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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump delivers scorched-earth speech as he tries to regain footing — President Donald Trump delivered a scorched-earth speech to conservative activists on Saturday, calling the Russia investigation “bullshit,” adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general …
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Hullabaloo, One America News Network, Deadline, Mediaite and Mother Jones
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Washington Post:
Trump derides Mueller probe, mocks Democrats and his former attorney general — President Trump capped a tumultuous week by reveling in the embrace of conservative activists on Saturday, deriding investigations of him as “bullshit,” repeatedly complaining about coverage of his crowd sizes …
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One America News Network and Breitbart
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount — When President Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen testified last week that his former boss was a “racist” and “con man” who routinely skirts the law, Republicans showed little interest in following up on his claims.
John W. Dean / New York Times:
I Testified Against Nixon. Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen. — My appearance before Congress helped take down a president. Will the same thing happen to Trump? — Mr. Dean was a White House counsel under Richard Nixon. — There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973 …
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Hullabaloo, Axios and Raw Story
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Top House Democrat: Hannity should testify under oath about hush-money scheme
Top House Democrat: Hannity should testify under oath about hush-money scheme
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Towleroad Gay News, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Two days in July: As Republicans convened in Cleveland, did Trump receive a heads-up about WikiLeaks?
Two days in July: As Republicans convened in Cleveland, did Trump receive a heads-up about WikiLeaks?
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The Hill
Matthew Sheffield / The Hill:
Poll finds 37 percent found Cohen testimony credible
Poll finds 37 percent found Cohen testimony credible
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SARAH PALIN, Breitbart, TheBlaze and IJR
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Trump announces executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don't ‘support free speech’ — A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday.
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control — Jeff Bezos amassed the world's greatest fortune by relying on what he has called a “regret minimization framework.” He built an $800 billion company with 14 codified principles and a brutally exacting culture. His annual salary of $81,840 has not budged since 1998.
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader — Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group has signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California.
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Washington Press, The Week and Boing Boing
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters — Loomer, who has already been banned from Twitter and Uber, was banned from conservative gathering on Saturday shortly before President Trump was supposed to take the stage. — The Conservative Political Action …
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Washington Times, twitchy.com, The Bulwark, Washingtonian and Right Wing Watch
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Ambitions Cloud Democratic Hopes to Win the Senate — WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are convinced that Steve Bullock, the popular governor of Montana, would give the party its best shot at unseating Senator Steve Daines, a freshman Republican, when he stands for re-election next year …
Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento D.A.: No charges against police officers who shot Stephon Clark — One year after Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark to death and sparked a renewed national dialogue over police shootings of young black men, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert declared Saturday …
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
‘I know where I came from!’: Sanders begins 2020 campaign with personal speech in Brooklyn — Brooklyn, New York (CNN)Bernie Sanders on Saturday spoke about his father's escape from Europe, where “virtually his entire family there was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism.”
Fox News:
UC-Berkeley police arrest suspect in campus attack on conservative activist — University of California-Berkeley officials on Friday arrested a suspect who allegedly assaulted a conservative activist on campus last month. — Zachary Greenberg, 28, was arrested by university police about 1 p.m. …
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Young Conservatives, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, Campus Reform, Townhall, The College Fix, Power Line, SFist and Daily Wire
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Aaron Colen / TheBlaze:
Man arrested for assault on conservative activist at UC Berkeley
Man arrested for assault on conservative activist at UC Berkeley
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PJ Media Home and Berkeley News
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Stay-Puft Socialism, Luxurious Infanticide — Old evils continue to reinvent themselves. … Dear Reader (Including the Amy Klobuchar intern kept in a crate in the back office), — One of my favorite Twitter accounts is the official Twitter feed of the Socialist party of Great Britain.
The Guardian:
Revealed: Facebook's global lobbying against data privacy laws — Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment — Facebook has targeted politicians around the world - including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne …
Mary L. Dudziak / Washington Post:
The toxic legacy of the Korean War — The conflict upended the constitutional balance. It has been cited by presidents ever since. — The collapse of talks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un in Hanoi means that Pyongyang's nuclear program will continue — and so …
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Judge demands answers from Roger Stone on book that could violate gag order — The judge in charge of Roger Stone's criminal trial on Friday demanded to know why the court wasn't made aware of the “imminent general release” of a book that could include discussion of the longtime Trump adviser's …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Poster linking Rep. Ilhan Omar to 9/11 sparks outrage, injuries in W.Va. state Capitol — Friday was a day meant to celebrate the Republican Party in the West Virginia Capitol. But a poster connecting a Muslim congresswoman to the 9/11 terrorist attacks led to heated emotions …
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CNN, New York Post, RedState, Register-Herald, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Jihad Watch, The Week, AOL and Politico
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Sparrow / The Sparrow Project:
Chelsea Manning Challenges Grand Jury Subpoena, Support Committee Issues Statement in Solidarity — Alexandria, VA — Chelsea Manning has been summoned to appear and give testimony before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) on March 5, 2019.
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The Intercept and Washington Post
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
WikiLeaks Veteran: I ‘Cooperated’ With Feds ‘in Exchange for Immunity’
WikiLeaks Veteran: I ‘Cooperated’ With Feds ‘in Exchange for Immunity’
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Raw Story