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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  —  CandidatePartyVotesPct.  —  Rep.  —  82,294  —  Hiral Tipirneni  —  Dem.  —  73,188  —  155,482 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 143 precincts)  —  The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge …
Axios:
Trump's election nightmare
Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
‘Blue Wave’ Fizzles as AP Declares Republican Winner of Arizona Special Congressional Election
Discussion: USA Today, Mother Jones, AOL and CNN
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 …
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 …
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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 …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Mick Mulvaney says in Congress, he only talked to lobbyists who gave him money
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and Splinter
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.
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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 …
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.
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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
Associated Press:
The Latest: Macron lashes out against fake news  —  The Latest on French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in front of a joint meeting of Congress (all times local):  —  French President Emmanuel Macron is urging the United States against “closing the door to the world.”
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Bloomberg Politics
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TIME:
Emmanuel Macron's Address to Congress Was Full of Criticism for President Trump
Discussion: Vox and New York Magazine
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 …
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: CNBC
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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.
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Orrin Hatch / Wall Street Journal:
Protect Mueller, but Not Like This
Discussion: Townhall and Bloomberg
Mark Landler / New York Times:
A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner  —  WASHINGTON — In the ceaseless churn of the Trump administration, there are many ways to leave the White House.  Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the ousted national security adviser, exited to the applause of colleagues who lined the West Wing parking lot.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
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: Above the Law and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Alito: What About Cases of Threat of Infiltration?  —  Justice Alito offers a somewhat less extreme hypothetical than the chief justice's airstrike question.  He asks Mr. Katyal, Can you imagine any situation where the threat of infiltration by foreign enemies was so severe that the president …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
The Trump show goes to the Supreme Court
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: TheBlaze, Althouse and twitchy.com
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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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 …
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Lynching Memorial Is Opening.  The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.  —  The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board …
Discussion: theGrio and WHNT-TV
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 …
Washington Post:
News organizations seek access to Mueller materials in Russia investigation … A coalition of news organizations, including The Washington Post, asked a federal court on Tuesday to unseal materials used by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to obtain search warrants in his investigation …
Discussion: Political Wire
Tennessean.com:
Phil Bredesen holds narrow edge over Marsha Blackburn, new Mason-Dixon poll shows  —  Phil Bredesen and Marsha Blackburn are the leading candidates to replace Bob Corker in the U.S. Senate Michael Schwab/USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee  —  Another poll on the U.S. Senate race between former …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
James Comey threw a book party for all his friends — in the press … Half the country hated him for how he handled the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton, and the other half cannot stand him for his cutting commentary on President Trump.  So, who is left to show up when Jim Comey hosts a book party in Washington, D. C.?
WPRI-TV:
Chafee will ‘very likely’ challenge Whitehouse for US Senate  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee says he is “very likely” to enter the Democratic primary against the man who defeated him for the same seat 12 years ago, Sheldon Whitehouse, Eyewitness News has confirmed.
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and ripr.org
Dallas Morning News:
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I'm alarmed that our country is forgetting the genocide  —  When my parents, Martin and Ann Donald, arrived safely in the United States in 1948, having survived the Holocaust of World War II, they believed that the nations of the world would never …
Jay Rosen / NYR Daily:
Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing  —  There is alive in the land an organized campaign to discredit the American press.  This campaign is succeeding.  Its roots are long.  For decades, the Republican coalition has tried to hang together by hating on elites who claim to know things, like: “What is art?”
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
A Look at WeWork's Books: Revenue Is Doubling but Losses Are Mounting  —  As part of bond offering, the startup reveals it is incurring hefty construction costs for offices it is opening  —  A bond-offering document from WeWork Cos. this week provides a glimpse into the finances …
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
The Independent Poll: Heller, Rosen neck and neck in U.S. Senate race though Rosen still largely unknown; majority disapprove of Trump  —  Sen. Dean Heller is in a dead heat with Democratic challenger Rep. Jacky Rosen in one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races in the country …
 
 
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