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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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Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public … A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.
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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The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Accuser Admits to Adding Date to Yearbook Note, But Stands by Story — Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson on Friday admitted to ABC that she added the date and place to Moore's signature in her 1977 yearbook. “To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas.
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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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Vox
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Facts Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias
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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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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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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?
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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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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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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Senator's Shaky Obamacare Deal Poses Challenge for Tax Plan — Collins says she's ‘confident,’ others say ‘she got rolled’ — GOP's three key issues center on Maine's moderate Republican — The three biggest stories in Washington — a broad overhaul of the U.S. tax structure …
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Collins' Obamacare deal faces moment of truth
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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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CBS News:
Mesa Police shooting: Daniel Shaver seen crawling, begging in disturbing video — MESA — Police in Mesa, Arizona released disturbing body camera video on Thursday hours after a former officer was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.
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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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Axios and The Daily Caller
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Democrats look to 2020 with proposals to change superdelegate and primary system
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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 …
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 …
National Geographic:
Lack of sea ice is making it more difficult for polar bears to find food. — When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived in the Baffin Islands, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed. — Nicklen is no stranger to bears.
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
The economy added 228,000 jobs in November, unemployment at 4.1 percent — The economy added 228,000 jobs in November, slightly outpacing analysts' expectations, and unemployment held steady at 4.1 percent, federal economists reported Friday. — Workers' average hourly earnings, meanwhile …
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Job Growth Signals Robust Economy, With Gain of 228,000
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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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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 …
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