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Washington Post:
Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal in inadvertent court filing — WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing — a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Is Optimistic It Will Prosecute Assange — Over the past year, U.S. prosecutors have discussed several types of charges they could potentially bring against the WikiLeaks founder — The Justice Department is preparing to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is increasingly optimistic …
The Daily Beast:
Top Cheney Aide in Mueller's Sights as Probe Expands — Mueller's investigators have examined an array of operatives with ties to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAE—including John Hannah, Dick Cheney's former national security adviser. — Dick Cheney's former top national security aide …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘Preparing for the worst’: Mueller anxiety pervades Trump world — Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. insist they aren't worried about special counsel Robert Mueller. — But half a dozen people in contact with the White House and other Trump officials …
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Wilbur Ross leaving? Mulvaney is waiting. — To hear Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and his allies tell it, rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated. — Administration officials and close White House advisers say the 80-year-old Ross could be out of a job in a broader Cabinet shakeup …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
GOP pushes Trump for new attorney general amid Mueller uproar
GOP pushes Trump for new attorney general amid Mueller uproar
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill and CANNONFIRE
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
U.S. Marshals Service spending millions on DeVos security in unusual arrangement — The cost to taxpayers could be as much as $19.8 million through next year, according to figures provided to NBC News. — WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos began receiving around-the-clock security …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
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Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos releases sexual assault rules she hails as balancing rights of victims, accused — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday released her long-awaited rewrite of rules governing campus sexual harassment and assault allegations, narrowing the cases schools must investigate and giving the accused more rights.
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Axios
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Betsy DeVos pitching new protections for students accused of sexual assault
Betsy DeVos pitching new protections for students accused of sexual assault
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Politico
Associated Press:
Only on AP: Abrams prepares push for new Georgia Gov. vote — ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams' campaign and legal team is preparing an unprecedented legal challenge in the unresolved Georgia governor's race that could leave the state's Supreme Court deciding whether to force another round of voting.
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
George Conway: Republican Party has become a ‘personality cult’ under Trump — WASHINGTON — George T. Conway III, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said the Republican Party has become “a personality cult” under President Trump and that he would “move to Australia” rather than vote for the president again.
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acast:
“I dont feel comfortable being a Republican anymore” | Skullduggery on acast — In this episode of Skullduggery, co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman sit down for an exclusive and highly sought after interview with George T. Conway III, husband to the Counselor of the President, Kellyanne Conway.
Kevin Alexander / Thrillist:
I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It. — n my office, I have a coffee mug from Stanich's in Portland, Oregon. Under the restaurant name, it says “Great hamburgers since 1949.” The mug was given to me by Steve Stanich on the day I told him that …
Molly Roberts / Washington Post:
Sheryl Sandberg and the emptiness of leaning in — Sheryl Sandberg leaned way, way in — to shut the rest of the country out. — A recent report in the New York Times details how Facebook hushed up Russian interference on its platform, and how chief operating officer Sandberg led the charge to hush up the hush-up.
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New York Times:
A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook's Attack Dog
A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook's Attack Dog
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CBS News:
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: “We absolutely did not pay anyone to create fake news”
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: “We absolutely did not pay anyone to create fake news”
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New York Times, Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
‘No Morals’: Advertisers React to Facebook Report
Willa Frej / HuffPost:
GOP Senator Says Voter Suppression Is A ‘Great Idea’ — Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) said it should be harder for “liberal folks” to vote. — Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) appeared to endorse voter suppression during a campaign stop this month, saying efforts to undermine voting among liberals …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Man Who Shouted ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ at Play Was Actually Very Drunk and Hates Trump — It seems that the man who disrupted a recent production of Fiddler on the Roof with pro-Donald Trump outbursts is actually a critic of the president. — There was a commotion in Baltimore …
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Baltimore Sun
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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Baltimore ‘Fiddler’ Disrupted by ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’
Baltimore ‘Fiddler’ Disrupted by ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Grabien News, The Week and Mediaite
Eric Holthaus / Grist:
The bizarre and frightening conditions that sparked the Camp Fire — This story has been updated to reflect the fire's impact as of Thursday night, November 15. — The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise, is now the most destructive to ever hit California and the deadliest wildfire in modern American history.
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Los Angeles Times, WQAD-TV, WTVR-TV, WHNT-TV and Althouse
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New York Times:
Two Years In, Trump Struggles to Master Role of Military Commander — WASHINGTON — He canceled a trip to a cemetery in France where American soldiers from World War I are buried. He did not go to the observance at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. He has not visited American troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Washington Post:
Does Pelosi have the votes to become Speaker? — As House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi works to shore up support for her bid to be become Speaker of the House in the 116th Congress, The Fix is analyzing whether she has the votes to win the position. Right now, it's not clear that she does.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Black caucus members back Pelosi for speaker over their former chair
Black caucus members back Pelosi for speaker over their former chair
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Townhall and Axios
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Democrat Porter flips GOP House seat in Southern California — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California's Reagan country, extending a rout of the state's GOP House delegation.
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Hullabaloo, Politico, Political Wire and Axios
Keith Kloor / Politico:
Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory — In the sweaty, waning days of August, I went to a Cheesecake Factory in the Virginia suburbs to learn about a conspiracy that would rock the FBI, if true. The two men who met me for lunch, a retired CIA agent and a former National Security Council official …
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Raw Story
Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
Why the Perfect Red-State Democrat Lost — Taylor Sappington is exactly the kind of candidate his party should want in Ohio. But he couldn't get union support. — Mr. MacGillis is a political reporter. — Taylor Sappington heard the call like so many other Democrats in the year after Nov. 8, 2016.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Lou Dobbs casually makes up story that ‘many’ illegal immigrants voted in midterms and had ‘immense impact’ — Lou Dobbs said it so casually that it sounded like common knowledge. — “You know,” the Fox Business Network host said on his show Thursday, “millions of illegal immigrants cross our borders …
CNN:
Broward County recounted hundreds of thousands of votes for nothing — (CNN)It's a long-agonized-over machine recount total delivered two minutes too late. — But there's nothing ironic about it — this is, after all, Florida's Broward County, which has been plagued with issues in its vote-counting efforts for years.
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Florida Politics
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Judge orders Trump administration to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press pass — A federal judge on Friday grants CNN's request for a court order that would temporarily reinstate network correspondent Jim Acosta's White House press pass. — CNN's legal challenge comes …
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Axios and Political Wire
Patrick Collison / The Atlantic:
Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck — The writer Stewart Brand once wrote that “science is the only news.” While news headlines are dominated by politics, the economy, and gossip, it's science and technology that underpin much of the advance of human welfare and the long-term progress of our civilization.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Almost all of Sen. Harris's $2.8 trillion tax plan would help middle and working class, study finds — A proposed tax plan from Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) would cost the federal government $2.8 trillion over a decade but cut taxes by about $3,000 for the majority of working-class Americans, according to a new analysis.
Zack Colman / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez gets in closed-door fight with veteran lawmaker over climate change — A fight broke out in a closed-door meeting of House Democrats over climate change as a powerful veteran lawmaker fought with freshman star Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members-elect over the creation of a special panel for the issue.
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KAJ-TV, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Beast, Splinter, Common Dreams, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, The Root, Political Wire and Breitbart
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
After the Midterms, Robert Mueller's Got a New Wingman on Capitol Hill — President Trump is back to threatening the special counsel's “witch hunt,” but he hasn't reckoned with Adam Schiff and the Democratic House. — From September 17th until Election Day, President Trump tweeted nothing at all about the …
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
What Did ‘Pod Save America’ Expect? — Don't put professional Republican smear men on your liberal podcast. — Until Wednesday night, at least, Tim Miller was known — if he was known at all outside Beltway circles — as the token Republican pet of Crooked Media, the distributor of the wildly popular “Pod Save America.”
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Susan Collins Could Do Without the Death Threats — “I mean, it's not fun,” Susan Collins said, sitting in her Senate office on Tuesday. It was her first day back at work following last week's midterm elections, and the Maine Republican was not quite radiating fresh-start and renewal vibes.
NBC News:
To ease Turkish pressure on Saudis over killing, White House weighs expelling Erdogan foe — “Once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious,” a U.S. official said of request tied to Khashoggi killing. — WASHINGTON — The White House is looking for ways to remove …
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