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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate … Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.
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CNN:
Jeff Flake's full speech announcing he won't run for re-election  —  Mr. President, I rise today to address a matter that has been much on my mind, at a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than it is by our values and our principles.
Hot Air:
Trump Takeover Complete: Jeff Flake Not Running For Reelection; Update: “Mr President, I Rise To Say ‘enough’”  —  In the end he had two choices.  One: Brace himself for a war in the Republican primary with the Bannon-backed Kelli Ward that he'd be lucky to survive, only to then have to fight another war …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Reality check on Flake's retirement  —  Some background on Jeff Flake's decision to retire:  — “Flake was dead.  Everybody knew it, including Republican leadership and the NRSC.  The public polls showed he was going to lose badly to Kelli Ward and I'm told the internal polling wasn't much better.”
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:   Full Transcript: Jeff Flake's Speech on the Senate Floor
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Republicans Need a Better Response Besides Quitting
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Sanders criticizes “petty” Flake, Corker
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Flake announces retirement as he denounces Trump
Discussion: Vox, Axios and CBS Philly
Max Greenwood / The Hill:   Corker: Flake stands up against ‘demagogues’
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
“None of this is normal”: read the full transcript of Sen. Jeff Flake's blistering retirement speech
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier  —  The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump's connections to Russia and possible coordination between …
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Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Still Being Paid by Campaign Nearly One Year After Defeat
Associated Press:
As panel questions Trump associates, GOP launches new probes
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP opens probe into DOJ's Clinton investigation
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico's biggest contract to get the power back on  —  For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.
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Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
$300m Puerto Rico Recovery Contract Awarded to Tiny Utility Company Linked to Major Trump Donor … Puerto Rico has agreed to pay a reported $300 million for the restoration of its power grid to a tiny utility company that is primarily financed by a private-equity firm founded and run by a man …
New York Times:
‘Like Going Back in Time’: Puerto Ricans Put Survival Skills to Use
Discussion: Grist
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Trump-Corker feud explodes ahead of critical Hill visit  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The ongoing public feud between Sen. Bob Corker and President Donald Trump exploded Tuesday ahead of the President's high-stakes visit to Capitol Hill for tax negotiations …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Protester throws Russian flags at President Donald Trump ahead of Capitol Hill lunch
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Chris Cillizza / CNN:   Donald Trump has now personally attacked 1 in 5 Republican senators
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Leon Wieseltier Admits ‘Offenses’ Against Female Colleagues as New Magazine Is Killed  —  Leon Wieseltier, a prominent editor at The New Republic for three decades who was preparing to debut a magazine this fall, apologized on Tuesday for “offenses against some of my colleagues in the past” …
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Leon Wieseltier acknowledges ‘misdeeds’ with female colleagues  —  A company backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, the philanthropist and widow of Steve Jobs, severed ties with former New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier after learning of “past inappropriate workplace conduct,” the company said in a statement.
Don Lemon / CNN:
Don Lemon's open letter to Trump: ‘Please stop!’  —  (CNN)Dear Mr. President,  —  I've interviewed you multiple times.  —  You've introduced me to your family.  —  You've also criticized me publicly ... both in front of cameras and on Twitter.  —  Calling me “hateful,” “dumb,” a “lightweight.”
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Larry O'Connor / Mediaite:
FactsFirst? CNN's Don Lemon Reads Letter To Trump Then Weeps On Air
New York Times:
Honor the Truth, John Kelly
Discussion: Daily Kos
Hollywood Reporter:
Bill O'Reilly Dropped by Talent Agency After $32M Settlement Reveal (Exclusive)  —  The former Fox News anchor's relationship with UTA has been severed following a report last weekend about a massive settlement he paid out.  —  Bill O'Reilly is no longer a client of the talent agency UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Daily Beast:
GOP Leaders Refusing To Pay For Dana Rohrabacher's Travel Over Russia Fears … House Republican leaders have taken the extraordinary step of curtailing Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's (R-CA) ability to conduct official business out of fear that he is too compromised by his ties to Russia.
CNN:
US team in Niger was collecting intel on terror leader  —  Lawmakers demand answers in Niger ambush  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — “At no time were they ever tasked to be part of a capture or kill operation” of a high-value target, an official told CNN  —  Washington (CNN)The US Army team …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and IJR
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Detroit Free Press:
Kid Rock: Of course I'm not running for Senate … CONNECT  —  Mocking people who took the idea seriously, Kid Rock said this morning he's not running for U.S. Senate.  —  “F— no, I'm not running for Senate.  Are you kidding me?”  Rock said on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show.  “Who couldn't figure that out?
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Supreme Court dismisses Hawaii's challenge to Trump travel ban  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday formally dropped plans to hear the last remaining challenge to an earlier version of President Donald Trump's travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries …
Discussion: IJR
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Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Colin Kaepernick lands million-dollar book deal  —  Colin Kaepernick has inked a book deal worth just over $1 million with Random House imprint One World, Page Six has exclusively learned.  —  One World's headed by book world superstar Chris Jackson, who also publishes Jay-Z and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Alex Thompson / VICE News:
Exclusive: Zuckerberg group to spend $45 million on political causes  —  Mark Zuckerberg's listening tour of the United States, he insists, is not a political campaign.  But while “Zuck 2020” may not be happening, the 33-year-old Facebook co-founder is planning to influence American politics for generations to come.
Washington Post:
A black man is charged in racist graffiti incidents that shook Mich. campus, drew national attention  —  Last fall and in the spring, the otherwise quiet campus of Eastern Michigan University was hit by three ugly incidents of vandalism targeting blacks.  —  The first came in September …
Karl Mathiesen / Climate Home:
Jerry Brown: ‘California will sue Trump over climate’  —  Governor says state will use the courts to block the erosion of US climate actions, 'just like the Republicans tried to block Obama's efforts'  —  California governor Jerry Brown said on Tuesday that his state would fight Donald Trump's erosion …
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Opinion: Avoiding Another ‘Brownbackistan’
Don Gonyea / NPR:
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Discussion: Axios and The Root
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet
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The Doom Loop of Modern Liberalism
Brian Goff / Forbes:
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Pew Research Center:
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A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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