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Ken LaCorte / Mediaite:
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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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
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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New York Times:
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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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
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.
John F. Harris / Politico:
Why Trump Loves the Fake News — Why is the mainstream media so agitated about President Donald Trump's close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity? A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.” — Not sure I buy the premise.
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miamiherald:
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 …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
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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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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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New York Times:
‘She Had a Poor Choice of Words’: Ilhan Omar's Constituents Grapple with Her Remarks
‘She Had a Poor Choice of Words’: Ilhan Omar's Constituents Grapple with Her Remarks
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Ilhan Communication — Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Ilhan Communication — Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
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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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
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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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
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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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
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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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
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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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
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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Bloomberg:
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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Robin George Andrews / New York Times:
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.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
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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Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
House passes sweeping voting rights, electoral reform bill
House passes sweeping voting rights, electoral reform bill
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
House Passes the Most Significant Democracy Reform Bill in a Generation
House Passes the Most Significant Democracy Reform Bill in a Generation
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
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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Charles Tiefer / Forbes:
Judge Who Let Manafort Off Easy With 47 Months Was A Reagan Appointee
Judge Who Let Manafort Off Easy With 47 Months Was A Reagan Appointee
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Elie Honig / CNN:
A shockingly lenient sentence for Paul Manafort
A shockingly lenient sentence for Paul Manafort
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
‘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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Fred Barnes / Washington Examiner:
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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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
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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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Report: U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to resign
Report: U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to resign
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David Byler / Washington Post:
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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David Brooks / New York Times:
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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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job creation grinds to a near-halt in February; wages still on the rise — Job growth screeched to a near halt in February, with nonfarm payrolls up just 20,000 as the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent. — It was the worst month for job creation since September 2017, offset somewhat by a solid increase in wages.
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Weak Jobs Report Clouds the Economic Picture
Weak Jobs Report Clouds the Economic Picture
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