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David Klepper / Associated Press:
New York state subpoenas Cohen in Trump Foundation probe  —  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators in New York state have issued a subpoena to Michael Cohen as part of their criminal probe into the Trump Foundation.  —  A spokesman for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax department confirmed …
New York Times:
‘How Did We End Up Here?’  Trump Wonders as the White House Soldiers On  —  In the hours after two of President Trump's former advisers delivered his administration potentially grave legal setbacks, the mood inside the White House was grim, a return to a trench-warfare mentality borne out of muscle memory.
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
10 Things I Hate About What's Just Happened  —  After “the information” regarding Michael Cohen's guilty pleas stated flatly that Cohen had been directed to violate campaign finance law by Donald Trump, you can put the Russia probe aside for a moment and consider the many possible meanings of what Cohen has done:
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Lanny Davis: Michael Cohen Never Went To Prague As Steele Dossier Claims  — Michael Cohen's lawyer dropped a bombshell on Wednesday, saying that Cohen has not been to Prague  — The Steele dossier alleges that Cohen traveled to Prague during the campaign to collude with Russians
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, ABC News and Vox
Politico:
‘It is what it is’: Republicans shrug off Trump's legal meltdown  —  GOP senators are tuning out the legal crisis enveloping the White House and are instead focusing on legislating.  —  Twenty-four hours after one of the most damaging days for Donald Trump's presidency …
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Trump Didn't Consult McGahn About Hush-Money Payments, Source Says  —  President Donald Trump didn't consult his campaign finance lawyer Don McGahn about hush-money payments that were made days before the election and are now the center of a criminal case, a person familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In Fox interview, Trump seems to confess a campaign finance violation while trying to deny it  —  He doesn't get what the illegal part was.  —  A brief segment of a Fox & Friends interview released this afternoon by Fox News features President Donald Trump repeatedly emphasizing …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘How do you spin a fact?’:  White House grapples with response to Cohen, Manafort convictions  —  President Trump was in a foul mood on Tuesday as he boarded the short flight to his rally in West Virginia and incensed by the wall-to-wall news coverage of his former associates who were convicted …
Discussion: The Daily Banter, The Week and IJR
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says hush money ‘not a campaign violation’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump is defending the hush money payments made by his former attorney Michael Cohen to a pair of women, insisting …
John Harwood / CNBC:   GOP congressman says it's ‘too soon’ …
NBC News:
The party of ‘Lock her up!’ faces a choice: Defend Trump or investigate?
Discussion: Daily Kos, Weekly Standard and MSNBC
Carl Hulse / New York Times:   As Bad News Piles Up, Republicans Hardly Flinch
Lanny Davis / gofundme.com:
Michael Cohen Truth Fund
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
This is the moment all of Trump's anti-media rhetoric has been working toward
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
In Trump's right-wing media universe, it was a day like any other
Reuters:   Democrats seek to make Republican scandals an election issue
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Why Michael Cohen's campaign finance crimes were more serious than the Obama campaign's infraction
Discussion: TheBlaze, TMZ.com and Vox
Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
Mollie Tibbetts' accused killer is in Iowa legally, his lawyer says, calling Trump ‘sad and sorry’ for weighing in  —  A court document filed Wednesday morning states that the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts was working legally in Iowa.  —  Cristhian Bahena Rivera was charged Tuesday …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Mollie Tibbetts's suspected killer, in the U.S. illegally, told investigators about her final moments
Des Moines Register:
Cristhian Rivera, charged in Mollie Tibbetts' death, worked at a farm owned by a prominent Iowa Republican family
Benny Arthur Johnson:
I promised myself I would stay off of politics while on vacation.
Discussion: Axios
BuzzFeed News:
The Lawyer For The Man Charged With Killing Mollie Tibbetts Claimed He's Here Legally.
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Beast
San Francisco Chronicle:
The Latest: Experts say legal status system easily exploited
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Democrat O'Rourke trails Ted Cruz by just four percentage points in Texas  —  O'Rourke has 45 percent support among registered voters compared with Cruz's 49 percent; Abbott leads governors' contest by 19  —  WASHINGTON — As Texas Democrats attempt to win a major statewide contest …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Democrats maintain lead in race for House  —  Democrats are in a strong position for the midterms, according to the latest Fox News poll.  —  Several findings point to the potential for a blue map in November:  — President Trump's job rating remains underwater.
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
Jermaine Ong / KGTV-TV:
San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter addresses federal indictment in 10News interview  —  SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) told 10News that he's innocent of accusations of campaign funding misuse one day after he and his wife Margaret were indicted by a federal grand jury.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Rep. Duncan Hunter, do the honorable thing. Resign.
Discussion: Raw Story and VICE News
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple.  Now she's basically a Trump.  —  In the summer of 2004, the new mayor and first lady of San Francisco were photographed for an eight-page spread in Harper's Bazaar.  Gavin Newsom wore a thousand-dollar tuxedo …
Discussion: East Bay Times
TMZ.com:
Asia Argento and 17-Year-Old Boy in Bed in Sexual Encounter  —  Asia Argento says she did not have sex with then 17-year-old Jimmy Bennett, but a photo and various text messages between Argento and a friend tell a very different story ... she flat-out says she had sex with him.
Shirley Halperin / Variety:
Steven Tyler Demands Trump Stop Playing Aerosmith Songs at Rallies  —  Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is demanding President Donald Trump stop using the band's songs at rallies, like the one held at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia on Tuesday (August 21).
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database  —  (CNN)The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN.
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Georgia County Can't Support Claim It Must Close Polling Places Over Access Issues  —  Officials in majority-black Randolph County lack the data to back a proposal to shutter most voting spots.  —  Officials in a majority-black Georgia county accused of trying to close almost all polling places …
NBC News:
In case of Mueller firing, break glass: Democrats prep an emergency plan  —  Congressional action and protest rallies are among the contingencies being planned if Trump tries to shut down the Russia probe.  —  WASHINGTON — It would start within minutes of special counsel Robert Mueller being fired …
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Trump called this White House defender ‘wonderful.’ He was fired from his previous job for alleged sexual harassment.  —  A conservative commentator who was lauded by President Trump this week as “wonderful” and who has argued that past sexual indiscretions should have no bearing on Trump's presidency …
Libby Watson / Splinter:
American Healthcare Spending Is Fucking Mental  —  American healthcare is a sick joke from almost any angle: how it neglects the disabled, and how the people who need it most are least likely to have it.  It is morally unforgivable, but it's also bewildering that anyone thinks this works …
 
 
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