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Anna R. Schecter / NBC News:
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files  —  In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Exclusive: Pence's doctor alerted WH aides about Ronny Jackson concerns last fall
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction  —  WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump …
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New York Times:
The Questions Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Obstruction, and What They Mean  —  The questions show the special counsel's focus on obstruction of justice and touch on some surprising other areas.  —  The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently provided President Trump's lawyers …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump  —  Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller  —  , said Tuesday he believes President Trump  —  leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.
Associated Press:
Comey: Trump's attacks on FBI make US less safe
Discussion: Mediaite
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Robert Mueller's former assistant explains how grammar errors prove ‘leaked questions’ came from Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and CANNONFIRE
Emily Smith / Page Six:
NBC staffers felt pressured to sign letter defending Brokaw  —  Female staffers at NBC News are complaining they felt under huge pressure to sign the “women's letter” defending Tom Brokaw against sexual harassment allegations.  —  After former colleague Linda Vester claimed he …
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
White House revises statement saying Iran ‘has’ secret nuclear weapons program  —  The White House on Monday night revised a public statement that said Iran currently has a secret nuclear weapons program, an assertion that contradicts what international observers have concluded.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obama officials insisted Iran had to ‘come clean’ on nukes, now they say it's old news that Iran was lying all along
Discussion: Instapundit
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Michael Cohen Hit With New Taxi Taxes, Owes New York $282,000  —  Michael Cohen, already under pressure from a federal criminal investigation into his business and financial dealings, has been hit this month with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Has Michael Cohen Already Flipped on Donald Trump?
Haaretz:
U.S. Officials: Israeli F-15s Struck Syrian Base Storing Iranian Anti-aircraft Missiles  —  More details soon...  Zen Subscribe now  —  Israeli F-15 fighter jets struck a military base near Hama on Sunday after Iran had transferred a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles there, three U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:   AP Analysis: Iran has few options to avenge Syria strikes
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
Discussion: NBC News
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House panel expected to interview EPA chief Scott Pruitt's former head of security in conduct probe  —  The House Oversight Committee is expected to interview Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's former head of security Wednesday, the latest indication …
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Meet the Schlapps, Washington's Trump-Era ‘It Couple’  —  WASHINGTON — Matt Schlapp, the pro-Trump chairman of the American Conservative Union, had a remarkable on-air clash not long ago with his old friend Michael Steele, an anti-Trump former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Discussion: Politico
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
How Michelle Wolf Blasted Open the Fictions of Journalism in the Age of Trump  —  On Saturday, the comedian Michelle Wolf, performing at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, delivered the most consequential monologue so far of the Donald Trump era.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The rhetoric of our era has reached its vile peak
Discussion: theGrio
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of a Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice  —  The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies  —  A few years before he started working for Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
The Guy Who Threw His Shoes At George W. Bush Is Running For President Of Iraq  —  This guy, Muntazar al-Zaidi, is running for president of Iraq, and if you're not excited about that, you may not be used to seeing him from the front. … Here's the vantage point most people will recognize him from …
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Was In Moscow Just Weeks Before Court Documents Were Unsealed  —  Joseph Mifsud's trip to Moscow coincided with an official visit by the king of Saudi Arabia.  —  Reporting From  —  London  —  Joseph Mifsud, the enigmatic Maltese professor …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare … President Trump's former top health official on Tuesday said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
We must rally around Joy Reid … Joy Reid deserves everyone's support.  The most destructive and insidious hacker in journalistic history is on the loose, ready to snatch another career.  —  Reid, who hosts “AM Joy” on MSNBC, is somehow hanging onto hers.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon  —  Digital First Media's financials — revealed here — show how the company has ridden its deep cuts to nearly $160 million in profits and the highest margins in the business.
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke wants to debate Ted Cruz 6 times, including twice in Spanish  —  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's campaign sent a letter to senior staff of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz proposing six debates across Texas, two of them in Spanish.  —  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, has invited U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz …
Discussion: The Week
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Carl Higbie, who works at pro-Trump group, says racist comments were ‘statistical observation,’ ‘out of context’  —  (CNN)Carl Higbie, a top staffer at an advocacy group closely aligned with President Donald Trump, said on a radio show that past racist comments he made had been taken …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates  —  Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is a felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, hiding $900,000 from tax authorities and making false statements under oath.  To hear him tell it …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CIA Official Says Some Torture Videotapes May Still Exist … Some videotapes recording the torture of a CIA detainee may have survived the 2005 destruction facilitated by Donald Trump's nominee to run the agency.  That's according to an ex-CIA analyst who reviewed massive amounts …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
US Sen. Baldwin talks about late mother's opioid addiction  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is running for re-election this year in Wisconsin, opened up Tuesday for the first time about her mother's mental illness and prescription drug addiction …
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds  —  The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported on Tuesday.  Since 2004, at least nine such diseases …
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Two Men Sentenced for Serial Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Using Grindr … For several weeks, four men used the social-media app Grindr to lure gay men into divulging their home addresses.  Then they barged in, tied their victims up with tape, assaulted them, and spat out gay slurs.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Is This Artichoke Kosher?  Rome Defends a Classic Jewish Dish  —  LADISPOLI, Italy — As women wearing artichoke body paint caressed artichoke sculptures shaped like an owl, a snowman and a cobra at this seaside town's 68th annual Festival of the Artichoke, Ada Di Porto stood inside a tent …
Page Six:
New Weinstein suit alleges he raped, threatened producer  —  A former producer of the Netflix show “Marco Polo” was repeatedly raped and threatened by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein over a period of five years, a new lawsuit charges.  —  Alexandra Canosa detailed the years …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
'I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes': Trying to figure out what matters in today's news cycle … Benjamin Wittes, a legal commentator with a large Twitter following, was on an airplane last month when the FBI raided the office of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims so far … In the 466 days since he took the oath of office, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker's database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math  —  (CNSNews.com) - Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not proficient in mathematics, according to the National Assessment …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Maxine Waters Tells Kanye To Shut Up: He ‘Talks Out of Turn ... Should Maybe Not Have So Much To Say’  —  On Monday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) tore into Kanye West for West's heresy in questioning the hegemony of the Democratic Party among black Americans.  —  Asked by a Politico writer about West …
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
 
 
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Rebecca Klein / HuffPost:
Nation's Top Teachers Confront Betsy DeVos In Private Meeting
Discussion: Common Dreams and Raw Story
Izzygardon / Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.:
California and States Representing Over 40 Percent of U.S. Car Market Sue to Defend National Clean Car Rules
Discussion: Axios and 89.3 KPCC
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Uncovering Koch Role in Faculty Hires
Center for Constitutional Rights:
Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director and Board Chair Both Denied Entry into Israel
Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg:
Mulvaney's CFPB Considers Moving Staff to the Basement, or Dallas
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Top judge: Backlog of illegal immigration court cases over 1 million, delayed deportations 684,000
Fox News:
Russian fighter jet buzzes US military spy plane over Baltic Sea, officials say
 Earlier Items: 
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats
Discussion: Sean Hannity and twitchy.com
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Remembering a past many Americans would rather forget
Dr. Adam Feldman / Empirical SCOTUS:
Out of Steam or Out of Time  —  For those following the Supreme Court …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
There's Nothing to Stop the 2018 Elections From Being Hacked
Rhitu Chatterjee / NPR:
Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden
Discussion: USA Today, Shakesville, The Week and 1A
Sean Illing / Vox:
Why this political scientist thinks the Democrats have to fight dirty
Discussion: Breitbart, Roll Call and InsideSources
 

 
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Financial Times:
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