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Manafort ordered to jail after witness-tampering charges — A federal judge ordered Paul Manafort to jail Friday over charges he tampered with witnesses while out on bail — a major blow for President Trump's former campaign chairman as he awaits trial on federal conspiracy and money-laundering charges next month.
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David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Manafort Heads to Jail After Judge Criticizes Witness Tampering — Paul Manafort was ordered locked up ahead of his two trials for bank fraud and money laundering. — U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington revoked Manafort's bail Friday after prosecutors said Manafort …
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Paul Manafort = Evidence of Collusion — I will keep this simple. Here are the facts about Paul Manafort, whose history with President Donald Trump dates back decades and who served as chairman of the Trump Campaign and remained something of an informal adviser after resigning.
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge Orders Manafort Jailed Before Trial, Citing New Obstruction Charges — WASHINGTON — A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort's bail and sent him to jail on Friday to await trial, citing new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government's witnesses after he had been granted bail.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge sends Paul Manafort to jail, pending trial
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CNBC:
Ex-Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort sent to jail as judge revokes bail after witness tampering charge …
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
Judge Orders Paul Manafort Detained Amid Witness Tampering Allegations
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump sounds off on FBI report: “Doesn't get any lower than that!” — President Trump is sounding off on the Justice Department's inspector general report, released Thursday, about the FBI's conduct in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. — FBI Agent Peter Strzok …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Report's Real Message: Trump Is Lying — The new report from the Justice Department's watchdog covers a lot of ground. It runs more than 500 pages and evaluates investigations that touch both President Trump and Hillary Clinton. As a result, some of the initial news coverage …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
President Trump unloads on Comey, ‘scum on top’ of FBI a day after damning IG report's release
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Calls Justice Dept. Report ‘Total Disaster’ for Fired F.B.I. Director
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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
The FBI Hates Trump—and His Voters, Too
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Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Meet the Other Amorous FBI Staffers Who Texted About the Clinton Email Investigation
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Washington Post:
'Why can't we just do it?': Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes — Some of the most intense drama surrounding President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came not across the negotiating table, but in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday's historic meeting …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“There's No Stopping Him”: Trump Insists on a Putin Summit — After Singapore, the President is pressing ahead with the meeting that he's always wanted. — Fresh off his closely watched Singapore summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, President Trump is pushing his team …
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says he wants “my people” to sit at attention for him like people do for Kim Jong Un — President Trump declared in a spur-of-the-moment interview with “Fox and Friends” Friday morning that he wants people to sit at attention for him like they do for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump praises Kim's authoritarian rule, says ‘I want my people to do the same’
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Candice Norwood / Politico:
Trump: I want ‘my people’ to ‘sit up at attention’ like in North Korea
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New York Times:
For Pruitt Aides, the Boss's Personal Life Was Part of the Job — WASHINGTON — Senior staff members at the Environmental Protection Agency frequently felt pressured by Scott Pruitt, the administrator, to help in personal matters and obtain special favors for his family …
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Energy PR executive helped get Scott Pruitt and his family Rose Bowl tickets
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Scott Pruitt, Under Fire, Plans to Initiate a Big Environmental Rollback
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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits, Lawsuit Says — Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than any other race on personal traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” …
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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed:
Internal Harvard Report Found Bias Against Asian Applicants, Lawsuit Alleges
Washington Post:
Trump: 'I certainly wouldn't sign' House GOP immigration compromise — President Trump said Friday that he would oppose a compromise immigration bill cobbled together by House Republicans - dealing a significant blow to GOP leaders who have scrambled to rally support for the bill.
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Dara Lind / Vox:
The House GOP says their new bill bans separating families at the border. That's a lie.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's tariffs are already backfiring — Before steel and aluminum tariffs alienated our allies, before President Trump suggested car imports threatened our “national security,” before that 1,000-plus-item list of Chinese goods targeted for new tariffs, there were washing machines.
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Politico:
Shrinking map boosts Democrats in battle for the Senate — Republicans are still favored to keep their majority, but several Democratic incumbents in red states look likely to survive. — The Senate battleground map has shrunk dramatically in recent weeks — a net plus for Democrats …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell: 'Why can't the Mueller investigation finally wrap up?'
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Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers — WASHINGTON (AP) — A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users' private data, has quietly been working …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Cohen signals openness to cooperating with federal investigators — (CNN)President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
TX-32: Sessions Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up — Multiple Republican operatives familiar with Texas polling data are convinced GOP Rep. Pete Sessions (TX-32) is, at the moment, the most vulnerable incumbent in the Lone Star State. The powerful House Rules Committee chair's rapidly …
FiveThirtyEight:
How Trump's Popularity Is Holding Up, By State — Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. — Poll of the week — Let's keep things simple this week: Morning Consult just released its latest edition of President Trump's approval ratings by state.
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Washington Post:
Promoted six times and then fired: Inside a 24-year-old political appointee's wild ride in Trump's Washington — He was one of the fastest-rising political appointees of the Trump administration, an unpaid campaign intern with no professional experience who soared into a top job …
Washington Post:
In defense of separating immigrant families, Sessions cites same Bible passage used to defend slavery — Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a Bible verse on Thursday to defend his department's policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the border from Mexico, suggesting that God supports …
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Wall Street Journal:
Behind the Scenes at G-7 Meetings, Allies Dismayed by Trump's Jabs — Hopes for compromise on trade issues dimmed after the U.S. president pulled out of a joint statement — Prospects for compromise on a wide range of trade disputes between the U.S. and its major economic allies have dimmed …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Steve King: Republican House Members Considering Forcibly Removing Paul Ryan from Speakership — Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told Breitbart News Tonight earlier this week that House Republicans are considering forcibly removing House Speaker Paul Ryan from the speakership via a …
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