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A Split From Trump Indicates That Flynn Is Moving to Cooperate With Mueller — WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, notified the president's legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel's investigation …
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Flynn's lawyer shuts down communications with Trump's team, a sign he may be cooperating with Mueller probe — Michael Flynn speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 1. A lawyer for the former national security adviser told President Trump's legal team this week …
Tom Namako / BuzzFeed:
Here's What Trump Told The Coast Guard When He Visited Them On Thanksgiving — “I said, how good is this plane? They said, well, sir, you can't see it. I said but in a fight. You know, in a fight, like I watch on the movies.” — President Trump visited and addressed the Coast Guard in Riviera Beach …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Ret. Lieutenant General calls Trump Thanksgiving remarks ‘insulting’ — A retired lieutenant general said Thursday that President Trump's comments to troops deployed overseas, which included remarks about the economy and military's recent success, were “somewhat insulting.”
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Akela Lacy / Politico:
Trump's Thanksgiving message to troops: 'We're really winning'
Trump's Thanksgiving message to troops: 'We're really winning'
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: Manafort flight records show deeper Kremlin ties than previously known — WASHINGTON — Political guru Paul Manafort took at least 18 trips to Moscow and was in frequent contact with Vladimir Putin's allies for nearly a decade as a consultant in Russia and Ukraine for oligarchs and pro-Kremlin parties.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Thankfully Recommitting to Resistance — Last Thanksgiving I wrote a column titled, “No, Trump, We Can't Just Get Along,” in which I committed myself to resisting this travesty of a man, proclaiming, “I have not only an ethical and professional duty to call out how obscene your very existence …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Thanksgiving Gratitude for a Father's Lesson
KHOU-TV:
Woman accused of mailing explosives to Gov. Abbott, Pres. Obama — Court documents say Gov. Abbott opened the package, but it failed to explode because he didn't open it correctly. If opened correctly, says “it could've caused severe burns and death.” — Author: KHOU.com , KHOU
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Richard Morgan / New York Post:
The NFL ratings slump is getting worse — The TV audience for NFL games steepened its slide in Week 11, losing 1 million viewers versus last year's season-to-date average. — The 6.3 percent slump — worsening from comparable declines of 5.6 to 5.7 percent during the previous three weeks …
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Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Beverly Hills police are investigating 12 Hollywood sexual assault allegations — Beverly Hills police are investigating 12 sexual assault allegations made against members of the entertainment industry, officials said. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) — The Beverly Hills Police Department …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Conservative Plan to Weaponize the Federal Courts — Even though there's been nothing subtle about the current push to fill dozens of judicial vacancies kept open by the Republican-controlled Senate during the final years of the Obama administration, a document now making the rounds inside the Beltway is head-snapping.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
A Russian Journalist Explains How the Kremlin Instructed Him to Cover the 2016 Election — On a recent Saturday in November, Dimitri Skorobutov, a former editor at Russia's largest state media company, sat in a bar in Maastricht, a college town in the Netherlands, with journalists from around …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Top Trump staffers failed to file financial reports on their way out the door — WASHINGTON — Several of President Donald Trump's top aides — including former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka — have failed to file legally required …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Rand Paul and wife release Thanksgiving video following senator's attack … (R-Ky.) and his wife, Kelley, thanked the public on Thursday for their concern in the wake of an alleged assault that broke six of the senator's ribs. — “Thanks for your concern, your prayers, your thoughts, all your get well cards.
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Philly.com:
$230,000 payback for Philadelphia homeless man who spent his last $20 helping N.J. woman — Update: The amount raised as of Thursday afternoon now stands at more than $230,000. — Earlier story: — Kate McClure, 27, was driving into Philly on southbound I-95 last month to visit a friend when her car started sputtering.
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