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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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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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Turns to Outsiders, Not White House Staff, for Key Advice
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump throws Giuliani under the bus
FOX News Radio:   Rudy Giuliani: Michael Avenatti Is A Complete Jerk Who Should Turn In His Law License
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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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:   2 former advisers to Comey leave FBI
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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Washington Post:   Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He's wrong on both.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Kerry making quiet play to save Iran deal with foreign leaders: report
Discussion: Axios, Power Line and National Review
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Navalny Detained In Moscow At Anti-Putin Rally  —  MOSCOW — Aleksei Navalny was detained by police at a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin on May 5 in Moscow, part of a nationwide protest action organized by the Russian opposition leader.  —  Navalny was taken into custody …
New York Times:
California Now World's 5th Largest Economy, Surpassing UK  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world's fifth largest, according to new federal data made public Friday.  —  California's gross domestic product rose by $127 billion …
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Benjy Egel / Sacramento Bee:
Revolutionary data: California tops U.K., now world's fifth-largest economy
Discussion: American Greatness
Fox News:
House Intel report: Comey testified FBI agents saw no ‘physical indications of deception’ by Flynn  —  Former FBI Director James Comey testified to the House Intelligence Committee that FBI agents did not believe that Michael Flynn, who was national security adviser, intentionally lied …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Comey told lawmakers FBI agents saw ‘no physical indications of deception’ in Michael Flynn
Discussion: Power Line
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and MSNBC
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump's Dangerous Global Retreat  —  The Eurofighter Typhoon is Germany's premier front-line jet fighter.  This week, Der Spiegel reported that just four of the Luftwaffe's 128 Typhoons are combat ready.  You read that right: four.  Also, not one of the German Navy's six submarines …
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Greg Sandoval / Business Insider Australia:
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter execs showed up at Stanford Law School to discuss fake news and hate speech, and their verdict was that people need to stop freaking out  —  Juniper Downs (center), head of global policy at YouTube and Nich Pickles (right), senior public policy at UK Twitter during a panel discussion at Stanford Law School
Discussion: Gizmodo
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.
Discussion: RedState
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Defense bill would allow sanctions waivers for some allies buying Russian weapons  —  The annual defense policy bill would establish a “special rule” allowing the Trump administration to waive some sanctions on U.S. allies for buying Russian weapons.  —  The sanctions in question were required …
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 …
John Bowden / The Hill:
Pruitt had travel wish list and asked staff to find ‘official’ reasons to go: report  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  —  , when he joined the EPA, drew up a list of his preferred travel destinations and told his staff to find official reasons for him to travel …
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.
Eric Worrall / Watts Up With That?:
Study: Greens Believe they have a “Moral License” to Pollute  —  Guest essay by Eric Worrall  —  A new study suggests that most greens believe that by virtue of their support for environmental issues they earn the right to ignore their personal responsibilities.
Discussion: Power Line
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.
Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY CALLS ON COMPANIES TO END IRAN TRADE  —  Grenell is sharp critic of Iran's nuclear program and a strong supporter of the Jewish state.  —  Richard Grenell, the newly confirmed US ambassador to Germany, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Thursday …
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / GazetteXtra:
The great test for Trump's border wall: Texas' Rio Grande Valley  —  ROMA, Texas — The moon narrowed to a sliver as several migrants paddled a raft across the Rio Grande to the banks of this small Texas border town and scrambled up well-worn dirt trails through thorny mesquite into a cluster of shabby houses.
Kenneth R. Timmerman / Fox News:
The Iran deal is dead — Iran killed it  —  The Iran nuclear deal is dead - and the mullahs who rule the Islamic Republic have only themselves to blame.  —  There is no need for President Trump to even announce that the United States is pulling out of the deal.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Philip Shenon / Politico:
Trump's Lawyer Went to the Worst Law School in America  —  Michael Cohen's alma mater has long been a punchline in the legal world.  —  The roster of the school's graduates includes federal and state judges, two members of Congress and several high-profile courtroom lawyers and business leaders.
Discussion: The Week, Above the Law and Jezebel
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
ObamaCare insurers in Virginia propose major premium hikes for 2019  —  Two of Virginia's ObamaCare insurers are requesting significant premium hikes for 2019, according to initial filings released Friday.  —  Both Cigna and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield cited policies advocated …
 
 
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Nick Morrow / Human Rights Campaign:
DISCRIMINATION IN KANSAS: Legislature Sends Anti-LGBTQ Child Welfare Bill to Governor's Desk
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jenn Rice / Food & Wine:
Fried Bologna Sandwiches Are Everything America Needs Right Now
Discussion: The Root
Ted Cruz / Dallas Morning News:
Freedom only exists if citizens have the means to defend it
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Hey, Republicans: Pelosi attack ads may not be enough to keep the House
Michael Isaac Stein / The Lens:
Actors were paid to support Entergy's power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings
CNN:
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Cardiff Garcia / NPR:
Worker Shortage Hurts California's Agriculture Industry
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
It's time to normalize Karl Marx
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The Daily Beast:
Senate Banking Chair Mike Crapo Set Up Campaign Shop in Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist Pad
Discussion: Politico
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Connecticut Court Reverses Murder Conviction of Michael Skakel
Discussion: Althouse
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state …
Discussion: Politico
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape. He Became A Progressive Star Anyway.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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