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New York Times:
Job Changes for E.P.A. Officials Who Questioned Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management …
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Julianna Goldman / CBS News:
Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency  —  Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic.  Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use …
CNN:
Trump floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt this week despite scandals  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Pruitt Test  —  The President needs to show some loyalty to his leading reformer.  —  Donald Trump demands loyalty up the chain of command, but loyalty down has been another matter.  The latest test of loyalty down will be whether Mr. Trump stands behind Scott Pruitt …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trade Sheet Says Pruitt's Fall Was Fall Out From Rob Porter Abuse Scandal
Discussion: Political Wire, RedState and CBS News
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Associated Press:
Trump wants out of Syria, but don't say ‘timeline’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spoken: He wants U.S. troops and civilians out of Syria by the fall.  But don't call it a “timeline.”  —  Wary of charges of hypocrisy for publicly telegraphing military strategy …
Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Mueller probe tracking down Trump business partners, with Cohen a focus of queries  —  WASHINGTON  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators this week questioned an associate of the Trump Organization who was involved in overseas deals with President Donald Trump's company in recent years.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump says he didn't know his attorney paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels
Washington Post:
A rambling Trump tosses out the script — literally — in W. Va.
Discussion: Axios, Breitbart and Politico
Katherine Mangu-Ward / Hit & Run:
By Firing Kevin Williamson,The Atlantic Shows It Can't Handle Real Ideological Diversity  —  Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic.  Since leaving National Review in March, the conservative writer has managed to produce just one column at his new perch, in which he declared the death of the libertarian moment.
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David French / National Review:
On the Cowardly Firing of Kevin Williamson
Discussion: alicublog
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
A Response to Kevin Williamson
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller moved to seize bank accounts in Manafort probe  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial institutions last year just one day before former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
Mueller Probe Now Includes Trump's Business Associates
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Daily Mail:
Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence  —  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Lewandowski to Democrats: I'm not answering your ‘f—ing’ questions  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains language some people may find offensive.  —  (CNN)Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn't going to answer their “fucking” questions.
Axios:
Trump fires next shot in China trade war  —  President Trump tonight says he's directed the U.S. Trade Representative to consider an additional $100 billion in tariffs on China, and that the administration may take other actions to “protect our farmers and agricultural interests.”
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Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Trump's Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhattan  —  Twitter troll “Ricky Vaughn” had a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News and the Drudge Report.  Here's who he really is.  —  Who is Ricky Vaughn?
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Mulvaney gives big pay bumps to his hires at consumer agency  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's appointee to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has given big pay raises to the deputies he has hired to help him run the bureau, according to salary records obtained by The Associated Press.
Discussion: New York Times and ThinkProgress
Christina Farr / CNBC:
Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data  — Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients.
The Daily Beast:
Britain Pinpoints Secretive Russian Facility That Made Deadly Nerve Agent  —  Britain has identified the secretive Russian facility where it believes the deadly Novichok nerve agent, used in the attempted murders of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, was made.
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
These Messages Show Julian Assange Talked About Seeking Hacked Files From Guccifer 2.0  —  DMs tie Assange to a Russia-linked hacker — and raise new questions about his Seth Rich conspiracy theory.  —  Twitter DMs obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in the summer of 2016 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump's must-see TV: Judge Jeanine's show and her positive take on the president … President Trump and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly do not regularly give on-the-record interviews.  But both men recently sat down with Jeanine Pirro, the fiery Fox News host whom Trump loves …
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Associated Press:
Inside a White House in tumult, John Kelly's clout dwindles
Discussion: Raw Story
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Daily Beast Sues Department of Justice Over Nunes Memo  —  The Daily Beast has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for multiple alleged violations of the nation's privacy laws.  —  Filed on behalf of the media outlet by attorneys with the James Madison Project …
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S.F. City Attorney's / City Attorney …:
Herrera sues Sessions to restore civil rights protections for the poor, people of color and people with disabilities
Discussion: Breitbart
Associated Press:
Number of women running for US House seats sets record  —  CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Washington Post:
Conor McGregor reportedly arrested, expected to be charged with assault after ravaging UFC event … Conor McGregor responded to UFC President Dana White's decision to strip him of his lightweight belt in typically understated fashion: by tweeting an unprintable insult, crashing a pre-fight press event …
Ramona Giwargis / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Woman says Las Vegas GOP campaign adviser made her his sex slave  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks (Photo obtained by Las Vegas Review-Journal)  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks is pictured in this undated photo obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Sparks is accused of sexually enslaving and battering his ex fiancee.
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Who has any use for conservative intellectuals?  —  The firing of Kevin Williamson has led, predictably, to outrage from other conservatives, and in particular from anti-Trumpers like Bill Kristol and Erick Erickson.  I can't help thinking that much of their outrage is rooted in fear.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
BuzzFeed:
Trump Says An Unprecedented Number Of Rapes Are Occurring During The Caravan.  Our Reporter Is There And Says That's False.  —  The president was reviving remarks he made at his campaign debut about Mexicans being rapists.  —  Reporting From  —  Traveling with the caravan in Mexico
 
 
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Justice Department misses deadline to hand over FBI documents on FISA, Clinton Foundation
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Kentucky legislators send tax cuts for wealthy, tax hikes for the other 95 percent to governor's desk
Deirdre Shesgreen / Cincinnati.com:
Critics say Rep. Jim Renacci may have used “straw donor” scheme to fund state campaign account
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Under Trump, an Office Meant to Help Refugees Enters the Abortion Wars
Chauncey Devega / Salon:
Have Christian nationalists staged a “soft coup,” with Trump as their figurehead?
Discussion: Raw Story
Ezra David Romero / capradio.org:
Black Lives Matter Sacramento Says It Will Protest Stephon Clark Shooting Three Days A Week …
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Murphy just spent $13K to install a door for his wife's office. What's going on behind it?
 Earlier Items: 
Maggie Fox / NBC News:
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Denies Knowing of Any Hush Money Paid to Porn Actress
Lucia Perez Diaz / CNN:
Big crack is evidence that East Africa could be splitting in two
Discussion: The Week
Katie McDonough / Jezebel:
Jezebel Regrets Its Decision to Hire Cannibal Witch as Writer-at-Large
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“You Don't Attack a Kid”: Inside the Laura Ingraham Nightmare at Fox News
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Here's Don Jr. Talking About How It Sucks To Be At The Playboy Mansion With A Pregnant Wife