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New York Times:
Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance — WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …
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Trump demanded top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner last year despite concerns of John Kelly and intelligence officials — President Trump early last year directed his then-chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to give presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify — The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump's money. Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization's receipts. — The House intelligence community intends to call …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Michael Cohen's perjury problem: Witnesses refute testimony about not wanting White House job — View Latest Opinions >> — Michael Cohen, the disgraced former lawyer for President Trump, repeatedly and aggressively lobbied for a job in the White House but was rejected …
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Boston Globe, NB Blog and Washington Post
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption — At the Hanoi summit, perhaps following a champagne toast officially welcoming North Korea to the nuclear club, I imagine President Trump and Kim Jong Un sitting down to watch the Michael Cohen hearing.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's money man draws unwelcome spotlight — President Donald Trump's top money man, Allen Weisselberg, has long managed Trump's global business while shunning the blinding spotlight his boss commands. — Now, with Democrats demanding Weisselberg come to Capitol Hill to answer their questions …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Oversight seeks interviews with Ivanka Trump, Don Jr. — The House Oversight Committee will pursue interviews with some of President Donald Trump's children and closest allies who were implicated in Michael Cohen's bombshell testimony before the panel, Chairman Elijah Cummings said Thursday.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Went to Vietnam, and Michael Cohen Made It Hell — On a humiliating twenty-four hours for the President. — During his testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Wednesday, Michael Cohen raised his bushy eyebrows and nodded emphatically as he read …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
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The White House and Washington Post
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
After Cohen's hearing, the BuzzFeed bombshell that Mueller disputed looks better — and worse
After Cohen's hearing, the BuzzFeed bombshell that Mueller disputed looks better — and worse
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Raw Story, Vox, National Review and Lawfare, more at Mediagazer »
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Videos of Mark Meadows saying ‘send Obama home to Kenya’ resurface hours after he's accused of racist stunt
Videos of Mark Meadows saying ‘send Obama home to Kenya’ resurface hours after he's accused of racist stunt
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Contemptor, Breitbart, Axios and Boing Boing
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
2016 video shows Michael Cohen lied to Congress about not wanting a Trump administration job
2016 video shows Michael Cohen lied to Congress about not wanting a Trump administration job
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Cummings: House Oversight will seek interviews with Trump Jr., Ivanka
Cummings: House Oversight will seek interviews with Trump Jr., Ivanka
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Joe.My.God., POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Politico
Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
House Democrats see new probes in Cohen's testimony
House Democrats see new probes in Cohen's testimony
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Raw Story, VICE News, POLITICUSUSA, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and ABC News
John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘This is not a day at the beach’: Pelosi tells moderate Dems to stop voting with GOP — House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives.
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HuffPost:
Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen — The questions that won the New York congresswoman praise were the combined product of committee staff expertise, collaboration and oratory skills. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went viral again yesterday.
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Washington Post, CNN, CityLab and CNBC
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates
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Axios
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’ — Earlier this month, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted, “It's all about the Benjamins, baby!” in response to a report about AIPAC, a pro-Israel organization. Omar's tweet echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope …
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Daily Wire, Balloon Juice, Breitbart and Washington Free Beacon
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Emily Larsen / checkyourfact.com:
FACT CHECK: Ilhan Omar Says It's A ‘Myth’ That Trans Women Have A ‘Direct Competitive Advantage’ In Powerlifting
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Unrepentant Ilhan Omar suggests Jews who criticize her anti-Semitic statements are doing …
Laura Kelly / Jewish Insider:
Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel
Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel
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Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com
Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon:
Omar on Anti-Semitic Tweets: I Did Not Apologize for Being Anti-Semitic
Omar on Anti-Semitic Tweets: I Did Not Apologize for Being Anti-Semitic
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RedState and The Intercept
Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep — Trump hates to prepare and likes to negotiate from the gut. The Hanoi humiliation with Kim Jong Un was the direct result. — Nothing about the Hanoi summit's outcome is a surprise. The writing was on the wall, the president just refused to read it.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump got played by Kim Jong Un — again — Trump administration officials constantly say the foreign policy establishment's decades-long failure with North Korea meant there was no choice but to give Trump's fresh, personal, top-down method a fair trial. Today the verdict is in.
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
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Esquire
Raoul Wootliff / The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu to stand trial for bribery and breach of trust, pending hearing — AG's decision is legal bombshell ahead of April 9 elections, marks first time in Israel's history that serving PM is told he faces criminal charges; premier to speak at 8 p.m. — In a move that drastically shakes …
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New York Times:
Prosecutor Moves to Indict Netanyahu on Corruption Charges
Prosecutor Moves to Indict Netanyahu on Corruption Charges
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The Times of Israel and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
GOP opposition to emergency declaration grows as Trump warns lawmakers — GOP opposition to President Trump's emergency declaration at the border grewin the Senate Thursday, even as Trump warned that fellow Republicans who vote to overturn it are putting themselves “at great jeopardy” politically.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
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Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze and Axios
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Tom Udall and Susan Collins introduce Senate disapproval of Trump's border security emergency
Tom Udall and Susan Collins introduce Senate disapproval of Trump's border security emergency
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Page Six:
Brian Williams may score top time slot after late-night rating success … Brian Williams could come back from TV news exile, Page Six is told. — The anchor was booted from the “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 after it was revealed that he'd embellished some stories with fictional details …
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The Daily Beast
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
How a Private Israeli Intelligence Firm Spied on Pro-Palestinian Activists in the U.S. — Hatem Bazian, a veteran pro-Palestinian activist in his fifties, lives with his family on a quiet street in North Berkeley, near the campus of the University of California, where he lectures.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy — It has not stood the test of time. Quite the opposite. — It's still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week. On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado …
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The Week, Talking Points Memo and Beacon
Michael Shellenberger / Quillette:
Why Renewables Can't Save the Planet — When I was a boy, my parents would sometimes take my sister and me camping in the desert. A lot of people think deserts are empty, but my parents taught us to see the wildlife all around us, including hawks, eagles, and tortoises.
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Andrew Cuomo Speaks With Jeff Bezos, Furiously Trying to Win Back Amazon — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who was staggered by Amazon's decision to pull out of its plans to come to New York City, is working intensely behind …
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