Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Evening Edition: Trump slams Bannon: ‘When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’

 
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Trump slams Bannon: 'When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind'
President Trump released a remarkably fiery statement after Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist and campaign chief, mocked the president's intellect, criticized the operations of the White House and torched Donald Trump Jr. and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The Fix | Analysis
Bannon called meeting with Russian lawyer 'treasonous' and other claims from new Trump book
Michael Wolff's new title "Fire and Fury" — which the veteran journalist said is based on 200 conversations with President Trump, his senior staff and others — contains many interesting insights and claims, big and small.
 
Ex-Trump campaign chairman Manafort challenges his indictment in Russia probe by filing lawsuit against Mueller
The lawsuit contends special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is exceeding his authority by focusing his investigation not on Manafort's actions with the Trump campaign in 2016 but alleged fraud, conspiracy and money laundering in his secret lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian groups.
 
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The Forgotten
Farmers who felt 'smothered' by regulations helped Trump win. But some are wary as rules roll back.
In Iowa, former president Barack Obama's promotion of "Meatless Mondays" irked cattle farmers, and rules targeting farm runoff in waterways felt like a threat. Donald Trump pledged to reverse much of what Obama had done, but now there are new fears. "People don't like to be told what to do," one farmer said. "[But] we need clean water."
 
A 'bomb cyclone' will blast the East Coast. Then it will get really cold late this week.
A monster storm will hammer areas from north Florida to Maine with ice and snow and could resemble a winter hurricane in places by Thursday. Some blizzard warnings have already been issued and more could come.
 
Perspective
Powerful yet addicted to power: Why the New York Times is in the hot seat so often
When most newspapers get a new publisher, few people know or care. But when Arthur G. Sulzberger took over this week as the top boss at the New York Times, even President Trump took notice.
 
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Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love.
The story of Lucy Kalanithi and John Duberstein is both unlikely and destined, the stuff of a rom-com. It began on a death bed.
 
Search warrants detail harrowing scene at home of Va. couple allegedly killed by teen with neo-Nazi views
Scott Fricker and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker forbade their daughter from seeing the teenager. Police said the boy killed them in late December.
 
Israelis voice warnings, Palestinians talk of 'blackmail' in wake of tweets by Trump
The Trump administration's threat to cut aid to the Palestinians to force them into a peace deal may have dire humanitarian consequences that could backfire on Israel, Israeli security officials and analysts warned.
 
 
Here's why tens of thousands of people are protesting the government in Iran
It's the largest outpouring of government opposition in Iran this decade, and it does not appear to be subsiding.
 
Perspective
A stranger insisted he was my son for more than a decade
A phone call from an investigator more than a decade ago launched an odyssey of reflection, sorrow and eventual compassion between the author and the man she would eventually call "my shadow son."
 
'Letters from War' | Podcast
How four brothers' World War II letters were saved, abandoned and then, decades later, saved again
The final episode wraps up the story of the Eyde brothers and reveals two surprises: The letters' provenance and the early writings of a historical icon that were contained in the same boxes that held the siblings' correspondence.
 
 
     
 
 
 
 

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