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Nicole LaFond is TPM’s deputy editor for news, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois.
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HUNT VALLEY, MD - OCTOBER 12: The Sinclair Broadcast building sits in a buisness district in Hunt Valley, Maryland October 12, 2004. Sinclair Broadcast Group, the owner of the largest chain of television stations in the nation, plans to preempt regular programming two weeks before the Nov. 2 election to air a documentary that accuses John Kerry of betraying American prisoners during the Vietnam War.  (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) HUNT VALLEY, MD - OCTOBER 12: The Sinclair Broadcast building sits in a buisness district in Hunt Valley, Maryland October 12, 2004. Sinclair Broadcast Group, the owner of the largest chain of television stations in the nation, plans to preempt regular programming two weeks before the Nov. 2 election to air a documentary that accuses John Kerry of betraying American prisoners during the Vietnam War.  (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn before boarding Marine One and leaving the White House April 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to White Sulfer Springs, West Virginia where he plans to participate in a roundtable discussion on tax reform. U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn before boarding Marine One and leaving the White House April 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to White Sulfer Springs, West Virginia where he plans to participate in a roundtable discussion on tax reform.
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Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator, spoke after President Trump made the statement that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, in the Rose Garden of the White House, On Thursday, June 1, 2017. (Photo by Cheriss May) (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto) Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator, spoke after President Trump made the statement that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, in the Rose Garden of the White House, On Thursday, June 1, 2017. (Photo by Cheriss May) (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto)
WSJ: Kelly Told Trump Last Week That Pruitt Should Resign
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on June 28, 2016 in Washington, DC. on June 28, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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McConnell: Blocking Garland Was Most ‘Consequential Decision’ Of My Career
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