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James Laporta / Associated Press:
AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019 — Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported …
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The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, NBC News, The Week, Raw Story, Balloon Juice and The Hill
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CNN:
Intelligence on Russian bounty plot was included in the President's Daily Brief earlier this year, source says — (CNN)The intelligence that assessed there was an effort by a Russian military intelligence unit to pay the Taliban to kill US soldiers was included in one of President Donald …
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Mediaite, Raw Story, Alternet.org, The Hill, The CIA Web Site, The Guardian and Washington Post
New York Times:
Lawmakers Press for Answers on Russian Bounty Offers to Taliban to Kill U.S. Troops — The investigation into Russia's suspected operation is said to focus in part on the killings of three Marines in a truck bombing last year, officials said. — American officials provided a written briefing …
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The White House, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, The Sun, CNBC, The Week, Denver Post, Mediaite, Washington Post, Daily Kos, CNN, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Task & Purpose and NBC News
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Republicans once again face questions about why Trump isn't tougher on Russia
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The Hill, The Daily Beast, NBC News, Raw Story, TASS, New York Post, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller and Al Jazeera
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Were Trump's aides too afraid to tell him about the Russian bounties?
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Raw Story
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Mom of Marine killed in Afghanistan wants investigation of claim Russians paid Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers
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The Hill, Fox News, Financial Times and Axios
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Refuses To Allow Democrats To Attend Russia Bounty Briefing
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Raw Story and Patterico's Pontifications
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's answers on Russia's bounties and Trump don't make sense
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Washington Monthly, The Week, Daily Kos, Fox News, Raw Story, IJR and National Review
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's diminished moral capacity is on full display
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Fox News, Raw Story, Axios, Mother Jones and Foreign Policy
Carl Bernstein / CNN:
From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials — (CNN)In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues …
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Raw Story, Mediaite, The Week, Alternet.org, POLITICUSUSA, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Political Wire
NBC News:
Trump's ‘white power’ retweet set off ‘five alarm fire’ in White House — President Donald Trump set off a “five alarm fire” in the White House Sunday morning after he retweeted a video of one of his supporters saying “white power,” according to two White House officials.
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Mediaite, Alternet.org and Raw Story
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Remembering My Friend Betsy Rothstein — I don't know what I expected Betsy Rothstein to look like, but I guess I wasn't expecting a woman who made her living filleting media personalities and nurturing feuds to be so tiny in stature. When she approached me on the grass outside …
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Payday Report, more at Mediagazer »
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Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
In Memory Of Betsy Rothstein — Betsy Rothstein passed away Sunday among family following a long battle with cancer. — Betsy was the most honest person I've ever met. She hated lying the way some people hate snakes. She recoiled in horror from lies. She found them repulsive, and the people who told them, contemptible.
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CNN
Michelle Roberts / BBC:
Flu virus with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China — A new strain of flu that has the potential to become pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. — It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. — The researchers are concerned …
William Feuer / CNBC:
CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country — The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to get it under control as some other countries have, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.
New York Times:
China Passes Security Law With Sweeping Powers Over Hong Kong — Lawmakers in Beijing voted in a process that has been criticized for its secrecy and haste. The law will extend the Communist Party's reach into Hong Kong. — China passed a contentious new law for Hong Kong on Tuesday …
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Anne Allred / KSDK-TV:
‘The only thing that stopped the crowd was my rifle’ | Interview with man who pulled out gun amid protest — Mark McCloskey gave his first on-camera interview to 5 On Your Side anchor Anne Allred — ST. LOUIS — It's an encounter that's gained national attention and it happened in St. Louis' Central West End neighborhood.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Couple points guns at protesters marching to St. Louis mayor's home to demand resignation
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KMOV-TV, Fox News, The Bulwark, Redstate, The Western Journal, CNN, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, New Republic, Twitchy, UPI, Heavy.com, Daily Kos, Mediaite, New York Post, Associated Press and Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
‘Our Luck May Have Run Out’: California's Case Count Explodes — Los Angeles County, which has been averaging more than 2,000 new cases each day, surpassed 100,000 total cases on Monday. — SACRAMENTO — Only a few weeks ago, thousands of Southern Californians were flocking to beaches …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Grassley Hits Hannity For Interview Question Trump Whiffed On: ‘You Assume Fox News Wants Him to Get Reelected’ — One of the most notable exchanges from President Donald Trump's Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity was the president's odd response to one of the most straightforward questions …
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The American Independent
Rong-Gong Lin II / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County issues dire warning amid ‘alarming increases’ in coronavirus cases — Los Angeles County health officials issued a dire warning Monday that conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic are deteriorating rapidly and the highly contagious virus is spreading swiftly in the nation's most populous county.
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Washington Post, Deadline and The Week
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Three Families. Nine Weeks. ‘Things Are Getting Annoying.’ — There we go. Good. There we go. Yay. Yay. [MUSIC PLAYING] We're the Pauls. We're the Orangos. We are at the Carter-McLaughlin-Milstein family. Or Mill Carterstein McDonlaughlinsons. We spent the first three weeks just butting heads.
Michael Flynn / The Western Journal:
Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: If We Don't Act, 2% of the People Are About To Control the Other 98% — I was once told if we're not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time. — The more I've thought about this phrase, the more I believe it.
New York Times:
De Blasio and Council, Facing Fiscal Crisis Over Virus, Agree on Budget With Big Cuts — The mayor and City Council pared $1 billion in funding for the Police Department, but nearly half of that would come from budgetary sleight of hand. — Bowing to political pressure and a bleak fiscal reality …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like — Well, that did not take long at all. On Friday we predicted that just like every other social media platform out there, the new favorite among people who falsely say that Twitter is censoring conservatives, would start taking …
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Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Sees Growing Ad Boycott in Protest Against Handling of Speech — Civil-rights groups have been pushing advertisers to pull spending, citing a failure to halt hate speech and misinformation — Ford Motor Co., Clorox Co. and Denny's Corp. are joining a parade of companies that have moved …
Politico:
Publisher's wife played undisclosed role for Melania Trump — The owner of The Hill helped arrange his wife's unpaid advisory role in the first lady's office. — First Lady Melania Trump. Drew Angerer/Getty Images — The owner of the news outlet that published the columns at the center …
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech — Bans come after YouTube's 2019 policy update — YouTube has banned several prominent white supremacist channels, including those belonging to Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer.
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Ad Age, Raw Story, The US Sun, The Unz Review, Mediaite, Big League Politics, The Daily Beast, Fox News and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
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The Daily Caller, The Root, Slate, Just The News, TheBlaze, UPI, The Verge, The Week and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: The next 48 hours could determine the fate of two of America's largest newspaper chains — The next 48 hours may decide the fate of two of America's largest newspaper chains that collectively serve almost a fifth of all American local newspaper readers.
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Woke censorship is basically a superstitious cult — The irrational obsessions behind our woke fever — We live in a society gripped by a quasi-religious fervor — and obsessed with symbols and irrational fears. — Anything that is thought to have the slightest association with racism …
Matt Novak / Paleofuture:
Trump Misidentifies Sculpture in Oval Office While Saying Statues Help Teach History — In a bizarre interview with Fox News last night, President Trump stood next to a sculpture in the Oval Office that he said depicts former president Teddy Roosevelt, and explained that statues are vital to learning about history.
Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Four progressive congresswomen circulate letter threatening to condition aid to Israel over annexation — Four Democratic members of Congress are said to be circulating a letter among their House colleagues warning of the political implications that could result from Israel's planned annexation of portions of the West Bank.
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