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BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow  —  President Donald Trump's company planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the company negotiated the luxury real estate development during …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's inner circle has always been a cesspool  —  President Trump recently tweeted: “Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime?”  —  It is usually a bad idea to raise a rhetorical question when the answer is both obvious and unfavorable.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives, Prepare Yourself Now for What Mueller May Find  —  How we react in the aftermath of the special counsel's findings will determine the future of the Republican Party and, possibly, the country.  —  Matt Lewis  —  Things are speeding up in Robert Mueller's universe.
Discussion: Raw Story
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Mueller eyes Ivanka and Don Jr.'s work on Trump Tower Moscow  —  WASHINGTON - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to build a skyscraper in Moscow has led him to ask questions about the role two of the president's children played in attempting …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Was Totally Caught Off Guard by the Cohen Plea”: Inside Trumpworld, Some Fear Mueller Has Laid a Perjury Trap  —  Rudy Giuliani is frustrated at Mueller's tactics.  The White House is in a defensive crouch.  “It's an untethered situation,” a person close to the president said.
Washington Post:
‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe  —  In two major developments this week, President Trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code name: “Individual 1.”
Garrett M. Graff / Axios:
The new clues we have about where the Mueller investigation is going  —  Garrett M. Graff — author of a book focused on Mueller, and one of the investigation's best narrators — writes for Axios that we now have a host of new clues to Mueller coming attractions.
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
New York Times:
Robert Mueller and His Prosecutors: Who They Are and What They've Done  —  Ahmad  —  Zelinsky  —  Andres  —  Zebley  —  Atkinson  —  Weissmann  —  Dreeben  —  Mueller  —  Goldstein  —  Rhee  —  Jed  —  Quarles III  —  Meisler  —  Prelogar  —  Ahmad  —  Zelinsky  —  Andres
Emma Loop / BuzzFeed News:
House Intelligence Committee Will Investigate Trump Company's Plan To Give Putin A $50 Million Penthouse  —  A plan by Donald Trump's company to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse will be in the crosshairs of the House Intelligence Committee when Democrats take control …
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Acting attorney general Whitaker was notified in advance of Cohen plea
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Gave Russia Leverage Over His Presidency
Discussion: Vox and VICE News
Politico:
‘The perfect witness’: Dems want Cohen to testify on the Hill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump talked up Russia during now-revealed secret Moscow project talks
New York Times:
How a Lawyer, a Felon and a Russian General Chased a Moscow Trump Tower Deal
David French / National Review:
Trump's Unacceptable Campaign Conduct and Two Other Takeaways from the Cohen Plea
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and Viking Pundit
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
In Argentina, Trump has Mueller on his mind
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Greg Farrell / Bloomberg:   Cohen's Plea Suggests Russians Held ‘Kompromat’ on Trump
Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
Why the G-20 Leaders Are Gloating Behind Trump's Back
Discussion: ThinkProgress, NPR and Washington Post
Ken White / The Atlantic:
Three Remarkable Things About Michael Cohen's Plea
New York Times:
Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros  —  Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook's communications staff to research George Soros's financial interests in the wake of his high-profile attacks on tech companies, according to three people with knowledge of her request …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Sheryl Sandberg Requested Research On Billionaire George Soros
Discussion: Jezebel and Financial Times
The State:
Scott to oppose Farr nomination to federal bench in NC, ending chances of confirmation  —  Sen. Tim Scott said Thursday he will oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr to the federal bench, assuring the controversial pick will not be confirmed.  —  The South Carolina Republican was the deciding vote …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan casts doubt on ‘bizarre’ California election results  —  Weeks after House Republicans lost their majority, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday cast serious doubts about the “bizarre” election system in California, where it appears that seven GOP-held seats will flip to Democratic control.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
California's late votes broke big for Democrats. Here's why GOP was surprised
Discussion: Mother Jones
New York Times:
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges.  Here's the Reality.  —  T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges.  But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
Certification in limbo in N.C. House race as fraud investigation continues  —  Mounting evidence of voter fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District could indefinitely delay the certification of a winner, as state election officials investigate whether hundreds of absentee ballots were illegally cast or destroyed.
Discussion: HuffPost
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Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
‘Tangled web’ in Bladen County has questions swirling about votes in the 9th District
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New York Times
Marriott News Center:
Marriott Announces Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident  —  Marriott has taken measures to investigate and address a data security incident involving the Starwood guest reservation database.  On November 19, 2018, the investigation determined that there was unauthorized access …
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Wall Street Journal:   Marriott Says Up to 500 Million Affected by Starwood Breach
Reuters:
Kremlin says Putin and Trump will have impromptu meeting at G20: RIA  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a brief impromptu meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Argentina just as he will with other leaders at the G20 summit, RIA news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.
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Washington Post:
Trump scores political win with signing of new North American trade pact at G-20, but deal still faces a hurdle in Congress  —  BUENOS AIRES — President Trump celebrated a major political win Friday, joining the leaders of the Mexican and Canadian governments in signing a new North American trade deal …
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Megan Cassella / Politico:
NAFTA 2.0 is signed — but it's far from finished
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
No talk of ‘the Resistance’ or opinions about impeachment at work, federal employees are warned  —  In a move that some ethics advocates say could be an opening to limit dissent, the federal government has issued new guidance for the political activity of federal government workers …
Discussion: American Oversight and Shakesville
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats to unveil political reform legislation as ‘H.R. 1’  —  House Democratic leaders are set to publicly unveil on Friday the outline of a broad political overhaul bill that will include provisions for public financing of elections, voting rights reforms and new ethics strictures for federal officials.
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says  — The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower's lawyer, Michael Socarras.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Republican governors are warning President Donald Trump that he and the GOP need to make a sharp course correction after their midterm shellacking to avoid losing again in 2020.  —  While the president has hailed …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The China hawk who captured Trump's ‘very, very large brain’  —  A day before President Donald Trump departed for the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, several top officials gathered in the Oval Office to strategize about Trump's highly anticipated meeting there with China's president.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Deal to pass farm bill scraps House GOP plan for new food stamp work requirements
Discussion: Axios
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
For First Time in a Decade, a South Korean Train Rolls Into the North
Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens' 2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren, Eyeing 2020, Decries Military Overreach
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
On the Trump-Mood Beat — But Why?  —  “Let's start with the state …
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The Making of Elizabeth Warren
Politico:
Donald & Jean-Claude, a (kinda) love story
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
Bernard E. Harcourt / The New York Review of Books:
How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right
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