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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Manafort Breached Plea Deal by Repeatedly Lying, Mueller Says — WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to federal investigators in breach of a plea agreement he signed two months ago, the special counsel's office said in a court filing late on Monday.
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emptywheel:
Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report — Back when Paul Manafort first entered a plea agreement, I argued the effects of it could not be pardoned away. … Since that time, Mueller has been busy finishing up the Roger Stone indictment, Trump has finally finished his open book test …
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Law & Crime, Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Mueller says Manafort lied after pleading guilty, should be sentenced immediately — Prosecutors with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III said Monday that Paul Manafort breached his plea agreement by lying repeatedly as they questioned him in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, Splinter, Political Wire and The Intellectualist
Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi says he is rejecting a plea deal from Robert Mueller
Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi says he is rejecting a plea deal from Robert Mueller
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emptywheel, The Daily Beast, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Vox
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller says Manafort breached plea deal by lying
Mueller says Manafort breached plea deal by lying
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ABC News, Vox, Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama — DHS data shows deployments dating back years — The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during …
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Bloomberg, Liberty Unyielding and twitchy.com
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
The Mother In This Iconic Photo Of Sunday's Border Teargassing Was Thinking Only Of Getting Her Children To Safety — TIJUANA, Mexico — The woman running with her two daughters in front of tear gas in the widely published photo from Sunday's confrontation at the border between some members …
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Department of Homeland …, Mother Jones and Wall Street Journal
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump's critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all
Trump's critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all
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Townhall
Otillia Steadman / BuzzFeed News:
A Former Border Patrol Chief Said You Could Put Pepper Spray On Your Nachos, And Actual Medical Experts …
A Former Border Patrol Chief Said You Could Put Pepper Spray On Your Nachos, And Actual Medical Experts …
Washington Post:
Trump suggests without evidence that some tear-gassed migrants were ‘grabbers’ who took others' children
Trump suggests without evidence that some tear-gassed migrants were ‘grabbers’ who took others' children
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POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart, The Daily Signal, Liberty Unyielding and Media Matters for America
David Alire Garcia / Reuters:
Mexico asks U.S. to investigate use of tear gas at border
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: 10 days until the shutdown — DRIVING THE DAY — COULD A SHUTDOWN SIDELINE MUELLER? ... ONE OF THE SEVEN appropriations bills that needs to get passed in the next 10 DAYS is the Commerce, Justice, Science bill, which has some funding for BOB MUELLER'S probe of the White House.
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Mercury News, Political Wire and New York Times
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Bill Scher / Politico:
The Pathetic Pelosi Putsch
The Pathetic Pelosi Putsch
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Washington Post, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
Pelosi seen closing in on House speakership
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Centrist Group Behind Pelosi Holdouts Plotted to Make Her ‘Bogeyman’
Centrist Group Behind Pelosi Holdouts Plotted to Make Her ‘Bogeyman’
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The Atlantic, The Intercept, Chicago Sun Times, ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Anti-Pelosi forces stumble over strategy
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump judicial pick is one defection away from failure — Some Senate Republicans are still weighing whether to confirm one of President Donald Trump's judicial picks, raising Democratic hopes that they can defeat a nominee who they say is hostile to voting rights.
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Joseph Spector / lohud.com:
Andrea Stewart-Cousins makes history as first woman Senate leader
Kirsten Fontenrose / i24NEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. WH aide for Gulf affairs joins top Saudi-linked DC lobbying firm — After President Donald J. Trump has clearly stated his intention to side with Saudi Arabia despite intelligence reports that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi …
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New York Times:
Argentine Prosecutors Consider Charges Against Saudi Crown Prince Ahead of G-20
Argentine Prosecutors Consider Charges Against Saudi Crown Prince Ahead of G-20
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Bloomberg and Middle East Eye
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Jared Kushner pushed to inflate Saudi arms deal to $110 billion: Sources
Jared Kushner pushed to inflate Saudi arms deal to $110 billion: Sources
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israpundit.org, Daily Kos, Middle East Eye, Raw Story, The Atlantic, Politico and Washington Post
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Democrats smash Watergate record for House popular vote in midterms — Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent. — Democrats won the House with the largest margin of victory in history for either party, according to NBC News election data.
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Axios and Liberty Unyielding
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Wall Street Journal:
Transcript of President Trump's Interview With The Wall Street Journal — President discusses U.S.-China trade, including the possibilities of additional tariffs; plant closures at GM, and Fed Chairman Jay Powell — President Trump spoke by phone Monday with Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Davis …
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Washington Post, CNBC, Washington Press and Axios
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Washington Post:
GM layoffs and plant shutdowns suggest U.S. economy may be starting to slow — and dent Trump's claim of an industrial renaissance — General Motors said Monday it will close five factories and lay off nearly 15,000 workers in a move that shows the economy may be starting to slow …
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The American Conservative and New York Times
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Threatening GM Over Its Plant Closure Is the Real ‘Gangster Government’
Trump Threatening GM Over Its Plant Closure Is the Real ‘Gangster Government’
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Press and Axios
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
‘Fox & Friends’ Fed Interview Script to Trump's EPA Chief, Emails Show — The president's favorite cable-news show shared its interview scripts and its oh-so-hard-hitting questions in advance with an embattled Trump official. — Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt …
Dillon Mullan / Tupelo Daily Journal:
TUPELO • Over the weekend, tailgate tents stocked with Trump merchandise began popping up around Tupelo. The vendors signaling the President's imminent arrival knew his fans would want shirts, hats, flags and buttons. — So, in front of gas stations and beside roads, they cashed in.
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump, Pence seek to rescue embattled Republican in Mississippi
Trump, Pence seek to rescue embattled Republican in Mississippi
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HuffPost
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Goodlatte: 'It's awfully tough' for Ivanka Trump to comply with email standards — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), said on Monday that it was “awfully tough” for government officials such as Ivanka Trump to comply with agency standards for secure communications when sending emails.
Associated Press:
Farm bankruptcies on the rise in Upper Midwest — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The number of farms filing for bankruptcy is increasing across the Upper Midwest, following low prices for corn, soybeans, milk and beef, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
OpenSecrets.org:
Trump Foundation tax return reveals finances during Trump's first year in office as lawsuit heats up — During his first year in office, President Donald Trump was listed as president of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which was entirely funded by a half-million dollar donation …
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Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Millennial poll: America ‘racist,’ not ‘great,’ Obama better than Washington — Younger Americans are turning on the country and forgetting its ideals, with nearly half believing that it isn't “great,” and many eyeing the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred,” according to a new and disturbing survey.
CNN:
GAO to look into whether Mar-a-Lago trio inappropriately influenced VA — (CNN)The Government Accountability Office will investigate whether individuals connected to President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida have had inappropriate influence over the Department of Veterans Affairs …
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Politico
Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star:
Video shows explosion at border agent's gender-reveal party that sparked Arizona wildfire — The Sawmill Fire is shown erupting from an exploding target — with blue smoke curling off the fire's fringes — in a video just obtained by the Arizona Daily Star.
Phys.org:
Google accused of manipulation to track users — Seven European consumer groups filed complaints against Google with national regulators Tuesday, accusing the internet giant of covertly tracking users' movements in violation of an EU regulation on data protection.