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Washington Post:
A note to readers  —  I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months.  I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I'm afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.  —  In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen.
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter  —  Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed …
Washington Post:
Fridays without Charles
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live In Tragic Letter
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61  —  New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died.  He was 61.  —  CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.  —  “It is with extraordinary sadness …
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Jonathan Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us … If you spent much time in food circles around the year 2000, you knew that American food culture was beginning to change — and not necessarily toward the embrace of the seasonable, sustainable, organic pleasures promised by the food revolution.
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
Travels with Anthony Bourdain
Discussion: The Nation, NPR, Eater and Mashable
Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador  —  Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
Discussion: The Guardian, Vox and Refinery29
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61
Peter Navarro / New York Times:
The Era of American Complacency on Trade Is Over  —  President Trump arrived at the Group of 7 summit meeting in Canada on Friday amid an expression of “concern and disappointment” from the six other nations' finance ministers over United States trade policies.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone
Kathleen Harris / CBC News:   Russia was kicked out of what was then G8 in 2014 over annexation of Ukraine's Crimea
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Mueller Adds Obstruction Charge on Manafort and Indicts His Right-Hand Man  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, brought new obstruction charges on Friday against President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and added allegations against a close associate …
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Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
Mueller Indicts Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort's Ukraine Fixer
Discussion: Raw Story and Shakesville
Washington Post:
China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare  —  Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare — including secret plans to develop …
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Adam Putnam's office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn't log in  —  A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history.  —  For more than a year, the state of Florida failed …
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he is likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana … President Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.
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Adam Weinstein / Task & Purpose:
I'm A US-Born Army Vet.  Why Did Border Patrol Just Try To Arrest Me And My Wife?  —  Editor's note: Before publication, Task & Purpose reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a comment on the experiences Dennis White recounts below.  A representative of the agency responded …
Discussion: Immigration Impact
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
John Kelly Instructed DHS Official Not To Email Staff To Avoid Public Scrutiny  —  “FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal accounts is real.”  —  When John Kelly was Secretary of Homeland Security, he instructed an official to refrain …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We've Got a Problem.  A Big Problem.  —  There are certain frameworks and situations in the law in which it does not matter why something happened, it simply matters that something has demonstrably happened, to establish the point, making the finding or act.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Gave Some Companies Access to Additional Data About Users' Friends  —  Special deals gave a small number of companies access to data after shutting off access for other developers  —  Facebook Inc. FB 0.49% struck customized data-sharing deals with a select group of companies …
Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: BuzzFeed Confirms It Knew About Ali Watkins' Relationship With Indicted Senate Official  —  Questions remain over whether BuzzFeed News acted ethically with a former employee, Ali Watkins, who had a romantic relationship with an indicted former security director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Admits To Facilitating 9/11 Terror Attacks  —  Top Iranian official admits for first time Iran aided al Qaeda terrorists  —  Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Jury Convicts Former CIA Officer of Espionage  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a former Central Intelligence Agency case officer today on espionage charges related to his transmission of classified documents to an agent of the People's Republic of China.
Discussion: New York Times
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Canada warns immigrants in U.S. about heading north of the border  —  MIAMI — As President Trump travels north to Canada to attend the G7 summit, Canadian officials have been heading south to try to stem a wave of undocumented immigrants headed their way.  —  In what has become …
Politico:
Trump's latest health care move squeezes Republicans  —  Striking protections for pre-existing conditions renews a fraught repeal fight.  —  Republicans who have tried to repeal Obamacare for nearly a decade believe the Trump administration is reviving a politically risky battle with a court filing …
Discussion: Political Wire
Page Six:
De Niro tells award-winning high schoolers that Trump is spreading ‘bulls-t’  —  Robert De Niro used a Thursday awards ceremony honoring high-school writers to accuse President Trump of spreading “bulls-t.”  —  The “Raging Bull” actor bashed the president while praising the winners …
David Simon:
Bourdain  —  I've had a leasehold on davidsimon.com for years now.  People smarter than I am told me that even if I had no sense of its use at present, I should throw a few shekels down in case.  But until recently, I saw no reason to do much of anything with the site.  —  My ambivalence rests on a couple basic ideas:
Discussion: NewsBusters
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Pelosi scoffs at strong US consumer confidence figures  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday resumed her attacks against President Donald Trump, this time criticizing the nation's nearly 18-year high in consumer confidence under the president's leadership.
Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Exclusive: Nearly 1,800 families separated at U.S.-Mexico border in 17 months through February  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 1,800 immigrant families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border from October 2016 through February of this year, according to a senior government official …
 
 
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Four Reasons Scott Pruitt's Luck May Be Running Out
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Kara Voght / Mother Jones:
This Evangelical Minister Helped Build the Religious Right.  He Now Believes He Made a Terrible Mistake.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Carl Higbie, who left Trump administration over racist comments, resigns from Trump-aligned group
Discussion: Mediaite
Kat Stoeffel / New York Times:
The Age of the MSNBC Mom
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Lisa J. Huriash / Sun-Sentinel:
Retired Secret Service agent had warned Stoneman Douglas about security failures
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
1,358 Children and Counting — Trump's “Zero Tolerance” Border Policy Is Separating Families at Staggering Rates
Discussion: The Nation
Axios:
Inside the State Department's hunt for leakers
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Democratic donors push Mark Warner to enter 2020 race as moderate alternative to Warren, Sanders
 Earlier Items: 
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
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Discussion: GetReligion
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Michael Wolff is back with “Fire and Fury” II
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
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Discussion: Scripting News
USA Today:
Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends