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7:50 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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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 …
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 …
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
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.
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, Raw Story and The Week
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: Raw Story, Axios and alicublog
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
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 …
Jim Baker / Lawfare:
Donald Trump, Twitter and Presidential Power to Interpret the Law for the Executive Branch  —  The president's former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to several federal criminal violations, including making certain unlawful campaign contributions.
Discussion: USA Today, CNBC and Weekly Standard
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Erica Orden / CNN:
New York AG plans criminal investigation into Michael Cohen's taxes
Discussion: Sunlight Foundation
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
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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.
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
Discussion: Politico
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult … President Donald Trump posed for Oval Office photos on Thursday with one of the leading promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that top Democrats are part of a global pedophile cult.
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps.  Now Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers like Amazon, Walmart and McDonald's to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing …
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Andrew Gumbel / The Guardian:
‘Pay a living wage’: Bernie Sanders accuses Disney of dodging fair pay
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
WNCN:
‘Silent Sam’ to be reinstalled within 90 days, UNC BoG member says  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) - The Confederate monument known as Silent Sam will be reinstalled with 90 days, according to a member of the UNC System Board of Governors.  —  Thom Goolsby posted to Twitter and YouTube saying …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Jailed Russian of Interest in U.S. Election Probe, Official Says
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering
Discussion: Breitbart, Axios and The Gateway Pundit
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
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hayden: Impeachment is a bad idea
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Hickenlooper seeking advice about possible 2020 run
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Navy re-establishes Atlantic fleet to check Russia
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump calls off Pompeo's North Korea visit, citing a lack of progress on denuclearization
Lauren Lumpkin / Baltimore Sun:
PETA put up a billboard urging Baltimore to stop eating crabs. It didn't exactly go over well.
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
‘White Christian conservative males’ will suffer if school hires diversity director, lawmaker says
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Carla Green / The Guardian:
Fenced out: Los Angeles businesses find new way to keep away homeless
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels, Feminist Hero
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
For Female Candidates, Harassment and Threats Come Every Day
Discussion: Daily Kos
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Analysts say Netflix's live boxing match Friday night between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is designed to get new subscribers, particularly on its ad-supported tier

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