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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Maria Bartiromo: ‘Is There Any Reason Why We Should Not Be Trusting President Trump?’ — Maria Bartiromo opened her titular Fox Business Network show Mornings with Maria Thursday morning with a bipartisan discussion over Wednesday's dramatic White House developments between President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Trump appears to have just accidentally revealed he lied to Mueller in Rose Garden rant — It would appear that President Trump admitted that he lied in written answers given to Special Counsel Robert Mueller during his appearance at the White House this morning.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
How ‘Infrastructure Week’ Became a Long-Running Joke — WASHINGTON — At this point in the Trump presidency, “Infrastructure Week” is less a date on the calendar than it is a “Groundhog Day"-style fever dream doomed to be repeated. — Roughly two years after the White House first came …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump seems to be transparently mad — This is not the work of an orderly mind. — President Trump stormed into the Cabinet Room 15 minutes late Wednesday morning and immediately proceeded to blow up a long-planned meeting with Democratic leaders about an infrastructure bill.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why Pelosi is so good at infuriating Trump — Something about Nancy Pelosi just gets under Donald Trump's skin. — On Wednesday, for the third time in barely six months, a meeting between the president, the speaker and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blew up in spectacular fashion.
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Trump v. The “I” Word — There is a theory—one bordering, in some circles, on conventional wisdom—that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump are in complete agreement about impeachment. “It seems that Trump and Republican political strategists have reached pretty …
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NBC News:
After infrastructure blowup, Trump owns Washington gridlock — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — By telling Democrats that he won't work on items like infrastructure until …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Schumer calls Trump a ‘get-nothing-done president’ as blame game continues after aborted White House meeting
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Pelosi Pushes Go-Slow Strategy on Impeachment as She Goads Trump
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POLITICO Playbook: Dianne Feinstein's dinner with the foreign minister of Iran
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Associated Press:
3 minutes: Trump meeting with Democrats goes bust in a flash
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Pelosi goads Trump into another temper tantrum
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
A Trump Twitter-style diatribe — live from the Rose Garden
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump ‘cover-up’ could be ‘impeachable offense’
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Washington Post:
Putin out-prepared Trump in long, freewheeling meeting, Rex Tillerson told House panel — Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Russian President Vladimir Putin out-prepared President Trump during a key meeting in Germany …
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NBC News:
Wells Fargo, TD Bank have already given Trump-related financial documents to Congress — The disclosures come as a federal judge ruled Wednesday that two other banks — Deutsche Bank and Capitol One — can give financial documents to Congress. — WASHINGTON — A key congressional committee …
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Trump, Inc.:
Trump and Deutsche Bank: It's Complicated — Whispers of money laundering have swirled around Donald Trump's businesses for years. One of his casinos, for example, was fined $10 million for not trying hard enough to prevent such machinations. Investors with shady financial histories sometimes popped up in his foreign ventures.
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
The Truth Behind Trump Tower Moscow: How Trump Risked Everything For A (Relatively) Tiny Deal — It's getting late, and Felix Sater—a onetime Trump partner, two-time convicted felon and longtime federal informant—sits in the back of a New York City restaurant, ready for a drink.
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
In letter, ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh said ISIS ‘doing a spectacular job’ — Lindh is set to be released from prison Thursday amid concerns among U.S. authorities that he remains a potentially violent Islamic extremist. — John Walker Lindh, the American captured fighting …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh released from prison after 17 years
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Douglas Hanks / Miami Herald:
Documents detail how Jerry Falwell Jr. went into South Beach venture with ‘pool boy’ — New court documents offer a peek into how evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. wound up in the South Beach hotel business with a former Fontainebleau Hotel pool attendant — The latest twist involves a top aide …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office, Mnuchin Says — WASHINGTON — Harriet Tubman — former slave, abolitionist, “conductor” on the Underground Railroad — will not become the face of the $20 bill until after President Trump leaves office, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
While teaching, Elizabeth Warren worked on more than 50 legal matters, charging as much as $675 an hour — Sen. Elizabeth Warren worked on more than 50 legal matters during her career as a professor at Ivy League law schools, charging as much as $675 an hour to advise a variety of clients …
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
“Elizabeth Warren called me!” is turning into a meme
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Michelle Alexander / New York Times:
My Rapist Apologized — I still needed an abortion. — My 12-year-old daughter recently asked me what I think about abortion. She walked into the kitchen, poked around the refrigerator, then spun around and blurted it out: “I can't decide what I think about abortion. I want to know what you think.”
Jonathan Oosting / Detroit News:
DeVos family ends longtime Amash support — Lansing — The powerful DeVos family of West Michigan is ending its longtime support of U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, the libertarian Republican who has repeatedly clashed with President Donald Trump. — The family has not made any political contributions …
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The City:
Brooklyn Community Board Roils Over $26,000 SUV Splurge — A Brooklyn community board spent $26,000 in taxpayer money on an SUV — which THE CITY found parked Wednesday night across from a home owned by the board's manager. — The discovery came as some members of Community Board 1 fumed …
Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
Man allegedly hiding drugs in butt accidentally shoots himself in testicles — A bungling felon from Washington state made a series of blunders when he shot himself in the testicles and tried to hide the weapon — all while storing drugs in his anus, a report said Thursday.
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
America's Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals. — The demise of a California housing measure shows how progressives abandon progressive values in their own backyards. — To live in California at this time is to experience every day the cryptic phrase that George W. Bush once used …
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship — The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. — One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump. — Two, the Trump administration's …
ProPublica:
TurboTax Uses A “Military Discount” to Trick Troops Into Paying to File Their Taxes — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
New York Times:
India Election Results: Gandhi Concedes as Modi Makes History — With a commanding lead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party are set to expand their majority. “India wins yet again!” he posted on Twitter. — RIGHT NOW Rahul Gandhi, leader of the Congress Party's political dynasty, acknowledges the party's loss.
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James Arkin / Politico:
Return of the Republican civil war? — A prominent conservative group is trying to lure a staunch ally of President Donald Trump into a primary race against Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, threatening to inflame intra-party tensions in a state crucial to the party's 2020 strategy.
CBS News:
A 10-year-old migrant girl died last year in government care, officials acknowledge — The federal agency that oversees the care of unaccompanied migrant children acknowledged to CBS News on Wednesday that a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died in its custody Sept. 29, 2018.
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Washington Post:
Faced with relentless American pressure, Iran starts to hit back — Iran has made a dramatic shift in how it confronts the United States, abandoning a policy of restraint in recent weeks for a series of offensive actions aimed at pushing the White House to rethink its efforts at isolating Tehran, say diplomats and analysts.
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