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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
“Even if He Did Do It, It Wouldn't Be a Crime”: Rudy Giuliani on President Trump — On Sunday, Rudy Giuliani, one of President Trump's lawyers, made a startling admission to the Times and NBC's “Meet the Press” that Trump had been involved in discussions to build a Trump Tower Moscow throughout …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Giuliani Says His Moscow Trump Tower Comments Were ‘Hypothetical’ — President Trump's personal lawyer on Monday walked back the timeline he had offered a day earlier on when negotiations ended with Russian officials about a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow, calling his comments “hypothetical” and not intended to convey facts.
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Axios, Raw Story, CNN and Fox News Insider
NBC News:
Emin Agalarov, Russian singer linked to Trump family, cancels upcoming North American tour
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks
Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks
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Washington Post
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter suspends account that helped ignite controversy over viral encounter — New York (CNN Business)Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.
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Washington Times, The Guardian and Talking Points Memo, more at Techmeme »
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New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game — This won't help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann's case. — A photo said to be featuring Covington Catholic High School students clad in blackface during a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid …
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Snopes.com
Courier-Journal:
Louisville PR firm played a key role in Covington Catholic controversy — This video clip went viral, throwing Covington Catholic into the national spotlight. Longer video has since emerged showing how the incident started. — CONNECT — In the hours after video clips showed Covington …
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RT, New York Times and TheBlaze
Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
After Viral Video, Families of Covington Are Swiftly Circling to Protect Their Boys — COVINGTON, Ky. — On Friday night, all anyone at Covington Catholic High School was talking about was that their star Colonels basketball team had unexpectedly lost to the rival St. Xavier Bombers, 55-45.
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Crisis Magazine, Patterico's Pontifications, Townhall and The Atlantic, more at Mediagazer »
Laura Wagner / The Concourse:
Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes — Two days ago, video was posted online that pretty much everyone who saw immediately recognized for what it was—footage of white teens taunting and harassing a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Washington Examiner, UPI, Grabien News and Balloon Juice
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Twitter Allows ‘Verified’ Calls for Violence Against Conservative High School Kids
Twitter Allows ‘Verified’ Calls for Violence Against Conservative High School Kids
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Front Page Magazine, Power Line, The Daily Caller and The Cut
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Maybe Reexamine Your Life If You Want to Punch a Kid in the Face
Maybe Reexamine Your Life If You Want to Punch a Kid in the Face
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Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, NB Blog and Instapundit
Pardes Seleh / Mediaite:
Journalists and Celebs Rush to Delete Tweets Slamming MAGA-Hat Kids
Journalists and Celebs Rush to Delete Tweets Slamming MAGA-Hat Kids
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Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo, RedState, Townhall, IJR, Friendly Atheist, HuffPost, Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Instapundit
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Russian Oligarch and Allies Could Benefit From Sanctions Deal, Document Shows — WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on Russia and on the oligarch …
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The Week and Joe.My.God.
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Meduza.io:
Leaked audio records allegedly show how Oleg Deripaska's associates plotted the arrest of the ‘sex trainers’ who claimed to have ‘RussiaGate’ dirt on him — Opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny announced on Monday that he has learned about recordings …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims's book depicts life in Trump's White House — President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry, as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. He held the remote control …
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POLITICUSUSA, The Week, National Review, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Hullabaloo
Alison Bowen / Chicago Tribune:
It started when he couldn't grasp a pen. Diagnosed with ALS at 37, former Obama staffer hopes to use campaign skills to raise funds for a cure. — Brian Wallach, who has been diagnosed with ALS, and his wife, Sandra Abrevaya, are launching I Am ALS, which they hope leads to a better understanding …
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner — President Donald Trump's social media accounts are filled with vile racism, idiotic xenophobia, and inaccurate statistics. And now we can add another category to the list: fake photos.
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POLITICUSUSA, Towleroad Gay News, Mediaite, Washington Press and Joe.My.God.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Greenland's Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say — Greenland's enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a “tipping point,” and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the world within two decades, scientists said in a study published on Monday.
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The Guardian and The Daily Caller
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Exclusive: GOP reaches landmark agreement to juice small-dollar fundraising — President Donald Trump's political team and top Republican officials have reached a landmark agreement to reshape the party's fundraising apparatus and close the financial gap that devastated them in the midterms.
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CNN and electionlawblog.org
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Biden Expresses Regret for Support of Crime Legislation in the 1990s — WASHINGTON — Former Vice-President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Monday he made a mistake in supporting the tough-on-crime drug legislation of the 1980s and 1990s, expressing regret in particular over a bill …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump marks MLK day with 2-minute memorial visit
Trump marks MLK day with 2-minute memorial visit
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Breitbart, ABC News, illegal immigration … and Washington Post
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'
Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'
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Front Page Magazine, Axios, The American Mirror, Breitbart and twitchy.com
Nicholas Frankovich / National Review:
An Apology — Early Sunday morning, I posted a “strongly worded” (Rich Lowry's description) condemnation of the conduct, seen far and wide on video, of a group of high-school students at the conclusion of the March for Life on Friday afternoon. I was preachy and rhetorically excessive, and I regret it.
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American Greatness and Instapundit
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The GOP has become the pro-Russia party — Once upon a time, Ayn Rand-reading, red-baiting Republicans denounced Soviet Russia as an evil superpower intent on destroying the American way of life. — My, how things have changed. — The Grand Old Party has quietly become the pro-Russia party …
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Raw Story
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
US banker with ties to Putin's inner circle sought access to Trump transition: Sources — Nine days after Donald Trump won the presidency, as scores of supporters clamored for meetings with his transition team, the Hollywood producer of “The Apprentice,” Mark Burnett, reached …
Tyler Silvy / Greeley Tribune:
Rep. Lori Saine says blacks, whites lynched in ‘nearly equal numbers’ for being Republican — A Colorado representative said black people and white people were lynched in nearly equal numbers for being Republican in the post-Reconstruction era. — Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone …
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Raw Story
Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
ICE Agents Detain Woman Despite ‘High-Risk’ Pregnancy and Deny Her Medication for Days, Immigration Lawyers Say — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has come under fire after its agents arrested a woman who was five and a half months into a high-risk pregnancy during …
Jill Lepore / New Yorker:
Does Journalism Have a Future? — In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face. — The wood-panelled tailgate of the 1972 Oldsmobile station wagon dangled open like a broken jaw, making a wobbly bench on which four kids could sit, eight legs swinging.