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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Probes Cohen Over Cash He Built Up During Campaign — Trump's lawyer took out lines of credit to secure access to as much as $774,000 as race heated up — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, gained access to as much as $774,000 through two financial transactions during …
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New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It — WASHINGTON — President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force …
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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Trump booked himself for his first TV interview in months — Last week, on his wife's birthday, President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News' “Fox and Friends” for a freewheeling phone interview — his first TV interview in months — where he made news on a variety of topics.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani has hit rock bottom … To be a prelapsarian conservative in America today — as that creed was understood before 2016 — means getting used to heartbreak. One after another, conservatives that I have admired and respected — Paul D. Ryan, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Bill Bennett …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani tries to clarify comments on Trump's reimbursement of payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani goes from 'America's Mayor' to Trump's chump
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau — WASHINGTON — Two top F.B.I. aides who worked alongside the former director James B. Comey as he navigated one of the most politically tumultuous periods in the bureau's history resigned on Friday.
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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of ‘lying,’ trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!' — Giuliani: Mueller investigation should be dismissed — A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
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Rod Boyce / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Murkowski: Mueller should follow Russia inquiry ‘wherever it takes him’ — FAIRBANKS - Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said this week that the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller III should be allowed to proceed to its natural end and that she would support legislation approved …
CNN:
Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump — (CNN)A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Friday in the bank fraud case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, at one point saying he believes that Mueller's motivation …
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Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
Donald Trump's NRA speech, fact-checked — After a week of news about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump headed to Dallas to speak to members of the National Rifle Association. — Trump repeated talking points against gun control, warned against illegal immigration, and complained about Democratic obstruction and the media.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge Questions Whether Mueller Has Overstepped His Authority on Manafort
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Questions Mueller's Authority to Prosecute Manafort
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Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Kerry quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft — WASHINGTON — John Kerry's bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office …
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New York Times:
Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller's Investigators — WASHINGTON — When the United States sought to punish Russia last month for its election interference and other aggressions, it targeted some of Russia's wealthiest men, imposing sanctions on those viewed …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin
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CNN:
Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records. Then he doesn't read them. — (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was livid. — For months, he had been demanding a fully uncensored version of a highly sensitive document from the Justice Department explaining …
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Trump Is Fighting A Computer Program That Has Decided To Kill Humans — Before Alex Jones headed to court to face his ex-wife today, he told Infowars listeners that President Trump is part of an effort to fight against a sentient computer program that has decided to kill all humans.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999 — More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have until January 2020 to leave the country or face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Trump Administration Ends Protected Status for Thousands of Hondurans
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Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans
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Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Connecticut Court Reverses Murder Conviction of Michael Skakel — The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a surprising reversal of its own decision less than two years ago, ruled on Friday to vacate the conviction of Michael C. Skakel, who had been found guilty of bludgeoning his neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
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Edmund H. Mahony / Hartford Courant:
Kennedy Cousin Michael Skakel Wins At Connecticut Supreme Court, Conviction Vacated In 1975 Slaying Of Martha Moxley
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle — Vice President Mike Pence's physician has resigned, the latest fallout from the collapse of Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs. — Dr. Jennifer Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House …
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Washington Post:
As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility — The West Wing shouting match was so loud that more than a dozen staffers heard it. — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cursed and yelled at White House counsel Donald McGahn during …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING: Embattled FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Has Resigned — The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. — The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered her resignation.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Most voters have become numb to each new Trump scandal because they don't believe what he says anyway — Most Americans have considered Trump dishonest throughout his time in office. They judge his character indecent. But that no longer drives change in their judgments of his presidency.
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New York Times:
Sex Abuse Scandal's Latest Casualty: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature — STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's most prestigious accolade for writing, will not be awarded this year, for the first time since 1949, as the fallout from a sexual abuse scandal that has battered …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Hey, Republicans: Pelosi attack ads may not be enough to keep the House
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Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape. He Became A Progressive Star Anyway. — For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them. — On April 28, 2008, Sarah Schacht received an email that terrified her.
Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment — In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of multiple acts of corruption, some of which preceded his appointment to the federal bench …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks delay in case alleging Russians interfered in U.S. presidential election — Prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office are seeking to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media …
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