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Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address …
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Russian social media executive sought to help Trump campaign in 2016, emails show
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Washington Post:
Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
What if Mueller catches Trump — and it isn't enough?
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Fox News:
Roy Moore accuser admits she wrote part of yearbook inscription attributed to Alabama Senate candidate — One of the women who accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of making advances on her when she was a teen and he a local prosecutor admitted Friday to writing part of the yearbook inscription she offered as proof.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson ‘scared to go anywhere’ since her sexual assault allegation — One of the women accusing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, Beverly Young Nelson, told ABC News it “sickens” her to think what might happen if Moore is elected to the U.S. Senate.
John Haltiwanger / Newsweek:
ROY MOORE: LAST TIME AMERICA WAS ‘GREAT’ WAS DURING ‘SLAVERY’ — Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate under fire for alleged sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, apparently believes America was a better place at a time when slavery was still legal.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Moore accuser says she added notes below Moore's yearbook signature — A woman who has accused Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore of sexual misconduct says she made her own notes below a yearbook signature she claims was made by Moore. — Beverly Young Nelson, who has accused Moore …
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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Roy Moore Believes America Was Great During Slavery. Twitter Users Detonate. — “Families were united” then, the Senate candidate actually told an African-American person. — GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore stunned some listeners when he said he thought America was “great” during the era of slavery.
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Bombshell: Roy Moore Accuser Beverly Nelson Admits She Forged Yearbook
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Is Rotting — A lot of good, honorable Republicans used to believe there was a safe middle ground. You didn't have to tie yourself hip to hip with Donald Trump, but you didn't have to go all the way to the other extreme and commit political suicide like the dissident Jeff Flake, either.
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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Roy Moore is the last straw, you can now call me a Democrat — The GOP would rather elect a sexual predator who preys on teenagers than a prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat. That's it, I'm switching parties. — My first exposure to politics was at the local level.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Allies Urge Harder Line as Mueller Probe Heats Up — President's legal team had predicted investigation would clear Trump by year's end — A Russia investigation that Donald Trump's legal team predicted would clear the president by year's end looks to stretch into 2018 …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Obstruction of Congress — Mueller, the Justice Department …
New York Times:
Congressional Democrats Left Out of White House Hanukkah Party — WASHINGTON — The latkes were fried and the kosher lamb chops were prepared on Thursday, just as in past years, for the first White House Hanukkah party of the Trump era. But there was one prominent break with tradition …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Arizona Congressman Resigns for —Wait, What Was That Again? — When word got around this afternoon that Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) was about to resign for “inappropriate behavior,” it was generally assumed it involved sexual harassment, abuse, assault, or some other misconduct toward women.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREXIT talks move to phase 2 — SHUTDOWN AVERTED, problems punted to the end of the month …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his child as a surrogate, says he will resign
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Bella DePaulo / Washington Post:
I study liars. I've never seen one like President Trump. — He tells far more lies, and far more cruel ones, than ordinary people do. — President Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — I spent the first two decades of my career …
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Washington Post:
Dina Powell, deputy national security adviser, to depart Trump White House … Deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, a driving force behind the Trump administration's Middle East policy, plans to leave the White House as part of an anticipated wave of departures following President Trump's …
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Rhonda Schwartz / ABC News:
George Papadopoulos' fiancee: He's a patriot, not a Trump campaign coffee boy — The Italian fiancee of George Papadopoulos offered the first public defense of the embattled former Trump campaign adviser, who in October was revealed as the first campaign adviser to plead guilty and cooperate with the special counsel's Russia probe.
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Collins' Obamacare deal faces moment of truth — House conservatives thumb their nose at the Maine moderate's bid to slow the demise of the health law. — Sen. Susan Collins is barreling toward yet another health care showdown with her own party. But this time, she might not have the leverage to get what she wants.
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Senator's Shaky Obamacare Deal Poses Challenge for Tax Plan
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Associated Press:
Dems prepare to curtail superdelegates ahead of 2020 — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a fundraising event for Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Boston. Clinton was presented with the organization's Believe in Girls award during the event.
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Democrats look to 2020 with proposals to change superdelegate and primary system
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Lauer's “Double Life”: Inside NBC, the Network Is Trying to Expunge the Lauer Era — NBC executives have moved swiftly and adroitly to clean up Lauer's mess. The question that remains, however, is if they are in for any surprises. — By Friday evening, for the employees of NBC News …
Los Angeles Times:
Inside a secret 2014 list of hundreds of L.A. deputies with histories of misconduct — It was a critical piece of evidence: an inmate's shirt, bloodied from a jailhouse brawl. — When it went missing, Deputy Jose Ovalle had an idea. — He picked out a similar shirt …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dossier author was in contact with Obama Justice Department — It's been ten months since Washington learned that former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the so-called “Trump dossier,” took the Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research document to the FBI, which considered sponsoring …
New York Times:
Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62. Actual Deaths May Be 1,052. — Homes were flattened. Power was knocked out. And all across Puerto Rico, bodies began showing up at morgues. — Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury but the government there has reported …
BBC:
Lord's Prayer: Pope Francis calls for change — Pope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord's Prayer to be changed. — The current wording that says “lead us not into temptation” is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin, he says.
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Lindsay Kornick / NewsBusters:
Sarah Silverman ‘Felt Very Weird,’ ‘Scared,’ ‘Shaken’ By Seeing American Flag Flown in Yard — We're only one episode away from finishing the first season I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman, and the end can't get here fast enough for me. Until then, we still must suffer through yet …
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Trump will suspend a rule to limit a pollutant far worse than carbon dioxide — The Trump administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal land, but its true aim may be to kill the Obama-era requirement. — A notice slated to be published Friday …
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Rebecca Shapiro / HuffPost:
Poll Shows Trump's Support Dropping Among White Evangelicals — The president's approval rating continues to fall in his first year in office. — A new national Pew Research Center poll released Thursday shows that President Donald Trump's approval rating is declining among demographic groups …
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market — A few massive investors can rock it with a shrug. — On Nov. 12, someone moved almost 25,000 bitcoins, worth about $159 million at the time, to an online exchange. The news soon rippled through online forums …
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Heather Wilhelm / National Review:
‘Evil’ Tax Cuts? Nope, It's Blue-State Panic — Wealthy blue-state foes of the GOP tax bill face a harsh look in the mirror. — Ah, the holiday season. It's a magical time, bursting with joy and merriment, the laughter of children, jolly parties, twinkling lights …
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