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5:55 PM ET, December 17, 2018

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New York Times:
Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans  —  The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard …
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Cindy Ma / The Computational Propaganda Project:
The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States  —  Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) launched an extended attack on the United States by using computational propaganda to misinform and polarize US voters.  This report provides the first major analysis of this attack based …
David McCabe / Axios:
Senate-commissioned reports show scale of Russian misinformation campaign
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Napolitano Corrects Wall Street Journal on Fox Business: FBI Agents Did Not Entrap Mike Flynn  —  Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano dismissed claims that FBI agents “entrapped” former national security adviser Michael Flynn when they interviewed him at the start of the Trump administration.
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The ‘Michael Flynn is an innocent hero’ conspiracy theory suffers a major setback
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
John Harwood / CNBC:   Most Americans want action on climate change. Republicans are the exception: Poll
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Did Michael Flynn lie? Or did the FBI act improperly?
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Comey Blasts GOP, ‘Lying’ Trump: ‘At Some Point Someone Has to Stand Up’
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey  —  A business partner of Michael Flynn is being charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for attempting to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States.
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Associated Press:
Flynn's ex-business associates charged with illegal lobbying
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
The New York Times Just Published An Unqualified Recommendation For An Insanely Anti-Semitic Book  —  The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, dubs the Talmud “among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,” and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK
Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Woody Allen's Secret Teen Lover Speaks: Sex, Power and a Conflicted Muse Who Inspired ‘Manhattan’  —  In 1976, 16-year-old model Babi Christina Engelhardt embarked on a hidden eight-year affair with the 41-year-old filmmaker that mirrors one of his most famous movies.
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Moving Toward An Unconventional Presidential Campaign.  Her Fans See “Bernie 2.0.”  —  Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic member of Congress from Hawaii, is known — insofar as she is known — for bucking her party.  She criticized President Barack Obama's handling of ISIS.
United States Senator Lamar Alexander:
Alexander Statement on 2020 Senate Election  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 17, 2018 - United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement:  —  “I will not be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020.
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Joel Ebert / The Tennessean:
Tennessee US Sen. Lamar Alexander will not seek re-election in 2020
Discussion: HuffPost and Conservative Review
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Lamar Alexander to exit polarized Senate: ‘I just wish it were easier’
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's high time for media to enter the No Kellyanne Zone — and stay there  —  Lies are coming at the American public in torrents — raining down on them everywhere they turn.  —  A report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and obtained by The Washington Post, made that breathtakingly clear over the weekend.
Discussion: Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Axios
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise  —  The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Mueller's probe is finished.  —  As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, they'll have to contend …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job  —  A children's speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin …
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Daily Beast and Splinter
Luciano Guerra / Washington Post:
I voted for Trump.  Now his wall may destroy my butterfly paradise.  —  The Republican party is abandoning the conservative principles I treasured.  —  Right now, in Mission, Tex., we don't worry about immigrants who crossed the border illegally or drug smugglers.
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations  —  WHILE POPULAR MEMORY today remembers Watergate as five DNC burglars leading inexorably to Richard Nixon's resignation two years later, history recalls that the case and special prosecutor's investigation at the time was much broader …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Pennsylvania meltdown triggers Republican alarms  —  PHILADELPHIA — A GOP implosion in Pennsylvania has Republicans alarmed about President Donald Trump's reelection prospects in a state that proved essential to his 2016 victory.  —  The enfeebled state party — still reeling …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Associated Press:
US sportswear traced to factory in China's internment camps  —  HOTAN, China (AP) — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China's far west.  Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe  —  The German Chancellor and other European leaders have run out of patience with the President.  —  This past July, on the final day of the nato summit in Brussels, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, proposed a closed-door emergency meeting.
Discussion: Politico
USA Today:
Americans' message to Washington on the looming shutdown: Don't  —  WASHINGTON — Americans have a clear message to Washington as the government hurtles toward a partial shutdown on Friday: Don't.  —  By a double-digit margin, 54 percent to 29 percent, those surveyed in a new USA TODAY …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Washington Times:   Time to finish the Wall
Lawrence S. Robbins / Politico:
How Trump Could Get Away With It  —  This weekend, President Donald Trump raged against Michael Cohen, calling his former lawyer and accuser a “rat” for cooperating with federal prosecutors.  Cohen has accused Trump of directing him to make secret hush-money payments to two women …
Todd May / New York Times:
Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?  —  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering.  —  Mr. May is a professor of philosophy at Clemson University.  —  There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human extinction.
Discussion: Breitbart
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
These Democrats Will Soon Have the Power to Investigate the White House.  How Far Will They Go?  —  In two weeks, congressional Democrats will return to Washington with the authority to investigate a White House that is suspected of foreign collusion, conflicts of interest and mismanagement of the federal government.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Mick Mulvaney in October 2016: Trump would be disqualified from office in an ‘ordinary universe’  —  (CNN)Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once said Donald Trump's past words and actions would disqualify him from becoming president in an “ordinary universe.”
Discussion: Contemptor
John Stanton / BuzzFeed News:
Border Patrol Tells Congressional Delegation It Can't Meet With Agents Who Detained 7-Year-Old  —  LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO — The Department of Homeland Security has told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that they will not be allowed to speak with Customs and Border Protection agents involved …
Natalie / DCist:
After Bloodbath, The National Zoo's Naked Mole-Rats Finally Choose Their Queen  —  At last, we've reached the conclusion of this scintillating drama: the National Zoo's naked mole-rat colony has chosen its queen.  —  In case you've been living under a rock, let us catch you up …
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
California Upends 2020 Democratic Primary Calendar  —  By moving its presidential primary to early March, California will force candidates to address West Coast issues  —  When Iowa Democrats hold their February 2020 presidential caucuses, millions of Californians will already have their primary ballots.
Jen Vafidis / CBS Corporation:
Statement from CBS Board of Directors  —  The Board of Directors of CBS has completed its investigation of former Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, CBS News, and cultural issues at CBS.  —  With regard to Mr. Moonves, we have determined that there are grounds to terminate for cause …
 
 
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Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
Trump offering farmers extra $4.9 billion in trade relief
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The Daily Beast:
‘Vice,’ the Dick Cheney Biopic, Might Be the Worst Movie of the Year
Discussion: ELLE and The Week
Jay Wallis / KVUE-TV:
Muslim group challenging Texas' ‘No Boycott of Israel’ law
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CAIR
Beth Musgrave / Lexington Herald-Leader:
AG Andy Beshear says he will fight to keep Affordable Care Act
Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg:
U.S. Student Loan Debt Sets Record, Doubling Since Recession
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Evangelical Writer Kisses An Old Idea Goodbye
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Who's Equipped to Hold the Trump Coalition Together?
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Power Line
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After the Fed's likely rate hike this week, all bets are off
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Michael Cohen Adviser Deals Major Blow To The Steele Dossier
Adam Wren / Indianapolis Monthly:
Pete Buttigieg Has His Eye On The Prize
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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