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MSNBC:
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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Washington Post:
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, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Booman Tribune, HuffPost, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, National Review, Mediaite and Politico
CNN:
Exclusive: Two key answers from Trump to Mueller — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi Pushed Seth Rich Lie After Privately Admitting Hackers Stole DNC Emails — Newly released email shows the Russia truthers knew full well who supplied Wikileaks. They kept blaming a murdered staffer, even after his parents begged them to stop.
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Mediaite, Boing Boing, Raw Story, Washington Times, Vox and Law & Crime
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Jerome Corsi Told Roger Stone WikiLeaks Had Dirt on Hillary's Health. Then the Attacks Started.
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
John Santucci / ABC News:
Mueller asked Trump about 2016 RNC platform change regarding Ukraine: Sources
Mueller asked Trump about 2016 RNC platform change regarding Ukraine: Sources
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News Agency UNIAN and Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats press the case for Trump-Russia ‘collusion’
Democrats press the case for Trump-Russia ‘collusion’
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Power Line, Salon, The Hill, Political Wire, Washington Post and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
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, CNN, Political Wire, Mediaite, Law & Crime and Politico
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New York Post:
Trump says pardon for Paul Manafort still a possibility … He's never discussed a pardon for Paul Manafort, President Trump said Wednesday — but it's “not off the table.” — “It was never discussed, but I wouldn't take it off the table. Why would I take it off the table?” the president said during an Oval Office interview.
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New York Times:
Trump Talks of Pardon for Manafort and Escalates Attacks on Russia Inquiry
Trump Talks of Pardon for Manafort and Escalates Attacks on Russia Inquiry
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The Guardian, Vox, RedState and Raw Story
Ken White / New York Times:
Why Did Manafort Cooperate With Trump Over Mueller?
Why Did Manafort Cooperate With Trump Over Mueller?
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Simple Justice, JONATHAN TURLEY, NBC News, Washington Press, Politico, Raw Story and Bloomberg
New York Post:
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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Politico, The Hill, Raw Story, CNN, Breitbart, Political Wire, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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New York Post:
Trump threatens to declassify ‘devastating’ docs about Democrats
Trump threatens to declassify ‘devastating’ docs about Democrats
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CNN, TheBlaze, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump on Rod Rosenstein: ‘He should have never picked a special counsel’
Trump on Rod Rosenstein: ‘He should have never picked a special counsel’
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New York Post
New York Times:
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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The Daily Beast:
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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Townhall, USA Today, POLITICUSUSA, Conservative News Today, Axios, RedState, New York Times, JONATHAN TURLEY, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Observer, Splinter, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider, Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime, IJR, Mediaite, Raw Story, Washington Times and New York Post
Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
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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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Papadopoulos's Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue — George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his interactions with a Russia-linked professor in 2016, went to jail on Monday after fighting, and failing, to delay the start of his two-week prison sentence.
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Washington Press, Raw Story and Daily Torch
Amie Ferris-Rotman / Washington Post:
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
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Maxime Schlee / Politico:
Ukraine president: Putin wants to rebuild Russian empire
Ukraine president: Putin wants to rebuild Russian empire
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Washington Post, New York Post and One America News Network
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
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.
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
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.
New York Times:
Mississippi's Era of Outsize Clout in Washington Is Waning — OXFORD, Miss. — It is difficult to miss Mississippi's trophies of power. — There is the Thad Cochran Research Center, standing just off the University of Mississippi's tailgating hub, and in Hattiesburg …
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Judiciary cancels nominee hearings over Flake's Mueller stand
Senate Judiciary cancels nominee hearings over Flake's Mueller stand
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Raw Story, Axios and CNN
Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal:
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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David Marcus / The Federalist:
CNN COMMENTATOR CALLS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. WILL LIBERALS REBUKE HIM?
CNN COMMENTATOR CALLS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. WILL LIBERALS REBUKE HIM?
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Breitbart and Instapundit
Wes Parnell / New York Daily News:
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
Tami Luhby / CNN:
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 …
New York Times:
'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.
Jason Bittel / Washington Post:
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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The Verge, New York Times, The Guardian, Vox, Outside the Beltway, Chicago Sun-Times, twitchy.com and Mashable
Washington Post:
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
Maya Sweedler / Los Angeles Times:
Why AP had to retract its projection that GOP Rep. David Valadao had beaten Democrat TJ Cox — Republican David Valadao was projected by the Associated Press to win his fourth term representing California's 21st Congressional District at 10:59 Pacific time on Nov. 6, election night.
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New York Times:
At the White House, Even the Holidays Are Met With Grievances — Starting with the blood-red trees, it became abundantly clear this week that not even the frothiest of White House holiday events would be carried without the requisite Trump-era criticisms and presidential complaints.
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Conservative News Today, Corsi Nation and twitchy.com, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
What Is Chuck Schumer Thinking? — The Democrat keeps trying to make deals with Donald Trump—even if might mean funding the president's odious border wall. — 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.
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New York Magazine, CNBC and IJR
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
Data Shows Tucker Carlson Is The Daily Stormer's Favorite Pundit — It's no secret that Andrew Anglin, among the United States' most prominent white supremacists, loves Tucker Carlson. — Enamored of the Fox News host's antagonistic interviews with liberals and people of color …
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Splinter and Contemptor
Erika Kinetz / Associated Press:
If your Tesla knows where you are, China may too — SHANGHAI (AP) — When Shan Junhua bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it was a fast, beautiful car. What he didn't know is that Tesla constantly sends information about the precise location of his car to the Chinese government.
Mairead McArdle / National Review:
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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