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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Mueller obtains “tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails, including sensitive emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios. — Trump officials discovered Mueller …
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Fox News:
Trump lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained transition documents in Russia probe — A lawyer for the Trump presidential transition team is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office of inappropriately obtaining transition documents as part of its Russia probe, including confidential …
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RedState, The Daily Caller, The Right Scoop, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump allies say Mueller unlawfully obtained thousands of emails — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An organization established for U.S. President Donald Trump's transition to the White House a year ago said on Saturday that the special counsel investigating allegations of Russian meddling …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
How Fox News and President Trump create an anti-Mueller ‘feedback loop’ — Bernstein: Fox hosts are abetting a cover-up — An anti-Robert Mueller, anti-FBI fervor is intensifying among Trump supporters — partly thanks to a campaign by Fox News and other conservative media sources.
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Democrat: Rumor is Trump could fire Mueller before Christmas — (D-Calif.) said Friday that “rumors” on Capitol Hill suggest President Trump — could fire special counsel Robert Mueller before Christmas, after Congress leaves Washington for the winter recess.
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IJR and Hullabaloo
Adam Schiff / KQED News:
White House Lawyer Denies ‘Rumor on the Hill’ of Trump Plan to Fire Mueller — Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) told KQED Newsroom on Friday that she believes Republicans are trying to shut down the House Intelligence Committee's probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Watch: Intel Dem warns of Trump plot to fire Mueller on Christmas weekend — Rep. Jackie Speier is sounding the alarm about a potential “Saturday massacre 2.0.” — California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier warned on Friday that Donald Trump may be plotting to fire special counsel Robert Mueller …
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New York Times:
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program — WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. — Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs — The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multi-million dollar program to investigate what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects—UFOs. — The “unidentified aerial phenomena” claimed to have been seen …
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New York Times:
2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen' — The following recounts an incident in 2004 that advocates of research into U.F.O.s have said is the kind of event worthy of more investigation, and that was studied by a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
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Gary Martin / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Kihuen, accused of sexual harassment, says he won't seek re-election — Rep. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., speaks during a DACA anniversary event at the Consulate of Mexico in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Bridget Bennett Las Vegas Review-Journal @bridgetkbennett
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Kihuen will not seek reelection
Kihuen will not seek reelection
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
So much losing: Trump is least popular first year president ever, down 49 points from Obama — Donald Trump's plunging approval rating has officially made him the most unpopular first-year president in the history of presidential polling, according to the latest figures from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Washington Post:
After Alabama loss, Trump has ambitious plans to campaign in 2018 midterms — President Trump is not on the ballot in 2018, but the White House is planning a full-throttle campaign to plunge the president into the midterm elections, according to senior officials and advisers familiar with the planning.
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New York Times:
World's Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince — A $300 million chateau is one of a string of extravagant purchases for a prince who is cracking down on ill-gotten wealth and preaching fiscal austerity. — LOUVECIENNES, France — When the Chateau Louis XIV sold …
New York Times:
‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’ How a President's Name Became a Racial Jeer — For more coverage of race, sign up here to have our Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. — The high school basketball squad from Eagle Grove, population 3,700, had traveled 60 miles up Highway 69 …
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
The owner of Steve Bannon's D.C. rowhouse wants a 3-foot security fence. D.C. government is not having it. — (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) — While the Breitbart News operation pushes an anti-establishment message across the country, it is also steeped in a municipal battle in the nation's capital.
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New York Times:
Uproar Over Purported Ban at C.D.C. of Words Like ‘Fetus’ — WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services tried to play down on Saturday a report that officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been barred from using seven words or phrases, including …
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Jessica Ravitz / CNN:
Word ban at CDC includes ‘vulnerable,’ ‘fetus,’ ‘transgender’
Word ban at CDC includes ‘vulnerable,’ ‘fetus,’ ‘transgender’
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Kathy Lally / Washington Post:
The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow — Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming. — There's more than one way to harass women. A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their companies, their jobs, their plum political posts.
David Sirota / International Business Times:
Donald Trump And GOP Leaders Could Be Enriched By Last Minute Tax Break Inserted Into Final Bill — Republican congressional leaders and real estate moguls could be personally enriched by a real-estate-related provision GOP lawmakers slipped into the final tax bill released Friday evening …
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Clark Kauffman / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Supreme Court justice blocks Register's use of court records — Newspaper says Wiggins' order violates the First Amendment — An Iowa Supreme Court justice has issued a highly unusual order prohibiting the Des Moines Register from publishing information gleaned from court records.
Ellen McCarthy / Washington Post:
Anita Hill chosen to lead Hollywood sexual harassment commission — Anita Hill has been picked to lead a newly formed commission on sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. — As announced late Friday by the commission — an initiative spearheaded by producer Kathleen Kennedy …
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Ambassadors Are Going Rogue On Twitter — Callista Gingrich, Nikki Haley and Scott Brown are all running afoul of federal guidelines on social media while the State Department whistles in the wind. — Reporting From Washington, D.C. — US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has her staff support her personal Twitter account.
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Raw Story
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
How the oldest Senate ever is taking a toll on the business of Washington — McCain, 81, has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is recuperating at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI officials' text message about Hillary Clinton said to be a cover story for romantic affair — Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau's probe …
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