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Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel — WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump begins informal prep for potential Mueller interview — White House won't commit to Trump-Mueller meet — (CNN)President Donald Trump has begun the initial steps of preparing for a possible interview with the special counsel, a White House official and a person familiar …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Lobbyist couple had to change the locks on Pruitt — Scott Pruitt was only supposed to be living in the Capitol Hill condominium that has become a focal point of his latest ethics controversy for six weeks last year while he got settled in Washington - but the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt — Trump resists calls for Pruitt resignation as White House reviews controversies — WASHINGTON—White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that he is convinced Environmental Protection …
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Jennifer Rutledge / Conservative Action Project:
Conservatives Stand with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Conservatives Stand with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump adviser played key role in pursuit of possible Clinton emails from dark web before election — (CNN)A Donald Trump foreign policy adviser pushed government agencies to review materials from the dark web in the summer of 2016 that he thought were Hillary Clinton's deleted emails …
New Yorker:
What About “The Breakfast Club”? — Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo. — Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version of “The Breakfast Club,” …
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety — A South Carolina Republican congressman is not backing down from critics after he pulled out his own personal — and loaded — .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday.
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Dallas Morning News:
Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress — This is a developing story. — WASHINGTON — Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned from Congress Friday afternoon, less than four months after dropping reelection plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns from Congress — “While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it's time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve,” the Republican from Corpus Christi said in a statement. — The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Congrats, Jeff Goldberg. You Just Martyred Kevin Williamson. — Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg climbed out on a limb last month to add conservative fire-breather and Never Trumper Kevin D. Williamson of National Review to join his growing staff.
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Kevin Williamson is wrong. Hanging women who have an abortion is not pro-life
Kevin Williamson is wrong. Hanging women who have an abortion is not pro-life
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Kevin Williamson, Thought Criminal
Kevin Williamson, Thought Criminal
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Imagine a Genocide
Imagine a Genocide
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New York Times:
Kushner Partner in 666 Fifth Ave. Says It Has Deal to Sell — The Kushner family appeared on Friday to have struck a deal to buy out its partner in the troubled Fifth Avenue skyscraper at the center of its real estate empire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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WHAM-TV:
Police: Sweden boy, 7, decapitated by mother in home — Hanane Mouhib has been arrested and charged with second degree murder after police say she decapitated 7-year-old Abraham Cardenas in a Sweden home Thursday night. (Photo: Monroe Co. Sheriff's Office) — AA
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Sweden mom charged in brutal slaying of her 7-year-old son — Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter, District Attorney Sandra Doorley and Brockport Central School District Superintendent talk about the murder of 7 year-old Abraham E. Cardenas, and the arrest of his mother 36 year-old Hanane Mouhib, Shawn Dowd
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Laura Lollman / KASW-TV:
Backpage.com shut down by FBI, several indicted on crimes related to sex trafficking — SEDONA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - — Seven people have been indicted on 93 counts of several different crimes related to the classifieds website, Backpage.com. The crimes include money laundering and running a website to facilitate prostitution.
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Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Backpage Has Been Taken Down By The US Government And Sex Workers Aren't Happy
Backpage Has Been Taken Down By The US Government And Sex Workers Aren't Happy
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Colin Lecher / The Verge:
The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage
The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage
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Michelle Fabio / Forbes:
Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And ‘Media Influencers’ — In today's installment of “I'm Not Terrified, You Are,” Bloomberg Law reports on a FedBizOpps.gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the relatively benign-sounding subject, “Media Monitoring Services.”
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Virginia Kruta / The Daily Caller:
Michelle Obama: My Husband Was ‘The Good Parent,’ Trump Is ‘The Fun Parent’ — Former first lady Michelle Obama threw a few barbs at President Donald Trump while speaking to a group of women at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday. — Asked whether she would consider …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump
Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump
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Denver Post:
As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved … The photo on the left shows 142 members of The Denver Post's newsroom staff in the newspaper's lobby on May 15, 2013, a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting.
Carl Meyer / National Observer:
EXCLUSIVE: Facebook suspends Canadian tech firm AggregateIQ over data scandal — Facebook says it has suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform, after reports emerged alleging its involvement in a global controversy over misuse of personal social media information for political ends.
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Facebook:
Making Ads and Pages More Transparent
Making Ads and Pages More Transparent
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Trump threat of $100 billion tariffs will ‘wake up’ China, Mitt Romney says — SANDY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump's proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn't think it would lead to trade war.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Trump asked CIA official why drone strike didn't also kill target's family: report — reportedly asked a CIA official why the agency didn't kill a terrorist target's family during a drone strike. — The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike …
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Tanya Gold / Spectator USA:
The fall of Milo Yiannopoulos … It seems the phenomenon of Milo Yiannopoulos - the brief, bright arc of his invention - is over. I do not want him to fall without being understood so I will tell you the strange tale of our encounters last year. Monsters should be understood, and pitied, for our own sakes.
Maria Cramer / BostonGlobe.com:
Federal judge upholds Mass. assault weapons ban — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Friday that challenged Massachusetts' ban on assault weapons, delivering a significant victory for Attorney General Maura Healey, who had tightened enforcement of the state's laws against such weapons …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump signs memo ordering end to ‘catch and release’ practices — signed a memorandum on Friday ordering agencies to “expeditiously end” the practice known as “catch and release” that allows immigrants caught in the U.S. without proper documents to be released from detention while their cases play out in court.
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ICE raids meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee; 97 immigrants arrested … Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee late Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration …
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Madeleine Albright / New York Times:
Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late? — Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II. — On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.
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Neal Gabler / New York Times:
How ‘Chappaquiddick’ Distorts a Tragedy — Senator Edward Kennedy, one of the most famous members of America's most famous family, understood that he belonged as much to popular culture as to political culture. Now, nine years after his death, comes a movie about the event that …
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl — As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.
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