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CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority says Trump not exonerated of collusion after Barr's summary — WASHINGTON (CNN)Though President Donald Trump has claimed “complete and total exoneration” based on Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox's Judge Napolitano: ‘There Is Something There’ on Conspiracy in Mueller Report — ‘There is something there, but it is not enough to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,’ the Fox News senior judicial analyst said Wednesday. — Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano …
CBS News:
Mueller report: Majorities across party lines want full report released says CBS News poll — More than 3 in 4 Americans, including majorities of both Republicans and Democrats, think the full Mueller report should be released to the public. But the partisan splits that have long marked …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller swiftly closes up shop — The docket sheet hanging outside a federal courtroom on Wednesday morning still listed Robert Mueller's prosecutors. But they were nowhere to be found at the hearing. — Welcome to the post-Mueller world. — In a matter of days the special counsel …
Associated Press:
Mueller's evidence is likely a massive amount of material — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say they want “all of the underlying evidence” in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. But what is all of that evidence? — Mueller's team issued more than 2,800 subpoenas …
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Axios
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller grand jury ‘continuing robustly,’ prosecutor says
Mueller grand jury ‘continuing robustly,’ prosecutor says
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report for second time
McConnell blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report for second time
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Nadler: Barr Won't Commit To Releasing Unredacted Mueller Report And Evidence
Sara Murray / CNN:
Special counsel briefly interviewed Maria Butina, sources say
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Exclusive: NRA Official Sought Sandy Hook Hoaxer To Question Parkland Shooting, Emails Show — NRA official Mark Richardson emailed a day after the Parkland shooting to say the shooter “was not alone.” — An official with the National Rifle Association corresponded with a prominent Sandy …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The what's-going-on presidency — DRIVING THE DAY — THE WHAT'S-GOING-ON PRESIDENCY ... OVER THE LAST WEEK, the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has taken several tactical and political steps that would be seen, in any other administration, as such massively stupid political blunders …
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Political Wire, The Guardian, BuzzFeed News and Daily Kos
New York Times:
In Divided White House, Trump Sided With Mulvaney in Push for Nullifying Health Act — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's surprise decision to press for a court-ordered demolition of the Affordable Care Act came after a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Monday …
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Washington Post:
Mulvaney pushes the health-care fight Trump wants despite GOP's misgivings
Mulvaney pushes the health-care fight Trump wants despite GOP's misgivings
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Axios:
Scoop: Kevin McCarthy tells Trump new health care push makes no sense
Scoop: Kevin McCarthy tells Trump new health care push makes no sense
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Comey calls Mueller's position on Trump obstruction charges “confusing” — Former FBI Director James Comey told NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt in an interview that aired on Wednesday that he thought President Trump may have obstructed justice after his abrupt dismissal in 2017.
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump vows to release FISA docs now that Mueller probe is concluded, slams ‘treasonous’ FBI
Trump vows to release FISA docs now that Mueller probe is concluded, slams ‘treasonous’ FBI
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Adviser and allies warning Trump against issuing pardons
Adviser and allies warning Trump against issuing pardons
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Axios
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin Gives OK to Sell Nuclear Tech to Saudis — Want to help the erratic, murderous Saudi regime develop nuclear technology? That's OK with the Department of Energy. — The U.S. Department of Energy has approved six authorizations for U.S. companies seeking to conduct nuclear related work …
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Bryan Lowry / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump's pick for Federal Reserve had hand in creation of Brownback tax ‘experiment’ — President Trump's likely nominee for the Federal Reserve's board of governors helped shape the deep tax cuts that were blamed for years of budget shortfalls under former Gov. Sam Brownback.
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Guy Benson / Townhall:
Whitewash: Cook County Clerk's Office Stunned as Smollett Case File Vanishes From Records System — Chicago is still reeling from yesterday's extraordinary development in the Jussie Smollett case, in which the office of the State's Attorney chose to drop all 16 felony charges against the disgraced actor.
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New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Elijah Cummings Seeks 10 Years of Trump's Financial Records — The move further escalates the war over how much information about the president's past dealings will find their way into public view. — House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has requested ten years …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Democrats make new push for 10 years of Trump's financial records
House Democrats make new push for 10 years of Trump's financial records
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Huawei Security ‘Defects’ Are Found by British Authorities — LONDON — A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment, a conclusion that supports a United States effort to ban it from next-generation wireless networks.
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VentureBeat, EU Press Room and Washington Post
U.S. Department of Justice:
Multi-Agency Investigation Results in Charges Against 18 Members and Associates of Violent White Supremacist Gang — Charges Include Murder in Aid of Racketeering, Kidnapping, Assault and Firearms Offenses — Multiple members and associates of a white supremacist gang known as the 1488s …
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Splinter
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
And the winner of The Post's Mueller Madness bracket is... SEE ALSO — We have a national champion . . . of lousy “collusion” punditry. — It was a tough bracket, featuring some of the biggest names in the prestige press, late-night comedians, C- and D-list celebs …
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New Republic and IJR
Mark Pulliam / City Journal:
Blacklisting Chick-fil-A — In San Antonio, a popular fast-food chain becomes the target of a progressive crusade. — Texas — The Social Order — No one is surprised when cities like San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle enact policies driven by the latest progressive imperatives.
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CNN:
Terry McAuliffe leaning toward jumping into 2020 race — (CNN)Terry McAuliffe is moving closer to a 2020 presidential run, Democrats close to the former Virginia governor tell CNN. — McAuliffe has been telling Democratic allies that he is leaning toward jumping into the Democratic …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Pompeo repeatedly declines to blame Kim Jong Un personally for human rights abuses — On multiple occasions now, both Trump and Pompeo have opted to blame the regime rather than Kim personally. And on Wednesday, Pompeo got testy about it. — When the president you serve speaks glowingly …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
6 key moments from Cory Booker's CNN town hall — Booker said he would “absolutely” consider issuing mass commutations and pardons for federal marijuana offenses. — Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has struggled to break through in the crowded 2020 Democratic primary.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Turns on Sebastian Gorka After He Calls Them ‘Garbage’ — Q fans once loved Gorka, now they think he's part of the deep state … Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka is no stranger to conspiracy theories. In January, for example, he suggested that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was secretly dead.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Progressive Caucus Slams DCCC Head Cheri Bustos for Her Assault on Primary Challengers — The leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus has met with the top brass at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and pushed back hard against a new party policy to blacklist consultants who work with primary challengers.
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
What's behind all those executive orders Trump loves to sign? Not much … A seated President Trump handed commemorative pens to his wife, daughter and eight others who hovered around his desk, then theatrically held up for the cameras the latest executive order bearing his oversize signature.
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Christopher Wilson / Yahoo News:
Stacey Abrams nixes Biden-Abrams ticket trial balloon: 'You don't run for second place' — An idea floated by advisers of Joe Biden to designate Stacey Abrams of Georgia as his running mate before the primaries was dismissed Wednesday by Abrams herself. — According to
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Molly Redden / HuffPost:
The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris' War On Truancy — The “progressive prosecutor” wanted to transform how California responded to students missing school. Parents like Cheree Peoples wound up paying the price. — On the morning of April 18, 2013, in the Los Angeles suburb of Buena Park …
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
How CNN misled its viewers — View Latest Opinions >> — In our hyperpartisan world, in which so many people watch only media that will give them news with which they agree, CNN viewers understandably expected the Mueller report to find overwhelming evidence that President Trump colluded, conspired with and is beholden to Russia.
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