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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  —  FRIDAY HAS always been Charles's day.  Since long ago, before digital news, when space meant just a strip across the top of a printed page, we knew to save space on Friday's page for Charles Krauthammer.  Charles always filled the space, with just the right number of words, and the most acute words, too.
Discussion: 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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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61  —  The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir “Kitchen Confidential” about the dark corners of New York's restaurants started a career in television, died on Friday at 61.  —  For the past several years, Mr. Bourdain hosted the show …
Anna Silman / The Cut:
Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn't
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:   What Can We Do To Stop Suicide?
Corby Kummer / The Atlantic:
Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Discussion: New Yorker, Vox and WTVR-TV
Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
Anthony Bourdain has died at 61
Discussion: National Review, Eater, CBS Chicago and NPR
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM
Discussion: Washington Post and Just Security
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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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Encouraged Trump to Pardon Marcus Garvey … One of Donald Trump's longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
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 …
Discussion: Axios and Joe.My.God.
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New York Times:
With Mueller Closing In, Manafort's Allies Abandon Him  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel's accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Raw Story
CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller files witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort and Russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik  — Special counsel Robert Mueller filed new witness tampering charges against ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and Russian national Konstantin Kilimnik
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
Mueller Indicts Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort's Ukraine Fixer
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone  —  From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades.  —  The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was less than forty-eight hours away …
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
How Trump Helps Putin  —  Traditionally, the outgoing president writes a personal letter to his successor, offering wisdom and best wishes.  President Obama duly left such a letter for President Trump, as President Bush did eight years earlier.  —  Imagine if Vladimir Putin, the Russian president …
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
France's Macron threatens rare rebuke of U.S. at G-7, Trump fires back
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Fulfilling Russia's Dream of Splitting the Western Alliance
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Politico and The Week
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Associated Press:   APNewsBreak: US lifts secrecy on foreign lobbying opinions
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he ‘probably’ will support bill to protect states that have legalized marijuana
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 …
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico's violence  —  Editor's note: This column has been updated from the original online version with a statement from ICE.  —  Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated high school in Des Moines last month.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP leaders craft framework to break immigration impasse
Discussion: Axios
Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump's Justice Department says the ACA is unconstitutional  —  The Justice Department will not defend the Affordable Care Act in court, and says it believes the law's individual mandate — the provision the Supreme Court upheld in 2012 — has become unconstitutional.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Michael Wolff is back with “Fire and Fury” II  —  After torching the White House with “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff is coming back for more:  —  Wolff tells me he has signed with the same publisher, Henry Holt, for a sequel — although he says it's unclear what that means …
Discussion: Splinter, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book”  —  It's not true President Trump doesn't read.  It's just exceptionally hard to get him to do it.  —  So the workarounds by savvy aides have become legendary in the West Wing.  Many of them revolve around the briefing binder that goes …
NBC News:
U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit  —  WASHINGTON — China may not have a seat at the table during President Donald Trump's upcoming nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but U.S. officials say they are preparing to counter the Chinese spies …
Discussion: The Week and Vox
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The internet was supposed to save democracy.  I asked 4 tech optimists what went wrong.  —  After Cambridge Analytica, social networks look less like a savior than a menace.  —  The internet was supposed to save democracy.  —  The web, and in particular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Romney: Trump will be reelected in 2020  —  DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney bluntly predicted here on Thursday evening that President Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020.  —  Addressing a group of major GOP donors, Romney — who bitterly collided …
 
 
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Maria Curi / Politico:
U.S. Embassy in China warns Americans amid possible sonic attacks
Discussion: Axios and Washington Free Beacon
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We've Got a Problem. A Big Problem.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Alex Johnson / NBC News:
MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women
Discussion: GetReligion
Guy Benson / Townhall:
Manchin: Come to Think of It, Endorsing Hillary in 2016 Was Actually a Mistake
Daily Mail:
Women who refuse to have babies …
Miranda Carter / New Yorker:
What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?
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Khaleda Rahman / Reuters:
Austria's right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 foreign …
Washington Post:
Trump is waging a trade war in the dumbest way possible
Maria Lencki / The College Fix:
Public university prohibits ‘harsh text messages’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NYT Reporters Say ‘F**k The Military,’ Promote Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories, Tweet The N-Word
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The ‘What, Me Worry?’ President
Discussion: New York Times
Politico:
‘Cryin’ Chuck' might just get the last laugh
USA Today:
Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
One Koch Brother Forces The Other Out Of The Family Business
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