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Trump announces shakeup at top of U.S. intelligence — President Trump said in a tweet Thursday that he will name Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as the acting director of national intelligence. — Maguire will assume the role Aug. 15, when Sue Gordon …
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Politico
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Deputy Intel Chief Sue Gordon Is Out After Trump Snub
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump names counterterror chief Joseph Maguire acting director of national intelligence
Trump names counterterror chief Joseph Maguire acting director of national intelligence
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Michigan Advance, The Daily Caller and Axios
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Deputy Intelligence Director to Resign With Coats
Trump Says Deputy Intelligence Director to Resign With Coats
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Townhall
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Trump Names an Acting Spy Chief as No. 2 Intelligence Official Steps Down
Trump Names an Acting Spy Chief as No. 2 Intelligence Official Steps Down
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The Week, Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and The Gateway Pundit
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Springfield Police arrest armed person at Walmart on Republic — SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- The Springfield Police Department tweeted out Thursday that an armed man was arrested at the Walmart Neighborhood Market on W. Republic Road. … Later, Lt. Mike Lucas with Springfield Police confirmed …
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KYTV-TV, Springfield, MO, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Townhall, New York Daily News, TheBlaze, FOX2now.com, Daily Wire and New York Post
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Long John Silver's Drops Fox News After Tucker Carlson Said White Supremacy's A ‘Hoax’ — The brand is one of more than 20 that have stopped advertising during the Fox News host's show because of his offensive rhetoric. — Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers.
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast, Fast Company and TVNewser
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Tucker Carlson, Now on Vacation, Could Face More Advertiser Defections — Amid the backlash to the host calling white supremacy a “hoax,” Nestlé confirmed that it won't advertise on his Fox News show in the future. — Tucker Carlson, who abruptly announced plans for a vacation …
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Quillette Duped by Left-Wing Hoaxer Posing as Communist Construction Worker — “Archie Carter,” who pretended to be a blue-collar member of the Democratic Socialists of America, says he set out to humiliate the conservative site with his error-riddled story.
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DSA Is Doomed — I am working class and a Marxist-Leninist.
DSA Is Doomed — I am working class and a Marxist-Leninist.
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Biden Says ‘Poor Kids’ Are Just as Smart as ‘White Kids’ — Joe Biden told a group of mostly Asian and Hispanic voters Wednesday that “poor kids are just as bright” as white children. — The former vice president, who is known for verbal gaffes, made the remarks to the Asian & Latino Coalition …
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Washington Post, The Week and Mediaite
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Trump Weighs New Stance on Guns as Pressure Mounts After Shootings — WASHINGTON — In the wake of two mass shootings, the divisive politics of gun control appeared to be in flux on Thursday as President Trump explored whether to back expanded background checks on gun purchasers and Senator Mitch McConnell …
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McConnell: Gun background checks will be ‘front and center’ in Senate debate
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Lisa Marie Pane / Associated Press:
Weakened but unbowed, NRA head digs in against gun control
Weakened but unbowed, NRA head digs in against gun control
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Washington Post, ProPublica, KTLA and BizPac Review
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They Paid $42 for a SoulCycle Ride, Not for Trump — A look at what happens when politics enters every spandex-clad corner of life, especially in the Hamptons. — WATER MILL, N.Y. — Dressed in workout clothes, Lulu Hall hovered by the front door of the SoulCycle while fighting back tears.
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CBS Miami, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Slate, The Daily Caller and BizPac Review
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During El Paso hospital visit, Trump compared his and O'Rourke's crowd sizes at political rallies, video shows — A video that surfaced of President Trump's visit Wednesday to an El Paso hospital in the wake of a mass shooting shows him talking to medical staff about the crowd sizes …
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Here's the data on white supremacist terrorism the Trump administration has been ‘unable or unwilling’ to give to Congress — WASHINGTON — Alleged white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018, according to a government document distributed earlier …
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Trump's Opponents Want to Name His Big Donors. His Supporters Say It's Harassment. — WASHINGTON — For many businesses, a sudden deluge of phone calls might signal an influx of new customers. But most of the 25 calls Justin Herricks received before noon on Thursday were from people …
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Advocate, BizPac Review and Los Angeles Times
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Quiz: Let Us Predict Whether You're a Democrat or a Republican — Tell us a few details about you and we'll guess which political party you belong to. It shouldn't be that simple, right? We're all complex people with a multiplicity of identities and values.
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The Harvard Professor Scam Gets Even Weirder Six other men describe their encounters with the same mysterious Frenchwoman. — Two weeks ago, New York readers were introduced to Bruce Hay, the Harvard Law School professor who had a brief affair with a young woman named Maria-Pia Shuman …
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Man who assaulted a boy during national anthem is convinced Trump ordered it, lawyer says — MISSOULA, Mont. - A Montana man charged with assaulting a 13-year-old boy who refused to remove his hat during the national anthem believed he was doing what President Donald Trump wanted him to do, his attorney said.
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The Media Erased Latinos From the Story — I've been a professional journalist for 20 years. But this week, the media failed Latinos in America during what was perhaps our darkest hour in my lifetime. — On Monday, days after a deadly attack on Latino shoppers at an El Paso Walmart …
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A USA TODAY analysis found Trump used words like ‘invasion’ and ‘killer’ at rallies more than 500 times since 2017 — WASHINGTON - Invasion. Aliens. Killers. Criminals. — Those are among the words President Donald Trump repeatedly uses while discussing immigrants during his campaign rallies …
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Going to Extremes Against Guns — Threatening to take voters' firearms away isn't the way to beat Donald Trump. — Democrats insist there's no more urgent job than ensuring Donald Trump is a one-term president. Which is odd, given how hard they are simultaneously working to alienate the voters they most need to make that happen.
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For Trump and his cronies, draining the swamp means ousting experts — Once upon a time, President Trump pledged to “drain the swamp.” — This resonated with lots of Americans, who resented the ecosystem of interest groups rigging government in their favor: corrupt officials …
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'They're afraid': Suburban voters in red states threaten GOP's grip on power — BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Republicans face a reckoning in the red-state suburbs that have long been a bedrock for the party, propelled by the stormy confluence of President Trump's searing racial attacks …
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Talking Points Memo and The Stranger
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First U.K. Contraction Since Wake of Crisis Raises Brexit Stakes — Firms run down stocks after hoarding before March exit date — Underlying growth has lost momentum amid no-deal Brexit fears — Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story.
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Biden: If Elected President, I'll Let Mitch McConnell Block Everything — Joe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Flight Records Show Salvini's Aide Made A Lot Of Mysterious Trips To Moscow Around The Time Of The Secret Oil Deal Meeting — Gianluca Savoini, the political operative at the center of the storm over a secret plan to fund the far-right party of Italy's deputy prime minister with Russian oil money …
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The Atlantic, Meduza.io, New York Times and bellingcat
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Collins attends fundraiser at $4m mansion of nation's top anti-choice judicial activist — Senator Susan Collins attended a private campaign fundraising event tonight at the $4-million Northeast Harbor summer mansion of Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society.