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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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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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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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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 …


Unkempt, Heavily Bearded Julian Assange No Longer Has Embassy Cat For Company — WikiLeaks founder is living in isolation with limited human contact. Even his cat found it too lonely. — It has been six long years since Australian secret spiller Julian Assange jumped bail and sought refuge …
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TheBlaze, Repubblica.it and The Gateway Pundit


Corsi provided early alert to Stone about WikiLeaks release, according to draft special counsel document

Help WikiLeaks Sue Guardian Over Fabricated Story
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Sputnik International, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart

Julian Assange ‘Instructs’ Lawyers to Sue The Guardian Over the Manafort Meeting Story
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times and HuffPost


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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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 …


The U.S.-Saudi Partnership Is Vital — We don't condone Jamal Khashoggi's murder. But the kingdom is a powerful force for Mideast stability. — The Trump administration's effort to rebuild the U.S.-Saudi Arabia partnership isn't popular in the salons of Washington …
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The American Conservative


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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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.

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 …
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The Daily Caller


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 …


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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Google chief executive Sundar Pichai set to testify to Congress in December

Why not build a border barrier? It's the law
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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 …
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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.


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 …


Flawed Media Coverage of Obama Hurts America Still — Right and Left both have reasons to exaggerate how ideological a president is. — I knew it. I knew the instant I saw Twitter erupt in outrage at the use of tear gas to disperse a crowd of people charging our southern border that someone …
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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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With McCain's replacement likely to leave, GOP is split over appointing this year's loser in Senate race — Days after the midterm election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spoke privately about a sensitive topic with far-reaching implications …


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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Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed
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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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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.


VIDEO: Hillary suffers massive coughing fit during first tour stop — The Clintons kicked off their speaking tour with Hillary suffering from an uncontrollable coughing fit. — While addressing a half-empty crowd at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday night, the former secretary of state
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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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Hundreds of people stood in the chilly air of Omaha National Cemetery on Tuesday to honor a Vietnam veteran who died with few known family members. — A line of cars stretched from the cemetery along Highway 50 to Interstate 80 at 2 p.m. Tuesday, the scheduled start time for the interment.


The World's Highest-Paid TV Hosts 2018: Judge Judy Presides With $147 Million — For the first year ever, Judy Sheindlin—more commonly known as Judge Judy—reigns supreme not only in her own courtroom, but also across all of television. Pocketing $147 million pretax last year …
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Mashable


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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Linda Sarsour uses the blood of murdered Jews to line her pockets — In Linda Sarsour's recent statement of nonapology to the public, she defended her anti-Semitic embrace of Louis Farrakhan and the BDS, or boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, by mentioning that her organization …
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twitchy.com, Townhall and Jihad Watch


Proposal to rename D.C. street outside Saudi Embassy for Khashoggi gains support — A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder …


The Weird Dwight Howard Saga Shows the NBA Still Has a Problem With the Closet — Will Leitch's Games column runs weekly. Email him at will.leitch@nymag.com. — This past September, it was seven years since I wrote, in this magazine, “The Last Closet,” a feature about the total insanity that …


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 …


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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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.