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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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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Eyes Criminal Charges Against Trump Organization  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen's hush money payment to an adult film actress …
Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
AP: National Enquirer's safe held damaging Trump stories  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election …
Discussion: CNBC, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, Jezebel and Axios
Martin London / TIME:
I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew.  President Trump Should Consider Resigning  —  London is a retired partner for the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the author of The Client Decides; he was a principal lawyer for Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
No collusion?  We'll see.  But what about tax fraud?  —  President Trump's touchstone mob boss, Al Capone, famously went down for tax evasion when the feds couldn't nail him on more serious crimes.  Has Trump stopped to consider whether he could be headed for the same fate?
Discussion: Fox News, Daily Kos and Gizmodo
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg given immunity by prosecutors to testify
Discussion: Mother Jones and MSNBC
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, who allegedly helped arrange hush-money reimbursement …
Discussion: Raw Story
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
This Conspiracy Theory Should Worry Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
A cancer on the presidency
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
National Enquirer reportedly kept Trump hush money info in safe
Discussion: Page Six
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network  —  In the Trump era, hard reporting is being crowded out by opinionated panels, current and former staffers say.  —  Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Has Found a Voice to Love in Tucker Carlson.  That Love Isn't Always Returned. … There is a tiny universe of people with the power to trigger the president of the United States into upending international diplomacy and electrifying pockets of white nationalists at home and abroad.
Discussion: The Guardian and Informed Comment
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
President Trump's false claim about murders on South African farms
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘Dangerous and poisoned’: Critics blast Trump for endorsing white nationalist conspiracy theory on South Africa
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.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain to discontinue medical treatment  —  Sen. John McCain will discontinue medical treatment for his brain cancer, according to a statement released by his family.  —  “The progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict.  With his usual strength of will …
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Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
Barry Blitt's “Closing In”  —  The artist Barry Blitt, a contributor since 1994, has drawn more than a hundred covers for the magazine—and, since 2015, more than fifteen featuring President Trump.  His latest ("Sending sketches because I couldn't help myself," the accompanying note said) takes inspiration from a “Sopranos” scene.
Discussion: Washington Post
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Paul Manafort and Trump's Pardon Pattern
Mark Landler / New York Times:
With a Vocabulary From ‘Goodfellas,’ Trump Evokes His Native New York  —  WASHINGTON — For much of the 1980s and 1990s, “the Dapper Don” and “the Donald” vied for supremacy on the front pages of New York's tabloids.  The don, John J. Gotti, died in a federal prison in 2002 …
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James Gagliano / Washington Examiner:
Trump is acting like a mob boss — I know because I lived with one
Axios:
Trump's fantasy legal system  —  When President Trump told “Fox & Friends” that this “whole thing about flipping ... almost ought to be outlawed,” he was continuing a long habit of declaring what he thinks laws and the legal system should be, and ignoring what they are.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   When Justice Is Partial  —  Mueller is determined to sniff …
Popular Information:
BONUS: Trump's plot to muzzle Mueller
Discussion: Salon and Hullabaloo
Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Donald knew about Trump Tower meeting  —  Michael Cohen told Congress that he had no idea whether President Trump knew ahead of time about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting that included Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, a report said Thursday.
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Associated Press:   A president who demands loyalty finds it fleeting in DC
New Yorker:
The Conspiracy Memo Aimed at Obama Aides that Circulated in the Trump White House  —  The 2017 document, titled the “Echo Chamber,” accused former Obama officials of undermining the incoming Administration.  —  In early 2017, some of Donald Trump's advisers concluded that they faced …
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter: My wife handled my finances  —  (CNN)Rep. Duncan D. Hunter seemed to shift any blame onto his wife, Margaret, on Thursday for alleged campaign fund abuses, saying she was the one handling his finances.  —  “She was also the campaign manager …
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Carla Baranauckas / HuffPost:   Rep. Duncan Hunter Blames Wife For Campaign Spending Under Inquiry
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Spiro Agnew lawyer: Trump should resign to keep Mueller from prosecuting his family  —  Martin London, a lawyer who represented former Vice President Spiro Agnew, said that President Trump  —  should resign from office to keep federal prosecutors from prosecuting his family.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Tax-Cut Con Goes On  —  Why Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot.  —  What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short?  Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats will surely receive more votes than Republicans, but thanks to gerrymandering …
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:   Indicted California Congressman Proposed Raising Retirement Age To 72
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Iowa TPUSA Refuses Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens Rally: ‘Poor Taste to Exploit’ Mollie Tibbetts' Death  —  The tragic death of Mollie Tibbets has become the worst sort of political football since her lifeless body was discovered earlier this week, and the suspect has been identified by President Donald Trump as an illegal immigrant.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:
They're Running for Office.  That's News to Them.  —  This much is certain: Helen Gambichler is running for office.  —  She is the Queens Democratic Party bosses' nominee for a spot on a little-known body called the Democratic County Committee.  —  County committee members are the very blades …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Kavanaugh eases off call for presidential immunity in meetings with senators  —  Senate Democrats on Thursday pressed Judge Brett Kavanaugh on how he would view potential obstruction of justice or other possible criminal charges against President Trump  —  if he were confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Chuck Grassley's Moment
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News:
Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy  —  Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday to share their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections.
Chris Riotta / The Independent:
How Russian bots used Mollie Tibbetts' death to distract from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort  —  A network of Russian-linked Twitter accounts are sharing thousands of divisive tweets about Mollie Tibbetts' death  —  A network of Russian-linked Twitter accounts have been disseminating divisive content …
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Fox News:
Autopsy finds Iowa student died from ‘sharp force injuries’
Discussion: Daily Wire
 
 
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Axios:
New rules would force drugmakers to disclose their prices
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
U.S.-backed coalition in Yemen has cleared itself repeatedly in civilian deaths, analysis finds
Associated Press:
Defiant Pelosi Says She's Staying: ‘I Can Take the Heat’
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
For Female Candidates, Harassment and Threats Come Every Day
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Two Cheers, If Not the Full Three, for Shame
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
One hates Trump. The other loves him. Two West Virginians wait for the president to come to town.
Discussion: Raw Story
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NBC News:
Trump admin intentionally slowing FBI vetting of refugees, ex-officials say
John Koblin / New York Times:
Conan O'Brien's Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro
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Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Who Is Julia Salazar? Brooklyn State Senate Candidate's Complex Personal History and Views
Curt Anderson / Associated Press:
Florida candidate says alien abduction doesn't define her
Discussion: Florida Politics
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton

Financial Times:
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