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Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'd Meet With North Korea's Kim If Situation's Right  —  ‘I would be honored to do it’ under the right circumstances  —  North Korea has become Trump's top foreign policy challenge  —  President Donald Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid heightened tensions …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Trump: ‘You make a mistake here, there is nothing to work out’ … Hours shy of his 100th day in power, President Trump strides into the Oval Office.  The energy in the world's most famous room changes instantly and perceptibly as he sits down.  —  It's a little after 3 in the afternoon.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's totally bizarre claim about avoiding the Civil War
CNN:
First on CNN: Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is discontinuing a signature girls education initiative championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, according to officials.  —  The “Let Girls Learn” program …
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump unwinding Michelle Obama's school lunch program rules  —  Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue took steps Monday to roll back healthy school lunch standards promoted by former first lady Michelle Obama  —  in one of his first regulatory acts.  —  In an interim final rule …
Discussion: Politico, USDA, ABC News and Common Dreams
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN: Trump ending Michelle Obama's girls education program
Donald Trump / ABC News:   Trump administration relaxing Obama-era school lunch standards
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why did Trump win?  New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer.  —  As the Democratic Party rebuilds itself for the 2018 and 2020 elections, Democratic strategists have been preoccupied with a pressing question: Why did so many voters who backed Barack Obama in 2012 switch …
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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost  —  WASHINGTON  —  A select group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last year's presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost.  Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party they're right.
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
The Cost of Barack Obama's Speech
Discussion: The Guardian
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say … Sean Hannity is looking to leave Fox News, according to sources, following the resignation of Fox News co-president Bill Shine officially on Monday.  —  Shine was Hannity's his long-time ally whom he personally recommended the network hire two decades ago to produce Hannity & Colmes.
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Shine Out at Fox News, Suzanne Scott Becomes President of Programming
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump on Obama surveillance claims: 'I don't stand by anything'  —  President Donald Trump said his allegation that he was illegally surveilled by former President Barack Obama has “been proven very strongly” and that that surveillance has negated the relatively warm relationship …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump angrily walks away from interview after reporter presses for Obama wiretapping evidence
Discussion: The Root
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
What If Climate Scientists Are Guessing Wrong?  —  Newest New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, a conservative refugee from the increasingly Trumpist Wall Street Journal editorial page, uses his first column to imply, without quite stating outright, that somebody (the world?
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Media Matters for America:
The NY Times Sold Subscriptions On Opposing “Alternative Facts.” Then It Published Bret Stephens.
Discussion: Eschaton, HuffPost and Power Line
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Why was there the Civil War?’  —  President Trump during an interview that airs Monday questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.  —  “I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn't have had the Civil War.
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Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
Why There Was a Civil War  —  President Trump has peppered …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He's Considering Moves to Break Up Wall Street Banks  —  President says in interview he is weighing revival of 1933 law  —  Top administration officials back return of Glass-Steagall Act  —  President Donald Trump said he is actively considering breaking up giant Wall Street banks …
CNN:
The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist  —  8pm ET TONIGHT: Watch AC 360 to learn more about the FBI employee who married an ISIS terrorist.  —  An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative …
Discussion: The Hill and Hot Air
Bloomberg:
Trump Wants Health-Care Bill to Protect Pre-Existing Conditions  —  President says it will be ‘every bit as good’ as Obamacare  —  GOP leaders mulling vote on health bill later this week  —  President Donald Trump said Monday the Republican health-care bill being negotiated in Congress ultimately …
Washington Post:
A black teen was shot and killed by police near Dallas.  His death has just been ruled a homicide.  —  A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed by police in a Dallas suburb was shot in the head by a rifle, Dallas County Medical Examiner's office said.  —  The medical examiner's office said Monday …
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Texas Police Shoot and Kill Student, 15
Discussion: WFAA-TV, Vox and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
‘Alt-Left’ Strategist Bannon Isn't Going Anywhere, Trump Says  —  Infighting has subsided, Trump says in Oval Office interview  —  President says Bannon is ‘very decent guy’ getting a ‘bad rap’  —  President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed widespread reports that his administration is riven by discord …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Axios
Roberto Villalpando / Austin American-Statesman:
EMS: 1 dead, 3 injured in stabbing at UT campus; suspect in custody  —  One person is dead and three others have been taken to the hospital after a reported stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus Monday afternoon, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Fox News:
UT Austin stabbing spree: 1 killed, 3 others wounded, suspect in custody
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ryan Grim / HuffPost:
With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance  —  For a TV executive, Andy Lack has an unusual problem: sky-high ratings.  —  WASHINGTON On Friday, readers of the new morning email put out by Mike Allen awoke to a little nugget of news.  “One of your favorites is getting …
Discussion: Eschaton
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation  —  THE BIG IDEA: Perhaps the best negotiators are not the people who tell everyone that they are the best negotiators.  —  A spending agreement was reached last night that will keep the government funded through the end of September.
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CNN:
Conservatives prepare for Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement  —  Entire Neil Gorsuch swearing-in ceremony  — Kennedy, a centrist conservative, controls the outcome of cases like no other justice in more than a decade  — The political and legal stakes of replacing Kennedy would be higher …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Gay-Conversion Therapy Ban Survives as Supreme Court Rejects Appeal
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Tegna / WFAA-TV:
Raw, unedited rescue: ‘Dear Jesus, please let this baby breathe’  —  TEXAS TORNADO: When Good Samaritans arrived, an infant and a 2-year old were nearly dead.  These strangers saved their lives yesterday, near Myrtle Springs.  Video: Tom Mitchell … What a rescue — one that's tough to watch.
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
How Trump Could Get Fired … Hours after Donald Trump's Inauguration, a post appeared on the official White House petitions page, demanding that he release his tax returns.  In only a few days, it gathered more signatures than any previous White House petition.
 
 
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