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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
It's True: Trump Is Lying More, and He's Doing It on Purpose.  —  On Thursday, the Washington Post published a remarkable story on its front page revealing a recent spike in the number of “false and misleading claims” made by President Trump.  In his first year as President, Trump made 2,140 false claims, according to the Post.
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
IRONY: Social Media Mob Comes For Sarah Jeong, Who Cheered Social Media Mobbing Of Others  —  I've already argued today that Sarah Jeong, the new New York Times editorial board member, shouldn't be fired for her old racist tweets, since social media mobbing has become far too prevalent …
Discussion: twitchy.com
David French / National Review:
Yes, Anti-White Racism Exists
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Trump takes us-versus-them media war to new heights  —  When CNN's Jim Acosta was booed and cursed at a campaign rally for President Trump  —  this week, many political observers said it exemplified how much the media environment has changed under the current administration — and that is a sign of what's to come.
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Mollie Hemingway: Trump Did Not Create Distrust Of The Media, Distrust Of The Media Created Trump  —  Mollie Hemingway said the media needs to take a “hard look” inside and called out Jim Acosta for telling a woman, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that she …
Wall Street Journal:
Top Trump Donor Agreed to Pay Michael Cohen $10 Million for Nuclear Project Push  —  Consulting deal with Franklin L. Haney could have been among the most lucrative struck by president's then-personal attorney  —  A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president's …
Associated Press:
Trump trashes media as ‘fake, fake disgusting news’ at rally  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Thundering that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent.
Discussion: AOL and HuffPost
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NBC News:
Hours after White House warns of new election meddling, Trump again points to ‘Russian hoax’  —  Earlier Thursday, several of Trump's top lieutenants took to the White House briefing room to warn of the latest threat.  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — It's still a “hoax” to President Donald Trump.
Discussion: MSNBC
Nick Hopkins / The Guardian:
Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow  —  Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy  —  US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart …
Haley Britzky / Axios:
China plans more retaliatory tariffs against U.S.  —  China is planning on hitting the U.S. with “differentiated tariffs on about $60 billion of U.S. goods,” according to Bloomberg.  —  The big picture: This comes days after reports that the White House was considering increasing the tariffs on Chinese goods from 10% to 25%.
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Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
China warns it could fire back with tariffs of $60 billion in U.S. goods  —  BEIJING — China will impose differentiated tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods if the United States presses ahead with its latest trade threats, Beijing warned Friday.  —  In a statement, the Commerce Ministry …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
In Tennessee Senate Race, Democrat Tries To Show He Can Overcome Political Tribalism  —  In the Trump era, the phrase “all politics is local” may feel like an anachronism.  But in Tennessee, Phil Bredesen is trying to prove that national partisan divides can be overcome in the most surprising Senate battleground of 2018.
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Christopher Donato / ABC News:
Results now official in Tennessee primary elections
Discussion: Axios
Bloomberg:
Trump Fury Over Mueller ‘Conflicts’ Dates to Oval Office Meeting  — Mueller met with Trump on FBI job day before taking over probe  — President suggested Sessions should remove special counsel  —  President Donald Trump sat with Robert Mueller in the Oval Office in May of last year …
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Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
Our Rebuttal to Kris Kobach's Critique  —  Press representatives for the Kansas gubernatorial candidate have disseminated charges that a ProPublica article about Kobach's campaigns for anti-immigration ordinances is inaccurate and biased.  We respond.  —  Earlier today, the press team …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   In Potential Kobach Candidacy, Kansas Faces Another Lurch to the Right
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payrolls rise 157,000 missing expectations, but overall picture still strong  — Total nonfarm payrolls increased by 157,000 for the month, below the 190,000 expected in a survey of Reuters economists and the lowest gain since March.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Bannon blasts ‘con artist’ Kochs, ‘lame duck’ Ryan, ‘diminished’ Kelly  —  Stephen Bannon is ratcheting up his war on the Koch network, accusing the billionaire brothers of running “a conscious scam” and a “con job.”  —  He also has a warning for Republican candidates …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Sarah Polus / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. co-hosts Dinesh D'Souza's very conservative D.C. film premiere  —  The red carpet for the screening of far-right filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's new documentary was all business.  There's no time for chitchat about who is wearing what when you've got an entire liberal ideology to topple.
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:   Gorka: If Russell Crowe gets ‘back into the gym,’ he could play me in a movie
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Tim Allen breaks silence on Roseanne firing: ‘Who makes up these rules?’  —  Tim Allen is opening up about the other conservative sitcom star whose show was canceled by ABC — Roseanne Barr.  —  Asked whether the network was right to fire Barr over her racist tweet last May, Allen replied …
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Wire
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Tim Allen on ABC's ‘Roseanne’ Controversy and “Icy Time” for Comedians
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
QAnon: Meet a real-life believer in the online, pro-Trump conspiracy theory that's bursting into view  —  After I wrote about QAnon, an online conspiracy theory that leaped on Tuesday from the far reaches of the Internet to the audience at Trump's rally in Tampa, an email arrived in my inbox from a man named Paul Burton.
Discussion: Big Think, New York Post and HuffPost
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Ted Hesson / Politico:
Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents  —  The Trump administration on Thursday informed a federal judge that it isn't responsible for locating deported parents separated forcibly from their children at the southern border.  —  DOJ said in a court filing …
The Daily Beast:
National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls and Circulation Drops … Shortly after the feds raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's now estranged personal attorney and longtime enforcer, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker went into a state of calculated retreat.
Wall Street Journal:
Trudeau Faces Growing Doubts Over Canada's Refugee Policy  —  New poll shows intensifying concerns over surge of asylum seekers entering by foot from the U.S.  —  OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's open-arms policy on refugees is facing pushback at home.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China  —  If ethnic cleansing takes place in China and nobody is able to hear it, does it make a sound?  That's what millions of Muslims inside the People's Republic are asking as they watch the Chinese government expand a network of internment camps …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats hopeful after poll shows plummeting trust in Trump  —  “Russia, Immigration and Trade War Sticking to Trump” is the headline of a new polling memo for Priorities USA by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group and Global Strategy Group.  —  Why it matters: “This translates into the worst ratings …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
O'Rourke Puts Race into Lean Republican Column  —  This race in a state that isn't usually competitive for Democrats in statewide races has generated an unusual amount of attention.  Most of it is thanks to U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic nominee, who is running an unconventional yet …
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
White Americans support welfare programs — but only for themselves, says new research  —  New study shows white Americans love government support programs — that is, if they're the beneficiaries  —  Donald Trump's administration recently decided to give $12 billion to farmers hurt …
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump's Inaccurate Claims About Highways, Immigration and Beyoncé From a Pennsylvania Rally  —  President Trump said his campaign rallies drew larger crowds than concerts for Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen.  That was one of 15 inaccurate claims he made.  —  THE FACTS
Wall Street Journal:
Thousands of North Korean Workers Enter Russia Despite U.N. Ban  —  Moscow's approval of new North Korean laborers keeps cash flowing to Pyongyang and may violate sanctions, U.S. officials say  —  Anatoly Kurmanaev in St. Petersburg, Russia  —  Russia is letting thousands …
Discussion: On Point
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leader's mother speaks for the first time  —  Nearly 17 years since 9/11, Osama bin Laden's family remains an influential part of Saudi society - as well as a reminder of the darkest moment in the kingdom's history.  Can they escape his legacy?
Associated Press:
Campaigns on their own as cyber threats roil midterms  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris has been the target of social media misinformation campaigns since she became a U.S. senator.  —  Every month for the last 18 months, her office has discovered on average between three …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Shia Kapos / Politico:
Rosenstein: ‘I think informing the American people is an important part of deterrence’
Joshua Nevett / Dailystar.co.uk:
Tommy Robinson compares jail to Guantanamo Bay claiming inmates threw ‘excrement’ at him
Columbia Journalism Review:
Women's voices are still lacking in foreign policy op-eds
Isabella Steger / Quartz:
A Japanese medical university lowered women's test scores because it was a “necessary evil”
Washington Post:
‘They have nothing’: How a $20 tip cost an immigrant her Dulles job and severed a lifeline to Sierra Leone
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Is Halliburton Bribing Ryan Zinke with a Microbrewery?
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
David Siders / Politico:
Democratic rivalries laid bare at liberal summit
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
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Discussion: Science News
Foreign Policy:
Internal Documents Show How Trump Administration Misled Public on Poverty
Discussion: Splinter
VICE:
What Goes on Outside Trump Rallies Is an American Nightmare
Washington Post:
Manafort's bookkeeper testifies against him, alleging efforts to inflate income
Discussion: The Week and Crooks and Liars
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
New Age author Marianne Williamson ‘looking into’ 2020 presidential run
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Sara Murray / CNN:
Alleged Russian agent's infiltration of GOP circles anything but subtle
Discussion: Raw Story