandhi ‘racist,’ his statue was removed from the University of Ghana — Another marker has been felled in the intense argument over whether historic figures with racist histories should be honored. The University of Ghana in Accra no longer has a statue of India independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi.
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Al Jazeera, Sputnik International and RT
Jordan Crucchiola / Vulture:
Benedict Cumberbatch Is the Man Who Scammed a Nation in the Trailer for HBO's Brexit — The swindlers of the world really took things to a new level in 2016, and HBO has a movie that digs into one of the great con jobs in modern political history. (There was definitely another …
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Joe.My.God. and Breitbart
Alan Judd / myajc:
AJC INVESTIGATION: How Brian Kemp turned warning of election system vulnerability against Democrats — In a dead heat with Stacey Abrams, Brian Kemp created a diversion from computer security breakdown — Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had a problem.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Mick Mulvaney's move to chief of staff — President Trump had a meeting scheduled Monday with a possible candidate for White House chief of staff. Guess that guy ain't getting it. — You can tell so much about West Wing dynamics by the way Trump announced Mick Mulvaney …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Mick Mulvaney Trashes ‘Terrible’ Donald Trump In Newly Resurfaced Video
Mick Mulvaney Trashes ‘Terrible’ Donald Trump In Newly Resurfaced Video
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CNN, New York Times and Politico
Elizabeth Bruenig / Washington Post:
My advice to progressives: Don't back down — A reductive, but not incorrect view of the Democratic debacle in the 2016 elections holds that when President Trump took office, centrists lost the present and leftists lost the future. In 2020, Democrats will have a new opportunity …
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