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• Why the Defense Dept. Is Looking to Lease Space in Trump Tower

  08-02-2017 23:54 via nytimes.com
  The search for space follows a tradition of finding a place close to the commander in chief for his top military aides, including the ones who carry the nuclear codes.
  
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• Graham: Silencing Warren 'was long overdue'

  08-02-2017 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor Tuesday was "long overdue."
  
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• Joe Biden Drops by a Fashion Party. The Reason? His Daughter.

  08-02-2017 23:42 via nytimes.com
  The former vice president celebrated Ashley Biden’s collection of cause-related hoodies at an event in TriBeCa. He turned out to be the star guest.
  
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• Silencing Warren backfires on Senate GOP

  08-02-2017 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  GOP attempts to silence Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tuesday night only drew more attention to her opposition to Trump attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions
  
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• Trump: I wanted month delay before travel ban, was told no

  08-02-2017 23:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump --even as he blasted lawyers contesting his immigration executive order -- detailed for the first time Wednesday his own hesitations about the controversial plan before it was signed.
  
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• ‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’: How Senate’s Silencing of Warren Became a Meme

  08-02-2017 22:58 via nytimes.com
  Mitch McConnell’s words regarding a Senate action against Elizabeth Warren became a rallying cry on social media.
  
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• First 100 Days Briefing: Trump Says Nordstrom Treated His Daughter ‘So Unfairly’; Fireworks Before Final Vote on Jeff Sessions

  08-02-2017 22:48 via nytimes.com
  Capping a strikingly contentious confirmation process, the Senate is expected to vote as soon as Wednesday evening on the nomination of Mr. Sessions to be attorney general.
  
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• Warren's moment galvanizes the left

  08-02-2017 22:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democrats searching for a new rallying cry might have Senate Republicans to thank for their newest line: "She persists."
  
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• Shutting Down Speech by Elizabeth Warren, G.O.P. Amplifies Her Message

  08-02-2017 22:07 via nytimes.com
  Senate Republicans halted her remarks after she criticized a colleague, Jeff Sessions, before his confirmation as attorney general, by reading a letter from Coretta Scott King.
  
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• Rule 19: Senate GOP defends rebuking Warren with obscure action

  08-02-2017 21:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Republicans Wednesday strongly defended their decision to employ a rarely-used and arcane Senate rule to cut off Sen. Elizabeth Warren late Tuesday, even though the move has turned into a publicity bonanza for the progressive senator and brought fresh attention to longstanding Democratic concerns about attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions.
  
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• Letter sent by alleged 9/11 mastermind to Obama surfaces - CBS News

  08-02-2017 21:18 via cbsnews.com
  
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  Letter sent by alleged 9/11 mastermind to Obama surfaces
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  “It was not we who started the war against you in 9/11. It was you and your dictators in our land,” Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 51, wrote in the letter. The letter was addressed to Obama and described him as “the head of the snake” and president of “the ...
  The Alleged Mastermind Behind the 9/11 Attacks Wrote President Obama a LetterTIME
  Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America's faultMiam
  
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• Warren on whether Sessions would discriminate as AG: 'Yes'

  08-02-2017 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After being silenced by Senate Republicans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued urging her colleagues to read Coretta Scott King's 30-year-old letter opposing Jeff Sessions -- saying she sees King's concerns that Sessions fought against civil rights as "directly relevant" today.
  
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• Make Obama's birthday a state holiday, lawmakers say - Chicago Tribune

  08-02-2017 20:30 via chicagotribune.com
  
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  Make Obama's birthday a state holiday, lawmakers say
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  He's barely slipped out of the Oval Office and into his surfing shorts — but Barack Obama is already being feted by a pair of South Side lawmakers who want to make his birthday a state holiday. Obama's birthday, Aug. 4, would become the state's 13th ...
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• North Carolina Judges Suspend Limit on Governor’s Powers

  08-02-2017 20:21 via nytimes.com
  A three-judge panel has temporarily halted part of a Republican-backed law that strips powers from the newly elected Democratic governor.
  
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• Trump correctly cites rising crime rates in cities

  08-02-2017 19:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Wednesday painted a dark picture of rising crime in American cities on Wednesday. But unlike a day earlier when he falsely claimed a record-high murder rate, Trump stuck to the facts.
  
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• France's Fillon appeals to voters, retains party backing

  08-02-2017 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon appealed to voters on Wednesday via a newspaper column to back his campaign, trying to claw back support after losing his place as frontrunner over accusations of fake jobs for his family. Fillon has managed to stem a rebellion within his party, partly for lack of a clear "plan B", but plunging popularity ratings show the 62-year-old, who pegged his campaign on an image of integrity, f
  
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• Warren's male Senate colleagues read King letter uninterrupted

  08-02-2017 18:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After Sen. Elizabeth Warren was prevented from reading a letter from civil rights activist Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor, several male colleagues were allowed to read some or all of the letter uninterrupted.
  
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• France's Macron seen beating Le Pen in presidential runoff: polls

  08-02-2017 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will lose in an election runoff for president to centrist Emmanuel Macron, though she still appears certain to take lead position in the first round, two opinion polls of voting intentions showed on Wednesday. An Elabe poll showed Le Pen coming first in the first round with 25.5-26 percent of the vote against 22-23.5 percent for Macron - figures roughly similar to a poll by Ifop Fiducial which gave figures of 26 percent for Le Pen and 21 percent for Macron.
  
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• Chelsea Clinton embraces her Twitter sass

  08-02-2017 17:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Chelsea Clinton is bringing the fire on Twitter lately.
  
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• Trump watch: Live updates

  08-02-2017 17:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  From the travel ban to high-stakes confirmation hearings, we are tracking President Donald Trump's third week in office.
  
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• 100 evangelical leaders buy ad to denounce Trump's refugee ban

  08-02-2017 17:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Scores of evangelical leaders, including at least one from each state, have taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement to denounce President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees, urging him to reconsider his executive order and welcome people fleeing persecution and violence.
  
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• Newest Republican Obamacare plan: 'Reconciliation Plus'

  08-02-2017 17:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Top Republican lawmakers are forging ahead with a strategy of including Obamacare replacement measures in a repeal bill that would roll back big chunks of the Affordable Care Act.
  
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• Dev Patel: Trump travel ban 'terrifies me'

  08-02-2017 17:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The "divisive nature" of President Donald Trump's travel ban "terrifies me in a way," Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel said Wednesday.
  
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• Trump to judges: Even a 'bad high school student' would rule in his favor

  08-02-2017 16:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump sought to lend his own legal argument for his executive order banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries on Wednesday, discounting a legal challenge to the order as anti-security.
  
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• ISIS Detainees May Be Held at Guantánamo, Document Shows

  08-02-2017 15:46 via nytimes.com
  The White House is near completion of an order covering future detainees, despite warnings that doing so may undermine the effort to combat the group.
  
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• Another Patriots player skipping White House visit over Trump

  08-02-2017 15:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New England Patriots defensive back Devin McCourty is the latest Super Bowl 51 champion to say he won't be accompanying his teammates to the White House, where they will be honored by President Donald Trump later this year.
  
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• Trump to meet with moderate Democrats with Gorsuch vote in mind

  08-02-2017 15:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump invited several red state Democratic senators to a White House lunch Thursday in hopes of wooing their support for his Supreme Court nominee and other agenda items, a White House official told CNN Monday.
  
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• Full Video: Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz Debate

  08-02-2017 14:47
  
  In case you missed it, and I know I did, Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Ted Cruz participated in a real live debate held on CNN last night. The main topic was President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as ObamaCare. However, the discussion quickly steered toward a debate of socialism versus capitalism. Here […]
  
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• America First. Europeans Fight over Second

  08-02-2017 14:33
  
  They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It’s true. You can look it up. It’s probably also true that parody is the cleverest form of ridicule. And when it comes to ridicule, the Europeans are second to none. Well, maybe second to the United States. Vanity Fair has an article about Europe’s response […]
  
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• GOP's effort to shut Warren up backfires

  08-02-2017 14:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  GOP attempts to silence Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tuesday night only drew more attention to her opposition to Trump attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions
  
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• Trump's universe of alternative facts

  08-02-2017 12:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "It's working out very nicely."
  
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• Donald Trump's universe of alternative facts

  08-02-2017 12:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "It's working out very nicely."
  
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• Confirmation slog drags on with Sessions AG fight

  08-02-2017 12:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democrats promised to drag out the fight Wednesday over President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, as they put pressure on Republicans to commit to party-line votes to confirm his Cabinet.
  
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• Undocumented workers put Puzder and Ross in an unusual spot

  08-02-2017 12:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's an issue that's sunk Cabinet nominees in the past: Hiring an undocumented immigrant.
  
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• The letter Elizabeth Warren was trying to read

  08-02-2017 12:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In 1986, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote a letter to Sen. Strom Thurmond criticizing Jeff Sessions, who was then a nominee to be a federal judge.
  
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• The Coretta Scott King letter Warren was trying to read

  08-02-2017 12:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In 1986, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote a letter to Sen. Strom Thurmond criticizing Jeff Sessions, who was then a nominee to be a federal judge.
  
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• On Washington: Mitch McConnell Sees ‘High Level of Satisfaction’ With Trump Administration

  08-02-2017 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The Senate majority leader said President Trump’s decisions so far had been “right-of-center things that we would have hoped” a Republican president would make.
  
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• France's Fillon makes appeal to voters, retains party backing

  08-02-2017 10:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon appealed to voters on Wednesday via a newspaper column to back his campaign, after losing his place as frontrunner over accusations of fake jobs for members of his family. Seeking to regain the offensive and show he had the backing of his party's stalwarts, Fillon on Tuesday visited the Champagne region, flanked by local member of parliament Francois Baroin, whose name had been mooted as a possible 'plan B' candidate.
  
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• Violence spreads in Paris suburbs after police rape accusation

  08-02-2017 10:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Violence spread in Paris's northern suburbs for a fourth night and French police arrested a dozen people, police said on Wednesday, amid accusations that police officers raped and beat a man they were detaining. Dozens of vehicles and a nursery school were set on fire by youths during standoffs with police in an area of Paris where riots in 2005 drew global attention to the stark contrast between wealthy Paris and the suburbs that surround it. The trouble began in
  
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• More violence, arrests in Paris suburbs overnight: police

  08-02-2017 07:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French police arrested a dozen people in a fourth straight night of confrontation with youths in suburbs north of Paris, with tension sparked by accusations of police violence spreading to new areas, a police representative said. Yves Lefebvre told franceinfo public radio about 10 vehicles were torched as young people hurled petrol bombs in standoffs with law enforcement officers in a region north of the capital where more serious rioting drew world-wide attention in 2005. Franceinfo said a bus
  
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• The epic showdown over presidential power and American identity

  08-02-2017 07:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The challenge to President Donald Trump's refugee order has escalated toward an epic showdown over presidential power, judicial authority and American identity.
  
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• Senate GOP's effort to shut Warren up backfires

  08-02-2017 07:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  GOP attempts to silence Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tuesday night only drew more attention to her opposition to Trump attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions
  
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• Sanders, Cruz debate Obamacare: CNN's Reality Check Team vets the claims

  08-02-2017 07:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz debated the future of health care in the US Tuesday night, and CNN's Reality Check Team vetted the claims.
  
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• Trump stresses 'close' relationship with Turkey in first call with Erdogan

  08-02-2017 06:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump reiterated US support for Turkey as a "close, long-standing" partner, during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday.
  
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• WH ramps up search for communications director after Spicer's rocky start

  08-02-2017 06:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House is ramping up its search for a new communications director in an effort to lighten the load of embattled White House press secretary Sean Spicer, multiple sources told CNN.
  
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• Warren cut off during Sessions debate after criticism

  08-02-2017 05:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a stunning moment on the Senate floor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren clashed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday night after McConnell determined the Massachusetts Democrat had violated a Senate rule against impugning another senator.
  
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• Republican Senators Vote to Formally Silence Elizabeth Warren

  08-02-2017 05:44 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Warren was accused of impugning a peer when she condemned Senator Jeff Sessions’s nomination for attorney general while reading a letter from Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor.
  
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• Cruz, Sanders face off on Obamacare

  08-02-2017 05:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Under President Donald Trump, the Republican Party is gearing up to overhaul Obamacare -- the sweeping health care law enacted in 2010 that covers some 20 million Americans.
  
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• Trumpolicy: Day 19

  08-02-2017 03:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On day 19, the Trump administration is beginning to defend the travel ban.
  
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• GOP rep: Trump travel ban 'sign of distrust' to allies

  08-02-2017 03:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As a federal appeals court deliberates the fate of President Donald Trump's travel ban, a Republican congressman warned Tuesday night that it will hurt the United States' ties to Middle East allies needed in the fight against terrorism.
  
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