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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sean Hannity has few rules, and now Fox News has a problem — Hannity: Cohen has never represented me — Sean Hannity operates at Fox News with few rules. He seemingly says and does whatever he wants, even when it embarrasses his own colleagues. — With his high ratings come huge headaches for Fox.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Hannity's ethics under fire — Sean Hannity has wavered over the years on whether he is a journalist or conservative activist, but ethics specialists say that whichever hat the Fox News host was wearing last week when he condemned the FBI raid on attorney Michael Cohen's office, he should have disclosed that he's a client of Cohen's.
New York Times:
Judge Says Trump and Cohen Can't Yet Review Materials Seized by F.B.I. — A federal judge on Monday held off on deciding who should get the first look at a trove of materials seized in the F.B.I. raids last week on President Trump's personal lawyer's office, home, hotel room and safe deposit box.
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New York Post:
How Cohen's day in court turned into the Stormy Daniels show — Porn star Stormy Daniels turned a hotly anticipated court appearance by President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen into a three-ring circus on Monday, creating a media frenzy when she rolled up to the hallowed hall of justice in black stiletto heels.
The Daily Beast:
Judge Hands Defeat to Trump and Cohen Over FBI Raid: 'You've Miscited the Law' … President Donald Trump and his longtime attorney Michael Cohen both lost a court challenge related to the FBI's seizure of Cohen's documents they both claim are protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's make-it-go-away guy — Michael Cohen has spent his career making Donald Trump's problems disappear. Now he's the problem Trump can't possibly make vanish. — The big picture: Cohen, unlike Ivanka or the other kids, is the only person on earth intertwined in Trump's professional …
CNN:
Judge OKs Cohen's request for review of documents seized in raid
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New York Times:
Sean Hannity Is Named as Michael Cohen's Client
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James Fanelli / New York Daily News:
Michael Cohen case is being heard by Judge Kimba Wood — aka the ‘Love Judge’
Greg Price / Newsweek:
SEAN HANNITY: ALL THE TIMES HOST DEFENDED MICHAEL COHEN WITHOUT REVEALING HE WAS TRUMP LAWYER'S CLIENT
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Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, BloombergQuint, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen did legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity
Slate:
Hannity Responds to Being Named as a Client of Michael Cohen
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley's announcement — President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Scraps New Sanctions Against Russia, Overruling Advisers — WASHINGTON — President Trump rejected for now imposing a fresh round of sanctions against Russia on Monday, a course change that underscored the schism between the president and his national security team.
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'We just went at it like she just didn't exist.' Former Playmate reveals she had sex with Donald Trump in front of her friend during a steamy six-month affair while his then-fiancée Marla Maples was pregnant with Tiffany — Barbara Moore, 49, told DailyMail.com …
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Transcript: James Comey's Full Interview With Steve Inskeep And Carrie Johnson — Nearly a year after President Trump fired James Comey, the former FBI director is out with a new memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, And Leadership. … Steve Inskeep: You recount a number of instances …
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Allison De Jong / ABC News:
Majorities back Trump summits, tougher sanctions on Russia (POLL) — A bipartisan majority of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll supports tougher sanctions on Russia in response to its alleged international misbehavior. Yet for half, a chitchat at the White House couldn't hurt, either.
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump and Abe's scandal-stained summit
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Maya Salam / New York Times:
Harry Anderson, ‘Night Court’ Actor Who Bottled Magic On Screen and Off, Dies at 65 — Harry Anderson, an actor who starred as the kindhearted, zany Judge Harry Stone on the long-running NBC comedy “Night Court,” was found dead early Monday at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 65.
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Sara Ganim / CNN:
Ryan Zinke refers to himself as a geologist. That's a job he's never held. — Washington (CNN)Defending his decision to shrink the Bears Ears national monument to lawmakers last week, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke fell back one of his favorite credentials. — “I'm a geologist,” he said.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Donald Trump, if he could only make it up … CHATTANOOGA — It took Bob Corker 21 seconds to begin answering the question. — If the election were held today, would you vote for Donald Trump? — The retiring Republican senator from Tennessee sat silently …
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Broadband advisor picked by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai arrested on fraud charges — Elizabeth Pierce allegedly tricked investors into pouring $250 million into a fiber optic scheme by forging revenue agreements — A broadband advisor selected by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai …
USA Today:
Watchdog finds EPA broke law by spending $43K on Scott Pruitt's soundproof booth and not telling Congress — WASHINGTON — The EPA broke the law when it failed to tell lawmakers on House and Senate spending committees that it was allocating more than $43,000 to install a soundproof phone booth …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
James Comey Is Doing It Wrong — Having used both his book, A Higher Loyalty, and his interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos to portray himself as the defender of truth, the paragon of integrity, the embodiment of ethical values and principles and as someone guided by a steady moral compass …
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Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Seeks Arab Force and Funding for Syria — Under plan, troops would replace American military contingent after ISIS defeat and help secure country's north; proposal faces challenges — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is seeking to assemble an Arab force to replace …
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Just Security, The American Conservative and Daily Wire
Julia Preston / Politico:
Trump Administration Wants to Shut Door on Abused Women — A woman from Honduras, who shall be identified only by her initials, L.C., was granted asylum in an immigration court in Chicago early this year. She came to the United States with her teenage daughter, fording the Rio Grande in Texas …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP tax cuts have gotten less popular with voters, new NBC/WSJ poll says — The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that the tax cuts, never broadly popular, have sagged in public esteem lately — just 27 percent of Americans call them a good idea.
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New York Times
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed:
Tesla Is Temporarily Shutting Down Model 3 Production. Again. — Just a few days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he's feeling optimistic about his ability to speed up production on the company's vehicles, the assembly line for the Model 3 in the company's Fremont, California, plant has been temporarily shut down — again.
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Los Angeles Times:
Garcetti heralds L.A.'s progress, touts plan for homeless shelters — Mayor Eric Garcetti, fresh off a trip to Iowa to test the waters for a presidential run, delivered a State of the City address Monday that billed Los Angeles as a thriving, progressive metropolis that has hiked the minimum wage …
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
Power to the party: Why political reforms can be bad for democracy — The Democratic committee man from Michigan had something to say about punctuation. — “At the end of that paragraph,” said Barry Goodman, a member of the DNC's rules and bylaws committee, “the P for public should be capitalized if party is capitalized with a P.”
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Axios
Ynetnews:
Israeli intelligence: Objectives of Western strike in Syria not achieved — Israeli officials say Assad's remaining chemical weapons stockpiles did not suffer a fatal hit in the strike, nor was the Syrian president deterred from using them again; 'only a partial damage was caused …
Vladimir Kogan / Wiley Online Library:
Election Timing, Electorate Composition, and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from School Districts … We thank the Spencer Foundation for providing generous funding that enabled us to execute this project (2015 Lyle Spencer Research Grant, “The Education Governance and Accountability Project") …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
This photojournalist won a Pulitzer for an image he made on his last day in the newsroom — Photojournalist Ryan Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for an image he made at The (Charlottesville, Virginia) Daily Progress on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. — It was the day of a white supremacist rally.
Facebook:
Hard Questions: What Data Does Facebook Collect When I'm Not Using Facebook, and Why? — Last week, Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress. He answered more than 500 questions and promised that we would get back on the 40 or so questions he couldn't answer at the time.
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Politico:
Cambridge Analytica created own quizzes to harvest Facebook data — Controversial data mining company collected information on at least 87 million Facebook users. — LONDON — Cambridge Analytica created its own Facebook quizzes and questionnaires to collect reams of data on users using …
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles — The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis … Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles - by accident.
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Ken White / Popehat:
Lawsplainer: Michael Cohen's Attempt To Delay The Stormy Daniels Litigation — Oh my God. Oh my God. Ohmigod ohmigod OMG. — Now what? — This Michael Cohen thing. — You're going to have to be way more specific. … Well. Sort of. — Isn't that huge? — Yes and no.
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Mueller's warning: ‘Many’ news stories on Trump-Russia probe are wrong — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is warning that “many” news articles on the Trump-Russia probe have been wrong. — The statement from a spokesperson did not single out particular stories.
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