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The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Secretly Recorded Trump and Played the Audio for People, Sources Say … Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, isn't the only one with secretly recorded audio of the president. — Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast …
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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Counter Mueller's Interview Offer, Seeking Narrower Scope — WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyers rejected the special counsel's latest terms for an interview in the Russia investigation, countering on Wednesday with an offer that suggested a narrow path for answering questions, people familiar with the matter said.
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Wall Street Journal:
'It's Fantastic!' Trump Warms to Rosenstein — Nearly fired by the president, the No. 2 Justice official—the man in charge of the Mueller probe—builds a rapport — Before President Trump headed to meet Vladimir Putin last month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requested a meeting in the Oval Office.
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Erin Durkin / The Guardian:
Trump team rejects Mueller's interview request but offers sitdown under narrow terms
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers reject interview terms sought by special counsel in Russia probe
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's lawyers respond to Mueller's proposal for interview
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
New York GOP Rep. Chris Collins arrested over insider trading charges — Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., has been arrested on insider trading charges lodged by the Justice Department, law enforcement officials said Wednesday morning. — The indictment obtained from a federal grand jury …
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Laura Nahmias / Politico:
GOP Rep. Chris Collins charged with securities fraud — Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), the first member of Congress to back President Donald Trump before the 2016 election, was indicted Wednesday by federal prosecutors and charged with fraud in connection to an alleged insider-trading scheme linked …
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New York Times:
New York Congressman Chris Collins Is Charged With Insider Trading — Representative Chris Collins, a New York Republican who was one of President Trump's earliest and most vocal supporters, was charged with insider trading on Wednesday. He was accused of having sold his stock …
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New York Times:
New York Congressman Chris Collins Is Charged With Insider Trading
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Kansas City Star:
No law prevents Kris Kobach from overseeing the likely recount in his own race — No law requires Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to recuse himself from a recount in the governor's race, but legal and political experts say that he should to maintain trust in the election.
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Tuesday Night Is a Bad Sign for GOP Chances in the House — On its face, Tuesday night seemed uneventful, or even good news for the Republican Party. Aside from a few primaries here and there, the main event was the House special election in Ohio's 12th Congressional District.
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Henry Olsen / American Greatness:
Ohio Squeaker Shows GOP Has A Lot To Learn About Winning
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Ohio Results Point to Democratic Strength in 2018—And a Showdown in 2020
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CNN:
Remains of boy found during search of New Mexico compound — (CNN)The remains of a young boy were found on a compound in rural New Mexico where 11 emaciated children were discovered last week, authorities said Tuesday. — But it is unclear whether the remains uncovered Monday …
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Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Man at N.M. compound trained kids for school shooting — AMALIA, N.M. (AP) — The father of a missing Georgia boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents obtained Wednesday, as authorities waited to learn …
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Nicole Darrah / Fox News:
Man arrested at ‘extremist Muslim’ New Mexico compound was training kids to commit school shootings: documents
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Ken White / NBC News:
Ken White The Manafort trial judge keeps yelling at prosecutors. That's not good news for the defendant. — Trial lawyers know that judicial grumbling is not a reliable predictor of results. — For the last week, political junkies have been transfixed by the federal criminal trial of Paul Manafort …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort Trial Day 7: Gates wraps testimony, tensions flare
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CNN:
Corey Stewart praised southern secession in 2017 campaign appearance — Senate candidate takes personal shot at Cuomo — (CNN)Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat for Virginia, praised in a speech last year Virginia's decision in 1861 to secede from the Union …
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Tampa Bay Times:
Bill Nelson: The Russians have penetrated some Florida voter registration systems — Nelson amplified concerns about the 2018 midterms. — Russian operatives have “penetrated” some of Florida's election systems ahead of the 2018 midterms, Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday, adding new urgency about hacking.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Rashida Tlaib, With Primary Win, Is Poised to Become First Muslim Woman in Congress — DETROIT — By the time Rashida Tlaib was finished, not a dry eye remained in the room. — “I want people across the country to know that you don't need to sell out,” Ms. Tlaib said early Wednesday morning.
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Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Alex Jones' Lawyer Seeks To Make Sandy Hook Parents' Home Addresses Public — “They're using an old, outdated law to intimidate these people and it's just sick,” said Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the parents. — When radio host Alex Jones published a video in 2017 titled “Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed …
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John Bonazzo / Observer:
Alex Jones Attacks Communists and Goblins on Google+, Where No One Can Hear Him
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Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Trump administration to hit Russia with new sanctions for Skripal poisoning — The administration has signed off on a determination that Russia violated international law, triggering new U.S. sanctions. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is hitting Russia with new sanctions punishing …
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Uber Hit With Cap as New York City Takes Lead in Crackdown — Even as Uber has become one of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories and changed the way people across the globe get around, the company has faced increased scrutiny from government regulators and struggled to overcome its image …
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Alvin Chang / Vox:
We analyzed every QAnon post on Reddit. Here's who QAnon supporters actually are. — The QAnon subreddit, analyzed with data. — Late on a recent Thursday night, a Reddit user posted a comment in a forum (or subreddit) devoted to the game Magic: The Gathering about how the company …
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Alex Pareene / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Talks About a War on the Press. Andrew Cuomo Is Waging One. … On July 19, Zack Fink, the Albany reporter for New York City's local cable news channel, NY1, asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the glaring lack of legitimate small donors to his reelection campaign.
NBC News:
Trump's D.C. hotel, a clubhouse for his fans, may also be a 5-star conflict of interest — An NBC News analysis of FEC filings and social media shows GOP groups, foreign countries and federal agencies have spent big at the luxury hotel. — WASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel …
Tom Roussey / WJLA-TV:
Man beaten with bike lock by cyclist who screamed racist slur in Georgetown shares story — A local man is facing a hate crime charge for allegedly smashing an African American man in the head with a bicycle lock after repeatedly screaming the “N-word” at him.
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Alex Ward / Vox:
Exclusive: Pompeo told North Korea to cut its nuclear arsenal by 60 to 70 percent — But North Korea has consistently rejected the secretary of state's proposal. — The Trump administration has presented North Korea with a formal timeline for starting the process of denuclearization — and Pyongyang has rejected it several times.
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Paul Bois / Daily Wire:
Mila Kunis Admits She Lives In A Bubble: 'I Didn't Even Know There Was An Opposing Side' On Abortion — “I don't want to promote it, whatever it is” — Actress Mila Kunis admits she lives in a progressive Hollywood bubble that is so knee-deep in pro-abortion advocates …
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Wall Street Journal:
SEC Has Made Inquiries to Tesla Over Elon Musk's ‘Taking Private’ Tweet — The regulator is examining whether Musk's statement was truthful and inquired why the disclosure was made on Twitter.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The problem with Twitter, as shown by the Sarah Jeong fracas — Behind our Twitter wars lies Twitter's problems. — At National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a column on the Sarah Jeong fracas that is wrong in, I think, a useful way. He begins with an anecdote:
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Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
ICE Crashed a Van Full of Separated Mothers, Then Denied It Ever Happened — On July 18, a cargo van transporting eight Central American mothers separated from their children under Trump's “zero tolerance” policy crashed into a pickup truck in San Marcos. An ICE contractor was taking …
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Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
The Shadow Rulers of the VA — Last February, shortly after Peter O'Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental health initiative for the VA. “Received,” O'Rourke replied.
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Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
Why the Mueller Investigation Is the Wobble of Neptune — OPINION — It was the summer of “Chinatown” and Elton John's best-selling album “Caribou.” Top-rated TV shows like “All in the Family” M*A*S*H" were in rerun season. But August 1974 was not lacking in drama cut with pathos.
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