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The Guardian:
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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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 …
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.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Could Robert Mueller be about to tell us something big?  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has voided his cooperation agreement with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, accusing Manafort of violating it by lying.  —  The episode appears to be a setback for Mueller's efforts …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Political Wire
emptywheel:
Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report
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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Axios and Splinter
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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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump's critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all  —  It's been about three weeks since CNN reporter Jim Acosta repeatedly told President Trump at a news conference that the migrant caravan is “hundreds and hundreds of miles away” and “not an invasion.”
Discussion: Townhall
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
The Mother In This Iconic Photo Of Sunday's Border Teargassing Was Thinking Only Of Getting Her Children To Safety
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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Associated Press:   Desert detention camp for migrant kids still growing
VICE News:
Exclusive: Workers in tent city for migrant children are not getting FBI fingerprint background checks
Discussion: Jezebel
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 …
Discussion: Defense News
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Michelle Kosinski / CNN:
US ‘slams the brakes’ on UN Yemen ceasefire resolution
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Gillum, Abrams speak out against controversial judicial nominee from North Carolina  —  Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams, two black candidates who fell short in high-profile gubernatorial races this month, spoke out Tuesday against President Trump's nominee for a North Carolina judgeship …
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Cornyn Says Flake Might Get Mueller Protection Vote to Get More Judges Confirmed
Discussion: Political Wire
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator John Cornyn On The Next Year In The Senate
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mueller protection bill could get Senate vote
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Who's the Mystery Man Behind the Latest Pelosi Putsch?  It's Mark Penn.  —  A small group of billionaire-backed Democrats, part of the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus in Congress, has launched a last-ditch effort that threatens to derail Rep. Nancy Pelosi's election as House speaker.
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wgbh.org:
‘I Always Respect Subpoenas’: Comey Says His Legal Team Is Looking At His Options  —  Former FBI Director James Comey said he won't ignore the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena compelling him to testify behind closed doors about his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Goodlatte: 'It's awfully tough' for Ivanka Trump to comply with email standards
Christopher Hooks / The Texas Observer:
Dear Beto and Julián, Please Don't Run for President  —  Are you planning to run for president on the Democratic ticket in 2020?  If not, why not?  Everyone else is.  Seventeen Republicans ran in 2016, and the nominating process winnowed them down to the least qualified and most deranged.
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.
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Shakesville
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Splinter
David Brooks / New York Times:
Liberal Parents, Radical Children  —  The generation gap returns.  —  When I meet someone who runs an organization in a blue state, I often ask: Do you have a generation gap where you work?  The answer — whether the person leads a college, a nonprofit, a tech company …
Bloomberg:
Meet New York City's highest-earning official.  He's a debt collector for predatory lenders.  —  In the 1960s, New York's loan sharks would send thugs with nicknames like “Jimmy Dimps” to beat up borrowers who fell behind on their payments.  —  Now predatory lenders have a quieter way of collecting debts …
Brian Faler / Politico:
House Republicans unveil giant tax package  —  House Republicans on Monday evening unexpectedly released a 297-page tax bill they hope to move during the lame-duck session of Congress.  —  The legislation would revive a number of expired tax provisions known as “extenders,” …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump brags, ‘I blow Ronald Reagan away’  —  President Trump believes that his long list of achievements in office make him “far greater than Ronald Reagan.”  —  In a new book out Tuesday about his “enemies,” the president said that while he feels “I blow Ronald Reagan away,” the “fake news” …
Emma Best:
Technical report shows Russian hacking began hours after WikiLeaks mentioned a reward  —  Hours before Russian hacking operations targeted Hillary Clinton's campaign in the spring of 2016, WikiLeaks discussed offering a monetary reward for transcripts of her speeches at Goldman Sachs.
Discussion: Just Security
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Russia's latest attack on the Ukrainians is a warning to the West  —  On Saturday evening, three small Ukrainian naval vessels left the Ukrainian port of Odessa and headed for the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.  Along the way, they had to pass through the Kerch Strait, a sliver of water …
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Washington Post:
Russia's escalation against Ukraine shows how little Putin worries about the West
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Christine Blasey Ford says some good came out of her ‘terrifying’ testimony against Kavanaugh  —  Months after publicly accusing Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, Christine Blasey Ford said that speaking out was “terrifying,” but she knew it was her “civic duty.”
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type.  Tap out “I love” and Gmail might propose “you” or “it.”
Discussion: Engadget, The Verge and Instapundit
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.
 
 
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Nicole Gaudiano / USA Today:
Russia probe: House Democrats aim to unmask Trump Jr.'s blocked call
France 24:
In the #MeToo era, theologians publish 'Women's Bible'
Discussion: Daily Wire
Liam Croy / PerthNow:
Big Knickers a standout on Myalup farm
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Obamacare is having a surprisingly good year
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
After living in an airport for seven months, a Syrian man is granted asylum in Canada
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Amy Klobuchar Is ‘Minnesota Nice.’ But Is That What Democrats Want for 2020?
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis woman did 20 days in jail for speeding; now rural Missouri judge wants her for 6 more months
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Alex Traub / The New York Review of Books:
India's Dangerous New Curriculum
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Millennial poll: America ‘racist,’ not ‘great,’ Obama better than Washington
Phys.org:
Google accused of manipulation to track users
Discussion: Breitbart
CNN:
GAO to look into whether Mar-a-Lago trio inappropriately influenced VA
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