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Jessie Balmert / USA Today:
Ohio race just got closer after county finds hundreds of uncounted votes — A special election in Ohio's 12th Congressional District was too close to call early Tuesday. It could produce an automatic recount for Democrat Danny O'Connor and Republican Troy Balderson, who was backed by President Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Republicans Gird for House Battle as Ohio and Kansas Races Remain Close — Alarmed by the tight race for a congressional seat in Ohio, Republicans are steeling for a 90-day campaign of trench warfare as they fight to keep control of the House, pinning their hopes on well-funded outside groups …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Democrats are losing this race. And they're thrilled about it. — The party — and even some Republicans — say the results in Ohio suggest the GOP will have trouble holding onto its House majority this fall. — WASHINGTON — There are zero second-place finishers serving in Congress and Danny O'Connor …
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Washington Post:
‘Nothing bodes well’: Lackluster election results spark debate over Trump's midterm role
‘Nothing bodes well’: Lackluster election results spark debate over Trump's midterm role
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Associated Press and Detroit Free Press
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Ohio county finds hundreds of uncounted votes in already too-close-to-call special election
Ohio county finds hundreds of uncounted votes in already too-close-to-call special election
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Townhall, POLITICUSUSA and Cincinnati.com
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Claims Election Night Credit. It's Not That Simple.
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Secret recording shows GOP's Nunes saying Rosenstein impeachment would delay Supreme Court pick — “Do you want them [the Senate] to drop everything and not confirm the Supreme Court justice?” Rep. Devin Nunes said at a recent fundraiser. — Hard-line conservative Republicans …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Devin Nunes, in secretly recorded tape, tells donors GOP majority is necessary to protect Trump: 'We're the only ones' — Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, appears to have moved from criticizing the investigation into Russian interference …
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MSNBC:
TRMS Exclusive: Devin Nunes speaks candidly at fundraiser — The Rachel Maddow Show has obtained exclusive audio of Rep. Devin Nunes speaking candidly to donors at a private fundraiser. — Below are the transcripts of the portions aired on the August 8, 2018 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show:
Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
TRMS Exclusive: Devin Nunes at fundraiser audio clip 3
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Rudy's Mueller demand: No questions on Flynn, Comey — With his constant commentating and public negotiating, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is setting up unmeetable expectations for special counsel Robert Mueller — a kind of insurance policy with the president's base.
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Politico, Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Giuliani: This Case Isn't Going To Fizzle, It's Going To Blow Up On Mueller
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Giuliani: Mueller probe is like Watergate ‘on the side of the investigator’
Giuliani: Mueller probe is like Watergate ‘on the side of the investigator’
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Sinclair Merger, Sues Broadcast Rival — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had concerns about Sinclair's submissions and sent it to an administrative-law judge, a blow to the merger's approval chances — Tribune Media Co. TRCO .99% terminated its merger agreement …
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The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Secretly Recorded Trump and Played the Audio to Others, 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 …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Hope Hicks getting sucked back into Trump's orbit — Hope Hicks had no intention of traveling on Air Force One when she arrived at President Donald Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club to hang out with White House friends including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
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Sam Baker / Axios:
How one failed drug ensnared so many GOP lawmakers
How one failed drug ensnared so many GOP lawmakers
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CBS News:
Chris Collins, a timeline — including video of that phone call at the White House picnic
Chris Collins, a timeline — including video of that phone call at the White House picnic
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Vox, Washington Post and CNN
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
House Republican just arrested for committing a felony on the White House lawn
House Republican just arrested for committing a felony on the White House lawn
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Twitter's CEO doesn't get how conspiracy theories work — Jack Dorsey's argument for not banning Alex Jones reveals the limits of his understanding — and a major problem with Big Tech's outsized role in our society. — In the past week, tech giants including Facebook, Apple, Youtube …
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Social Media Giants Shouldn't Be Arbiters Of Appropriate Speech
Social Media Giants Shouldn't Be Arbiters Of Appropriate Speech
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Louder With Crowder, twitchy.com, infowars.com, Axios and Gizmodo
Sonny Bunch / Washington Post:
The untenable tension between freedom of speech and freedom of association
The untenable tension between freedom of speech and freedom of association
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The American Conservative, New York Times and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Case for Banning Alex Jones
The Case for Banning Alex Jones
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infowars.com and The Federalist
Associated Press:
Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria deaths more than 1,400 — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico has conceded that Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400 people on the island last year and not just the 64 in the official death toll. — The government acknowledged the higher death toll …
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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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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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson — Two years ago, I walked downstairs and saw one of my teenage sons watching a strange YouTube video on the television. — “What is that?” I asked. — He turned to me earnestly and explained, “It's a psychology professor at the University of Toronto talking about Canadian law.”
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Emails show 2016 links among Steele, Ohr, Simpson — with Russian oligarch in background — Emails in 2016 between former British spy Christopher Steele and Justice Department official Bruce Ohr suggest Steele was deeply concerned about the legal status of a Putin-linked Russian oligarch …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Whole Republican Party Seems to Be Going to Jail Now — The entire Trump era has been a festering pit of barely disguised ongoing corruption. But the whole sordid era has not had a 24-hour period quite like the orgy of criminality which we have just experienced. The events of the last day alone include:
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Don Lemon: Trump told me I couldn't be a fair reporter because I'm black — Don Lemon, a black CNN anchor, has accused President Trump of telling him in 2011 that Lemon's race made him incapable of unbiased reporting. — Lemon made the claim as he attempted to explain how a years-long feud between …
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Power Line, Daily Kos, Liberty Unyielding and Mediaite
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Media boost security as Trump ramps up ‘enemy’ rhetoric — TV networks are employing security guards at the president's high-octane rallies. — Notebooks, mics, cameras, hairspray — those are all things TV reporters are used to having with them at political rallies.
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CNN:
Dozens dead after school bus carrying children hit by airstrike — (CNN)Dozens of children, most believed to be under the age of 10, have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a school bus in northern Yemen Thursday. — The bus was hit as it was driving through a market …
Shmuel Rosner / New York Times:
Does Sacha Baron Cohen Understand Israel? — The comedian's new show makes a mockery of Israeli machismo. But he doesn't know who we really are. — TEL AVIV — I first met Col. Erran Morad 25 years ago. Well, sort of. — Morad is the fictional brainchild of Sacha Baron Cohen …
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Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
GOP Rep's Arrest Gets 7x The Coverage of Entire Scandal for Democrat — If you're a politician with “D” at the end of your name, it grants you certain privileges from an all too friendly press. They go easy on you in interviews, give you the benefit of the doubt, and if you're ever charged …