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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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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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Raw Story, Vox, Law & Crime, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Axios:
Signs point to an acceleration of Mueller's endgame — Evidence is mounting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is moving toward further indictments — and perhaps some big ones, with an end-of-year flurry of activity, Garrett M. Graff reports for Axios. — The big picture: Graff …
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New York Times, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Manafort allegations throw new uncertainty into Russia probe — WASHINGTON (AP) — The breakdown of a plea deal with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an explosive British news report about alleged contacts he may have had with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threw a new element …
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Political Wire
Washington Post:
Corsi provided early alert to Stone about WikiLeaks release, according to draft special counsel document
Corsi provided early alert to Stone about WikiLeaks release, according to draft special counsel document
CNN:
Stone's efforts to seek WikiLeaks documents detailed in draft Mueller document
Stone's efforts to seek WikiLeaks documents detailed in draft Mueller document
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POLITICUSUSA
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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Politico, Sputnik International, TheBlaze, The Verge and Repubblica.it
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Mueller Plea Documents Outline Emails Between Jerome Corsi And Roger Stone
Mueller Plea Documents Outline Emails Between Jerome Corsi And Roger Stone
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Liberty Unyielding
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Report: Trump Associate Roger Stone Colluded With Email Hackers
Report: Trump Associate Roger Stone Colluded With Email Hackers
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Wall Street Journal, Mediaite and Vox
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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Just Security, CNBC and JONATHAN TURLEY
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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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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Washington Post:
Trump on climate change: 'People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're …
Trump on climate change: 'People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're …
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The Daily Caller
Mike Pompeo / Wall Street Journal:
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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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 …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud
The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud
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New Republic, New York Times and Politico
Daniel Larison / The American Conservative:
Pompeo's Mendacious Pro-Saudi Propaganda
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Pompeo, Mattis to brief Senate amid push to punish Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi, Yemen
Pompeo, Mattis to brief Senate amid push to punish Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi, Yemen
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One America News Network and Informed Comment
John Santucci / ABC News:
Exclusive: Ivanka Trump defends use of private email, brushes aside Mueller probe — Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter and a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, defended her use of a private email account while transitioning to an administration job, insisting to ABC News …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Trump: 'I don't do anything ... just for political gain' — For the last two years, congressional Republicans have persuaded President Donald Trump to delay the fight to fund his border wall, convincing him he would pay a steep political price for such a high-stakes legislative brawl.
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Mediaite, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
Trump says he's considering a Plan B if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding
Trump says he's considering a Plan B if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding
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New York Times, Politico, The Daily Caller, National Review, RedState, Hot Air and Political Wire
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai set to testify to Congress in December
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai set to testify to Congress in December
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The Verge and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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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New York Times
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.
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New York Times, PerthNow and Jezebel
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 …
USA Today:
Eagles, not Redskins, only NFL team to contact police about latest arrest of Reuben Foster — Only one NFL team made inquiries into the police department responsible for Saturday's arrest of linebacker Reuben Foster — and it wasn't Washington Redskins, the team that claimed him off of waivers on Tuesday.
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ProFootballTalk, Associated Press and East Bay Times
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump trashed new Pompeo aide as ‘major loser’ — Mary Kissel often took a dim view of President Donald Trump's foreign policy. As a Wall Street Journal editorial writer, she tweeted about his “frightening ignorance,” criticized his approach on Syria and China, and said Putin …
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Daily Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans fear they're squandering lame duck — Shortly after winning reelection this month, Ted Cruz implored his Republican colleagues at a private lunch to use the GOP's last days of unified control in Washington to ram through a boatload of conservative priorities.
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Raw Story
David Agren / The Guardian:
‘A humiliation’: Outcry after Mexico president gives highest honour to Jared Kushner — Enrique Peña Nieto to hand Trump son-in-law the Order of the Aztec Eagle for trade work — Outgoing Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto has stunned the country by bestowing …
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Political Wire, Raw Story, Al Jazeera and Washington Free Beacon
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Obama meets George H.W. Bush during visit to Houston — Former President Obama met with former President George H.W. Bush in Houston on Tuesday prior to a speaking engagement at Rice University, Bush's spokesman said. — “The two had a very pleasant and private visit at the Bush residence …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
DOJ unseals charges in alleged massive online ad fraud — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed charges against eight individuals in an alleged widespread digital advertising fraud that reportedly used botnets to give the appearance of billions of humans looking at online ads.
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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 …
Opheli Garcia Lawler / The Cut:
Another Ferguson Protester Has Died — Bassem Masri, a Palestinian-American activist who live-streamed throughout the protests against police brutality and the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has died. Reports of his death circulated on social media on Tuesday …
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Cindy Hyde-Smith Holds Off Mike Espy to Keep Mississippi Senate Seat — JACKSON, Miss. — Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican who had to apologize for a cavalier reference to a public hanging, won a special runoff election on Tuesday, defeating the Democratic candidate …
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The Clarion Ledger and Outside the Beltway
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama World lovefest for O'Rourke is growing — Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) is inspiring aides and allies of former President Obama, who say they could support him if he decides to run for president in 2020. — The Obama allies are quick to point out similarities between O'Rourke, 46 …
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Political Wire and RRH Elections
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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Raw Story
Dara Lind / Vox:
The US has made migrants at the border wait months to apply for asylum. Now the dam is breaking. — By limiting the number of asylum-seekers allowed to come legally, Trump made his own immigration crisis. — The center of the American asylum crisis is the El Chaparral plaza in Tijuana …
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Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Resurgent
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
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 …