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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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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.
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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 …
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?
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Associated Press:
Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year's end
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Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Trump announces Army chief Mark Milley as pick for next Joint Chiefs chairman
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Washington Post
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Trump says John Kelly to leave chief of staff role by year end
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
Associated Press:
Closer legal peril for Trump in probes; he sees no collusion
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Lawfare:
‘Totally Clears the President’? What Those Cohen and Manafort Filings Really Say
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Mueller Investigation Nears the Worst Case Scenario
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New York Times:
The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House — Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How a chilling Saudi cyberwar ensnared Jamal Khashoggi
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Boston Magazine
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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BBC:
Yellow vest protest in Paris sees police detain hundreds
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New York Times:
Police Crack Down on ‘Yellow Vests’ in France With Tear Gas and Hundreds of Arrests
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Carol Matlack / Bloomberg:
Pro-Russia Social Media Takes Aim at Macron as Yellow Vests Rage
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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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