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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel — White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises — Liberal Democrats could yet see their dreams come true. — Last week, a new poll from the liberal outfit Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked Americans if President Trump should resign if evidence emerges that his campaign worked with Russia to help defeat Hillary Clinton
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Hot Air and Washington Times
Mike Cernovich / Medium:
Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials — Susan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
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Media Matters for America, Vox Popoli and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Allen / Roll Call:
Opinion: The S.S. Trump Is Sinking — Find a Lifeboat — An open letter to House Republicans — Opinion: The GOP's Big Health Care Winner — Mitch McConnell Opinion: This Budget Isn't Dead on Arrival Opinion: Put Up Your Own Plan, Democrats — If they're smart, House Republicans …
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger — In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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Progress Pond, Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senators fear fallout of nuclear option — Senators in both parties are speculating that a blowup over President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court could lead not only to the end of the filibuster for such nominations, but for controversial legislation as well. — While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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zerohedge.com/fullrss2 …, KFOR-TV and Hot Air
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Democrats Should Do Everything They Can To Block Neil Gorsuch
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National Review
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Two nail bombs on St Petersburg metro rip through carriages, killing at least 10 as Putin visits city for meeting — Two nail bombs on the metro in St Petersburg ripped through train carriages killing at least 10 people today. — The incident occurred at two separate locations …
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Shira Rubin / Vocativ:
ISIS Celebrates St. Petersburg Metro Blast That Killed 9
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RT, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AOL, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and Instapundit
New York Times:
St. Petersburg Metro Explosion Kills 10 as Putin Visits City
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Outside the Beltway
Danny Boyle / Telegraph:
Watch | Aftermath of Saint Petersburg train ‘bombing’
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Politico, Vocativ and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, made a trip to Iraq over the weekend, visiting the country as the American military is aiding Iraqi forces in their brutal fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
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Reuters:
ADVISORY: Story on Kushner visiting Iraq withdrawn
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NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’ — SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies. — Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
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The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, Shakesville and CNBC
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Financial Times:
Trump ready to tackle North Korea alone — FT exclusive — President says US will act unilaterally if China does not pressure Pyongyang … Donald Trump has warned that the US will take unilateral action to eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea unless China increases pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
How to Lose a Majority — The very public intra-party fight between President Trump and the Freedom Caucus is just the latest twist in the ongoing fight over the philosophical, strategic and ideological direction of the Republican party. As has been his mode of operation since his candidate days …
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ProPublica:
Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us — When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Axios, The Week and Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Our Dishonest President … It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
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Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words — On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics. — Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's, a Rhode Island prep school with a dress code. He stopped wearing a bow tie on April 11 …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers' Buttons — The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public. But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks.”
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Axios, Althouse and naked capitalism, more at Techmeme »
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
A Lawsuit Accuses Yale of Censoring Even Inoffensive Ideas — A class essay condemning rape was ‘unnecessarily provocative,’ the Title IX coordinator allegedly said. — Yale's president, Peter Salovey, took to these pages last October to affirm that “we adhere to exceptionally strong principles of free expression.”
Susan Bordo / The Guardian:
The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists — In this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election — any books have been written about the way racial differences …
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