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Gingrich Wife Confirmed To Vatican Embassy

Trump Slur On Obama And Bush Is 'Outrageous Lie'
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Danziger: Trump Grieves

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Trump Uses Death Of Gen. Kelly's Son To Defame Obama

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#MeToo: How I Learned What Predators Like Weinstein Do To Women Every Day

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Puerto Rico Suffers, Gold Star Families Mourn - And Trump Golfs
It’s been two weeks since four Green Berets lost their lives in an ambush in Niger, and Donald Trump hasn’t bothered to place a call to their families. In Puerto Rico, CNN reports that the administration’s relief efforts are so miserable that more than 80 percent of the islanders still lack electricity and 30 percent remain without running water.
By Kali Holloway

It’s A Fact: Supreme Court Errors Aren’t Hard To Find
In 2007, a group of California Institute of Technology scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against the venerated space agency. Many of the scientists had worked on NASA missions and research for years as outside employees.
By Ryan Gabrielson

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Coulter: If DACA Champion Kamala Harris Runs, She'll Win 2020 Nomination

By Joe Conason

The White House Says It Doesn’t Keep A List Of Mar-a-Lago Visitors. Experts And Visitors Are Skeptical.
Last month, the Trump administration said it could not comply with a court order to disclose the names of people who met with the president at Mar-a-Lago in part because they do “not maintain any system for keeping track” of them.
By Derek Kravitz
SNL Cold Open: Baldwin Is Back, Ripping Eminem, Corker And Tillerson
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If Trump Is Unraveling, Nobody Should Be Surprised
The piece describes “a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods,” and cites an inside source who suggests Trump is “‘unstable,’ ‘losing a step,’ and ‘unraveling.'"
By Kali Holloway
Climate Deniers In Washington Can't Save Big Coal
Last Monday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced he will repeal the Obama administration’s regulation to curb power plant carbon emissions, telling coal miners in Kentucky that “the war on coal is over.” The next day he kept his promise, issuing a proposed rule to eliminate the Clean Power Plan.
By Elliott Negin
Trump Owns Fake Renoir That He Insists Is Real
Biographer Tim O’Brien told Vanity Fair an amazing anecdote about how President Donald Trump owns a Renoir print and straight-up refuses to acknowledge it's not the original painting. O'Brien spotted the print on Trump's plane and asked him if it was an original, apparently to see if he'd lie.
By Chris Sosa
The Tech Revolution May Take Your Job Next
Today's proliferation of industrial robots is an advanced generation of powerful, autonomous machines driven by artificial intelligence. The profiteers and techies propelling us into the deep unknown of a robot economy concede that the fast-evolving machines will be radically disruptive, not just in the workplace, but throughout society.
By Jim Hightower

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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax
By National Memo
Religious Right Using Hurricane Tragedies To Grab Public Funds For Churches
In between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Trump took the time to plant a tweet bomb under the First Amendment. “Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others),” he twittered.
By Katherine Stewart
Inspector General Debunks (Again) The IRS 'Scandal' That Never Was
The “IRS scandal” -- the right-wing delusion that the Internal Revenue Service was disproportionately targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status and slow-walking their approvals -- began as a political hit job by a partisan Republican congressman. It matured into a full-fledged scandal, with President Barack Obama apologizing and the IRS commissioner resigning in disgrace.
By Matt Gertz

Health

Trump Says He Has Killed Obamacare
President Donald Trump declared Monday that his predecessor Barack Obama's signature reform and expansion of the US health insurance system is defunct, after he cut subsidies to insurers. "Obamacare is finished. It's dead. It's gone," he told reporters.
By AFP
Contraception Benefit Rollback Signals A Swelling Misogyny
Like George Orwell's "1984," Atwood's chilling dystopia is newly relevant in a strange era of autocratic impulses and retrogressive policies. Now that Trump has rescinded another key benefit of Obamacare, the requirement that companies provide health insurance that guarantees birth control for their employees, a future in which fertile young women are enslaved as reproductive vessels seems less outlandish.
By Cynthia Tucker
Trump's Long History Of Holding Health Care Hostage
Why? Retaliation against his nephew (William's father) for challenging the will of Fred Sr. It seems the Trump patriarch had left the family of one son — Donald's deceased brother, Fred Jr. — largely out of his estate. Any part Donald may have played in nudging the elderly Fred Sr. to do that is not public knowledge. What's clear is that with his brother basically cut from the will, Donald inherited many more millions.
By Froma Harrop

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#MeToo: How I Learned What Predators Like Weinstein Do To Women Every Day
By Gene Lyons
#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax
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#EndorseThis: In Fulminating Rhymes, Eminem Takes Down Trump

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THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Alex Jones Makes Incoherent Case For White Reparations

Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent

Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

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This Week In Crazy: Trump's God-Given Mission To Nuke North Korea

Nuclear holy war, Chi-Raqi occupation, and Al Gore's "big ugly ass." Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

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Gingrich Wife Confirmed To Vatican Embassy
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MONEY

#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax
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Religious Right Using Hurricane Tragedies To Grab Public Funds For Churches
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WORLD

Gingrich Wife Confirmed To Vatican Embassy
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HEALTH

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