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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't intentionally edit a question to Putin out of a video  —  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow led her show Tuesday night with an explosive allegation: The administration of President Trump had intentionally buried a question asked of Russian President Vladimir Putin during last week's news conference in Helsinki.
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Vernon Silver / Bloomberg:
Putin's Soccer Ball for Trump Had Transmitter Chip, Logo Indicates  — World Cup feature opens fan experience, isn't a spy device  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's gift of a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump last week set off a chorus of warnings — some of them only half in jest …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event  —  The White House took retaliatory action against Kaitlan Collins, a White House reporter for CNN, after Collins asked President Trump questions at an Oval Office photo op on Wednesday.  —  Collins was representing …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Soccer ball Putin gave Trump contains transmitter chip — but for Adidas: report
Discussion: Chicks On The Right
Wall Street Journal:
National Enquirer's Years-Long Dealings With Trump Lawyer Fall Under Federal Scrutiny  —  Michael Cohen and tabloid publisher traded favors over many years; the Omarosa mediation  —  Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Former Lawyer Michael Cohen Formed Delaware Company to Purchase Former Playboy Model's Story  —  Attorney created shell firm in September 2016 to buy rights to Karen McDougal's story of having affair with Trump; rights weren't ultimately purchased  —  President Donald Trump's former …
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“I Am Laying Down a Marker”: Lanny Davis Reveals His Bazooka P.R. Strategy  —  It sounds like more tapes could be coming.  —  The stunning disclosure of a secret recording between Donald Trump and his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen took Trumpworld and legal veterans by surprise on Tuesday night …
Discussion: Washington Post, Power Line and Bustle
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
All the President's Hush Money
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and New York Times
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Lanny Davis says “there's more to come” on Trump-Cohen tape
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:   Trump's payments to stop stories about women sound like the John Edwards case
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
WSJ: Investigators In Cohen Probe Looking At Omarosa Dispute With AMI
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump pushes 25 percent auto tariff as top advisers scramble to stop him  —  Several of President Trump's senior economic advisers believe he plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on close to $200 billion in foreign-made automobiles later this year, three people briefed on discussions said.
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump secures concessions from Europeans to avoid trade war: DJ, citing EU official  — President Donald Trump on Wednesday secured concessions from Europe, averting a trade war, the Dow Jones News Wire reported, citing a European Union official.  — The Dow Jones Industrial Average …
EU Press Room:
Joint U.S.-EU Statement following President Juncker's visit to the White House  —  We met today in Washington, D.C. to launch a new phase in the relationship between the United States and the European Union - a phase of close friendship, of strong trade relations in which both of us will win …
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg, Hit & Run and Hot Air
Dave Lawler / Axios:   Trump and EU call trade war truce
New York Times:   United States and Europe Avoid Trade War With Preliminary Agreement, Further Talks
VICE News:
Twitter is “shadow banning” prominent Republicans like the RNC chair and Trump Jr.'s spokesman  —  Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as “shadow banning” — in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Delay Putin Meeting Until ‘After the Russia Witch Hunt’  —  WASHINGTON — The White House said on Wednesday that President Trump wants to delay a planned follow-up meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia until after the investigation of the special counsel …
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Washington Post:
Trump to hold National Security Council meeting on election security Friday
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Former Trump official: No one ‘minding the store’ at White House on cyberthreats
Discussion: Raw Story and acast
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump will watch ‘any channel she wants,’ spokeswoman says  —  (CNN)First lady Melania Trump will watch “any channel she wants,” according to her spokeswoman in an apparent rebuke to the report President Donald Trump was upset to find her Air Force One television tuned into CNN.
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Governors  —  Gov. Phil Scott's (R-Vermont) approval falls far amid re-election run  —  The popularity of Republican governors in solidly blue Northeastern states has been a thematic mainstay of Morning Consult's quarterly Governor Approval Rankings since their launch in 2016.
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:   America's Most and Least Popular Senators
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The ‘Democratic Extremism’ Narrative Is a Handy Way to Distract Attention From Republican Extremism  —  There is a convention going back into the mists of time whereby the Democratic Party is thought of as a disorganized and divided mess.  The early 20th-century humorist Will Rogers, himself a Democrat, once said:
Discussion: HuffPost
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Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed News:
A Top Democrat Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Would Need To Wait Her Turn For Leadership
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
No, Dems Aren't Disarrayed, Riven, Imploding, Eating Their Young or Battling for the Soul of the Party
Washington Post:
Federal judge allows emoluments case against Trump to proceed  —  A federal judge on Wednesday rejected President Trump's latest effort to stop a lawsuit that alleges Trump is violating the Constitution by continuing to do business with foreign governments.  —  The ruling, from U.S. District …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Polls: Trump approval sags in trio of Midwest states  —  Democrats also enjoy an advantage on congressional preference in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.  —  WASHINGTON — In three politically important Midwest states — including two that were key in deciding the 2016 election …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Ga. lawmaker who used racial slurs in TV show resigns  —  The Georgia lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs during an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series is resigning his seat in the state Legislature, according to House Speaker David Ralston's office.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Art of Failing Upward  —  On Tuesday evening, denizens of Donald Trump's Washington, D.C., gathered at a tavern on the capital's southwest waterfront to toast one of the most widely ridiculed White House press secretaries in history.  —  The official occasion for the night's festivities …
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow  —  Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.  —  On a Monday morning in November, students at Harvard Business School convened in their classroom to find Gwyneth Paltrow.  She was sitting at one of their desks …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Meet the Eastern European Mystery Donors Behind the Trump-Allied Super PAC … A mysterious company that made a huge contribution to a pro-Trump political group this year is run by two Soviet-born businessmen, one of whom was feted at a donor retreat at Mar-a-Lago in March.
Fayette Advocate:
Whistleblower provides emails that show Stormy Daniels' arrest was pre-planned  —  In an exclusive investigation, the Advocate has obtained emails from a whistleblower from inside the Columbus Police Department that outline the arrest of Stormy Daniels earlier this month may have been pre-planned days before she ever arrived in town.
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's Spokeswoman Once Argued Muslims Can't Be President  —  Faith Vander Voort published the Islamophobic post while working as an intern for GOP Rep. Steve King, who has a long history of pushing white supremacist views.  —  A top spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke …
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed News:
These Emails Show What Happens When The White House Keeps The Pentagon Out Of The Loop  —  “The Pentagon was caught off guard” stories have become a staple of news coverage of the Trump administration.  —  It's no secret that time and time again, officials in the Defense Department …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Owner Of Russian Import/Export Company Charged With Evading U.S. Export Controls By Smuggling Sensitive Electronics To Russian Military And Intelligence Agencies  —  NEWARK, N.J. - A resident and citizen of Russia was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his alleged role …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz proposes five debates with Beto O'Rourke in U.S. Senate race  —  In a letter to O'Rourke, Cruz's campaign proposed debates to be held on five Friday evenings, each focused on a different set of topics. … U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has challenged Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke …
Discussion: Houston Public Media
Osita Nwanevu / Slate:
Centrism Is Dead  —  Last week, moderate Democrats gathered for Opportunity 2020, an invite-only convention in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by the prominent centrist think tank Third Way.  “Unlike a traditional conference, expect a stimulating mix of thought provoking presentations …
Discussion: New York Times
Casey Newton / The Verge:
YouTube issues a new strike against Alex Jones' channel over hate speech and child endangerment  —  The video site removed four of Jones' videos on Tuesday  —  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' YouTube channel received a strike on Tuesday for violating the site's community guidelines, The Verge has learned.
Benjamin Wood / Salt Lake Tribune:
What Utah law says about leaving your loaded gun in, for example, a restroom near a children's play area  —  Prosecutors have declined to charge a Utah woman who left a loaded handgun — with a round in the firing chamber — in a children's-area restroom at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper.
Martha Bebinger / WBUR:
Chakrabarti And Folkenflik Will Be New ‘On Point’ Hosts  —  On Point, WBUR's syndicated weekday talk show, will hit the reset button with two new hosts.  —  Meghna Chakrabarti will be the voice and face of the national two-hour morning program Monday through Thursday.  David Folkenflik will host on Fridays.
CNN:
Dozens of lawmakers have reviewed unredacted Page surveillance documents; Nunes is not one of them  —  Nunes to reporter: Democracy dies in darkness  —  (CNN)Thirty members of Congress have reviewed largely unredacted copies of the highly sensitive surveillance-warrant applications …
 
 
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Kareem Shaheen / The Guardian:
Surprise Isis attacks leave more than 200 dead in south-west Syria
Discussion: NPR and The Daily Caller
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Michael Avenatti gets judge to bar media from his testimony on Newport Beach law firm's bankruptcy
Lee Siegel / New York Times:
Whatever Happened to Moral Rigor?
Discussion: American Greatness and Althouse
David Dayen / The Intercept:
2020 Democrats Band Together to Call for Puerto Rico Debt Cancellation
Discussion: Sludge
Wsyx / WTTE:
'You're a rude n—:' Contractor calls black man racist slur during confrontation
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
Santa Barbara Authorizes Jail Time for Handing Out Straws
Aubrey Whelan / Philly.com:
Drug overdose toll rises in Philadelphia as heroin prized for ‘purity’ turns out to be contaminated
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 Earlier Items: 
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Turkey vows to keep buying Iranian oil: ‘We will not obey’
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Truth About Cardinal McCarrick
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
This Former British Spy Exposed the Russian Hackers
David Crouch / The Guardian:
Swedish student's plane protest stops man's deportation ‘to hell’
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Without the Russians, Trump wouldn't have won