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New York Times:
Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin — Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary Clinton.
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New York Times:
Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier — WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, initially retained the firm that conducted opposition research on Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Fusion GPS and the Washington Free Beacon — Since its launch in February of 2012, the Washington Free Beacon has retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers. In that capacity, during the 2016 election cycle …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Washington Free Beacon funded original Fusion GPS anti-Trump opposition effort … Lawyers for the conservative publication Washington Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee Friday that the organization was the original funder for the anti-Trump opposition research project with Fusion GPS.
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The Gateway Pundit
Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed:
Puerto Rico Is Burning Its Dead, And We May Never Know How Many People The Hurricane Really Killed — People whose bodies are cremated are largely not being counted in the official death toll. The government says it's the fault of funeral directors, while funeral directors say they've received no guidance from the government.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Whitefish Energy apologizes after arguing with San Juan mayor
Whitefish Energy apologizes after arguing with San Juan mayor
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Associated Press:
Trump administration disavows Puerto Rico power contract
Trump administration disavows Puerto Rico power contract
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
A breakdown of the $300M Whitefish contract for Puerto Rico
A breakdown of the $300M Whitefish contract for Puerto Rico
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Four more women accuse Mark Halperin of harassment, bringing total to at least a dozen — Journalist Mark Halperin accused of sexual harassment — Two days after CNN first reported that five women said “Game Change” co-author and journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed or assaulted …
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Lara Setrakian / Washington Post:
I'm one of Mark Halperin's accusers. He's part of a bigger problem we need to fix. — (Ben Hider/Getty Images for Concordia Summit) — Lara Setrakian is chief executive and executive editor of the digital media outlet News Deeply. — I was one of the five anonymous women who shared …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
FLASHBACK: Watch Kellyanne Conway refuse to hug Mark Halperin — after she hugs all other men on his show
FLASHBACK: Watch Kellyanne Conway refuse to hug Mark Halperin — after she hugs all other men on his show
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CNN:
Trump wants State Department to release remaining Clinton emails — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has made it clear to the State Department that he wants to accelerate the release of any remaining Hillary Clinton emails in its possession as soon as possible, according to three sources familiar with the President's thinking.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Conway confirms Trump wanted FBI informant's gag order lifted — Washington (CNN)In response to reporting that President Donald Trump personally pressed for an informant's gag order to be lifted, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Friday that he wanted the informant to be free to speak out.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Gorka: If Uranium One deal happened in 1950s, those involved would get electric chair
Gorka: If Uranium One deal happened in 1950s, those involved would get electric chair
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Orrin Hatch Tells Friends He Plans to Retire — SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Senator Orrin Hatch has privately told allies in Utah that he is planning to retire at the end of his term next year, and if he does, Mitt Romney intends to run for his seat, according to five sources familiar with the situation.
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Donor Asked Data Firm If It Could Better Organize Hacked Emails — August 2016 exchange between Rebekah Mercer and Cambridge Analytica's CEO shows efforts to leverage Clinton-related messages — Trump donor Rebekah Mercer in August 2016 asked the chief executive of a data-analytics firm working …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Top Trump donor asked data firm to help organize hacked WikiLeaks emails
Top Trump donor asked data firm to help organize hacked WikiLeaks emails
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ESPN:
Gaffes, TV ratings concerns dominated as NFL, players forged anthem peace — NOBODY KNEW WHERE to sit. Side by side or across from one another? — It was the final question raised by a group of 11 NFL team owners as they mingled inside the sixth-floor conference room …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If Republicans can't oppose Roy Moore, they're headed for extinction — Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore serves as a convenient dividing line. If Republicans cannot oppose a former state supreme court justice ousted twice from the bench who espouses rabidly anti-Muslim views …
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NBC News:
Trump Allows Release of Most but Not All Remaining Kennedy Assassination Files — The National Archives published nearly 3,000 previously sealed or censored documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, but the White House said it was delaying the release of others.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Grassley slams ‘ridiculous’ delay in JFK document rollout
Grassley slams ‘ridiculous’ delay in JFK document rollout
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Axios
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
British newspaper received mystery call minutes before JFK assassination
British newspaper received mystery call minutes before JFK assassination
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Dana Boente announces resignation as U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia — (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — Dana Boente, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has submitted his resignation, a spokesman confirmed Friday.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trumps questions how media could produce ‘such beautiful children’ at trick-or-treat event — Trump later asked one child, ‘So how does the press treat you?’ — President Donald Trump cracked that he could not believe members of the media could produce “such beautiful children” …
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Ella Nilsen / Vox:
White House: the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment are liars
White House: the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment are liars
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Matt Taibbi:
It was a pleasure last night to sit and talk at a Harvard Bookstore event with the excellent Robin Young of NPR's Here and Now. The topic last night was my new book, “I Can't Breathe,” about the killing of Eric Garner. At the end of the discussion she asked some difficult questions about my past …
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New York Times:
‘Terry Richardson Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’ — This week, in an apparently defensive move after a social media outcry, the biggest fashion magazines cut ties with the photographer Terry Richardson over his history of alleged sexual harassment. — On Monday, The Telegraph broke …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Week Trump Won — One hundred years ago on Friday, John Reed was in St. Petersburg watching Lenin, Trotsky and the rest of the Bolsheviks take over Russia. It was interesting to read his account, “Ten Days That Shook the World,” this week — the week when Donald Trump and Steve Bannon solidified …
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Prosenzweig / Lawfare:
Unpacking Uranium One: Hype and Law — Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, delivering remarks in 2010. (Photo: Flickr/U.S. Embassy in New Zealand) — The latest instance of “what-aboutism” is the House Republican decision to open an investigation of the Uranium One transaction …
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
This Is What the Trump Abyss Looks Like — The past week was another watershed, it seems to me, in the rising power of Donald Trump. Flake is quitting; Corker is retiring; McCain is mortal. Sasse, Murkowski, Collins, and Paul remain, but the odds are mounting against them.
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Leon Wieseltier: A Reckoning — It was never an “open secret” among me and my then-colleagues that Leon Wieseltier, the longtime literary czar of the New Republic, behaved inappropriately with women in the workplace. It was simply out in the open. This week, Wieseltier's previously …
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Orion Danjuma / ACLU:
Unsealed Documents Show That Kris Kobach Is Dead Set on Suppressing the Right to Vote — For almost a year, Kris Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas, has struggled to hide the truth about his efforts to lobby the Trump administration to make it much harder for Americans to vote.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Man locked in Kwik Trip beer cooler stays and drinks — MARSHFIELD - A 38-year-old Marshfield man who police say decided to buy beer but got locked inside a cooler is facing two citations for drinking the beer. — A manager at Kwik Trip, 101 N. Central Ave., Marshfield …
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