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Anna Schecter / NBC News:
Mueller has emails from Stone pal Corsi about WikiLeaks Dem email dump — “Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging,” Jerome Corsi said in email to Stone, say draft court documents. — Two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign …
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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy — Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published — Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London …
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New York Times:
Manafort's Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller — WASHINGTON — A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president's onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump's lawyers on his client's discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed …
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight — HISTORY MAY SHOW that Monday ranks among the most consequential days yet of Robert Mueller's 18-month special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. — As George Papadopoulos, one of the most enigmatic characters …
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CNN:
Stone's efforts to seek WikiLeaks documents detailed in draft Mueller document — Washington (CNN)Draft court filings obtained by CNN outline significant insights into what special counsel Robert Mueller may know about Roger Stone's efforts to seek documents from WikiLeaks in 2016.
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gofundme.com:
Help WikiLeaks Sue Guardian Over Fabricated Story — $15,974 of $300,000 goal Raised by 199 people in 3 hours — Help WikiLeaks sue The Guardian for fabricating a story that Julian Assange had secret meetings with Paul Manafort — The Guardian has published claims from unnamed sources …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Jerome Corsi Says He Has Defense Agreement With Trump, Received Limited Immunity From Mueller — Jerome Corsi makes several stunning disclosures in a new book about his interactions with the special counsel's office — The right-wing author also writes that he received 'limited use immunity …
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Julian Assange ‘Instructs’ Lawyers to Sue The Guardian Over the Manafort Meeting Story
Julian Assange ‘Instructs’ Lawyers to Sue The Guardian Over the Manafort Meeting Story
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Paul Manafort / ‘Manafort held secret talks …:
Version Version 1 Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, sources …
Version Version 1 Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, sources …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Unkempt, Heavily Bearded Julian Assange No Longer Has Embassy Cat For Company
Unkempt, Heavily Bearded Julian Assange No Longer Has Embassy Cat For Company
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Manafort Denies Ever Meeting Julian Assange
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
White House prevents Gina Haspel from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder — Mike Pompeo and James Mattis are due to give a briefing on US relations with Saudi Arabia to Senate on Wednesday — The White House is preventing the CIA director, Gina Haspel, or any other intelligence official …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
MSNBC declines to allow Sarah Sanders to dictate its programming — It had been nearly a month since Sarah Sanders had held what was once known as a “daily” briefing. So when the White House press secretary — along with White House officials Larry Kudlow and John Bolton …
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Washington Post:
Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting in wide-ranging interview with The Post — President Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week's General Motors plant closures and layoffs on the Federal Reserve during an interview Tuesday …
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Washington Post:
Trump on climate change: 'People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're not necessarily such believers.' — President Trump on Tuesday dismissed a landmark report compiled by 13 federal agencies detailing how damage from global warming is intensifying throughout the country …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Trump's full Washington Post interview transcript, annotated — President Trump sat for an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey. Below is the full transcript, with key segments highlighted for fact-checking and analysis. — RUCKER: Thanks for taking some time with us.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud — Behind the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi lies a power struggle within the Saudi royal family that helped feed the paranoia and recklessness of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Eventually, this rage in the royal court led …
Washington Post:
Trump says he's considering a Plan B if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding — President Trump said he is considering a backup plan if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall, potentially including the continued use of troops …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: Dems oppose spending more than $1.6B on border security
Schumer: Dems oppose spending more than $1.6B on border security
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why not build a border barrier? It's the law
Why not build a border barrier? It's the law
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Jenny Odell / New York Times:
A Business With No End … Part I: Zooming Out — Recently, one of my students at Stanford told me a strange story. His parents, who live in Palo Alto, Calif., had been receiving mysterious packages at their house. The packages were all different shapes and sizes but each was addressed to …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
The NRA Just Reported Losing $55 Million in Income — The gun-rights group has its biggest champion in the White House. But its financial situation has worsened in the age of Trump — The nation's leading gun-rights organization saw its income drop by $55 million last year …
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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 …
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
NC elections board refuses to certify 9th District race, leaving it in limbo — The state board of elections Tuesday declined to certify the results of the 9th Congressional District election after one board member cited what he called “unfortunate activities” in the eastern part of the district.
CNN:
A Shadow Over Europe — Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance.
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Jesus Rodriguez / Politico:
Comey on acting AG Whitaker: ‘Not the sharpest knife’ — Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday that acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker “may not be the sharpest knife in our drawer” but is savvy enough not to act outside the boundaries of the law in his position atop the Justice Department.
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Ed Whelan / National Review:
Third Circuit to Flip? — With the news that Judge Thomas Vanaskie will take senior status this Friday, the Third Circuit is poised to be the first federal court of appeals to flip from a majority of Democratic appointees at the outset of the Trump administration to a majority of Republican appointees.
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Trump judicial pick in limbo, seen as a threat to voting rights — Senate Republicans are weighing a floor vote this week on one of President Trump's lifetime judicial nominees, Thomas Farr, whose record of supporting election policies that have been struck down by federal courts …
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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Al Franken Is Staying Silent As His Fans Attack Kirsten Gillibrand
Al Franken Is Staying Silent As His Fans Attack Kirsten Gillibrand
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David Roth / The Concourse:
Please Enjoy This Enormous Australian Cow — What you're looking at here is a cow named Knickers, a Holstein Friesian that lives on a farm in Western Australia with a bunch of other regulation-size cows that honestly look laughably small—like a child's toys, like a dull child's stupid playthings—in comparison.
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
The Chevy Volt Is A Dream Car And Now GM Is Killing It — Even some of America's best engineering couldn't save it. — General Motors just killed the best car you've never owned. — I am talking about the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid GM has been producing since 2010.
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Washington Post:
Draft Jerome Corsi statement of offense — A document prepared by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team as part of plea talks with conservative author Jerome Corsi allege that he alerted longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone in early August 2016 that WikiLeaks planned to release material damaging to Hillary Clinton.
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Katherine Hignett / Newsweek:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Hiring, Looking for ‘Passionate, Creative Thinkers’ — New York Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is looking for some 13 staffers to fill her office. — Her team is seeking passionate, talented and creative thinkers to fight for “social …
Associated Press:
The Latest: US nixed FBI checks for teen migrant camp staff — TORNILLO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a desert detention camp for migrant children (all times local): — A new government watchdog memo says the Trump administration waived rigorous background checks for all staff working …
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh worried that scandal would end his coaching days. Now the Supreme Court justice is back on the basketball court. — Brett M. Kavanaugh has his new day job on the nation's highest court but is still “Coach K” on the basketball court. — The Supreme Court's newest justice …
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ProPublica:
A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He's 6. — It was shortly before Thanksgiving in an immigration court in San Antonio, and the third defendant to come before Judge Anibal Martinez walked into the courtroom without an attorney, wearing a gray winter hat that was stitched …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Maybe They're Just Bad People — Not all Trump support is ideological. — Seven years ago, a former aide to Ralph Reed — who also worked, briefly, for Paul Manafort — published a tawdry, shallow memoir that is also one of the more revealing political books I've ever read.
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Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Monica Lewinsky won't let herself become a victim of her own story — At one point in the newly released A&E documentary series “The Clinton Affair,” Monica Lewinsky says she now realizes part of her attraction to President Bill Clinton was that “someone who other people desired, desired me.”
Eric Spitznagel / Observer:
You Can Sleep With the Latest Sex Robots at This Brothel—But Only if They Say ‘Yes’ — Here's something you rarely hear in the discussion of robots designed for the sole purpose of having sexual relations with humans: Is the sex consensual? — That's because it's one of the last question anyone thinks about.
Ginger Thompson / The Texas Tribune:
Families are still being separated at the border, months after “zero tolerance” was reversed — Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They're protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it's zero tolerance by another name.
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Molly Langmuir / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Is Destroying My Marriage — “Shortly after the election is when I became aware of it,” says Lois Brenner, a New York-based divorce attorney. “People were thinking about splitting up their marriages because of political differences.” She'd never encountered this before …
Brooke Jarvis / New York Times:
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here — What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth? — Sune Boye Riis was on a bike ride with his youngest son, enjoying the sun slanting over the fields and woodlands near their home north of Copenhagen, when it suddenly occurred to him that something about the experience was amiss.