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6:00 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 and Splinter
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.
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
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.
Erica Orden / CNN:
New York AG plans criminal investigation into Michael Cohen's taxes  —  Cohen's ‘flip’ had to meet criteria, says fmr prosecutor  —  New York (CNN)The New York State Attorney General's Office is poised to pursue a criminal probe of Michael Cohen's potential state tax law violations …
Discussion: Sunlight Foundation
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg given immunity by prosecutors to testify  —  Prosecutors say Weisselberg told another executive to designate a reimbursement to Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush-money payment as “legal expenses.”  —  The longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
No collusion? We'll see. But what about tax fraud?
Discussion: Fox News
Nancy Cook / Politico:   Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Eyes Criminal Charges Against Trump Organization
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's hell week: fear and fury
Discussion: Politico and NPR
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
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
Michael Wilson / New York Times:   Former Head of C.D.C. Arrested on Sex Abuse Charge
Politico:   Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested, charged with sex abuse
Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Former CDC director Frieden arrested for sexual abuse
Fox News:
19 foreign nationals charged with illegal voting during 2016 election  —  Nineteen foreign nationals have been charged with illegal voting in the 2016 election, the Justice Department said Friday.  —  The defendants are from numerous countries, including Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and Germany.
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WRAL-TV:
Feds file voting fraud charges against 19 foreign nationals
Discussion: IJR
U.S. Department of Justice:
Nineteen Foreign Nationals Charged for Voting in 2016 Election
Discussion: RedState and AOL
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: New Republic, Raw Story 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
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Michael Avenatti's Next 2020 Move: His Own PAC  —  Michael Avenatti, the self-described potential 2020 contender and lawyer representing Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Donald Trump, is launching his own federal PAC to support Democratic candidates with “the size and the presence …
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 …
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.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
‘How do you stay married to a guy who does that?’
Discussion: Fox News and Splinter
Leo Shane III / Military Times:   Congressman accused of abusing campaign funds denies any wrongdoing
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.
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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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
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.
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
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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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hayden: Impeachment is a bad idea
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
Discussion: Raw Story
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
 Earlier Items: 
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
John Koblin / New York Times:
Conan O'Brien's Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

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

 
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