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NRA's Wayne LaPierre Says He Is Being Extorted, Pressured to Resign — Group's longtime leader says Oliver North, president of the NRA, wants him out — Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has told the group's board he is being extorted and pressured to resign …
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In N.R.A. Power Struggle, Insurgents Seek to Oust Wayne LaPierre — INDIANAPOLIS — Turmoil wracking the National Rifle Association is threatening to turn the group's annual convention into outright civil war, as insurgents maneuver to oust Wayne LaPierre, the foremost voice of the American gun rights movement.
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Joe.My.God., National Review and ThinkProgress
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NRA Takes a Shot at Its Own President, Oliver North, in Court — The gun-rights group usually goes after enemies on the left. Now the NRA's lawyers are zeroing in on one of their own: Ollie North. — The National Rifle Association took a shot at its own president just days before the kick-off of its huge national meeting.
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‘I can land the plane’: How Rosenstein tried to mollify Trump, protect Mueller and save his job — Rod J. Rosenstein, again, was in danger of losing his job. The New York Times had just reported that — in the heated days after James B. Comey was fired as FBI director …
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Mueller Prosecutors: Trump Did Obstruct Justice — Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded last year that they had sufficient evidence to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice over the president's alleged pressuring …
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Shareblue Media, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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UVA basketball team will decline to visit White House after winning championship — CHARLOTTESVILLE - After winning the national championship, the Virginia basketball team won't be following the tradition of visiting the White House. — “We have received inquiries about a visit to the White House …
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Virginia's NCAA-winning basketball team declines White House invitation — The University of Virginia's NCAA championship-winning men's basketball team has declined an invitation to visit the White House. — UVA's coach, Tony Bennett, tweeted that as a result of scheduling issues …
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To Trump, ‘Leakers Are Traitors and Cowards,’ and He Wants to Find Them
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Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP's Jordan asks White House to let ex-official testify to avoid ‘unnecessary conflict’ on security clearances
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's top aide is trying to overhaul the West Wing snake pit
Trump's top aide is trying to overhaul the West Wing snake pit
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USA Today
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Fox News Reporter Rips Colleagues Over Charlottesville: You Sound Like ‘White Supremacist Chat Room’ — In emails obtained by The Daily Beast, one bold Fox reporter stands up to two of his colleagues who defended Trump's ‘both sides’ comment about neo-Nazi rallygoers.
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Washington Press, Media Matters for America, Shakesville, Politico, Raw Story, Hullabaloo and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
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Fox News' Jon Decker Blasts Colleagues Over Charlottesville in Leaked Emails: Like a ‘White Supremacist Chat Room’
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James S. Robbins / USA Today:
Trump's Charlottesville comments twisted by Joe Biden and the media
Trump's Charlottesville comments twisted by Joe Biden and the media
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general
Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general
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EXCLUSIVE! Fox News Internal Emails Regarding Biden's Announcement
EXCLUSIVE! Fox News Internal Emails Regarding Biden's Announcement
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Biden crushes it in first-day fundraising: $6.3 million — Joe Biden's campaign announced Friday that he raised $6.3 million on his first day as an announced candidate, placing him atop the crowded Democratic primary in terms of first-day fundraising totals and quelling doubts about his ability to raise enough money to compete.
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Is Trump trying to get impeached?
Is Trump trying to get impeached?
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Biden raises $6.3M in first 24 hours after campaign launch
Biden raises $6.3M in first 24 hours after campaign launch
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A majority of Americans oppose impeachment. Most also say Trump lied to the public. — A majority of Americans say they oppose calls for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian interference …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Joe.My.God., Political Wire and Mediaite
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31% believe Trump is exonerated after Mueller report, 56% oppose impeachment: Poll — Donald Trump's approval rating is essentially unchanged at a historically weak 39 percent after the release of the Mueller report, just three in 10 Americans accept the president's claim to have been exonerated …
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Majority of Americans oppose impeaching Trump, though most say he lied to U.S. public — Poll Questions — Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president? Do you approve/disapprove strongly or somewhat? — Hide Results
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Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’ — How America's obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap. — Daniela Jampel and Matthew Schneid met in college at Cornell, and both later earned law degrees. They both got jobs at big law firms, the kind that reward people …
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Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they're talking about, study suggests — Researchers attempt to measure how often people oversell themselves in society — Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends …
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F.B.I. Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts Counterintelligence Operations — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia's continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.”
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NY State of Politics and The Daily Beast
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Trump Says Mar-A-Lago Can't Find US Workers To Hire. New Documents Show Dozens Applied. — Trump often says his resorts have no choice but to hire foreign guest workers — there just aren't any Americans to take the jobs. But government records show nearly 60 US residents applied for those jobs, and only one was hired.
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Russian Agent Maria Butina Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison: ‘I Destroyed My Own Life’ — The government says she illegally courted U.S. figures, including conservatives and NRA leaders, on behalf of Moscow. — Betsy Woodruff — Maria Butina, who admitted to conspiring to act …
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TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page From Search Engines — The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they're keeping Google from seeing it. … This week, we reported on how TurboTax uses deceptive design …
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Kansas Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Protects Right To Abortion — Updated at 11 a.m. ET — The Kansas Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion, the state's Supreme Court ruled Friday. — The landmark ruling now stands as the law of the land in Kansas with no path for an appeal.
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The Federalist, Joe.My.God., Daily Caller News Foundation and The Daily Beast
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Kamala Harris owns a handgun. That's disqualifying for a 2020 Democrat in my book. — Harris, a former DA, apparently thinks it's fine to own a handgun for personal safety. That's a position held by the NRA, not progressive Democrats. — CONNECT — When it comes to gun ownership in America …
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Want to Expand Medicare? Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions. — If you think the fight with insurance companies is tough, just wait until single-payer advocates have to go head-to-head with doctors. — The debate over expanding Medicare is at the center of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Pentagon set to expand military role along southern border — The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military's involvement in President Trump's operation along the southern border.
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Cory Booker's tax returns show an eye-popping financial stat that sets him apart from other 2020 Democrats — Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey and 2020 presidential candidate, released 10 years of his tax returns on Wednesday evening — and one financial stat stands out compared with the other Democratic candidates.
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The Editor of Jacobin on the Evolution of American Socialism — In 2010, amid the wreckage of an economic crisis, Bhaskar Sunkara, then twenty-one years old, started the magazine Jacobin. Democratic socialist in outlook and aimed at replicating the success that magazines such as National Review …
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Pence hits back after speculation that FBI tried to infiltrate his team — Vice President Mike Pence's former chief of staff, Josh Pitcock, has responded for the first time to speculation in conservative media outlets that FBI agents wanted to use him to infiltrate President-elect Trump's transition team in 2016.
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