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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Nominates Famous Idiot Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Board — Stephen Moore's career as an economic analyst has been a decades-long continuous procession of error and hackery. It is not despite but precisely because of these errors that Moore now finds himself in the astonishing position …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Mueller's end is only the beginning — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT ... REUTERS' JAMES MACKENZIE in Islamabad and ROD NICKEL in Kabul: “Two U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan”: “[T]he NATO-led Resolute Support mission ... gave no further details …
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Offers Fed Board Position to Economic Commentator Stephen Moore — President Trump said he intends to nominate former campaign adviser Stephen Moore to serve on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.
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Vanity Fair, Breitbart, Raw Story and Mediaite
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Trump: ‘People Will Not Stand for It’ if Mueller Report Makes Me Look Bad
Trump: ‘People Will Not Stand for It’ if Mueller Report Makes Me Look Bad
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Mediaite
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
WATCH: Trump Fumes and Calls Fox's Maria Bartiromo ‘Fake News’ for Grilling Him on McCain Attacks
WATCH: Trump Fumes and Calls Fox's Maria Bartiromo ‘Fake News’ for Grilling Him on McCain Attacks
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The Week, Fox Business, Joe.My.God., Splinter and IJR
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Nominate Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Board
Trump Says He'll Nominate Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Board
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Talking Points Memo, Reuters, Raw Story, Shareblue Media, The Daily Caller, Axios, Politico and Mediaite
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Commander-in-Chief Picks Flatterer-in-Chief for Fed Board
Commander-in-Chief Picks Flatterer-in-Chief for Fed Board
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Media Matters for America
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McSally says she spoke to Trump about McCain attacks
McSally says she spoke to Trump about McCain attacks
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New York Times, Shareblue Media, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Orders Treasury to Roll Back Sanctions Against North Korea — WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday by announcing that he was rolling back North Korea sanctions that it imposed just a day ago. — The move, announced on Twitter …
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CNBC, Joe.My.God., Balloon Juice and Mediaite
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Washington Post:
Trump cancels some sanctions aimed at North Korea, contradicting Treasury Dept. — President Trump sparked confusion on Friday by announcing the cancellation of sanctions aimed at North Korea that were just announced by his own Treasury Department, an apparent effort to salvage his administration's nuclear negotiations.
Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Parkland shooting survivor Sydney Aiello takes her own life — On the day a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sydney Aiello escaped with her life. However, the grief of losing 17 of her classmates and teachers, as well as the long-lasting effects of enduring such a traumatic event, weighed heavily on her.
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Townhall, CBS Miami, New York Post, Joe.My.God., Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Law & Crime, Outside the Beltway, Fox News and KTLA
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans resigned to Trump losing 2020 popular vote but confident about Electoral College — Senior Republicans are resigned to President Trump losing the popular vote in 2020, conceding the limits of the flamboyant incumbent's political appeal and revealing just how central the Electoral College …
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New York Times, Splinter, Hot Air, Raw Story, alicublog, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine, Shakesville and Conservative News Today
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Washington Post:
Democrats will order FBI, White House counsel to preserve records shared with Mueller — The Democratic chairs of the six House committees investigating potential abuse of power by President Trump and his campaign's business and alleged foreign ties will ask several executive branch agencies …
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
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Reuters:
Turn in your smartphones! How Mueller kept a lid on Trump-Russia probe
Turn in your smartphones! How Mueller kept a lid on Trump-Russia probe
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RedState, Hot Air, The Week, ABC News and New York Times
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Giuliani: Waiting for Mueller report is ‘like waiting for a baby’
Giuliani: Waiting for Mueller report is ‘like waiting for a baby’
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The Moderate Voice, Axios, Washington Times and Political Wire
National Journal:
House Democrats Move to Hobble Primary Challengers — The party's congressional campaign arm rolled out new hiring standards to deter firms from working with candidates who run against incumbents. — Ally Mutnick — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making an early move …
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Splinter and Daily Wire
Bloomberg:
Treasuries Buying Wave Triggers First Curve Inversion Since 2007 — Gap Between 3-month and 10-year U.S. yields vanishes Friday — Move follows Fed policy shift, gloomier economic signs — The Treasury yield curve inverted for the first time since the last crisis Friday …
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Political Wire
David Brody / CBN News:
EXCLUSIVE Secretary of State Pompeo to CBN News: God May Have Raised Up Trump Like He Raised Up Queen Esther — JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells CBN News it is very possible that President Trump is a modern-day Esther poised to defend Israel and save the Jewish people.
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Politico, CBN.com, Townhall, Washington Post, Spectator USA and Sputnik International
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Ilan Goldenberg / Politico:
Trump's Golan Fiasco
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Kill or Be Killed’: Inside the Ad Boycotts and Power Transfers Shaping the New Fox News — Tucker Carlson was in Florida by the time Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group, published the first batch of controversial comments he made years ago on a shock jock radio show.
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The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Without Major Sponsors, Tucker Carlson's Show Leans on Ads for Fox Programming — ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ besieged by social media backlash, increasingly is filling commercial breaks with in-house ads and direct-response brand spots. — As blue-chip advertisers have abandoned Tucker Carlson's …
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TVNewser and Splinter, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is a Massive Failure — and Getting Exactly What He Wants — Every day, the evidence piles up that Trump's presidency is a failure on its own terms, let alone anyone else's. And every day, it becomes clearer that this really doesn't matter at all. — A politically successful policy catastrophe?
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NPR and Daily Wire
Washington Post:
Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes — There is suggestive evidence that Trump's rhetoric matters. — During an interview with CBS's “Face the Nation” this past Sunday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) lambasted President Trump for emboldening white nationalism …
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Shareblue Media, Raw Story and Splinter
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
From a Swimsuit Model to the Trump Megaphone: The Genesis of ‘Jexodus’ — WASHINGTON — At 23, Elizabeth Pipko has branded herself on social media as a onetime figure skater, a part-time poet and a former Trump campaign aide, an Instagramista whose feed spotlights her Mar-a-Lago wedding and racy swimsuit and lingerie modeling shots.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Ex-FBI Official: Fusion GPS Founder Tried To ‘Elevate’ Dossier By Spreading It All Around Washington — In congressional testimony in 2018, former FBI general counsel James Baker said that the bureau was aware that the founder of Fusion GPS was shopping the infamous dossier around Washington, D.C., prior to the 2016 election.
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Wall Street Journal and Fox News Insider
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
War Torn — Navy cryptologist Shannon Kent was a driven warrior, and then a devoted mom. When her deployment orders came in, could she reconcile the two? — The doubts crowded in late at night, after the kids were in bed and the dishes were put away. — In the months after she got …
Bloomberg:
U.S. Posts Largest-Ever Monthly Budget Deficit in February — Shortfall rises 40% to $544b in first 5 months of fiscal year — Corporate, income taxes decline as tariff revenue climbs — The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month …
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Axios and The Guardian
CNN:
The inside story of how John Roberts negotiated to save Obamacare — (CNN)Adapted from “The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts” by Joan Biskupic. Copyright © 2019. Available from Basic Books. — Chief Justice John Roberts arrived at the Valletta campus …
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Vox, Lawyers, Guns & Money, CNBC and SCOTUSblog
Michael Y. Park / The Points Guy:
Airline Assured Flight Attendant She'd Be Safe to Fly to Mexico. When She Returned, ICE Detained Her. — A dream job has turned into a nightmare for a Texas flight attendant who is now sitting in an immigration detention center and facing deportation to South America.
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View from the Wing
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Trump fans launch all-out attack on ex-Navy SEAL GOP lawmaker for defending McCain: 'You'll be a one-term wonder' — Retired Navy Lieutenant Commander Dan Crenshaw — who now serves as a Republican congressman — defended former Navy Captain John McCain on Thursday.
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The Daily Beast, The Hill and RedState
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
How Twitter's algorithm is amplifying extreme political rhetoric — New York (CNN Business)Imagine opening up the Twitter app on your phone and scrolling through your feed. Suddenly, you come across a hyper-partisan tweet calling Hillary Clinton the “godmother of ISIS.”
Debbie Truong / Washington Post:
An online threat of violence shuts down all Charlottesville schools — Public school campuses in Charlottesville will be shuttered Friday for a second straight day — and more than 4,300 students will be kept out of classrooms — after a threat of racial violence surfaced online.
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WVIR-TV, Fox News, Splinter and Daily Progress
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: I hope Barr will 'do what's fair' with regards to investigating Hillary Clinton — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Friday he hopes Attorney General William Barr will “do what's fair” with regards to opening investigations to perceived crimes by his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton …
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Shakesville
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims — Voters call out Steve King after Facebook post: We care — Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Steve King, who has a lengthy history of incendiary comments related to race, favorably compared the response of his Iowan constituents …
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The Advocate, HuffPost, Roll Call, Washington Post and Splinter
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Promotes Pro-Trump QAnon Conspiracy Theorist — A reporter on ‘Fox & Friends First’ uncritically cited Twitter user @QAnon76, a major QAnon promoter, on Friday. ‘We are the news!’ one QAnon believer rejoiced. — A Fox News reporter cited a major promoter of QAnon on-air Friday morning …
Associated Press:
GM announces jobs, electric vehicle after Trump criticism — ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Less than a week after a series of critical tweets from the president over an Ohio plant closure, General Motors is announcing plans to add 400 jobs and build a new electric vehicle at a factory north of Detroit.
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Axios
Sady Doyle / Medium:
The Media Gaslighting of 2020's Most Likable Candidate … At CNN's town hall event on Monday, the American people saw something we'd been told was impossible: Elizabeth Warren winning over a crowd. — The Massachusetts senator took aim at a variety of subjects: the Electoral College …