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I Stopped the Stormy Daniels Story at Fox News. Here's Why. — Two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, as the editorial head of Fox News online, I reviewed a draft news story that said porn actress Stormy Daniels had confirmed having an affair with Donald Trump a decade earlier.
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RedState, The Daily Caller, IJR, TVNewser and Recode
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Scoop: White House leak to House Dems on Jared and Ivanka's clearances — From a White House source, the House Oversight Committee has obtained documents related to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's security clearances that the Trump administration refused to provide, according …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Daily Kos
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Bill Shine Resigns as White House Message Chief — Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive who joined the White House staff last summer to manage President Trump's communications operation, has resigned and will move to the re-election campaign, the White House announced Friday.
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The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President — The White House press briefing is dead. It was awful, but we should still mourn it. — The President of the United States has called the media “the enemy of the people” dozens of times since taking office.
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Why Trump Loves the Fake News
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Trump cheered Kraft's team to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where he was busted — Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots …
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The Democrats' Dilemma — MINNEAPOLIS—They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February's night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding around the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.
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Ilhan Omar's Microaggression — Her words were bad. The reaction was worse. — The identity politics fiasco surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been excruciating. Half of me is angry at her. The other half is furious for her. — Among the most basic anti-Semitic tropes …
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‘She Had a Poor Choice of Words’: Ilhan Omar's Constituents Grapple with Her Remarks
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Ilhan Communication — Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Ilhan Communication — Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Conservative Review and The Bulwark
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Here's how we can break up Big Tech — Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist. Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world. It's a great story—but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook — Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is bidding to be the policy pacesetter in the Democratic presidential primary, announced another expansive idea on Friday: a regulatory plan aimed at breaking …
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Big League Politics, Political Wire, Breitbart, The Stranger and Splinter
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Chelsea Manning sent to jail for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case — Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be held in jail until she testifies before a grand jury or that grand jury is no longer operating, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled Friday.
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Chelsea Manning taken into custody for refusing to testify before secret grand jury — Chelsea Manning, an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose release of classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 sparked worldwide controversy over transparency in the military …
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Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
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Chelsea Manning Is Jailed for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Case
Chelsea Manning Is Jailed for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Case
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Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners — Creators of firms that donated revealed by Guardian as Indian financier, lobbyist with links to Taiwan and Israeli real estate developer — Donald Trump's inauguration received tens of thousands of dollars …
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Patterico's Pontifications and Shakesville
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Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops — ‘Cost Plus 50’ plan could worsen tensions with key allies — Frustration over spending by NATO countries behind proposal — For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren't paying enough.
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Daily Kos, Politico, Defense One, Raw Story, Big League Politics, Talking Points Memo, Axios and Task & Purpose
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House passes sweeping election reform bill — The House on Thursday passed a massive voting rights, campaign-finance and ethics reform package — a centerpiece of the new Democratic majority's agenda. — The bill, known as H.R. 1 and dubbed the For the People Act by Democrats, was approved on a party-line 234-193 vote.
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House Passes the Most Significant Democracy Reform Bill in a Generation
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If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together — Despite what Hollywood tells us, stopping an asteroid from creating an extinction-level event by blowing it up may not work. — Faced with the prospect of a sizable asteroid heading toward Earth and causing doomsday, humanity has come up with various responses.
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‘Whiter Every Election Cycle’: How Identity Evropa, a Far-Right Hate Group, Joined the GOP — According to leaked chat logs, the white supremacist group has actively reinvented itself as a ‘respectable’ group in order to entice Republicans. — The white nationalist group Identity Evropa …
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None of this is normal — A front-page headline in the Washington Post the other day declared: “Trump keeps his grip on GOP.” Hardly a scoop. It's normal for a president to have a firm hold on his own party. And President Trump, an outsider who latched onto the Republican agenda, is no exception.
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Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Secretary Wilson to resign, leaving new vacancy — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, who was considered a top candidate to become the next secretary of defense, has decided to resign after almost two years to return to academia …
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Report: U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to resign
Report: U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to resign
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Everyone is underestimating Trump. It could hurt Democrats and Republicans alike. — We live in an era of horribly misinformed political decision-making. In 2015, the Trump-skeptical Republican elite believed that Trump would naturally fade over the course of the primary …
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U.S. Women's Soccer Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Gender Discrimination — All 28 members of the world champion United States women's national team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on Friday, a sudden and significant escalation of a long-running fight …
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Michael Avenatti law firm files for bankruptcy protection again; creditor objects — Eagan Avenatti, the longtime firm of lawyer Michael Avenatti, filed late Thursday for federal bankruptcy protection. It's the second time in two years that it has sought court protection from its creditors.
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Democrats Demanded Trump's Tax Returns. Then They Dragged Their Feet. — Demanding the president's tax returns “is one of the first things we'd do” when Democrats control the House of Representatives, now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her hometown San Francisco Chronicle less than a month …
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Endeavor Returns Money to Saudi Arabia, Protesting Khashoggi Murder — There was much to celebrate last spring when Ariel Emanuel, the chief executive of the talent agency Endeavor, helped throw a splashy Hollywood party for Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
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She Got 5 Years For Voting Illegally Once. Paul Manafort Got Less Time For Years Of Cons. — “What I would like is for Trump to review my situation and Pardon me,” wrote Texas prisoner Crystal Mason. — Crystal Mason found out that Paul Manafort was sentenced to less than four years …
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What You Need To Know About Meghan McCain's Jewish Heritage — Meghan McCain, daughter of the late statesman and presidential candidate John McCain and co-host of ABC's The View, has taken an increasingly prominent role during the recent national conversation over the troubling rise of antisemitism in American politics.
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The Case for Reparations — A slow convert to the cause. — I've been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America's divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor. There's been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define. It is that the racial divide doesn't feel like the other divides.
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Tennessee Star