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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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
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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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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ThinkProgress, Breitbart and The Bell — Eng
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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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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BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow
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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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Washington Post:
Trump's acting attorney general once referred to the president's behavior as ‘a little dangerous’ and ‘a little outlandish’ — A review of hundreds of public comments by acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker shows that, while he has primarily functioned as a defender of President Trump …
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Raw Story
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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Talking Points Memo
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Six White House officials reprimanded for violating the Hatch Act — Six White House officials violated a federal law that prohibits public employees from conducting political activity in their official roles when they used their official Twitter accounts to send or display political messages …
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act
Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act
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New York Times, IJR and The Gateway Pundit
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
Six Officials Reprimanded for Hatch Act Violations Following CREW Complaints
Six Officials Reprimanded for Hatch Act Violations Following CREW Complaints
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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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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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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Politico:
Strongmen strut their stuff on G20 stage
Strongmen strut their stuff on G20 stage
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Mother Jones, Political Wire, New Republic and IJR
Karen Elliott House / Wall Street Journal:
Rethinking Saudi Arabia
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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Dylan Scott / Vox:
There's something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina — State officials refuse to certify the results of a US House race in North Carolina. It's a wild story. — North Carolina election officials have declined to certify the winner of the state's Ninth …
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Associated Press:
URGENT: Powerful Quakes Buckle Alaska Roads, Trigger Tsunami Warning — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (RACHEL D'ORO and DAN JOLING) — Anchorage, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7. and 5.8 rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday morning in Anchorage, prompting people to run …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Large earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska, causing ‘major infrastructure damage’: Officials
Large earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska, causing ‘major infrastructure damage’: Officials
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Peter Granitz / NPR:
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates. — McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007.
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Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Democrat Claire McCaskill Angry with Her Party as She Departs Senate
Democrat Claire McCaskill Angry with Her Party as She Departs Senate
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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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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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Associated Press:
DC clerk stalls marriage over ‘foreign’ New Mexico ID card — LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man's state driver's license as he sought a marriage license because she and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country.
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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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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.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA watchdog clears former policy chief Samantha Dravis of charges she skipped work — Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) had demanded the inquiry in March, suggesting she did not perform her duties for three months. — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general concluded …
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