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Wall Street Journal:
Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump's Inner Circle — Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence than previously known — The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office has gathered …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite and Political Wire
New York Times:
Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump — WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort …
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Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump — Kirstjen Nielsen's image makeover has already begun—but it may be a hard sell. — Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation …
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Daily Kos, The Guardian, Bipartisan Report, Vox, Splinter, ThinkProgress, CNN, The Week and National Review
Washington Post:
Twelve days of chaos: Inside the Trump White House's growing panic to contain the border crisis — He had threatened to close the southern border and ordered a halt to foreign aid for three Central American nations. But as President Trump weighed his next move to respond to a mounting immigration crisis …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Washington Press and Vanity Fair
Washington Post:
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis — In President Trump's latest blowup over immigration, senior adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Democrats aren't saying much about immigration
POLITICO Playbook: Why Democrats aren't saying much about immigration
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Raw Story
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration
Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration
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Politico
John Burnett / NPR:
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
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New York Times, Just Security and Common Dreams
Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report — Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress — Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness. — Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end …
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CNN
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption. — Consider a head scratching set of conclusions. The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …
Fox News:
Barr assembles ‘team’ to look into counterintelligence investigation on Trump campaign in 2016, official says
Barr assembles ‘team’ to look into counterintelligence investigation on Trump campaign in 2016, official says
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PJ Media Home, Herman Cain, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Townhall and Front Page Magazine
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Watchdog's Review of Russia Inquiry Is Nearly Done, Barr Says
Justice Dept. Watchdog's Review of Russia Inquiry Is Nearly Done, Barr Says
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The Daily Caller and The Last Refuge
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Comey memos contained far more sensitive info than previously known, FBI filing reveals
Comey memos contained far more sensitive info than previously known, FBI filing reveals
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RedState
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon — President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington. — During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday — WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
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Washington Post:
Mulvaney's tax return stonewall is either misinformed — or sinister
Mulvaney's tax return stonewall is either misinformed — or sinister
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Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Slate and Shareblue Media
Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders relaunches ‘Medicare for All’ amid 2020 glare
Bernie Sanders relaunches ‘Medicare for All’ amid 2020 glare
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POLITICUSUSA
Ann Schmidt / Fox News:
How did Bernie Sanders make his money? A look at his wealth and assets
How did Bernie Sanders make his money? A look at his wealth and assets
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Washington Post and New York Times
Washington Post:
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out — The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. — If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …
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Axios and Political Wire
BuzzFeed News:
Warner Bros. Shut Down Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score — President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 reelection campaign. In less than three hours, it had already amassed over 1 million views, but by late Tuesday night, the video was no longer available.
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Washington Post:
In tightly fought election, Netanyahu appears set to clinch fifth term in office — TEL AVIV — With the vast majority of votes counted in Israeli elections by Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to clinch a fifth term in office, despite corruption charges and a strong challenger.
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Luke O'Neil / New York Magazine:
What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News — It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush. — Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers — On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle. — There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …
Stuff.co.nz:
Man wearing a Trump T-shirt abuses people at Christchurch mosque where more than 40 people died — A man wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt has yelled abuse at members of the Muslim community gathered at one of the mosques targeted in the Christchurch terror attack.
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The Daily Beast
Haley Byrd / CNN:
McConnell privately advises Republicans to tell Trump about Cain concerns — Herman Cain: Let them go out and dig up old allegations — (CNN)Senate Republican leaders are sending a message to members troubled by President Donald Trump's controversial Federal Reserve picks: Speak up.
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The Guardian
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Federal Reserve Nominee Admitted 'I'm Not an Expert on Monetary Policy'
Trump Federal Reserve Nominee Admitted 'I'm Not an Expert on Monetary Policy'
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Politico, One America News Network, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Week
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Former CBS News Reporter Lara Logan Joining Sinclair — The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist, who left the network last year, will be a special correspondent for the conservative media giant. — In late February, former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan outlined her conditions …
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Conservative News Today, Contemptor, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan adds to Sinclair Broadcasting's national ambitions
Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan adds to Sinclair Broadcasting's national ambitions
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TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Petty / USA Today:
Parkland victim's father: Traumatized students shouldn't have been flung into politics — After the Parkland shooting, there was a maniacal emphasis on hashtags and photo-ops. My community never got the help it needed to actually heal. — CONNECT — More than a year has elapsed since 17 students …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has book coming in the fall — NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has a book deal. — St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday that Haley's book, currently untitled, will come out this fall.
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump digs in on false claim that he stopped Obama's family separation policy — “President Obama had child separation. Take a look. The press knows it, you know it, we all know it. I didn't have — I'm the one that stopped it. President Obama had child separation. ... President Obama separated children.
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The White House, Shareblue Media and twitchy.com
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy
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Outside the Beltway, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, CNN, New York Times, Raw Story and Contemptor
John Gartner / USA Today:
Trump's cognitive deficits seem worse. We need to know if he has dementia: Psychologist — We see signs that the president's abilities are declining, but the only way to find out for sure is to give him a full neuropsychological evaluation. — CONNECT — If Donald Trump were your father …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Gary Cohn says Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security would be ‘political suicide’ — Aloha Power Uppers and welcome back. Looking forward to all your #NationalSiblingDay content 🤗. Tips, comments, recipes? We want to hear from you — reach out and sign up.