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5:30 PM ET, December 8, 2018

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New York Times:
John Kelly, Trump's Chief of Staff, to Leave White House  —  WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the retired Marine general tapped as chief of staff by President Trump last year to bring order to his chaotic White House, will leave the job by the end of the year, Mr. Trump said on Saturday …
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Axios:
Behind the scenes: Trump announces John Kelly's exit  —  After months of indecision and private negotiations, President Trump has announced his chief of staff John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year.  As we've previously reported, Trump has wanted to replace Kelly …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Chief of Staff John Kelly to leave White House by end of month, Trump says  —  President Trump confirmed Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly will leave by the end of the year, capping the retired Marine general's rocky tenure as the president's top aide.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
John Kelly Couldn't Fix the Trump Presidency  —  Under Kelly's guidance, the White House functioned more effectively than it had during the tenure of his predecessor—yet it still remained unfathomably chaotic.  —  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who served as Donald Trump's top adviser …
Discussion: Politico, Vox and KBZK
Reuters:
Trump to nominate Milley as next chairman of Joint Chiefs  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would nominate four-star Army General Mark Milley to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  —  Trump said on Twitter that Milley …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Ocasio-Cortez for 2028?
Associated Press:
Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year's end
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and The Daily Caller
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Trump announces Army chief Mark Milley as pick for next Joint Chiefs chairman
Discussion: Washington Post
Ken White / The Atlantic:
Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger  —  Federal prosecutors filed three briefs late on Friday portending grave danger for three men: the former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, the former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, and President Donald Trump.
Discussion: USAPP
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The Daily Beast:
Mueller Is Telling Us: He's Got Trump on Collusion  —  The special counsel is connecting the dots and it doesn't paint a pretty picture for Trump.  —  For nearly two years, since the U.S. intelligence community released its report on the Russian campaign to assist Donald Trump in the 2016 election …
Just Security:
Mueller's Roadmap: Major Takeaways from Cohen and Manafort Filings  —  Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and from the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed significant documents in the criminal cases of President Donald Trump's former personal attorney …
Discussion: Washington Post
Mike Allen / Axios:
When Russia approached, Trump officials gladly obliged  —  The flashing siren in the “known knowns” of the Russia probe is how often people close to Vladimir Putin approached people close to Donald J. Trump — and how often they gladly connected.  And then lied about it.
Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart and Politico
New York Times:
Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump?
Reuters:   Trump says prosecutors have found no evidence of Russia collusion
Associated Press:
Closer legal peril for Trump in probes; he sees no collusion
Discussion: National Review and FOX6Now.com
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How a chilling Saudi cyberwar ensnared Jamal Khashoggi
Discussion: Boston Magazine
Hisham Melhem / Deep State Radio Network:   Mohammed Bin Salman; A Prince Who Should Not Become A King
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet / New York Post:
In France, les deplorables strike back  —  PARIS — Glittering shops from Louis Vuitton to Dior are boarded up on both sides of the Champs-Élysées.  The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre will be closed.  Paris has hunkered down for the latest Yellow Saturday, the fourth in a row …
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New York Times:
Police Crack Down on ‘Yellow Vests’ in France With Tear Gas and Hundreds of Arrests
Carol Matlack / Bloomberg:
Pro-Russia Social Media Takes Aim at Macron as Yellow Vests Rage
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Calls Senator Richard Blumenthal ‘The Dick’ in Bizarre Tweets  —  After watching Senator Richard Blumenthal on TV, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack him again and nickname him “The Dick.”  —  Many times when Blumenthal has spoken out against Trump …
NBC News:
Man at the center of North Carolina election fraud allegations has complicated past  —  Leslie McCrea Dowless has been linked to past election fraud allegations and spent time in jail for insurance fraud  —  WASHINGTON — Leslie McCrae Dowless, the man at the center of election fraud allegations …
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Nick Ochsner / Popular Information:
Vice Chair of Bladen County Board of Elections abruptly resigns
Discussion: WRAL-TV
BuzzFeed News:
Millions Of Comments About The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Were Fake.  Now The Feds Are Investigating.  —  People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make.  Now the FBI is interested.  —  The Justice Department is investigating whether crimes …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump's favorite pollster was the least accurate in the midterms  —  (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is the theme to Love, American Style composed by Charles Fox and Arnold Margolin.  —  Number of the week: A new Marist College poll finds President Donald Trump's approval rating at 43% among registered voters.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
A Prominent White Supremacist Is An EMT In Virginia.  Now The State Is Investigating Him.  —  Alex McNabb, the host of a popular neo-Nazi podcast, regularly compares black patients to animals.  —  Alex McNabb, a white supremacist podcaster who works as an emergency medical technician in southern Virginia …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Home Run by Trump  —  In nominating William Barr for AG, the president could not have done better  —  In 2007, the Justice Department was in disarray.  Though it was largely exaggerated, a controversy over the firing of some United States attorneys, the intrusion of politics …
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Washington Post:
In corporate role, William P. Barr clashed with Justice Department that he now seeks to lead
 
 
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Bid To Reinstate A Ban On Asylum Has Been Denied By A Federal Appeals Court
Discussion: Splinter, CNN, Associated Press and Reuters
Duke Energy / News Center:
Duke Energy projects winter storm could result in 500,000+ power outages
Adam O'Neal / Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Bill Gates  —  How do poor countries get rich?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Mark Penn / Fox News:
House Democrats shouldn't impeach Trump - It will anger voters and the Senate won't remove him
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
McConnell resists pressure to move on criminal justice overhaul, angering some Republicans
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
Maggie Parker / Yahoo:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked for linking racism to climate change
Discussion: Chicks On The Right
Emily Holden / The Guardian:
Ex-EPA chief Scott Pruitt used personal email for government work
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Bloomberg
 Earlier Items: 
ICE:
ICE arrests 105 in New Jersey operation targeting criminal aliens and public safety threats
Discussion: Daily Wire and IJR
Samuel Oakford / The Atlantic:
The U.S. Is Paying More Than It Bargained for in the Yemen War
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Eric Trump Weighs In on Kellyanne Conway's Husband. He Doesn't Like Him.
Discussion: Chicks On The Right
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
GOP power grabs pour gas on ‘resistance’ in key Midwest states
Dana Carvey / New York Times:
Dana Carvey Remembers George Bush, From Muse to Friend
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
I'm So Sorry to Report that Ted Cruz's New Beard Looks Great
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Mattis Erupts Over Niger Inquiry and Army Revisits Who Is to Blame
Discussion: Task & Purpose
 

 
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