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7:15 PM ET, August 24, 2018

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Wall Street Journal:
Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Is Granted Immunity in Cohen Probe  —  Weisselberg earlier this year was subpoenaed to testify before grand jury  —  Allen Weisselberg, President Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Immunity for Trump CFO Is a Potential Game-Changer  —  Prosecutors know that Allen Weisselberg is privy to the Trump Organization's most sensitive information.  —  Allen Weisselberg is an unassuming, soft-spoken guy who has spent decades avoiding the limelight, first in the 1970s as an accountant …
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN, IJR, Splinter and National Review
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Leaders Crack Down on Mentions of Cohen After He Turned on Trump … Michael Cohen's guilty plea Tuesday shook up believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, who had previously believed special counsel Robert Mueller was secretly working with President Donald Trump, not investigating him.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Here's Where Things Get Dangerous With Trump  —  There was a sense among some this week that we had at last reached that golden “inflection point” when all of Trump's lies, scams, cons, and crimes finally sink in with Republicans, and the cult begins to crack.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Trump on Weisselberg: ‘He Did Whatever Was Necessary’  —  Perhaps the most important person in the Trump Organization has had the lowest profile.  Until he agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.  —  “Think Allen Weisselberg,” a person who knows Donald Trump well told me a few days ago.
Discussion: USA Today and MSNBC
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's hell week: fear and fury  —  The immunity deal for the Trump organization's chief financial organization leaves no doubt: This has been, unequivocally, the worst week of Donald Trump's presidency.  —  Why it matters: For the first time, I'm hearing real fear and concern in the voices of Trump allies.
Discussion: Politico, NPR and Contemptor
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
Allen Weisselberg, the Man Who Knows Donald Trump's Financial Secrets, Has Agreed to Become a Coöperating Witness
Discussion: RedState
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Spiro Agnew lawyer: Trump should resign to keep Mueller from prosecuting his family
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
No collusion? We'll see. But what about tax fraud?
Discussion: Daily Wire and Fox News
New York Times:
Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms  — The spy agency does not believe its Russia informants have been killed, but sources have gone largely dormant amid heightened scrutiny and rising threats.  — Technology companies and political campaigns …
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and alicublog
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon  —  The president's comments are being read as a signal that he wants to ignore his lawyers and exonerate his former campaign chairman.  —  President Donald Trump's lawyers and a cadre of informal White House advisers claim they've convinced …
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Erica Orden / CNN:
New York AG plans criminal investigation into Michael Cohen's taxes
Discussion: Sunlight Foundation
Rachael Bade / Politico:
‘How do you stay married to a guy who does that?’  —  Hill Republicans are appalled by Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is facing indictment, blaming his wife.  —  House Republicans are whispering one word over and over again to describe embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter: Shameless.
Discussion: Fox News and Splinter
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Paul Fontelo / Roll Call:
Duncan Hunter is Using Campaign Funds to Defend Himself Against ... Misusing Campaign Funds  —  Rep. Duncan Hunter's legal defense is coming from the same campaign coffers he and his wife are accused of misusing, so far amounting to more than $600,000 for the lawyers.
Leo Shane III / Military Times:   Congressman accused of abusing campaign funds denies any wrongdoing
Alex Thompson / VICE News:
“Hottie Avenatti” brings his show to the DNC summer meeting  —  CHICAGO — Michael Avenatti — attorney, potential presidential candidate, and owner of a strong jawline — dropped in on the Democratic Party's summer meeting on Thursday as he continued to tease a 2020 run.
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Media Matters for America:
NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch: Democrats are “trying to Al Capone the president”  —  VIDEO ››› August 24, 2018 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF  —  From the August 22 edition of NRATV's Relentless:  —  Loading the player reg...
Discussion: Raw Story, New Republic and Joe.My.God.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
NRA Says FBI Is Treating Trump As Unfairly As Al Capone
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
WRAL-TV:
Feds file voting fraud charges against 19 foreign nationals  —  Federal voting fraud charges were filed in Wilmington, N.C., Friday against 19 foreign nationals who allegedly voted in the 2016 election.  A 20th person was charged with aiding and abetting one of the 19 in falsely claiming U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote.
Discussion: IJR
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Fox News:
19 foreign nationals charged with illegal voting during 2016 election
U.S. Department of Justice:
Nineteen Foreign Nationals Charged for Voting in 2016 Election
Discussion: RedState and AOL
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Reveals Link to Qatari Royal Family  —  Trump's former lawyer received a $100,000 brokerage fee for a Florida real-estate deal in which he represented a company owned by Sheikh Abdul Aziz  —  A $100,000 real-estate brokerage fee that was part of former Trump attorney …
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment  —  Tom Frieden, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been arrested amid allegations of forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.
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Streiff / RedState:   Obama's CDC Chief Arrested for Sexual Assault
Politico:   Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested, charged with sex abuse
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
How This Will End  —  Michael Gerson, one of the most eloquent and principled critics of Donald Trump, insists that we are at June 1973, the moment when John Dean's testimony broke the dam that a year later swept Richard Nixon off into disgrace.  Others agree: This is an inflection point.
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump calls off Pompeo's North Korea visit, citing a lack of progress on denuclearization  —  In a surprise announcement on Twitter, President Trump called off a planned trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday just days before the top diplomat planned to arrive …
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Reuters:   Trump scraps Pompeo trip to North Korea, citing stalled nuclear diplomacy
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The ‘Echo Chamber’ Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's A Fact  —  The New Yorker's new blockbuster piece exposing the ‘echo chamber’ conspiracy memo only helps prove the document's contention.  —  When I finally got to the end of a supposed blockbuster piece by the New Yorker's Adam Entous …
William March / Tampa Bay Times:
Watch the most misleading campaign ad so far this year.  —  Congratulations Frank White, Republican candidate for Florida Attorney General.  —  The campaign of Frank White for Florida attorney general appears to have altered the audio and manipulated video from an Orlando television station's news story …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
When Justice Is Partial  —  Mueller is determined to sniff out any wrongdoing he can find—on one side.  —  U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami took a few moments in his Tuesday statement about Michael Cohen's plea deal to sing neutrality's praise: “His day of reckoning serves as a reminder …
Discussion: IJR
New York Times:
John McCain Will No Longer Be Treated for Brain Cancer, Family Says  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been battling brain cancer for more than a year, will no longer be treated for his condition, his family announced on Friday, a sign that the Republican war hero is most likely entering his final days.
Associated Press:
Balderson retains GOP hold on open House seat in Ohio  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A two-term state senator who was backed by President Donald Trump but who also promoted his ties to Trump critic Gov. John Kasich won a previously deadlocked congressional special election in Ohio …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering  —  On his Wednesday evening program, Fox News host Tucker Carlson roared about the issue of land reform in South Africa.  “The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has begun — and you may have seen this in the press …
Discussion: Axios, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hayden: Impeachment is a bad idea  —  Former National Security Agency (NSA) director Michael Hayden warned against impeaching President Trump  —  in an interview that aired Friday on “Rising.”  —  “I think impeachment would be a bad idea,” Hayden, who frequently criticizes the president …
Ethan Wolff-Mann / Yahoo! Finance:
Google might be hiding the fact that its own reviews are shoddy  —  If you Google “Chiropractor Bethesda Maryland,” you'll see Google's famous 10 blue links.  But you'll also see a box with a map — a snippet — at the top with local results, star ratings, and buttons for phone number and directions.
 
 
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Talia Lavin / Village Voice:
Paul Manafort Is Going to Jail. But in Ukraine, He Has Left Ghosts in His Wake.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Gun control, teacher groups threaten legal action against DeVos over possible firearms funding
Discussion: Axios, MSNBC and Chalkbeat
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Hickenlooper seeking advice about possible 2020 run
Associated Press:
U.S. Cuts Aid to Palestinians by More Than $200 Million
Discussion: Townhall
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Navy re-establishes Atlantic fleet to check Russia
WNCN:
‘Silent Sam’ to be reinstalled within 90 days, UNC BoG member says
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Lauren Lumpkin / Baltimore Sun:
PETA put up a billboard urging Baltimore to stop eating crabs. It didn't exactly go over well.
CBS News:
People are growing marijuana illegally in national forests - and it's ravaging them
Discussion: Daily Wire
Carla Green / The Guardian:
Fenced out: Los Angeles businesses find new way to keep away homeless
Discussion: Daily Wire
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Department of Justice Reveals ‘Glitch’ Shielded Officials From Public Scrutiny
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up.
Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
Barry Blitt's “Closing In”
Discussion: Washington Post
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
For Female Candidates, Harassment and Threats Come Every Day
Discussion: Daily Kos
 

 
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