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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attorneys Lay Out Arguments Against Obstruction-of-Justice Probe to Mueller — In meetings and memos, lawyers argue president didn't obstruct justice by firing former FBI Chief Comey — WASHINGTON—Lawyers for Donald Trump have met several times with Special Counsel Robert Mueller …
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Axios, Raw Story and Politicus USA
NBC News:
Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to ‘Donations’ — WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort's notes from a controversial Trump Tower meeting with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign included the word “donations,” near a reference to the Republican National Committee …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Politicus USA, Vox and IJR
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump expected to halt Obama's program but allow some Dreamers to stay temporarily — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to end an Obama-era program that shielded young people from deportation, but he will likely let the immigrants known as Dreamers stay in the United States until …
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Fox News:
Trump expected to announce end to Obama-era DACA, official says — President Trump, as early as Friday, is expected to announce plans to end the Obama administration program that gave a deportation reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants, a senior administration official told Fox News.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Poll: Most Oppose Trump's Pardon for Ex-Sheriff Arpaio, Booting ‘Dreamers’
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Trump to end Obama-era Dreamers program ‘as early as tomorrow’: report
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Rewire, Mediaite, Shakesville and Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
Kushners' China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and top adviser, wakes up each morning to a growing problem that will not go away. His family's real estate business, Kushner Cos., owes hundreds of millions of dollars on a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue.
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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
This is the best photo Trump could find for “witnessing” hurricane devastation “first hand” — Donald Trump said he witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Harvey “first hand.” — He did not. — He did not even come close. — His Tuesday trip to Texas took him to Corpus Christi, several hundred miles away from Houston.
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Gov. Abbott Disses Trump: VP Pence Has Shown ‘Genuine Lord-Empowered Leadership’ — Governor Greg Abbott threw some shade on Trump's visit to Texas during Hurricane Harvey by introducing Mike Pence as “a man who's shown genuine Lord-empowered leadership as the Vice President of the United States.”
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Anthea Butler / New York Times:
The Cheap Prosperity Gospel of Trump and Osteen
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Pence holds prayer service for victims of Harvey in Texas
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Politico
The Daily Beast:
The CEO of Laura Ingraham's LifeZette Won't Stop Talking About His Employees' ‘Boobs and Butts’ … LifeZette, the politics and culture website founded by prominent ally of President Donald Trump and longtime talk-radio host Laura Ingraham, is in trouble. — Traffic to the site …
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Freedom Caucus leader warns: Don't attach Harvey aid to debt-ceiling increase — The leader of an influential group of House conservatives warned GOP leaders Thursday not to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to an increase in the federal debt limit, a stance that could constrain Speaker Paul D. Ryan …
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
Conservative leader: Don't tie Harvey relief to debt ceiling
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USA Today, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Arturo Garcia / Snopes.com:
Was Barack Obama President During Hurricane Katrina? — Twitter users tried to pin the blame for Katrina relief issues on Obama, though he wasn't even president when it hit New Orleans. … CLAIM — Barack Obama was president when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. — RATING — FALSE
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Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and IJR
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Who Will Fact-Check The Fact-Checkers? — [UPDATE: Snopes has inserted a semi-stealth revision to address (or discredit?) the critics. More at STEALTH below.] — Snopes strikes again! They have a vigorous rebuttal of the claim that — “Barack Obama was president when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005”.
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Mediaite
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Mnuchin: Treasury could scrap plans to replace Jackson on $20 bill — said Thursday that the Treasury Department could scrap plans finalized under President Barack Obama — to replace President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman.
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Axios, Politico, twitchy.com and NY State of Politics
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin just put Harriet Tubman's role on the $20 bill in question
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New York Times, AOL, Mashable and Joe.My.God.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC chief of staff resigns amid rash of departures — Sara Armstrong, the top staffer at the Republican National Committee, is departing, according to three people familiar with the move — the latest in a string of exits from the committee. — Armstrong, the RNC's chief of staff …
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The Hill, CNN, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, RedState, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
CONFIRMED: Comey Decided He Wasn't Going to Refer Hillary For Prosecution Long Before FBI Investigation Was Over — According to new transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Thursday afternoon, former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer then Democrat presidential …
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Daily Wire and IJR
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
GOP senators: Comey drafted statement clearing Clinton before her interview
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Axios
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
Officer to woman during traffic stop: ‘We only kill black people, right?’ — COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Exclusive dash-cam video obtained by Channel 2 Action News caught an officer's interaction with a woman who said she was afraid to move her hands during a traffic stop.
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Houston Chronicle:
Explosions reported at flooded Crosby chemical plant — A fire broke out at the Arkema plant in Crosby early Thursday, following chemical explosions overnight that sent plumes of black smoke into the air. — Arkema officials warned that more explosions are likely because there are eight additional box vans …
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David Sirota / International Business Times:
Texas Republicans Helped Chemical Plant That Exploded Lobby Against Safety Rules
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Heather Nauert / US Department of State:
Achieving Parity in Diplomatic Missions — Press Statement — Department Spokesperson — Washington, DC — The United States has fully implemented the decision by the Government of the Russian Federation to reduce the size of our mission in Russia.
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Hoodline, NPR, Diplopundit, Business Insider and IJR
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
U.S. retaliates against Russia by forcing diplomatic closures
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Weekly Standard, Axios and Financial Times
Aimee Green / Oregonian:
Owners must surgically ‘debark’ loud dogs, court rules — Gallery: Owners must debark dogs, court rules — The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched.
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Oregon court: Couple must ‘debark’ dogs — cut their vocal cords — after neighbors complain
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The Daily Caller, WLS-AM 890 and CBS13
TheBlaze:
A message from Glenn Beck: A heavy heart and the road ahead — What happened? My heart is heavy today. — You might have noticed that recently something has been bothering me. — Today, we said goodbye to just over 20 percent of the combined workforce of Mercury Radio Arts and TheBlaze …
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Glenn Beck, The Daily Caller, IJR and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
‘God drowned all the neo-Nazis of Texas’: French magazine Charlie Hebdo prints controversial cover depicting Harvey victims as white supremacists — French magazine Charlie Hebdo's latest edition includes a cover depicting Texans who drowned in the flood waters of Tropical Storm Harvey as Nazis
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Republican calls for vandals of Confederate monument to be lynched — In a Facebook post published Wednesday, Missouri Rep. Warren Love (R) expressed hope that the people responsible for vandalizing a Confederate monument in Springfield National Cemetery will be found and lynched.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Hill, TheBlaze, Raw Story, The Root, News Blog, Riverfront Times and FOX2now.com
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
SPLC Says Army Bases Are Confederate Monuments That Need To Come Down
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Daily Wire and IJR
Fox News:
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke resigns — Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke resigned from his position on Thursday. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said that he received a resignation letter from Clarke but that no reason for the move was provided.
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