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Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump ‘idiot,’ say White House staffers — WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff John Kelly has eroded morale in the West Wing in recent months with comments to aides that include insulting the president's intelligence and casting himself …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House correspondents think about changing dinner for Trump era — WHCA president discusses her ‘regret’ about dinner — The White House Correspondents Association is belatedly accepting the fact that its annual dinner changes dramatically when the president isn't there.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
In Trump era, the death of the White House press conference — WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential news conference, a time-honored tradition going back generations, appears to be no longer. — More than a year has passed since President Donald Trump held the only solo news conference …
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The worthless Washington media — The U.S. is a rotten basketcase of a nation, with an ancient and constantly backfiring Constitution, a severe case of declining empire neurosis, and an executive branch shot through with criminals and scam artists. — The elite press corps …
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Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
Michelle Wolf 32, has faced heavy criticism for her performance on Saturday after she made barbed jokes towards White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and aide Kellyanne Conway — DailyMail.com reveal the comedian deleted thousands of offensive tweets - including …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The president is seeking to destroy journalism. Now let's debate dinner entertainment! … On Dec. 12, 2017, CNN's Jim Acosta appeared on-air to detail another disturbing episode in the media's struggles with the Trump White House. At issue was a “pool spray” — essentially an opportunity …
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NPR:
Excerpts: ‘Fresh Air’ Interview with Michelle Wolf — Monday, April 30; NPR's Terry Gross spoke with comedian Michelle Wolf about her performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner this weekend in an interview that will air Tuesday, May 1 on WHYY's Fresh Air.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Wonder what Michelle Wolf said to make everyone so mad? Read it here.
Wonder what Michelle Wolf said to make everyone so mad? Read it here.
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Stella Morabito / The Federalist:
Michelle Wolf's Performance Provokes Exactly The Kind Of America She Hates
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The news media just handed Trump a big win
The news media just handed Trump a big win
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump campaign has paid portions of Michael Cohen's legal fees: Sources — The Trump campaign has spent nearly $228,000 to cover some of the legal expenses for President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, sources familiar with the payments tell ABC News, raising questions …
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NBC News:
Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation over ‘con job’ tweet — She says she was harmed by a Trump tweet that accused her of ‘a con job’ — Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Donald Trump for a tweet that said a forensic sketch of a man …
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Noa Landau / Haaretz:
Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Based on Lies - Here's the Proof — ‘Iran did not come clean on its nuclear program,’ Netanyahu says, saying more than 100,000 Iranian documents Israel obtained prove nuclear ‘deal is based on lies’ Speech comes on heels of strike against two bases in Syria and ahead of Trump's decision on nuclear deal
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Netanyahu claims Iran lied about nuclear program
Netanyahu claims Iran lied about nuclear program
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Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Netanyahu says Iran ‘brazenly lying’ after signing nuclear deal, moved documents to a secret location
Netanyahu says Iran ‘brazenly lying’ after signing nuclear deal, moved documents to a secret location
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Insane Israeli operation smuggled 110,000 secret nuclear files out of Iran
Insane Israeli operation smuggled 110,000 secret nuclear files out of Iran
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Wall Street Journal:
Acting Director of ICE Plans to Retire From Agency — Under Thomas Homan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests rose — WASHINGTON— Thomas Homan, the controversial acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, plans to retire and leave his post, three people familiar with his plans said.
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll — MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters - so-called millennials - as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.
Hyonhee Shin / Reuters:
Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.
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Rory Cooper / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Unethical, Dishonest, and Norm-Busting. So What Do We Say if He Helps Solve North Korea?
Trump Is Unethical, Dishonest, and Norm-Busting. So What Do We Say if He Helps Solve North Korea?
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Gordon G. Chang / The Daily Beast:
Kim Makes Stunning Nuclear Concessions to ‘Crazy Guy’ Trump
Kim Makes Stunning Nuclear Concessions to ‘Crazy Guy’ Trump
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Jason Barker / New York Times:
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right! — SEOUL, South Korea — On May 5, 1818, in the southern German town of Trier, in the picturesque wine-growing region of the Moselle Valley, Karl Marx was born. At the time Trier was one-tenth the size it is today, with a population of around 12,000.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Handed the Agenda to Conservatives and They Blew It
Trump Handed the Agenda to Conservatives and They Blew It
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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Documents show ties between university, conservative donors — FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Newly released documents show Virginia's largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations.
Associated Press:
Trump to attend the NRA convention in Dallas — President Donald Trump will be at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas on Friday. — A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend the group's annual meeting. Trump has been a strong supporter of the NRA and enjoyed their backing in his 2016 campaign.
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ClickHole:
Resistance Setback: Robert Mueller Has Abandoned The Russia Investigation After Determining That The Real Crime Is How Low The Prices Are On Kinja Deals — Members of the resistance, our best shot at impeaching Donald Trump pretty much died on the table today: Special counsel Robert Mueller …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service's strategy and Facebook's attempts …
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Ben Taub / New Yorker:
The Spy Who Came Home — Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. — Shortly after an evening nap, Patrick Skinner drove to the police station in the Third Precinct in Savannah, Georgia, wearing ill-fitting body armor. It was late December, and bitterly cold …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Meet Robin Hanson, Opponent of ‘Sex Inequality’ — The massacre last week in Toronto has spurred a public conversation about so-called “incels,” a subculture of self-described “involuntarily celibate” men. To say that misogyny is fairly endemic in this community is something of an understatement.
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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
Jill Stein Has Turned Over Hundreds Of Documents To Congress As Part Of The Russia Probe — Stein says the many of the documents her campaign turned over were communications with RT, a media outlet that US authorities have dubbed a Russian propaganda network. — Reporting From Washington, DC
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Icahn's oil refinery - sources — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump …
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Arthur Allen / Politico:
‘Who the hell is this person?’ Trump's Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project — A West Palm Beach doctor's ties to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago social circle have enabled him to hold up the biggest health information technology project in history — the transformation of the VA's digital records system.
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Trump went to Michigan and didn't talk about Flint … On the 2016 presidential campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump campaigned for black votes in Dimondale, Mich., a predominantly white town, by asking black voters, “What the hell do you have to lose?'”
Rosie.com:
ME AND JOY REID — I WAS HONORED - — SO OFTEN IT WAS TAXING — I HAD PARKER — MORE BABIES WERE ON THE WAY — I LONGED TO BE HOME — AND SHUT OUT THE MAKE UP — THE SPOTLIGHT — THE NOISE — THIS WAS A WOMENS EVENT — NORA WAS THERE - — I CAUGHT HER EYE