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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin — Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy - sources — U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Senate Intelligence Committee requests Trump campaign documents — The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked President Trump's political organization to gather and produce all documents, emails and phone records …
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New York Times:
Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, spoke in December with Russia's ambassador to the United States about establishing a secret communications channel between the Trump transition team …
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Business Insider:
‘This is serious’: Jared Kushner reportedly tried to set up a secret Trump-Russia back channel — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House adviser, was willing to go extraordinary lengths to establish a secret line of communication between the Trump administration …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Kushner wanted secure line with Kremlin before inauguration: report
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The dueling scoops about Jared Kushner's plan for secret communications with Russia, explained
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pushing Big White House Changes as Russia Crisis Grows — President Trump is actively discussing major changes, including a shakeup of his senior team, after spending much of his free time during his overseas trip weighing the Russia investigation and the political crisis it poses for him.
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Inside Hillary Clinton's Surreal Post-Election Life — The surreal post-election life of the woman who would have been president. — When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past.
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New York Times:
Russian Once Tied to Trump Aide Seeks Immunity to Testify Before Congress — Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to President Trump's former campaign manager, has offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election …
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Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:
The attack occurred in the Hollywood District. “He said, 'Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don't pay taxes here.'” — A man riding the MAX in Northeast Portland fatally stabbed two passengers who tried to stop him from hurling racial and anti-Muslim insults at women on the train …
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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89 — Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s …
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CNN:
Sources: Comey acted on Russian intelligence he knew was fake — Washington (CNN)Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake — created by Russian intelligence — but he feared that if it became public …
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Tegna / KING-TV:
Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests — A faculty member at the Evergreen State College had been told he's not safe on campus. He's been called a racist during two days of protest at the college in Olympia. … As a biology professor for 15 years at Olympia's …
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John Sexton / Hot Air:
Students demand firing of professor who objected to asking whites to leave campus (Update)
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Mona Charen / National Review:
Stop Making Excuses for Greg Gianforte's Assaulting a Reporter — Greg Gianforte in a March campaign ad (via YouTube) — None of this is a gray area. — The first question you have to wonder about concerning the assault and battery allegedly committed by Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
White House correspondent bolts Sputnik over the obvious — Andrew Feinberg, a correspondent for Sputnik, has announced on Twitter that he's no longer working for the Russian “global wire, radio and digital news service.” And he's intent upon doing so with as much detail as possible:
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New York Post:
De Blasio employee arrested for child pornography … A leading young Democrat and de Blasio administration employee has a secret taste for sickening kiddie porn that involves baby girls as young as 6 months old, court papers revealed Friday. — Jacob Schwartz, 29, was busted for allegedly keeping …
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Channel NewsAsia:
Philippines' Duterte makes rape joke for martial law troops — Toggle share menu — All Sections — Search Term Search Term Clear search input Search — MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte joked Friday that soldiers could rape up to three women, as he reassured …
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Wall Street Journal:
Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’ — A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely populated counties have replaced large cities as America's most troubled areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that's accelerating.
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Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Overcome by Coughing Fit During Commencement Speech, Needs Water — A familiar problem from the campaign trail hit Hillary Clinton while she spoke at Wellesley College's commencement on Friday, when she began coughing and needed some water and a throat lozenge.
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Caroline Hallemann / Town & Country:
Read the Full Transcript of Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College Commencement Speech
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Valerie Jones / Rigzone:
Former House Speaker Boehner: Trump ‘Still Learning How to be President’ — John Boehner delivers a fierce keynote in which he shares his view on Trump's presidency, whether or not he'd consider running for president and of course, Russia. — Regina Mayor, KPMG's global sector head …
Mara H. Gottfried / Twin Cities:
Charges filed against Tim Kaine's son, others who crashed MN Capitol Trump rally — The chaos that some counter-protesters brought into the Minnesota Capitol in March during a rally in support of President Donald Trump included smoke bombs, mace in people's faces and fireworks …
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
U.S. Quietly Lifts Limit on Number of Refugees Allowed In — WASHINGTON — Despite repeated efforts by President Trump to curtail refugee resettlements, the State Department this week quietly lifted the department's restriction on the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On travel ban, judges reach ‘Trump only’ decision — There's a glaring political divide in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stop President Trump's revised executive order limiting entry into the U.S. for some people from a few terror-plagued Muslim-majority nations.
James Kirchick / Tablet Magazine:
Yale Cements Its Line in the Academic Sand by Awarding the Student ‘Truthtellers’ Who Bullied Faculty — Yale's Nakanishi Prize is awarded every spring to “two graduating seniors who, while maintaining high academic achievement, have provided exemplary leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic relations at Yale College.”
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Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Exclusive: Manchester suicide bomber used student loan and benefits to fund terror plot — The Manchester suicide bomber used taxpayer-funded student loans and benefits to bankroll the terror plot, police believe. — Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds …
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
The reason behind Macron's firm handshake with Trump, revealed: He was warned! — Emmanuel Macron was warned! — To be more specific, the newly elected president of France was told to be prepared for the sometimes awkward and always aggressive handshakes of President Trump.
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Fox News:
Egypt bus attack: Coptic Christians targeted, at least 28 killed — A team of gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians south of Cairo Friday, killing at least 28, including children, and wounding 22 other people, Egyptian officials confirmed. — As many as 10 attackers …
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