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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
New Allegations Emerge Against Ronny Jackson as White House Digs In  —  WASHINGTON — Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, the White House physician nominated to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, provided “a large supply” of Percocet, a prescription opioid, to a White House military office staff member …
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CNN:
VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employee's door during overseas trip, sources say  —  (CNN)During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.
Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
White House defends VA pick amid misconduct allegations
Discussion: Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Another Special Election, Another Really Bad Sign For The GOP  —  One might describe Arizona's 8th Congressional District as ... nondescript.  Covering portions of Phoenix's northern and western suburbs, including the Arizona Cardinals' home stadium, the district isn't all that geographically …
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New York Times:
Republicans Lost Support in Every Special Election Since Trump Became President  —  Republicans have fared far worse in recent special congressional elections compared with previous elections.  —  Republican margin of victory  —  In a special House election on Tuesday, Debbie Lesko …
New York Times:
Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District
New York Times:
Inside the Confidential N.F.L. Meeting to Discuss National Anthem Protests  —  N.F.L. owners, players and league executives, about 30 in all, convened urgently at the league's headquarters on Park Avenue in October, nearly a month after President Trump began deriding the league and its players over protests during the national anthem.
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose rent increases for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies … U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday will propose to increase the amount low-income households are expected to pay for rent as well as require …
New York Times:
Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship  —  KEYSER, W.Va. — Don Blankenship is running for the United States Senate as a proud West Virginian with Appalachian roots, but his primary residence is a $2.4 million villa with palm trees and an infinity pool near Las Vegas.
New York Times:
Key Justices Seem Skeptical of Challenge to Trump's Travel Ban  —  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices asked tough questions of both sides on Wednesday in weighing President Trump's authority to impose a travel ban, which restricts entry into the United States from several predominantly Muslim nations …
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Wall Street Journal:
Alito: What About Cases of Threat of Infiltration?
Discussion: Reason and Politico
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post:
North Korea's nuclear test site has collapsed ... and that may be why Kim Jong-un suspended tests  —  The mountain's collapse after a fifth blast last fall has led to the creation of a massive ‘chimney’ that could leak radioactive fallout into the air, researchers have found
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Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Is Largely Unusable, Chinese Scientists Say
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in Golden State killer case is arrested after decades of searching  —  Authorities have arrested a man suspected of being one of California's most prolific serial killers and rapists — the Golden State killer.  —  According to law enforcement sources who were unauthorized …
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Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
The officers pulled over a car whose Nevada registration had expired.  The car was driven by a male friend of her daughter, who was a passenger in the back seat  —  The daughter had called her mother after the vehicle was pulled over as they were driving along Route 9W in Bergen County on March 31.
Discussion: Politico and Louder With Crowder
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Bet $69 Million on Megyn Kelly—Then Viewers Vanished  —  The former Fox News star was supposed to bring a bigger audience for ‘Today,’ but ratings declines and high costs have dragged down a critical franchise  —  Megyn Kelly was supposed to bring star power to NBC News and a bigger …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
What's Robert Mueller's next big move?  Here are 9 possibilities.  —  Recent reports suggest intriguing possibilities for where the investigation is going.  —  What's the next shoe that will drop in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation?  —  Mueller's team won't say publicly …
Discussion: Politico
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Washington Post:
News organizations seek access to Mueller materials in Russia investigation
Associated Press:
The Latest: Macron climate change appeal uses Trump's words  —  The Latest on French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in front of a joint meeting of Congress (all times local):  —  “I have a Rendezvous with Death.”  —  French President Emmanuel Macron used those chilling words …
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TIME:
Emmanuel Macron's Address to Congress Was Full of Criticism for President Trump
Discussion: Vox and New York Magazine
New York Times:
How Scott Pruitt Plans to Defend Himself on Capitol Hill: Spread the Blame  —  WASHINGTON — As Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, prepares to testify before Congress on Thursday amid a series of spending and ethics investigations, an internal E.P …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill, The Week and CNBC
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Will anyone leave the Trump administration with an intact reputation? … It is one of the inevitable characteristics of politics that when you work for a politician, you end up sharing the blame for their misdeeds, fairly or not.  I'm sure there were many ethical people who worked …
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Jay Rosen / NYR Daily:   Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Harry Reid says Trump is damaging the country but warns against impeachment  —  LAS VEGAS — Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said he is worried that U.S. institutions have been “decimated” under President Donald Trump and blames Republicans for being lax on Russian election meddling …
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils A Public Option For Banking  —  The idea would provide a low-cost alternative to payday loans — and it might just save the Postal Service, too.  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require every U.S. post office …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Merseyside Police:
We've issued the following statement following reports of social media posts being made in relation to Alder Hey Hospital and the ongoing situation with Alfie Evans:  —  Chief Inspector Chris Gibson said: “Merseyside Police has been made aware of a number of social media posts …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump's Contact with Vietnam — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast  —  On Dec. 14, 2016, one month after his election, President-elect Donald Trump had a call with the prime minister of Vietnam.  At a time when foreign governments were scrambling to contact Trump …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Above the Law
Adele M. Stan / American Prospect:
The Republic Crumbles, Melania Wears a White Hat  —  Eliot Blondet/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images  —  United States President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome President Emmanuel Macron and Mrs. Brigitte Macron of France for a state visit at The White House
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
For Melania Trump, fashion diplomacy was defined by a hat
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Vox rewrites history to make Barbara Bush-hating professor the victim  —  Vox's fundamental problem isn't that many of its writers are astonishingly ignorant.  It's that they are aggressively dishonest.  —  Consider, for example, how the website that promises to “explain the news” …
Discussion: Daily Wire, twitchy.com and Vox
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Eddie Hughes / Fresno State News:
President Joseph I. Castro letter on conclusion of review regarding professor
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Turning Point USA Keeps Accidentally Hiring Racists  —  “I love making racist jokes,” tweeted the woman who replaced the person who wrote, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE.”  —  Turning Point USA, a nonprofit founded in 2012 by then-19-year-old Charlie Kirk, has exploded in the Trump era.
Discussion: Slate and The Daily Caller
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Mulvaney's Advice to Bankers: Up Campaign Donations to Diminish Consumer Watchdog  —  WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations …
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Ronan Farrow: Hillary Clinton Tried to Cancel Interview Because I Was Reporting on Weinstein Story  —  Ronan Farrow appeared on Good Morning America Wednesday to talk about his new book, and made a revelation about an interview he was slated to have with Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Althouse, TheBlaze and twitchy.com
Chronicle of Higher Education:
Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans.  One Problem: He's Not Real.  —  Drew Cloud is everywhere.  The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Louisiana GOP pushes back on anti-bestiality bill over fears it could undo sodomy ban  —  Some Louisiana state Republicans are pushing back against a measure in the Baton Rouge Legislature to toughen bestiality laws over fears it could lead to the repeal of the state's unconstitutional ban on sodomy.
Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress:
Unearthed photo reveals ‘New Yorker’ Steve Mnuchin enjoys solar eclipses after all  —  When the public first learned about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's trip aboard a (pricey) military jet to tour Fort Knox last August, it didn't take an astrologer to note the interesting timing of the visit …
Discussion: HuffPost
Reason:
Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People's Cars … On June 21, 2016, Chicago police pulled Spencer Byrd over for a broken turn signal.  Byrd says his signal wasn't broken, but that detail would soon be the least of his worries.  Ever since, Byrd has been trapped …
Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
Firing Mueller won't end Trump investigation, Mueller made sure  —  Rachel Maddow shows how Robert Mueller has worked with other departments and agencies in the course of the Trump Russia investigation, ensuring that even if the special counsel is fired, the elements of the investigation live on.
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
THE MEDIA DOESN'T HAVE TO BLOW THE NEXT ELECTION  —  At 4:03 p.m. on October 7, 2016, Washington Post reporter David Farenthold tweeted out a link to his exclusive story about hot mic audio of Donald Trump boasting sexually assaulting women.  —  Twenty-nine minutes later …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
US falls to 45th on press freedom index, Trump labeled ‘media-bashing enthusiast’  —  Reporters Without Borders has dropped the United States to No. 45 in its annual ranking of press freedom for 180 countries around the world.  —  In the report released Wednesday, the United States received a …
 
 
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National Journal:
Democrats Learning the Limits of Base-First Politics
Thomas Clouse / Spokesman.com:
Federal judge in Spokane halts Trump cuts to Planned Parenthood teen pregnancy program
Prince Of Petworth / PoPville:
This Just In - Macron Lunching at Tonic!?!
Steve LeVine / Axios:
Millennials blame boomers for ruining their lives
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
James Comey threw a book party for all his friends — in the press
Dallas Morning News:
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I'm alarmed that our country is forgetting the genocide
John Ingham / Daily Express:
Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists
Discussion: Daily Wire and Climate Depot
WPRI-TV:
Chafee will ‘very likely’ challenge Whitehouse for US Senate
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and ripr.org
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A Look at WeWork's Books: Revenue Is Doubling but Losses Are Mounting
Colin Clark / Breaking Defense:
Russia Widens EW War, ‘Disabling’ EC-130s In Syria
Discussion: Instapundit
Nathanael Blake / Public Discourse:
The Dual Legitimation Crisis: Elitism, Populism, and Political Power
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
The Independent Poll: Heller, Rosen neck and neck in U.S. Senate race though Rosen still largely …
Tennessean.com:
Phil Bredesen holds narrow edge over Marsha Blackburn, new Mason-Dixon poll shows
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian civilians helping Assad use military base back home - witnesses
Mark Landler / New York Times:
A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner
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