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Murray Waas / Foreign Policy:
Trump Launched Campaign to Discredit Potential FBI Witnesses — The president targeted three bureau officials who could provide key testimony in the Mueller probe. — President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials …
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CNN:
Frustrated by Russia investigation, Trump turns ire toward Rosenstein — Washington (CNN)Months after his reported effort to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, President Donald Trump is still fuming over the Russia investigation and has Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in his crosshairs.
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The Week, Washington Post, Palmer Report, Washington Press, WTVR-TV and Talking Points Memo
New Yorker:
The Answer to Whether Trump Obstructed Justice Now Seems Clear — Most white-collar prosecutions turn on the issue of criminal intent. These cases involve behavior that would, in ordinary circumstances, be totally legal—if not for the intent of the defendant.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Counsel Quietly Trying to Corral Trump While Pushing G.O.P.'s Agenda — WASHINGTON — When Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, moved into his corner office on the West Wing's second floor last January, he chose not to decorate its walls or fill its glass-paneled shelving with personal items.
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National Review, NPR and Lawfare
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Lawyers, Seeking Leverage in Russia Probe, Comb '90s Court Ruling — White House legal team may look to delay, limit or avoid a possible interview of the president by Mueller — President Donald Trump's legal team has been studying a 1990s federal court ruling that could be the basis for delaying …
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, RedState, Washington Press, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Fresno Bee:
Rep. Devin Nunes, Trump's stooge, attacks FBI
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Bloomberg, Raw Story and Shareblue Media
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Key Republican Dials Back Effort to Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump
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Politico, Chicago Tribune, Lawfare, Hullabaloo, New York Times, Axios, CNBC, CNN, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Vox, IJR, Orlando Weekly, Fox News Insider and bizpacreview.com
Nicole Auerbach / The Athletic:
NCAA president Mark Emmert was alerted to Michigan State sexual assault reports in 2010 — Though the NCAA has announced its intention to open an investigation into Michigan State's athletic department, it remains unclear what exactly the purview of the investigation would be.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Comeback, CBS Detroit and WOOD-TV
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ESPN:
OTL: Michigan State secrets extend far beyond Larry Nassar case — MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY administrators have long claimed, to the federal government and public, that they have handled sexual assault, violence, and gender discrimination complaints properly.
Rachael Denhollander / New York Times:
The Price I Paid for Taking On Larry Nassar
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Will Hobson / Washington Post:
USA Gymnastics announces entire board of directors will resign in wake of Larry Nassar scandal
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Chris Solari / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis steps down in wake of Larry Nassar scandal
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Matt Mencarini / Lansing State Journal:
MSU hid full conclusions of 2014 Nassar report from victim
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CBS Detroit and BuzzFeed
Amy Sullivan / Politico:
Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President — If Donald Trump gets a little bored on his flight home from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he can always page through a book handed to him by a delegate not long after he arrived: “God and Donald Trump.”
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Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times — Russian-linked accounts spurred 50,000 retweets of Clinton — Information comes in response to questions from Congress — Russian-linked Twitter bots shared Donald Trump's tweets almost half a million times during the final months …
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Mueller's Team Has Interviewed Facebook Staff as Part of Russia Probe
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CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, Engadget, The Verge and Axios
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s Bonfire of the Sanities — Like Alexis de Tocqueville's “Democracy in America,” Richard Hofstadter's “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” is often cited but less often read, which is a shame because the landmark 1964 essay helps explain our times. Consider Ron Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin.
The Daily Beast:
RNC Silent So Far About Contributions From Steve Wynn After Allegations He Forced Women Into Sex … Just months after the Republican Party worked to tie Democrats to alleged serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, the GOP's chief fundraiser has been accused of pressuring multiple women …
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Shareblue Media, Los Angeles Times, ThinkProgress and Politico
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Rhonda Colvin / Washington Post:
Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book — It was the 1940s, and traveling to her parents' home town was not approached lightly after the family moved to Muskegon, Mich., during the Great Migration.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Melania Trump has been spending nights at a posh D.C. HOTEL since the president was accused of having a fling with porn star Stormy Daniels - before the first lady unexpectedly flew to Palm Beach — Melania Trump has been spending time away from Trump and the White House since news …
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Washington Press and Politico
Elise Labott / CNN:
Exclusive: Frustrated State Department employees hire attorneys, charging ‘political retribution’ — Ex diplomat: US ability to ‘avert disasters’ at risk — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Several officials tell CNN they have retained attorneys after repeatedly trying unsuccessfully to raise concerns
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Shareblue Media, The Week, Axios and Raw Story
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Sorry, Blue States: You Can't Fix the Tax Bill — In the end, federal deductibility changes maybe simply force New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to cut their rates to compete with red states. — It's an unhappy time to be a high-income professional in a blue state — or their governor.
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Washington Post, Infowars, Clayton Cramer and twitchy.com
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Billionaire Saudi Prince, Alwaleed bin Talal, Is Freed From Detention — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia's most prominent and flamboyant investor, has been released from detention in the Ritz-Carlton in the capital after he was arrested amid a sweeping crackdown on corruption …
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Al Jazeera English and The Week
WPIX 11 New York:
2 dads nabbed by ICE as they drop off kids at NJ school; 3rd takes shelter in church — HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. — ICE agents detained two men in Middlesex County Thursday morning and a third fled to the Reformed Church of Highland Park where he will be sheltered from the government.
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Splinter and Asbury Park Press
New York Times:
'It's a Massacre': Taliban Bomb in Ambulance Kills 95 in Kabul — KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb placed in an ambulance set off a huge explosion on a busy Kabul street on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and injuring at least 158 others, Afghan officials said.
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CBS Pittsburgh:
Uniontown H.S. School Shooting Thwarted, Student Found With Arsenal Of Weapons — UNIONTOWN (KDKA) - Multiple weapons were found in the bedroom of a teenager accused of threatening to carry out a shooting at a Fayette County high school. — According to police, a 14-year-old male was arrested around 8 p.m. Thursday.
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myfox8.com
Washington Post:
White House plan would reduce environmental requirements for infrastructure projects … The White House has drafted a proposal to scale back environmental requirements in an effort to make it easier to construct roads, bridges and pipelines across the country as part of an infrastructure plan …
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Common Dreams and Axios
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