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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Trump's Former Fixer, Michael Cohen, Reaches a Plea Agreement Over Payments to Women  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors investigating payments he made to women for Mr. Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.
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NBC News:
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen discussing plea deal with prosecutors  —  The deal could come as early as today, say sources familiar with the matter.  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, is discussing a possible guilty plea with federal prosecutors in Manhattan …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen surrenders to FBI, plea deal expected soon  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, has surrendered to the FBI ahead of a 4 p.m. court proceeding, where the government is expected to disclose a plea deal, according to a law enforcement source.
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former longtime personal attorney, tentatively reaches a plea deal: Sources  —  ABC News has learned that Michael Cohen has entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
CNN:
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Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges  —  Trump's longtime ‘fixer’ reaches plea deal with federal prosecutors  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, according to people familiar …
Politico:
Michael Cohen strikes plea deal with prosecutors  —  Cohen is expected to appear at 4 p.m. in federal court in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon to formally offer his guilty plea to a federal judge.  —  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's combative former personal lawyer …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has surrendered to FBI as he prepares to plead guilty in federal investigation
Associated Press:
Watergate wisdom? Cohen lawyer turns to Nixon turncoat
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and POLITICUSUSA
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we've failed to prosecute white-collar crime
New York Times:
New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says  —  BOSTON — The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target: conservative American think tanks that have broken with President Trump and are seeking continued sanctions …
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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court  —  Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge  —  The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations …
Discussion: Politico, Vox and Raw Story
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Rand Paul, Russian Stooge  —  What does the kooky libertarian see in the authoritarian Putin regime?  —  Senator Rand Paul has been making the rounds in recent days touting deeper U.S. engagement with Vladimir Putin's Russia.  It's often the case when Senator Paul talks about foreign policy …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:   Rand Paul Suggests Talking to Russia About the Size of NATO
Charlie Kirk / The Hill:   President Trump is making diplomacy great again
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Manafort convicted of 8 counts, judge will declare mistrial in 10 others  —  A jury has found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty after a three-week trial on tax and bank fraud charges — a major if not complete victory for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III as he continues to investigate the president's associates.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump worries that Mueller interview could be a ‘perjury trap’
Megan Keller / The Hill:
Flynn sentencing hearing delayed
Discussion: Political Wire
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
A ‘perjury trap’ isn't the real reason Trump won't answer Mueller's questions
Discussion: CNN, Feeds and Raw Story
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A.'s New Coal Pollution Rules Will Lead to More Deaths, Agency's Numbers Show  —  Want climate news in your inbox?  Sign up for our Climate Fwd: newsletter.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants …
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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
EPA admits Trump would sacrifice thousands of U.S. lives to save a few coal plants
Kate Mishkin / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Experts: Coal's decline imminent, with or without Trump's regulatory changes
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They're Squeezing Don Jr. Right Now”: As the Mueller Siege Tightens, Trump's Twitter Rage Crests  —  White House counsel Don McGahn's interviews with Mueller have rattled Trump to his core.  “Total meltdown,” one outside adviser said of his mood, while a Republican ally described him as “extremely frustrated.”
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emptywheel:
It Is False to Claim There Was No Follow-Up to the June 9 Meeting
Discussion: The Week
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.  —  The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Collins: Kavanaugh sees Roe v. Wade as ‘settled law’  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh believes that the high court's landmark case Roe v. Wade is settled law, Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday.  —  Democrats have argued that Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court …
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
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Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Mollie Tibbetts, missing Iowa student, found dead, her father says  —  Two sources tell Fox News that the body of the missing Iowa student has been found; Matt Finn reports.  —  The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found Tuesday, her father and two sources told Fox News …
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Russia is preparing to search for a nuclear-powered missile that was lost at sea months ago after a failed test  — Moscow is preparing to recover a nuclear-powered missile lost at sea, according to sources with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new reform bill would ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks  — Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes a new bill that would ban members of Congress and the White House staff from owning individual stocks.  — As an apparent alternative, the legislation would create …
Discussion: IJR, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Steven L. Hall / Washington Post:
CIA officers learn to keep quiet.  Why are so many of us speaking out about Trump?  —  And why is the White House so eager to retaliate for it?  —  Former head of Russian operations for the CIA  —  Here's what is really going on when President Trump rescinds the security clearances …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Wire
The Guardian:
Arctic's strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record  —  Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary  —  The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
Kelly Conaboy / The Cut:
Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last?  —  The bathroom is a mysterious place.  What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn't; we simply do not know.  The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue …
Discussion: Althouse
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's September rally schedule ahead of the midterms  —  President Trump will campaign in Nevada, Kentucky, and Tennessee next month to support Republican candidates ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, according to a person familiar with his thinking — they did not specify which candidates.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Amid Threats of Violence, White House Reporter April Ryan Fights for the Press  —  The CNN contributor says she recently hired a bodyguard on her own dime.  —  Few reporters have lived the Trump administration's war against the press more vividly than April Ryan, a 21-year veteran …
New York Times:
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests  —  ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political, broke into the attic of a refugee group house and tried to set it on fire, they will list the familiar issues.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Two Republicans want to be called farmers on the ballot.  Democrats say they're not  —  WASHINGTON  —  Reps. Jeff Denham and Devin Nunes say they're farmers, and that's how they're going to be described on this fall's California election ballots.  —  But are they farmers?
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Christopher Steele's Victory in a D.C. Court  —  The author of the explosive dossier outlining the president's alleged ties to Russia won an important legal victory on Monday, when a judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against his firm by the co-founders of Russia's largest private bank.
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Fact checkers have a Medicare-for-all problem  —  Medicare-for-all: Would it save American society money?  That question has been tying fact checkers in knots over the past several weeks.  —  One recent working paper put out by the libertarian Mercatus Center unwittingly answered in the affirmative …
Discussion: twitchy.com, Observer and Jacobin
Kelly Marie Tran / New York Times:
I Won't Be Marginalized by Online Harassment  —  Editor's note: The actress deleted her Instagram posts this summer in response to online harassment.  Here she speaks out for the first time.  —  It wasn't their words, it's that I started to believe them.  —  Their words seemed to confirm …
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Nazi death camp guard arrested by ICE, deported to Germany: Authorities  —  A man who authorities believe is the last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. has been arrested and deported to Germany.  —  At the order of President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
 
 
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Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Prehistoric college football coaches are killing players. It's past time to stop them.
Darren J. Beattie / American Greatness:
Read the Paper CNN Says Is ‘White Supremacist’
Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Sexual trauma claims by veterans wrongly denied by VA, investigation finds
Discussion: Axios
Richard Florida / CityLab:
The Geography of Urban Violence
Robert Silverman / HuffPost:
How An Elite New York City Prep School Created A Safe Space For Angry Zionists
William Booth / Washington Post:
Chef Jamie Oliver accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for his Jamaican ‘Punchy Jerk Rice’
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Guardian
Reuters:
U.S. imposes fresh sanctions for Russian cyber-related activity
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hypocritical politically motivated feminism is killing #MeToo. Just ask Keith Ellison.
Discussion: New Republic and Weekly Standard
Pratheek Rebala / TIME:
The State Department Hired Cambridge Analytica's Parent Company to Target Terrorist Propaganda
Discussion: Gizmodo
John Tibbetts / Washington Post:
Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood
Mitchell P. Brook / USA Today:
Donald Trump should sue John Brennan to bring civility back to our politics
Discussion: IJR and Washington Free Beacon
Emily Badger / New York Times:
The Bipartisan Cry of ‘Not in My Backyard’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CityLab
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions
 

 
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Financial Times:
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