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12:50 PM ET, August 13, 2018

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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts  —  The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.  —  Aitan Goelman, Strzok's lawyer …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Agent Peter Strzok, Who Criticized Trump in Texts, Is Fired  —  WASHINGTON — Peter Strzok, the F.B.I. senior counterintelligence agent who disparaged President Trump in inflammatory text messages and helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI fires Peter Strzok, agent who sent anti-Trump texts  —  Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent who came under withering criticism from Republicans for a series of anti-Trump text messages he sent during the 2016 campaign, was fired on Friday, his attorney said.
Discussion: ABC News, Mother Jones and Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Fires Peter Strzok, Who Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages
Discussion: RedState
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Omarosa Manigault Newman reveals recording she made of President Trump day after she was fired  —  The tape, which was played exclusively Monday on “Today” show, appears to show Trump having no idea that Newman had been dismissed by his Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News … It is “in the public interest” for a pair of senior White House officials to be excused from federal ethics laws so they can meet with Fox News, according to President Donald Trump's top lawyer.
Discussion: Axios
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
White House looking to stop Omarosa Manigault Newman from releasing more tapes
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event
Discussion: Raw Story
Kristen Welker / NBC News:
White House struggles to name a single senior African-American working in the West Wing
David S. Glosser / Politico:
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite.  I Know Because I'm His Uncle.  —  Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.  —  It begins at the turn of the 20th century in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Foreign Policy Held Back by Struggle to Grasp Time Zones, Maps  —  Running an effective foreign policy for a global hyperpower is always tricky when the president happens to be a personally corrupt authoritarian bigot who is concealing shady ties to a strategic adversary.
Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
2016 Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives  —  The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
There's a big tell in Trump's latest defense of Donald Jr.  —  President Trump has spent the past year and a half emphatically declaring that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, adamantly and angrily insisting that any suggestion to the contrary is nothing but a “hoax.”
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
‘A natural’: Donald Trump Jr. emerges as a campaign star, despite Russia baggage
Peter Beinart / The Forward:
I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs  —  Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my kids.  Last weekend I can say, with some confidence, that I succeeded.  —  The weekend started on Rhodes, the Mediterranean island …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism.  Attitudes toward socialism among Democrats have not changed materially since 2010 …
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.  —  An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices …
New York Times:
The Rise and Fall of Paul Manafort: Greed, Deception and Ego  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his annual season tickets would soon be arriving at his 43rd-floor apartment at Trump Tower in New York.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
What's next for Paul Manafort?
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
New coalition plans seven-figure campaign aimed at Puerto Rican voters  —  Critics of the Trump administration's response to the hurricanes that ravaged Puerto Rico last year are launching a seven-figure campaign to mobilize displaced Puerto Rican voters ahead of the midterm elections …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Politico:
RPOF beats Snipes — Where's the blue wave, part 2 — Florida schools' new abnormal — TV cash not cutting it
Online NewsHour:
An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes  —  An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world's largest yearly hacking convention …
New York Post:
De Blasio lets security haul away Post reporter for asking question  —  Mayor de Blasio is a such a big believer in the free press that he let two bodyguards physically remove a credentialed Post reporter who had the temerity to ask him a question in public on Sunday.
Quarter / New York Times:
You Know Who the Tax Cuts Helped?  Rich People  —  In 2018, Trump's tax plan was enacted, setting a new record  —  Stock buybacks by quarter  —  Among companies in the S&P 500 … Stock buybacks  —  Q1 2018  —  In 2018, Trump's tax  —  plan was enacted,  —  setting a new record
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
She ran on responsible gun regulation, now she's accused of killing her campaign treasurer  —  ATLANTA - A former Georgia Congressional candidate has been charged with murder after her former campaign treasurer was found dead inside her apartment.  —  Kellie Collins, of Thomason …
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
History will wonder why these men defended Trump but not their country  —  Imagine that U.S. military leaders spent most of 1941 warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Democratic Party of a coming Pearl Harbor attack.  Then imagine history's harsh judgment against FDR's party …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Sleepin’ Joe' hears alarm bells in Indiana Senate brawl  —  They call him ‘the accidental senator.’ Now, Democrat Joe Donnelly, one of the most endangered senators in the country, must prove he's no fluke.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Most of the red-state Democratic senators have larger …
Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
HUD Moves to Shake Up Fair-Housing Enforcement  —  Ben Carson, secretary of HUD, wants to encourage more housing construction as a way to boost affordability  —  The Trump administration wants to shift the way it enforces an aspect of fair housing around the U.S., pivoting away from efforts …
Jessica Estepa / USA Today:
Bobby Goodlatte, son of retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, wants Democrat to win his father's seat  —  Bobby Goodlatte's dad, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been in Congress for most of his life.  —  But with the elder Goodlatte retiring after this year, the younger Goodlatte wants to see that seat go to a Democrat instead of a Republican.
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Talking Points Memo
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Facebook's message to media: “We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic...That is the old world and there is no going back”  —  The Australian — the Murdoch-owned national paper — has an interesting (and aggressively paywalled) scoop about Facebook today …
ProPublica:
Did You Go to a Washington Nationals Game With Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh?  —  Trump's pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets.  Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge.  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accrued …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Naomi Colvin:
Rather unfortunately, I have been obliged to resign from Courage. An explanation:
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
'The president's right': Interior chief pushes thinning forests to cut fire risk
Discussion: New Republic and CNBC
David Siders / Politico:
New group of black execs to spend millions in midterms
Discussion: Washington Post
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
In 2014, political spending at Trump properties was $35K. In 2018, it's $3.5M
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Ellison Denies Domestic-Abuse Allegations ... Two Days Before Primaries
Bryce Covert / New York Times:
The Wrong Way to Do Paid Family Leave
Olivia Smith / ABC News:
This 14-year-old inventor designed a bulletproof wall to protect students during school shootings
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Chris Arnold / NPR:
White House Takes Aim At Financial Protections For Military
James Ball / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Hacked Emails Take Us Inside the Billionaires' Club Around Vladimir Putin
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Voting Rights Advocates Used to Have an Ally in the Government. That's Changing.
Discussion: Shakesville
Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker:
Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man
Darrel Rowland / The Columbus Dispatch:
Here's how Russian trolls tried to influence Ohioans using Twitter
Jackie Wattles / CNN:
Trump encourages boycott against Harley-Davidson
Discussion: Washington Post, CNBC and FOX6Now.com
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

 
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