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ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Hospital To Deliver Baby — SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — A newborn is without his father Friday after immigration agents detained the man as he was taking his wife to deliver the baby. — “I feel very bad right now,” Maria del Carmen Venegas told CBS2 News …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Revoking Brennan's Security Clearance: The Right Thing, Even if for the Wrong Reason — It's right because he is irresponsible and untrustworthy and has politicized intelligence. — I do not share my friend David French's theoretical constitutional concerns about the president's revocation …
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New York Times:
Embracing Conspiracy Theory, Trump Escalates Attack on Bruce Ohr
Embracing Conspiracy Theory, Trump Escalates Attack on Bruce Ohr
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Axios, Raw Story, CNBC, JustOneMinute, Washington Examiner and RedState
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Trump Is Not a King — A group of top former intelligence …
Trump Is Not a King — A group of top former intelligence …
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Liberty Unyielding, Lawfare, NPR and War on the Rocks, more at Mediagazer »
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Trump's security-clearance gambit could actually get him in deeper trouble with Mueller
How Trump's security-clearance gambit could actually get him in deeper trouble with Mueller
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Talking Points Memo, CNN, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, AOL, RAPPLER and The Guardian
Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
Document: George Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo — The government has filed a sentencing memorandum in the case of George Papadopoulos, recommending a sentence of between zero to six months. The document is available in full below.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Mueller prosecutors seek up to six months in prison for George Papadopoulos in Russia probe
Mueller prosecutors seek up to six months in prison for George Papadopoulos in Russia probe
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Raw Story
David Alexander / Reuters:
U.S. special counsel recommends six months in prison for Papadopoulos
U.S. special counsel recommends six months in prison for Papadopoulos
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Axios and Political Wire
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Special counsel says up to 6 months jail ‘warranted’ for Trump aide-turned cooperating witness
Special counsel says up to 6 months jail ‘warranted’ for Trump aide-turned cooperating witness
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Politico
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Netflix's ‘Classless’ Cancellation of Michelle Wolf's ‘The Break’ … Well, that was fast. On Friday, Netflix quietly pulled the plug on The Break with Michelle Wolf, one of the only “late-night” shows on “television” hosted by a female comedian, just three months after it premiered.
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Power Line:
Democrats Frighten Manafort Jurors [Updated] — The case that Bob Mueller has brought against Paul Manafort has nothing to do with Donald Trump or the 2016 election. It is irrelevant to any significant political issue. But Democrats worry that Mueller's prosecution of Manafort …
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Kofi Annan, Diplomat Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80 — Kofi Annan, a soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana, who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world's conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles …
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Stanley Meisler / Washington Post:
Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary general, dies at 80
Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary general, dies at 80
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Statement by the Secretary-General on the passing of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Statement by the Secretary-General on the passing of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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Fox News, France 24, Daily Caller News Foundation and East Bay Times
Joshua Posaner / Politico:
Kofi Annan, former UN chief, dies aged 80
Kofi Annan, former UN chief, dies aged 80
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The Elders, Joe.My.God., One America News Network and The Guardian
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats know they need to talk about how Kavanaugh would rule, and yet they fall into the trap of Senate process — Two weeks before Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats keep reminding themselves to stick to the script in their fight against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh …
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Washington Post:
The un-celebrity president — Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown — Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C'mon, kid.”
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Althouse
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Truth-Testing Trump's 250-Plus Attacks on the Russia Inquiry — We assessed President Trump's claims about Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the ensuing federal investigation of his campaign. — The federal investigation into whether Russia actively sought to help Donald J. Trump win …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
AP source: It's not just audio, Manigault Newman has video — WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just audiotapes. — Omarosa Manigault Newman has a stash of video, emails, text messages and other documentation supporting the claims in her tell-all book about her time in the Trump White House …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Website Promised Free Anti-Antifa Shirts. Alt-Right Signed Up. It Was a Trap. … A website that offered free anti-anti-fascist t-shirts for a real far-right march appears to have been a trap by anti-fascists. — On August 18, Trump supporters will host the “National March Against Far-Left Violence” …
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Breitbart
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
GOP fundraiser Broidy under investigation for alleged effort to sell government influence, people familiar with probe say — The Justice Department is investigating whether longtime Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought to sell his influence with the Trump administration by offering …
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CNN, IJR, HuffPost, The National Memo, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Bars Statements Made by Guantánamo Detainees During F.B.I. Interrogations — In a potentially major setback for the effort to prosecute five Guantánamo Bay detainees accused of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a military commission judge ruled on Friday that prosecutors …
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger - sources — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc (FB.O) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app so law enforcement may listen to a suspect's voice conversations in a criminal probe …
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump backed ‘space force’ after months of lobbying by officials with ties to aerospace industry … When President Trump spoke to Marines at the Miramar Air Station in San Diego on March 13, he threw out an idea that he suggested had just come to him. — “You know, I was saying it the other day …
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months — The U.S. national debt has increased by more than half a trillion dollars in less than six months, amid predictions that the U.S. is on the verge of returning to another explosion in government borrowing.
KLRT-TV:
Satanic Temple Rally at State Capitol Targets Arkansas Lawmaker — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Nearly four months after crews reinstalled the Ten Commandments monument on state capitol grounds, the Satanic Temple came back Thursday with a statue of its own. — The group's “Rally for the First Amendment” …
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