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Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
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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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
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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New York Times:
Oliver North Says He Will Not Serve Another Term as N.R.A. President — INDIANAPOLIS — Lt. Col. Oliver North announced on Saturday that he would not serve a second term as the president of the National Rifle Association amid inner turmoil in the gun-rights group.
USA Today:
NRA President Oliver North says he won't serve a second term after power struggle — At the NRA convention, President Trump announced his administration is withdrawing America's signature from the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. A global pact designed to regulate the sale of conventional weapons, from guns to battle tanks.
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre Claims NRA President Oliver North Is Extorting Him
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The Week
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
White House Counsel: Official Who Cleared Jared Kushner Agrees to Hill Interview — After Trump ally Jim Jordan stepped in and said he could be interviewed with White House lawyers present. — Betsy Woodruff — Carl Kline, the official who green-lit Jared Kushner's security clearance …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Stonewalling Pushes House Democrats Towards Impeachment — “Trump's opacity is moving some members into the impeachment camp,” one Democratic lawmaker tells The Daily Beast. “Translation: it's always the cover-up that gets 'em.” — Donald Trump's declaration this week …
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Annie Karni / New York Times:
To Trump, ‘Leakers Are Traitors and Cowards,’ and He Wants to Find Them
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House OKs testimony — with limits — from ex-security clearance chief
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Axios
Mike Barber / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
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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Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Virginia's NCAA-winning basketball team declines White House invitation
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New York Times:
The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. — Nationwide, the arrival of white homeowners in places they've long avoided is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone. — RALEIGH, N.C. — In the African-American neighborhoods near downtown Raleigh, the playfully painted doors signal what's coming.
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Were ‘In a Position’ to Alter Florida Voter Rolls, Rubio Confirms — It was the day before the 2016 presidential election, and at the Volusia County elections office, near Florida's Space Coast, workers were so busy that they had fallen behind on their correspondence.
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Washington Post:
Hard-line views made Lou Dobbs a Fox powerhouse. Now he's shaping Trump's border policy. — One day in mid-March, President Trump gathered his top economic team at the White House to get its read on the state of the nation's financial health. — But before the Council of Economic Advisers finished …
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Politico
New York Times:
Donald Trump Shows a New Level of Contempt for Congress — Many presidents have resisted congressional demands for testimony and documents. But not quite like Mr. Trump. — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.
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Rosalind Adams / BuzzFeed News:
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince's New Company Is Operating In Iraq — HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based security and logistics company founded by Erik Prince is working in the south of Iraq, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. — Prince, a former Navy SEAL and the brother …
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Raw Story
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
“I felt like it was a betrayal, and we had raised funds on false pretense”: The Correspondent's first U.S. employee speaks out — “They're really good at the PR thing, and it really feels like gaslighting. They were like, ‘Well, we never promised a U.S. newsroom.’ I was like: Wait, did I just imagine all this?”
San Francisco Chronicle:
Sunnyvale crash: Driver targeted victims because he thought they were Muslim, police say — An Army veteran who faces eight counts of attempted murder after plowing his car into a crowd of people in Sunnyvale, critically injuring a 13-year-old girl, targeted the victims because he thought …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump's North Korea Fiasco — Who will bail out a bankrupt policy? — As deal-making goes, Donald Trump's approach to negotiating with North Korea has resembled nothing so much as his purchase, in 1988, of New York's Plaza Hotel: Rely on personal chemistry, ignore the advice of experts …
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Raw Story, The Week, Washington Post and RAPPLER
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Gray Race for the White House — “Joe Biden. He understands what's happening today.” — The newspaper ad ran a few weeks before the 1972 Senate election in Delaware, when the upstart 29-year-old was challenging a 63-year-old incumbent. The ad, which appeared in The News Journal …
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Washington Post:
‘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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Bloomberg:
Trump Playing Defense in Rust Belt as He Opens Re-Election Bid — First post-Mueller rally in Michigan aimed at shoring up base — As his 2020 campaign gears up, President Donald Trump is putting an early focus on the three Rust Belt states that sent him to the White House …
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Raw Story
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Exposed: Military Investigating 4 More Servicemen For Ties To White Nationalist Group — That's 11 members of Identity Evropa who are under investigation by the U.S. armed forces. — Four more members of the United States armed forces are now under investigation for their ties …
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Michael Isikoff: Media Should Have Had ‘More Skepticism’ About Steele Dossier — Veteran reporter Michael Isikoff is acknowledging the press should have had “more skepticism” about the Steele dossier. — Isikoff's remarks are notable because he is one of a small handful of reporters …
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