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F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing — WASHINGTON — The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman — DRIVING THE DAY — AT 4:46 P.M. yesterday afternoon, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP delivered REP. DAN DONOVAN (R-N.Y.) an endorsement the lawmaker had long been waiting for. Donovan is running against MICHAEL GRIMM, a former House Republican who was recently in prison.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Yes, the FBI Was Investigating the Trump Campaign When It Spied — Trey Gowdy and Marco Rubio evidently paid little attention to testimony before their own committees on how Obama officials made the Trump campaign the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. — Well, well, well.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
How Trump's Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’ — WASHINGTON — Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump's victory. — “What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
This HBO footage of Ben Rhodes on election night is as bad as people said it was
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Email snafu reveals White House outreach to Obama and Clinton alumni — Recipients of a blast email were asked to ‘amplify’ Trump's policy on Iran — baffling some who have sharply disagreed with the president in public. — President Donald Trump is better known for speaking directly to his base than trying to win over his critics.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ‘spygate’ offensive loses steam
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Trey Gowdy Didn't Even See Documents He Claims Exonerate FBI On Spygate: Reports
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney reveals his 2016 presidential vote — SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney revealed Wednesday who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election. — His wife, Ann Romney. — “I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president,” …
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Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
New NSC chief of staff is from group that believes Muslims are plotting to take over U.S. — The White House has named a new National Security Council chief of staff from a group that propagates the conspiracy theory that Islamists have infiltrated the U.S. government in a plot to take over the country.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Right About Roseanne — Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom “Roseanne” after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet. There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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Tyler McCarthy / Fox News:
Roseanne Barr says she may fight ABC firing, retweets claim Michelle Obama was behind ouster
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John Harwood / CNBC:
In America's racial din, ABC's decision on ‘Roseanne’ reflects a turn toward tolerance
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BuzzFeed:
Joy Reid Promoted An Infamous 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary On Her Old Blog — The MSNBC host, who has recently come under fire for claiming her blog was hacked, encouraged her readers to watch “Loose Change.” — MSNBC host Joy Reid encouraged readers of her now-defunct blog to watch …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Southern California, Democrats play the blame game as House races loom — BREA, Calif. — Confused and frustrated, a growing number of Democrats are blaming their own party as they seek to avert a drubbing in Tuesday's congressional primaries here that would leave their candidates shut …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
California Democrats Don't Have a Reliable Farm Team
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Chicago Tribune:
Illinois approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years after deadline — The Illinois House voted on the federal Equal Rights Amendment, more than 35 years after the deadline to ratify it passed. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) — Privacy Policy — The Illinois House voted Wednesday night …
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Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun-Times:
Dawn of an ERA? State House passes Equal Rights Amendment — 95 years later
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Prosecutors in Michael Cohen case piecing together shredded documents from raid — Federal prosecutors sorting through materials seized from Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, said Wednesday they needed more time to piece together the contents of a shredder taken in an FBI raid.
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Associated Press:
Trump plans to go ahead with steel, aluminum tariffs on EU — President Donald Trump's administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that could provoke retaliatory tariffs and inflame trans-Atlantic trade tensions.
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy, Along With Many Questions — For more than four years, questions swirled about the shooting death of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. After all, there were only three witnesses to how the entire episode unfolded …
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Washington Post:
Pompeo and North Korean official will try to salvage nuclear summit with New York skyline below them — NEW YORK — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold a crucial meeting Thursday morning with the right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to see if they can salvage …
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Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Satellite Images Show North Korea Scrubbed Nuclear Test Site Before Unilaterally Destroying It
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mitch McConnell's record-breaking reign — The 76-year-old senator has made clear he plans to run again in 2020 and keep leading the Republican conference. — One of Mitch McConnell's toughest tasks is the daily head count he conducts of his 50-member caucus.
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JONATHAN LEMIRE, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO / Asso …:
Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG — WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president's inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general's job.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Immigration Policy Veers From Abhorrent to Evil — We as a nation have crossed so many ugly lines recently, yet one new policy of President Trump's particularly haunts me. I'm speaking of the administration's tactic of seizing children from desperate refugees at the border.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
‘I Will Never Roll on Donald Trump,’ Promises Definitely Innocent Adviser Roger Stone — Roger Stone, a longtime confidante to Donald Trump, appeared on the Alex Jones show to ask listeners to fund his legal defense. Stone's associates have been questioned by Robert Mueller's investigators …
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Charles Davis / The Daily Beast:
What Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions? … Shortly after the 2016 election, Jill Stein raised more than $7 million from shell-shocked liberals eager to pursue a swing-state recount. Nearly two years later, the U.S. Green Party's last candidate for president is still spending that money.
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
White America's racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says — White Americans are increasingly critical of the country's social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment. — The study, conducted by researchers …
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Howard Stern Reveals Trump Asked Him to Speak at the Republican National Convention … In an early teaser clip of David Letterman's Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the comedy legend sat down with another comedy giant in Howard Stern, with the two discussing President …
Alexandra Jardine / Ad Age:
Gunning is Imperial Woodpecker's first female director, Chen joins Stink — Lisa Gunning is signing with Imperial Woodpecker for first-time representation as a director in the U.S. She is the first woman to join the roster at Imperial Woodpecker. Gunning worked for many years as a film …
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Russian Opposition Journalist Arkady Babchenko — On Tuesday, I wrote a column remembering Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist who had been reported murdered in Kyiv earlier that day. It began, “I have lost count of the number of political assassinations …
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News Steamrolls Cable News Competition With Big Win In May Ratings — What happened to the rise of MSNBC? After showing historic growth—and a few months in 2017 when Rachel Maddow took the title of most-watched host in all of cable news, beating Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Arizona governor huddles with John and Cindy McCain — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday quietly met with Sen. John McCain — (R) and his wife, Cindy, at the couple's home outside Sedona, Ariz., GOP sources in the state told The Hill. — The meeting, which was not on the governor's official schedule …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
San Juan mayor wears hat reflecting Puerto Rico's revised death toll from Hurricane Maria — San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz posted a photo of herself Wednesday wearing a hat to reflect the U.S. territory's newly revised death toll from last September's Hurricane Maria.
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