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TIME:
Michael Avenatti's Past Won't Stop Him From Running in 2020 — The woman approached Michael Avenatti with obvious purpose. A 79-year-old retired physicist with long blond hair, she wore a blue T-shirt that said AVENATTI IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL. It was mid-August, and Avenatti had just finished giving …
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CNN:
Judiciary chairman refers Swetnick, Avenatti to Justice Department — Cuomo pushes back on credibility of Swetnick — (CNN)Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday referred Julie Swetnick and her lawyer Michael Avenatti to the Department of Justice for a possible criminal investigation …
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Bloomberg, Politico, Washington Times, LifeNews.com and Splinter
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary:
Swetnick, Avenatti Referred for Criminal Investigation — Providing False Statements, Obstructing Congressional Investigations, and Conspiracy All Violate Federal Law — WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today referred Julie Swetnick and her attorney Michael Avenatti …
Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Complete Bulls**t’: Avenatti Attacks Time Magazine Over Interview — Michael Avenatti denied ever telling Time magazine that the 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate should be a white man, in exclusive comments given to The Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday afternoon.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Republican calls for Kavanaugh accuser, lawyer to face criminal investigation
Republican calls for Kavanaugh accuser, lawyer to face criminal investigation
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, TalkLeft, Breitbart and Mediaite
Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Megyn Kelly is OUT at NBC just 48 hours after defending blackface as she and the network fight over whether she will be paid out her $69M contract in full — Her show aired a repeat on Thursday and will also be a repeat on Friday after she defended blackface on Tuesday's show and apologized Wednesday on air
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
‘Just get rid of her’: Megyn Kelly is again in trouble, but NBC colleagues rejected her long before
‘Just get rid of her’: Megyn Kelly is again in trouble, but NBC colleagues rejected her long before
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Megyn Kelly is being fired because she shone too much light on NBC's #MeToo problem
Megyn Kelly is being fired because she shone too much light on NBC's #MeToo problem
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AOL, Law & Crime and TheBlaze
Gabby Orr / Politico:
GOP sees new bomb scare victim: Trump — A day after several leading Democrats were found to have been targeted by package bombs, Republicans have identified one of their own as a victim: President Donald Trump. — As of Thursday afternoon, less than 36 hours after the first packages were discovered …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and The Guardian
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New York Times:
Bomb Sent to Robert De Niro, Latest in Wave of Explosives Sent to Trump Critics
Bomb Sent to Robert De Niro, Latest in Wave of Explosives Sent to Trump Critics
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NBC News:
Mueller has evidence suggesting Stone associate knew Clinton emails would be leaked — Mueller's team is investigating whether Jerome Corsi knew stolen emails would be leaked and passed information about them to Trump associate Roger Stone. — WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
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Joe.My.God., Law & Crime, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
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Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Text Messages Show Roger Stone Was Working to Get a Pardon for Julian Assange
Text Messages Show Roger Stone Was Working to Get a Pardon for Julian Assange
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Politico, Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo, emptywheel, Shakesville and Raw Story
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller link seen in mystery grand jury appeal
Mueller link seen in mystery grand jury appeal
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Talking Points Memo
John P. Wise / WAVE-TV:
Kroger Shooting: Accused shooter tried to get into Baptist church minutes before attack — First Baptist Church on Watterson Trail has predominantly black congregation — LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The man accused of killing two people at a busy grocery store was seen on surveillance video trying …
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Sean Wolfe / Yahoo:
Trump's tweet claiming he ‘only uses government phones’ was sent from an iPhone — President Donald Trump routinely uses unsecured iPhones to speak with friends and associates instead of a secure White House line, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Washington Post, Mediaite, The Mahablog, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Congress must investigate Trump's grossly negligent approach to national security
Congress must investigate Trump's grossly negligent approach to national security
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Fast Company, New York Times and Hmm Daily
New York Times:
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ — The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero's farewell when he left the company in October 2014.
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Trump used charity money to buy his own portrait because no one else would: lawyers … Donald Trump had no choice but to blow $10,000 in charity money on a giant painting of himself — because no one else wanted it, his lawyers claimed in court Thursday. — Trump picked up the infamous painting …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Judge in Trump charity lawsuit appears skeptical of president's arguments for dismissal
Judge in Trump charity lawsuit appears skeptical of president's arguments for dismissal
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ABC News
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Anthony Scaramucci: Trump is not ‘a liar,’ as previously said. He's an ‘intentional liar’ who uses ‘a methodology of mistruth.’ — Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly as White House communications director last year, made headlines Wednesday when he called President Trump “a liar” during a CNN interview.
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Political Wire
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Bloomberg:
Scaramucci on Why Blue Collar Americans Love Trump
Scaramucci on Why Blue Collar Americans Love Trump
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The Daily Beast, IJR and CNN
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Scaramucci Says Trump ‘Intentionally’ Lies to Inflame Opponents
Scaramucci Says Trump ‘Intentionally’ Lies to Inflame Opponents
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Washington Post, HuffPost and Breitbart
Dallas Morning News:
We recommend Beto O'Rourke for U.S. Senate — When, in the course of human events, a people become so divided among themselves that they can no longer engage in meaningful political discourse or even remain civil to one another, it is time to take bold steps forward.
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, DC Tribune, HuffPost, twitchy.com and Axios
The Daily Beast:
Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran — Mueller's investigators examined a series of meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn. — Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri, the Saudi intelligence chief taking …
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Raw Story
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Instagram Refuses to Pull Down Milo Post Praising Mail Bombs — The company said that the item didn't violate their ‘Community Guidelines.’ — Instagram said it would not remove a post from right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos praising the recent mail bombs sent to prominent Democratic officials …
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The Verge and Joe.My.God.
Caitlyn Jenner / Washington Post:
I thought Trump would help the LGBTQ community. I was wrong. — Caitlyn Jenner is a transgender rights advocate and author. — These past two years under President Trump have given me the opportunity to reflect on a lot of topics that have come up in the LGBTQ community and in our nation.
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Political Wire, Advocate, AOL, Joe.My.God., The Week and TMZ.com
Business Insider:
How much a pint of beer costs around the world — The price of a pint of beer varies from city to city. — Deutsche Bank analyzed the price of beer in 50 cities worldwide and found Dubai was the most expensive, with the average pint costing $12. — New York City and San Francisco …
Wall Street Journal:
At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks — Buzzwords and anxiety fill the hallways as Hollywood giant tries to maintain a winning culture amid breakneck growth; ‘sunshining’ the ‘N-word’ scandal — At a Netflix Inc. corporate retreat in July …
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's DEA Chief Vetted Candidates and Then Took the Job Himself, Riling Police Groups — Uttam Dhillon's rise to the top of the drug-fighting agency disappointed organizations seeking an administrator with law-enforcement experience — WASHINGTON—As one of President Trump's top compliance …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Holocaust memorial group unwittingly funded Rep. King's meeting with far-right Austrians — Rep. Steve King met with members of a far-right Austrian party with historical Nazi ties during a European trip financed by a Holocaust memorial group. — In an interview with a website associated with the party …
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Political Wire and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Romney-Clinton Districts Are Overrated. Obama-Trump Districts Are Underrated. — This year's midterm hasn't really featured the “model wars” we saw in 2014 or 2016 — heated arguments between different election forecasters, whose projections sometimes showed very different results.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Sanders Makes a Strong Case Against the Saudis (and for Bernie 2020) — In the aftermath of the 2016 election, when the specter of alleged collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Vladimir Putin's government first gained a foothold in the headlines, many on the American left decried the story as a nefarious distraction.
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NationofChange, Common Dreams and New York Times
Katha Pollitt / The Nation:
Elizabeth Warren Meets the Left's Circular Firing Squad — The release of her DNA test might not have been the best idea, but it shouldn't be disqualifying. — I recently spent an afternoon with some new friends in Connecticut, writing letters to registered Democrats in Georgia who hadn't voted in the past few elections.
Lulu Ramadan / Palm Beach Post:
Florida felon voting rights: Who got theirs back under Scott? — Lulu Ramadan @luluramadanMike Stucka @MikeStuckaWayne Washington @waynewashpbpost — The governor restored rights to the lowest percentage of blacks, highest percentage of Republicans in 50 years, The Post found.
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Florida Politics and Raw Story
Lara Seligman / Foreign Policy:
Bolton's Whisper Campaign to Oust Mattis — Sources say the hawkish national security advisor is behind rumors that the defense secretary plans to resign. — White House National Security Advisor John Bolton and his deputy are trying to squeeze out U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis …
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Raw Story
Peter Bildsten / The Atlantic:
I Respected Scott Walker. Then I Worked for Him. — The last straw, for both of us, came in February of 2015. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker had called me into his office ahead of my reconfirmation vote as secretary of the Department of Financial Institutions.
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Raw Story