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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Mueller preparing end game for Russia investigation — WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors have told defense lawyers in recent weeks that they are “tying up loose ends” in their investigation, providing the clearest clues yet that the long-running probe into Russia's interference …
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Adam Schiff / USA Today:
Trump is compromised. What else is he hiding and who else knows about it? — Now we know Trump, like Flynn, was compromised by the Russians. Was the Moscow deal their only financial leverage over the president, or is there more? — CONNECT — For more than a century …
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Raw Story, Salon and Law & Crime
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Why Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Confessed to It All — Of all of President Trump's former associates who have come under scrutiny in the special counsel's Russia investigation, his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, has undertaken perhaps the most surprising and risky legal strategy.
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The Crime Report
Mikhaila Fogel / The Atlantic:
Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency — “Today is the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office,” said the legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin on CNN last Thursday. — “This is the beginning of the end for Trump,” declared Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general, on MSNBC.
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Mueller's office to recommend sentencing for ex-Trump aide Flynn — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office will make a sentencing recommendation for former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday, in a court filing that is expected to shed light …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn Report Expected to Shed Light on Mueller Probe — Filing Tuesday could say how the former Trump aide has helped the Russia investigation — WASHINGTON—A new filing Tuesday is expected to detail how former Trump adviser Mike Flynn has been helping federal investigators since pleading guilty …
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Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:
End to Manafort plea deal could put Palm Beach Gardens home at risk
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Washington Post:
Did Trump obstruct justice in public on Monday?
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CNN, CANNONFIRE and Lawfare
USA Today:
Maybe now we know why Donald Trump won't criticize Vladimir Putin: Today's talker
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The Guardian, HuffPost, Raw Story and LifeZette
NBC News:
Think President Trump seems rattled now? There may be more to come
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Political Wire, Washington Post, RAPPLER, The Guardian and Vox
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Republicans plan vote Tuesday on curbing powers of Gov.-elect Tony Evers, limiting early voting — MADISON - Wisconsin lawmakers are set to take up plans Tuesday to diminish the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general that brought opponents to the state Capitol this week …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP legislatures seek to cement Republican power — Republican legislators in several states are moving to cement their authority at the expense of Democrats who won November's midterm elections — before those Democrats are sworn into office. — In Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina …
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Mother Jones
Allan Smith / NBC News:
‘Banana republic dictators’: Democrats fume over last-minute GOP power-grabs in Wisconsin, Michigan
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Donald P. Moynihan / Washington Post:
Wisconsin Republicans are trying to subvert the will of the voters. They're part of a larger trend.
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republicans forge ahead with power-stripping bills
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Arlette Saenz / CNN:
Joe Biden believes he is the “most qualified person in the country to be president” — Biden: We must reset our nation's moral compass — (CNN)During a stop for his book tour in Missoula, Montana, Monday night, former Vice President Joe Biden discussed his 2020 prospects …
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Biden: ‘I think I am the most qualified person in the country to be president’
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden says he's ‘the most qualified person in the country’ to be president
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Political Wire
Karen Ruiz / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Get this b***h under control!’ Joy Behar tears into Meghan McCain off-air after the conservative host lashed out at her for throwing shade on President Trump during The View's tribute to George H. W. Bush — Whoopi Goldberg was forced to cut to commercial break during another …
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Joe Bruno / WSOC-TV:
Channel 9 uncovers similarities between absentee ballots in U.S. House District 9 race — BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. - Channel 9 was back in Bladen County, North Carolina Monday, tracking down people involved in the controversy surrounding mail-in-absentee ballots in the U.S. House District 9 election.
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Reuters:
Macron makes U-turn on fuel-tax increases in face of ‘yellow vest’ protests — PARIS (Reuters) - France's prime minister on Tuesday suspended planned increases to fuel taxes for at least six months in response to weeks of sometimes violent protests, the first major U-turn …
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James McAuley / Washington Post:
France suspends fuel tax after weeks of unrest
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
France Suspends Fuel Tax Increase That Spurred Violent Protests
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Ruth Graham / Slate:
Don't Spend Your Emotional Energy on Sully H.W. Bush — In January 2009, a pilot named Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger steered his struggling aircraft to a safe landing in the Hudson River and became a national hero. Almost 10 years later, a dog named for the pilot has become a beloved “hero” …
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New York Times:
Manafort Tried to Broker Deal With Ecuador to Hand Assange Over to U.S. … GLOBAL ECONOMY — Despite Trade Truce, Trump Chooses Hard-Liner for Talks With China … Wynn Resorts was one of the biggest beneficiaries from the trade truce between the U.S. and China.
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's $21 trillion mistake — “$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions ‘could not be traced, documented, or explained.’ $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.”
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump handles Bush's death with abnormal normality — A taboo-busting president who has often trashed the Bush clan observes traditional norms of etiquette after its patriarch's passing. — For President Donald Trump, there was once no worse insult than being “a Bushie.”
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Jolyon Maugham / The Guardian:
Britain can legally cancel Brexit. That's EU advice - but will parliament agree? — A senior adviser to the EU court of justice has said the UK can revoke article 50. The path to remain is hard - but now clearer — We can cancel Brexit. That's what the advocate general to the court …
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Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
EU top lawyer: UK can unilaterally withdraw Article 50
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Kate Riga / Associated Press:
With State Official's Fate Looking Grim, NH Could Lose First In Nation Status — CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The longtime protector of the New Hampshire presidential primary could get ousted by the Legislature this week despite concerns from his supporters that replacing him could jeopardize the state's coveted first-in-the-nation status.
Associated Press:
Politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein settles suit, averting victim testimony — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A last-minute settlement has been reached in Florida in a long-running lawsuit involving a politically connected financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls.
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Axios and The Daily Beast
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Bruce Springsteen doesn't think anyone can topple Trump in 2020. Here's why. — WASHINGTON — Bruce Springsteen tried to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in 2016. Now he worries no one can defeat the president the next time. — “I don't see anyone out there at the moment …
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Black Man Killed by Police in Alabama Was Shot From Behind, Autopsy Shows — A black man killed by the police in an Alabama mall in November was shot three times from behind, according to a forensic examination commissioned by the man's family. — The finding, announced in a news conference on Monday …
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Tumblr's Porn Ban Is The Middle Of The End Of The Old Internet — Today, Tumblr announced it will ban all adult content (with a few exceptions for wholesome nudes) starting in two weeks. After that, porn will become invisible to everyone but the owner of the blog where it's posted.
Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
MERKEL URGED EU COUNTRIES NOT TO MOVE EMBASSIES TO JERUSALEM — Nuclear accord and settlement labels caused Germany to deny Jerusalem as Israel's capital. — The founding director of the European Coalition for Israel in Brussels, Tomas Sandell, announced in a shocking video message …
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Trump's alienation of younger voters is a generational gamble for GOP — (CNN)The sharp turn against the Republican Party by young people in the 2018 election may be only the overture to an even greater political risk for the GOP in 2020. — Both historical voting patterns …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
‘A kind of dark realism’: Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve — In the daunting math of climate action, individual choices and government policies aren't adding up. — Solar panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride the plains and oceans …
Julianna Goldman / The Atlantic:
It's Almost Impossible to Be a Mom in Television News — It was the only time I had cried in front of one of my bosses at CBS News. — As we sat in my office, door closed, I was struggling to explain why I was uncertain whether to sign a new three-year contract with the network.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Lack of minority staffers threatens to hobble 2020 Democrats — Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in the early stages of assembling campaign staffs are running into an uncomfortable truth: Among the already small pool of capable operatives, there's an even smaller pool of nonwhite campaign managers and senior advisers.
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