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The Daily Caller:
Full Transcript Of Trump's Oval Office Interview With The Daily Caller  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sat for an exclusive Oval Office interview Tuesday with The Daily Caller's Saagar Enjeti and Vince Coglianese for approximately 38 minutes.  —  The transcript is as follows:
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Daily Caller Editor Wrote for an ‘Alt-Right’ Website Using a Pseudonym  —  The former Daily Caller writer and editor Scott Greer has severed all ties with the conservative website after acknowledging that he had written under a pseudonym for the white-supremacist Radix Journal.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's comments after not attacking Nike raise even more questions
Discussion: Bloomberg, AOL and The Guardian
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Critical, But Says Nike's Kaepernick Deal ‘Is What This Country Is All About’
Axios:
Furious Trump trapped by hundreds of Woodward tapes  —  President Trump is livid at the betrayal and stunning allegations in Bob Woodward's forthcoming “Fear,” but limited in his ability to fight back because most of the interviews were caught on hundreds of hours of tape, officials tell Axios.
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Dwight Garner / New York Times:
In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump's ‘Crazytown’  —  Nothing in Bob Woodward's sober and grainy new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is especially surprising.  This is a White House that has leaked from Day 1.  We knew things were bad.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House unprepared for Woodward firestorm  —  The White House was caught flat-footed by the explosive content in “Fear,” Bob Woodward's new book on the Trump administration, as nobody on senior staff had seen a copy when the Washington Post published the explosive excerpts yesterday, according to sources with direct knowledge.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Unleashes on Woodward, Accuses Him of Making Up Quotes and Being a ‘Dem Operative’  —  President Donald Trump is accusing veteran journalist Bob Woodward of running a “con” and being a “Dem operative.”  —  Earlier tonight, Trump tweeted out the statements from the White House …
Axios:
In Woodward's book, Trump erupts over Mueller
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Parkland victim's father and Kavanaugh: The handshake that wasn't  —  “I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence,” Fred Guttenberg, father of slain Parkland student Jaime Guttenberg, wrote on Twitter.  —  The father of a student killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas …
Discussion: Vox, The Federalist and RedState
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Irin Carmon / The Cut:
What Did Brett Kavanaugh Know About His Former Boss's Sexual Misconduct?
Discussion: Mother Jones
Matthew Continetti / The Daily Beast:
The 40-Year Plan That Allowed Trump to Reshape the Courts
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
KDFW:
Man arrested after crashing truck into FOX4 building in downtown Dallas  —  Image Gallery  —  A man was arrested Wednesday morning after crashing a truck into the side of the FOX4 building in downtown Dallas.  —  The man, after repeatedly crashing his vehicle into a side of the building …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Man Repeatedly Crashes Truck Into Dallas TV Station's Building
Discussion: Dallas Morning News
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Google's empty chair and Alex Jones: Key moments from Twitter, Facebook hearing  —  Despite relatively staid early lines of questioning from lawmakers, the Senate Intelligence committee's hearing on foreign electioneering on social media Wednesday swiftly turned into unconventional political theater …
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Watch: Alex Jones and Marco Rubio nearly come to blows in the Senate hallway
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
USA Today:
Social media hearings: Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook was too slow to respond to Russia election interference
Discussion: Breitbart and Just Security
Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Duncan Hunter's ‘Personal Relationships’ Get New Attention in Indictment  —  Washington circles have whispered for years about California Republican's possible marital infidelity  —  Cruz Beefing With Former Iran President (No, Seriously) Over Kaepernick Scott Taylor to Break Silence in Court …
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sandiegouniontribune.com:
Hunter indictment sheds light on ‘personal relationships’ for congressman  —  Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret Hunter were arraigned on charges related to a 60-count indictment filed this week in San Diego.  —  The criminal indictment issued against Rep. Duncan Hunter …
John Parkinson / ABC News:
‘Justice is blind,’ Paul Ryan says; GOP indictments ‘isolated incidents’
Discussion: USA Today, Washington Post and Politico
BBC:
Salisbury Novichok poisoning: Two Russian nationals named as suspects  —  Two Russian nationals have been named as suspects in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.  —  The men, using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Vikram Dodd / The Guardian:
Salisbury poisonings: police name two Russian suspects
Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Times and NPR
Associated Press:   The Latest: UK's May: poisoning suspects were Russian agents
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump suggests protesting should be illegal  —  President Trump has long derided the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” and lashed out at NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem.  On Tuesday, he took his attacks on free speech one step further, suggesting in an interview …
Discussion: Hit & Run, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Trump backs off government shutdown threat ahead of elections: report
Discussion: Political Wire
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:   The Kingmaker: Trump Reveals How He Picks Who To Endorse
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Gives $10 Million to Super PAC in First Major Political Contribution  —  Bezos and wife are supporting With Honor, a super PAC aiming to elect military veterans from both parties to Congress  —  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife are making their first major foray …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Obama to Join Midterm Battle, Starting in California and Ohio  —  Former President Barack Obama is poised to plunge into the fray of the midterm campaign, returning to electoral politics with a frontal attack on Republican power in two states that are prime Democratic targets this fall: California and Ohio.
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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Obama coming to Southern California to campaign for Democrats in key House races
Discussion: Breitbart
Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Michael Moore Plays His Trump Card: A New Movie, Modern Fascism and a 2020 Prediction  —  He's America's most successful documentarian and one of the few on the left who predicted the 2016 election upset.  Now, as Moore readies his anticipated polemic ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ for its Toronto film festival debut …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Ayanna Pressley Upsets Capuano in Massachusetts House Race  —  BOSTON — Ayanna Pressley upended the Massachusetts political order on Tuesday, scoring a stunning upset of 10-term Representative Michael Capuano and positioning herself to become the first African-American woman to represent the state in Congress.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Huge turnout in Ayanna Pressley's victory over Michael Capuano
James Estrin / New York Times:
Photographing an Indelicate but Deadly Subject  —  PERPIGNAN, FRANCE: After years covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrea Bruce was asked by National Geographic in 2016 to undertake one of the most difficult assignments of her career.  —  The subject?  Open defecation.
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Nielsen calls out Putin for election interference  —  Washington (CNN)Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday called out Russian President Vladimir Putin by name for interfering in the 2016 US election, calling it a “direct attack” on US democracy.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Mueller Will Accept Some Written Answers From Trump  —  The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will accept written answers from President Trump on questions about whether his campaign conspired with Russia's election interference, Mr. Mueller's office told Mr. Trump's lawyers in a letter, two people briefed on it said on Tuesday.
 
 
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Republicans Want An NFL “Culture War” To Help Defeat A Blue Wave
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Reuters:
Immigration and welfare fears merge as Sweden lurches to the right
Grace Toohey / www.theadvocate.com:
Why DA refuses to proceed with case vs. man accused of firing at Baton Rouge officer
Discussion: WAFB-TV, Raw Story, The Root and News One
Grace Sparks / CNN:
Trump re-elect starts with 36% firmly behind the President
Politico:
Why Rahm bailed on reelection
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Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
Where Will the Trump Investigations Go Next?
Discussion: Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Puts GOP on Defensive Before Elections
Discussion: Political Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
POLITICO race ratings: 60 GOP House seats in danger
Discussion: Political Wire
Salena Zito / New York Post:
The Twitter trolls attacking my work are all wrong
Tom Nichols / Washington Post:
Want to save the GOP, Republicans? Vote for every Democrat on this year's ballot.
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Kos
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
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The New York Times says it will continue to cover Biden “fully and fairly” regardless of whether he gives the paper a sit-down interview

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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