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Philip Ewing / NPR:
Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen's Account Of Russian Talks — Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress about his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians does not comport with the new version laid out by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, official transcripts show.
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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.
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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.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Mueller eyes Ivanka and Don Jr.'s work on Trump Tower Moscow
Mueller eyes Ivanka and Don Jr.'s work on Trump Tower Moscow
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Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
Why the G-20 Leaders Are Gloating Behind Trump's Back
Why the G-20 Leaders Are Gloating Behind Trump's Back
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Washington Post:
‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe
‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe
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Garrett M. Graff / Axios:
The new clues we have about where the Mueller investigation is going
The new clues we have about where the Mueller investigation is going
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Was Totally Caught Off Guard by the Cohen Plea”: Inside Trumpworld, Some Fear Mueller Has Laid a Perjury Trap
“Trump Was Totally Caught Off Guard by the Cohen Plea”: Inside Trumpworld, Some Fear Mueller Has Laid a Perjury Trap
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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed News:
House Intelligence Committee Will Investigate Trump Company's Plan To Give Putin A $50 Million Penthouse
House Intelligence Committee Will Investigate Trump Company's Plan To Give Putin A $50 Million Penthouse
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Senate Republicans unload on Flake
Senate Republicans unload on Flake
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Bloomberg:
Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm — FTC emails show Whitaker denied communicating with customers — Officials also expressed surprise at AG's hiring of Whitaker — New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest …
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Washington Post:
Whitaker fielded early fraud complaints from customers at patent company yet promoted it for years, records show — Months after joining the advisory board of a Miami-based patent company in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker began fielding angry complaints from customers that they were being defrauded …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Acting attorney general Whitaker was notified in advance of Cohen plea
Acting attorney general Whitaker was notified in advance of Cohen plea
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act — The U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) on Friday found that six members of the Trump administration violated the Hatch Act. — The OSC cited six staffers with violating the federal law in response to a complaint filed …
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
Six Officials Reprimanded for Hatch Act Violations Following CREW Complaints
Six Officials Reprimanded for Hatch Act Violations Following CREW Complaints
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
No talk of ‘the Resistance’ or opinions about impeachment at work, federal employees are warned
No talk of ‘the Resistance’ or opinions about impeachment at work, federal employees are warned
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work
Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges — Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is considering retrying former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a slew of federal charges that resulted in a hung jury over the summer. — At a hearing in federal court Friday morning …
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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
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.
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Raul M. Grijalva / Associated Press:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must resign. His multiple scandals show he's unfit to serve. — Ryan Zinke needs to resign immediately as Secretary of the Interior. — I take no pleasure in calling for this step, and I have resisted it even as questions have grown about Mr. Zinke's ethical and managerial failings.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
California's late votes broke big for Democrats. Here's why GOP was surprised — California Democrats took advantage of seemingly minor changes in a 2016 law to score their stunningly successful midterm election results, providing a target for GOP unhappiness that is tinged with a bit of admiration.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan casts doubt on ‘bizarre’ California election results
Ryan casts doubt on ‘bizarre’ California election results
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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.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
House Democrats' 1st bill targets big donors, voting access
House Democrats' 1st bill targets big donors, voting access
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Michael Sykes / Axios:
In photos: Trump, Putin and MBS collide at the G20 — Many of the world's most prominent leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday, including President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) — whose interactions have remained firmly in the headlines over recent weeks.
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Karen Elliott House / Wall Street Journal:
Rethinking Saudi Arabia
Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Democrat Claire McCaskill Angry with Her Party as She Departs Senate — Sen. Claire McCaskill is leaving the Senate after losing her re-election bid to state Attorney General Josh Hawley by 6 points earlier this month, but the Missouri Democrat isn't heading out on a whimper.
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Peter Granitz / NPR:
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America
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Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens' 2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse — In the aftermath of election night 2018, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a column arguing that the Democrats had kind of blown it. Under the headline “The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats,” …
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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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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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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
On the Trump-Mood Beat — But Why? — “Let's start with the state of Donald Trump,” Fox News's Chris Wallace said at the outset of the president's latest on-camera interview, on Nov. 17, in the manner of a support-group facilitator pausing for a little check-in before an unpacking of recent events.
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
‘Tangled web’ in Bladen County has questions swirling about votes in the 9th District — Allegations of voting irregularities in and around Bladen County swirled on Thursday, with the North Carolina Democratic Party calling for an official hearing and a flurry of affidavits surfacing involving absentee ballots.
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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.
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Fox News:
Temple University stands by Marc Lamont Hill after CNN fires him for anti-Israel remarks — At least one person is somehow too polarizing for cable news, but apparently just fine for academia. — Temple University stood by Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, the same day he was fired from CNN …
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