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Wall Street Journal:
Why Michael Cohen Agreed to Plead Guilty—And Implicate the President  —  Prosecutors had reams of evidence and a long list of counts, which also could have included the lawyer's wife  —  Michael Cohen had many reasons to play ball last weekend when his legal team sat down to talk to federal prosecutors.
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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.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 ‘in connection with’ Trump's campaign  — President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, made a previously unreported payment of $50,000 to a tech company in connection with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Not just misleading.  Not merely false.  A lie.  —  The first denial that Donald Trump knew about hush-money payments to silence women came four days before he was elected president, when his spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, without hedging, “we have no knowledge of any of this.”
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
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 …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Michael Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Trump knew about Russia meeting  —  Michael Cohen told lawmakers last year, in sworn testimony, that he didn't know whether then-candidate Donald Trump had foreknowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, three sources with knowledge of Cohen's testimony tell Axios.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Tries to Deny His Crime With Cohen, Confesses by Mistake  —  Yesterday, President Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, confessed in open court to committing a crime at Trump's direction.  The crime is violating campaign finance law, by using Trump's personal funds for a campaign-related expense …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Joe.My.God. and Deadline
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Cohen's lawyer on Trump Tower meeting: Cohen was ‘present at a discussion with’ Trump and Trump Jr.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Words matter, even in the age of Trump
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Politico
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
After fast turn against Trump, Michael Cohen threatens to leverage secrets against the president
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Trump campaign, tabloid publisher hatched plan to bury damaging stories, Cohen prosecutors allege
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'He's Unraveling': Why Cohen's Betrayal Terrifies Trump
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and BloombergQuint
Daniel McCarthy / Test Feed Using Fields:
Let the American People Decide Donald Trump's Fate
Discussion: American Greatness
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Trump Didn't Consult McGahn About Hush-Money Payments, Source Says
Discussion: Political Wire
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘How do you spin a fact?’: White House grapples with response to Cohen, Manafort convictions
Fox News:
Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from convicting on all counts  —  NORTHERN VIRGINIA - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team was one holdout juror away from convicting Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Week
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Manafort juror: One juror prevented jury from convicting Manafort on all 18 counts  —  A juror who sat on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort  —  's case said on Fox News Wednesday night that only one juror prevented a ruling on all 18 counts against Manafort
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
The nightmare is just beginning for Paul Manafort  —  Analysis: The next trial for Trump's former campaign chair will have more evidence, a longer possible sentence, and a less sympathetic judge.  —  WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort woke up Wednesday in a jail cell, just as he has each morning since …
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump says he's considering pardon for Manafort: Fox News reporter  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted on Tuesday of bank and tax fraud, according to a Fox News reporter who interviewed Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Lone holdout on Manafort jury blocked conviction on all counts, juror says
Discussion: Political Wire and Fox News
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:   MSNBC Trounces Fox News in Ratings on Manafort-Cohen Day, Knocking Hannity to Third
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Trump Considering Pardon For Paul Manafort, Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt Says
Discussion: CNBC, Fox News Insider and twitchy.com
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Democrat O'Rourke trails Ted Cruz by just 4 percentage points in Texas  —  O'Rourke has 45 percent support among registered voters compared with Cruz's 49 percent; Abbott leads governor's 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
Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
Lawyer: Suspect in Mollie Tibbetts' slaying worked in Iowa legally.  Not true, says employer  —  Defense lawyer accuses ‘sad and sorry Trump’ of poisoning potential jurors  —  A court document filed Wednesday morning states that the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts was working legally in Iowa …
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Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
‘Stop being a ... snake’: Distant cousin of Mollie Tibbetts tells partisans not to politicize her death
Discussion: CNN and The Root
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Mollie Tibbetts's suspected killer, in the U.S. illegally, told investigators about her final moments
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Betsy DeVos Is Said to Weigh Letting School Districts Use Federal Funds to Buy Guns  —  WASHINGTON — Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, is considering whether to allow states to use federal funding intended to increase academic and enrichment opportunities in the country's poorest schools …
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 …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
As Bad News Piles Up, Republicans Hardly Flinch  —  WASHINGTON — For those wondering if the latest disclosures from the Trump legal file are finally weighty enough to cause top congressional Republicans to break from the president, the answer is no.  —  Twenty-four hours after President Trump …
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
The Top 10 Reasons Why Most Trump Supporters Will Never Care About the Russia Investigation  —  For the past three years, I have been engaged in an informal, involuntary, and extremely painful study of Donald Trump supporters, with a special focus on those which I have come to describe as “Cult 45.”
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Cardinal Donald Wuerl's name will be removed from Pa. high school amid allegations of sex abuse coverup  —  Catholic officials in Pittsburgh on Wednesday announced that a city high school would remove the words “Cardinal Wuerl” from its name amid criticism that the prominent cleric mishandled …
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
The con man in the cardinal's cap
Politico:
‘A new cherry put on top’: Trump scandal fallout hangs over midterms  —  'Payoffs and porn stars and affairs and indictments and all this stuff doesn't Make America Great Again in the suburbs,' said one Republican consultant.  —  As both parties seek to make sense of the fallout …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
As electricity fails, desperate Venezuelans buy spoiled meat  —  MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — In a city once called the Saudi Arabia of Venezuela for its vast oil wealth, residents of Maracaibo now line up to buy spoiled meat as refrigerators fail amid nine months of rolling power outages that recently got worse.
 
 
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Lucia Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Illegal immigrant who committed multiple rapes after 2012 ICE detainer not enforced gets 80 years in prison
Zachary Young / Politico:
Police: 2 dead in knife attack outside Paris
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president — in defense of whites in South Africa
Discussion: New York Times, CNN, Vox and Althouse
Donald Trump / NATOSource:
Trump Confirms He Threatened to Withdraw from NATO
Irina Slav / OilPrice.com:
Texas Exports More Oil Than It Imports For First Time Ever
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Duncan Hunter's Indictment in California Opens the Door for a Long-Shot Challenger
Bradley Smith / Washington Post:
Those payments to mistresses were unseemly. That doesn't mean they were illegal.
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New Details Reveal Airman John Chapman's Heroism at Roberts Ridge
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she's basically a Trump.
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Shirley Halperin / Variety:
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