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Michael Cohen to Plead Guilty to Charge in Mueller Investigation — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, who pleaded guilty in August to breaking campaign finance laws, made a surprise appearance in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday morning to plead guilty to a new criminal charge …
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Michael Cohen expected to plead guilty to lying to Congress in collusion probe; gave 70 hours of interviews to special counsel: Sources — Special counsel Robert Mueller has reached a tentative deal with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and long-time fixer for President Donald Trump, sources told ABC News.
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Manafort Lied About Business Dealings, Mueller's Team Believes — Statements, which the former Trump aide describes as truthful, led the special counsel to end his plea agreement — Paul Manafort's alleged misstatements to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators include comments …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Political Wire, CNN, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Law & Crime and Politico

Trump Talks of Pardon for Manafort and Escalates Attacks on Russia Inquiry
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RedState, The Guardian, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story

Why Did Manafort Cooperate With Trump Over Mueller?
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Simple Justice, JONATHAN TURLEY, Washington Press, Politico, NBC News, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Daily Wire


Key Mueller witness: I lied and I'm ready to die in jail — In a blockbuster interview, key Mueller witness and Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi admits to MSNBC's Ari Melber that he lied to Congress, that he tried to get stolen Clinton emails back to the Trump campaign in 2016, that he …
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New Republic
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Trump's night-owl calls to Roger Stone in 2016 draw scrutiny in Mueller probe — The calls almost always came deep into the night. — Caller ID labeled them “unknown,” but Roger Stone said he knew to pick up quickly during those harried months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Mediaite, Booman Tribune, HuffPost, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, National Review and Politico


Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi Pushed Seth Rich Lie After Privately Admitting Hackers Stole DNC Emails
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Just Security, Mediaite, Boing Boing, Raw Story, Washington Times and Vox

Jerome Corsi Told Roger Stone WikiLeaks Had Dirt on Hillary's Health. Then the Attacks Started.
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Business Insider, Washington Post and Hullabaloo

Democrats press the case for Trump-Russia ‘collusion’
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Power Line, The Hill, Washington Post, Salon, Political Wire and New York Times


Trump slams special counsel after retweeting image of Rosenstein behind bars … WASHINGTON - It was no accident that President Trump Wednesday retweeted an image of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein locked up. — When asked during an interview with The Post: “Why do you think he belongs behind bars?”
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Trump threatens to declassify ‘devastating’ docs about Democrats … In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Post, President Trump said Wednesday that if House Democrats launched probes into his administration — which he called “presidential harassment” — they'd pay a heavy price.
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CNN, Shareblue Media, TheBlaze, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Mediaite


Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched in Money Laundering Investigation — One hundred seventy officers searched the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and five other sites in the area early Thursday as part of a money-laundering investigation involving hundreds of millions of euros, prosecutors in Frankfurt said.
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Deutsche Bank Raided by Police in Money-Laundering Probe — 170 German officials involved in searches of bank offices — Probe stems from Panama Papers, not role in Danske laundering — German authorities descended on Deutsche Bank AG, including its downtown Frankfurt headquarters …
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Washington Post and The Guardian


Stormy Daniels: Michael Avenatti Sued Trump For Defamation Against My Wishes — The porn star also says her lawyer refused to give her information about how her crowdfunding money was being spent, and launched a second crowdfund without her knowledge. — Michael Avenatti sued Donald Trump …
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Team Trump Had Many Ties to Israeli Intel Firm in Mueller's Crosshairs — The company promised to use social media manipulation to get Trump elected. And several members of Trump's inner circle were very, very interested. — At least three members of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign staff reached …
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Raw Story


How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood — From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump's rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters.
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Raw Story


U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I — Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the government said Thursday in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises.


Pelosi shuts down critics in tense meeting — Nancy Pelosi was having none of it. — A trio of her fiercest Democratic critics — lawmakers trying to bar her from reclaiming the speaker's gavel — were trying to pin her down on exactly when she planned to relinquish power.
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Hakeem Jeffries Emerges as New Face of House Democrats
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The Root and Washington Monthly


Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients — The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee earlier this month that it would reimburse those veterans who received less than the full amount they were due.


Investigators are probing a letter that claims George Papadopoulos said he was pursuing a lucrative Russian business deal for himself and Trump after the election — Trump-Russia investigators are reportedly looking into an uncorroborated letter that claims George Papadopoulos was pursuing …
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Hullabaloo and Boing Boing
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Papadopoulos's Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue
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Washington Press, Raw Story and Daily Torch


Sen. Jeff Flake's Nauseating Obstructionism Over Protect Mueller Bill Delayed 21 Trump Judicial Nominations — Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MI) won her runoff election last night over Democrat Mike Espy in Mississippi, so Republicans have a solid 53-47 majority.
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Senate Judiciary cancels nominee hearings over Flake's Mueller stand
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More American children are uninsured despite strong economy — See the consequences of a town divided by healthcare — New York (CNN)For the first time in nearly a decade, the number of uninsured children in America has grown. — The reversal is unprecedented, particularly given …


Holocaust scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University finds swastikas spray-painted on her office wall — A Jewish professor and Holocaust scholar at Columbia Teacher's College said she found two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur spray-painted on her office wall Wednesday.
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Splinter


U.N. ambassador hunt drags on as top candidate fades — The hunt for a new United Nations ambassador — a job for which State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert was once considered a lock but is now out of contention — has faced repeated delays and is running up against Nikki Haley's end-of-year departure date.
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Talking Points Memo


ADL Responds to CNN Commentator Calling for a ‘Free Palestine from the River to the Sea’ — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called CNN political commentator and Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill's call for a “free Palestine from the river to sea” on Wednesday “divisive” and “destructive” in an email to the Journal.
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What Is Chuck Schumer Thinking? — When the 116th Congress begins in just over a month, President Donald Trump's dream of a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border will be all but dead. Massive gains in the midterm elections will give Democrats a sizable majority in the House of Representatives …
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New York Magazine, CNBC and IJR


'If Bobbie Talks, I'm Finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser — A trove of text messages details a plan by Mr. Moonves and a faded Hollywood manager to bury a sexual assault allegation. Instead, the scheme helped sink the CBS chief, and may cost him $120 million.
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TVNewser, The Big Lead, Jezebel, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Deadline and TMZ.com, more at Mediagazer »


TJ Cox beats Republican Rep. David Valadao to give Democrats gain of 40 House seats, seven in California — TJ Cox defeated three-term Republican Rep. David Valadao on Wednesday, giving Democrats a gain of seven House seats in California and 40 nationwide — the party's strongest midterm showing since …
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Political Wire
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Pro-Bernie group hacked in quarter-million dollar email scam — Our Revolution had raised the money to help a Native American tribe fight an oil pipeline. — The political nonprofit launched by Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016 lost nearly a quarter-million dollars to an email scam that year …
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Talking Points Memo and Common Dreams


Suicide rate up 33% in less than 20 years, yet funding lags behind other top killers — Suicide rates are up 33% in the U.S., yet funding lags behind that of all other top causes of death — leaving suicide research in its “infancy.” — More than 47,000 Americans killed themselves in 2017 …


Kremlin says Trump, Putin have agreed to meet at G-20 summit on Saturday — MOSCOW — The Kremlin said Thursday that Washington has confirmed a one-on-one meeting between President Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at noon on Dec. 1 at the Group of 20 summit in Argentina.
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, The Daily Beast, NPR, VICE News and KyivPost


Border Patrol Arrests MS-13 Member Who Traveled with Caravan — U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested a member of the infamous Salvadoran MS-13 gang who admitted to authorities that he traveled with a caravan of Central American migrants who were hoping to qualify for asylum in America.
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cbp.gov, Daily Wire, Townhall, The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine


Meet Knickers, the giant cow that is neither a cow nor a giant — This week, a Holstein by the name of Knickers captured the heart of the Internet by standing horns and shoulders above a herd of cattle on a farm in Australia. — And there's no arguing that the lad is large.
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