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The BBC reports: Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences. The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally. A draft law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to its parliament last year. The …

The Hill reports: Dozens of undocumented immigrants reportedly worked on the construction and operation of President Trump’s resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, at one time totaling more than 100 undocumented workers under employment at the resort at once. Sixteen undocumented workers from Costa Rica and other Latin American nations spoke with the Washington Post and claimed they worked previously at …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s company has fired at least 18 undocumented workers from five golf courses in New York and New Jersey in the past two months, part of a purge set in motion after a series of reports about the clubs’ employment of workers without legal status. Eric Trump, the president’s son, confirmed the firings to The …

“I always love to say to those gender studies people, if you say ‘abortion’ or ‘stem cells’ or ‘guns’ one more time, I’m going to perform one of those on you because, with a gun, because you, by implication, are suggesting that women can’t do the math.” – Kellyanne Conway, in a 2007 speech to the College Republican National Committee, …

The New York Post reports: Hours after President Trump grounded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to visit the troops in Afghanistan, first lady Melania Trump was winging her way to Mar-a-Lago — on a government jet. Politico writer Jake Sherman made the discovery while listening to air traffic control and noted that EXEC1F was headed to Palm Beach airport. …

“They’ll announce on Colbert, then they’ll do Kimmel, then they’ll do Fallon. The entire late night arena in network, and streaming, and cable it’s all just the advertising arm of the Democratic Party. It’s a big giant safe space for them. It’s really — it’s worse than propaganda. If you think about, like, Russia spent a few thousand dollars on …

The Daily Beast reports: President Trump took to Twitter Sunday night to gloat about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce and the subsequent exposure of his personal life on the pages of the National Enquirer. In the days following Bezos’ announcement on Twitter that he and his wife Mackenzie are divorcing, the National Enquirer published a series of exposes alleging that …

The Hill reports: CNN host Don Lemon on Thursday shared a 2013 video of President Trump saying then-President Obama should be fired over a government shutdown. “If you say, ‘Who gets fired?’ it always has to be the top. The problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top,” Trump said on Fox News in …

The New York Times reports: During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with …

ABC News reports: Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter and a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, defended her use of a private email account while transitioning to an administration job, insisting to ABC News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday “there’s no connection between” her situation and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. “All of my emails are stored and preserved. There …

Axios reports: Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, son of the late Billy Graham, tells “Axios on HBO” why he supports President Trump, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct and has previously bragged about his extramarital affairs. “Now people say ‘Well Frank but how can you defend him, when he’s lived such a sordid life?’ I never said …

Politico reports: A pair of Republican committee heads have requested information from the White House regarding Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account to conduct official business throughout her time in the administration. In a letter to White House chief of staff John Kelly, House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked that the administration provide his committee with an …

Mediaite reports: Citing a report by conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, Ainsley Earhardt noted that NBC and ABC spent zero seconds covering the caravan, while CBS dedicated a mere 21 seconds to a story Fox News has provided voluminous coverage. In the next breath, co-host Brian Kilmeade reported an update in the caravan story: that the U.S. military deployed …

The Washington Post reports: Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing …

The Birmingham Herald reports: A Methodist pastor from Massachusetts was escorted out of the room today after interrupting Attorney General Jeff Sessions to question the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Sessions was speaking at the Boston Lawyers chapter of the Federalist Society when a man, later identified as United Methodist Pastor Will Green of Ballard Vale United Church in Andover, Mass., …

The Hill reports: Conservative writer Ben Shapiro slammed the idea that Democrats are behind the improvised explosive devices that were intercepted on their way to prominent progressive political figures. Some conservative pundits have voiced their belief that the devices may have been sent by someone on the left as a political stunt. Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday on his radio show …

CNN reports: House Speaker Paul Ryan pointed to a “green wave” of money that Democrats have infused into the midterm elections, telling a crowd of Republican supporters on Wednesday that “this is our challenge.” “We really don’t see a blue wave,” he said. “We see a green wave of money and this is our challenge. We see liberals on the …

The Hill reports: First lady Melania Trump brushed off allegations of her husband’s rumored affairs, saying she has “much more important things to think about.” Melania Trump spoke with ABC News’s Tom Llamas while on her first solo tour throughout Africa. In the interview, which is airing Friday on “Good Morning America,” the first lady she doesn’t have time for …

Yahoo News reports: Melania Trump has raised a fair share of eyebrows since she launched her pet project, Be Best, because it aims, in part, to combat cyberbullying — with critics accusing her husband, President Trump, of being one of Twitter’s most egregious offenders. But the first lady shrugged off charges of hypocrisy to promote her anti-bullying initiative during this …

“There’s a big difference between these political statements by Taylor Swift and Kanye. Taylor Swift was a virtue signal to try to preserve her reputation among her peers. And I don’t blame her for that because, you know, she needs to maintain her relevancy even though she’s filthy rich. Kanye’s the opposite of Taylor Swift in that he’s stepping away …