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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate … Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.
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CNN:
Jeff Flake's full speech announcing he won't run for re-election  —  Mr. President, I rise today to address a matter that has been much on my mind, at a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than it is by our values and our principles.
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Sanders criticizes “petty” Flake, Corker  —  Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Sen. Jeff Flake's decision not to run for re-election is “probably a good move,” and that Sen. Bob Corker is “to get a headline or two on his way out the door.”  She referred to both men as “petty,” and said they were “grandstanding.”
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
New York Times:
Full Transcript: Jeff Flake's Speech on the Senate Floor  —  Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, announced on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election in 2018.  He delivered a statement from the Senate floor.  —  The following is a full transcript of those remarks, as prepared by The New York Times.
Hot Air:
Trump Takeover Complete: Jeff Flake Not Running For Reelection; Update: “Mr President, I Rise To Say ‘enough’”  —  In the end he had two choices.  One: Brace himself for a war in the Republican primary with the Bannon-backed Kelli Ward that he'd be lucky to survive, only to then have to fight another war …
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Flake announces retirement as he denounces Trump
Discussion: Vox and Axios
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
“None of this is normal”: read the full transcript of Sen. Jeff Flake's blistering retirement speech
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Max Greenwood / The Hill:   Corker: Flake stands up against ‘demagogues’
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake won't run for re-election
Discussion: ThinkProgress and TheBlaze
Associated Press:
GOP Sen. Flake says he'll retire, had tangled with Trump
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and FiveThirtyEight
Washington Post:
Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico's biggest contract to get the power back on  —  For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.
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Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
$300m Puerto Rico Recovery Contract Awarded to Tiny Utility Company Linked to Major Trump Donor … Puerto Rico has agreed to pay a reported $300 million for the restoration of its power grid to a tiny utility company that is primarily financed by a private-equity firm founded and run by a man …
The Daily Beast:
GOP Leaders Refusing To Pay For Dana Rohrabacher's Travel Over Russia Fears … House Republican leaders have taken the extraordinary step of curtailing Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's (R-CA) ability to conduct official business out of fear that he is too compromised by his ties to Russia.
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Congress: Trump Won't Implement Russia Sanctions—and He Won't Tell Us Why
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Trump-Corker feud explodes ahead of critical Hill visit  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The ongoing public feud between Sen. Bob Corker and President Donald Trump exploded Tuesday ahead of the President's high-stakes visit to Capitol Hill for tax negotiations …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Protester throws Russian flags at President Donald Trump ahead of Capitol Hill lunch
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Chris Cillizza / CNN:   Donald Trump has now personally attacked 1 in 5 Republican senators
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott  —  Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore said late last year that the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage was “even worse” than the notorious 1857 Dred Scott ruling that upheld slavery.
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Towleroad and rubber hose
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Washington Post:
Roy Moore is unfit to serve
Discussion: al.com and Talking Points Memo
Detroit Free Press:
Kid Rock: Of course I'm not running for Senate … CONNECT  —  Mocking people who took the idea seriously, Kid Rock said this morning he's not running for U.S. Senate.  —  “F— no, I'm not running for Senate.  Are you kidding me?”  Rock said on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show.  “Who couldn't figure that out?
Hollywood Reporter:
Bill O'Reilly Dropped by Talent Agency After $32M Settlement Reveal (Exclusive)  —  The former Fox News anchor's relationship with UTA has been severed following a report last weekend about a massive settlement he paid out.  —  Bill O'Reilly is no longer a client of the talent agency UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP opens probe into DOJ's Clinton investigation  —  Two powerful House Republican chairmen announced Tuesday that they would jointly investigate the Justice Department's handling of its 2016 Hillary Clinton investigation — a potential counter-punch to the FBI probe …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Appeals court in Washington allows detained immigrant teen to seek abortion  —  (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)  —  An undocumented immigrant teen asking to end her pregnancy is entitled to seek an abortion without delay, according to a ruling Tuesday from a federal appeals court in Washington.
Discussion: Refinery29
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal appeals court clears way for undocumented teen to get abortion
New York Times:
Honor the Truth, John Kelly  —  John Kelly, President Trump's chief of staff, is grimly suited to addressing the family of a fallen service member.  Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star general, is the highest-ranking officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.  His son Second Lt. Robert Kelly was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:   Sarah Huckabee Sanders is wrong about John Kelly
Alex Thompson / VICE News:
Exclusive: Zuckerberg group to spend $45 million on political causes  —  Mark Zuckerberg's listening tour of the United States, he insists, is not a political campaign.  But while “Zuck 2020” may not be happening, the 33-year-old Facebook co-founder is planning to influence American politics for generations to come.
Michael Calderone / Politico:
Leon Wieseltier's new publication ended over ‘past inappropriate workplace conduct’  —  Emerson Collective has severed ties with former New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier after learning of “past inappropriate workplace conduct,” the company said in a statement.
Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
A Man Somehow Evaded Security On Capitol Hill And Threw Russian Flags At Trump  —  “Trump is treason!”  —  The president was giving a thumbs-up when the flags were thrown.  —  Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call,Inc.  —  Pictures from the scene showed a man in a suit being led away by Capitol Police.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Protester throws Russian flags at Trump as he enters GOP lunch
Discussion: Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
Karl Mathiesen / Climate Home:
Jerry Brown: ‘California will sue Trump over climate’  —  Governor says state will use the courts to block the erosion of US climate actions, 'just like the Republicans tried to block Obama's efforts'  —  California governor Jerry Brown said on Tuesday that his state would fight Donald Trump's erosion …
Don Lemon / CNN:
Don Lemon's open letter to Trump: ‘Please stop!’  —  (CNN)Dear Mr. President,  —  I've interviewed you multiple times.  —  You've introduced me to your family.  —  You've also criticized me publicly ... both in front of cameras and on Twitter.  —  Calling me “hateful,” “dumb,” a “lightweight.”
Pew Research Center:
Political Typology Reveals Deep Fissures on the Right and Left  —  Conservative Republican groups divided on immigration, ‘openness’  —  Nearly a year after Donald Trump was elected president, the Republican coalition is deeply divided on such major issues as immigration …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and NPR
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Still Being Paid by Campaign Nearly One Year After Defeat  —  Most have remained by Clinton's side post-election  —  A number of longtime aides to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are still being paid from her campaign committee nearly …
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The ‘Never Trump’ Construct  —  The president's fiercest critics still do not grasp that Trump is a symptom, not the cause of the GOP's internal strife.  —  For all the talk of a Civil War in the Republican party over Donald Trump, 90 percent of Republicans ended up voting for him.
 
 
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Don Gonyea / NPR:
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Discussion: Axios and The Root
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Republicans quietly craft Dreamers deal
Discussion: Political Wire