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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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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.
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Comey Blasts GOP, ‘Lying’ Trump: ‘At Some Point Someone Has to Stand Up’
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Comey bashes GOP after latest closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Townhall
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The ‘Michael Flynn is an innocent hero’ conspiracy theory suffers a major setback
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Did Michael Flynn lie? Or did the FBI act improperly?
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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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.
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 …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise
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
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.
New York Times:
CBS Says Leslie Moonves Will Not Receive $120 Million Severance  —  The CBS Corporation, battered by scandal and facing a leadership vacuum, said its former chief executive, Leslie Moonves, misled the company about multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and tried to hide evidence …
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Jen Vafidis / CBS Corporation:
Statement from CBS Board of Directors
Discussion: NPR and CBS Los Angeles
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.
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
Natalie Delgadillo / 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 …
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 and Mediaite
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 …
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
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: twitchy.com and Breitbart
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Giuliani stumbles into admitting Trump's hush money payments were probably illegal  —  One comment Rudolph W. Giuliani made Sunday has been getting short shrift.  In one fell swoop, he offered a false legal argument that both watered down the Trump team's previous denials and — most important …
Discussion: AOL
The Daily Beast:
‘Vice,’ the Dick Cheney Biopic, Might Be the Worst Movie of the Year  —  Filmmaker Adam McKay's political satire, starring an unrecognizable Christian Bale, is getting major awards buzz.  But is it any good?  Marlow Stern and Kevin Fallon break it down.  —  Kevin: One of the last major …
Discussion: ELLE and The Week
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.
New York Times:
Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson wants his advertisers to know: ‘I like immigrants’  —  On Thursday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued that immigration has an undeniably negative impact on the U.S. economy.  Then he veered into the gutter: “It's indefensible, so nobody even tries to defend it.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Salon, Breitbart and Vox
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars  —  Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman  —  As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million …
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: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Russian disinformation during 2016 was worse than you thought  —  Two independent reports detail Russia's extensive use of social media to manipulate American voters.  NBC's Ken Dilanian and former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts join Ali Velshi to talk about the Russian strategy.
Cheryl Wischhover / Vox:
How spray-on hair does (and doesn't) work  —  In case Stephen Miller has you wondering.  —  On Sunday, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller appeared on Face the Nation.  His contentious interview included the assertion that President Donald Trump was quite willing to shut down the government …
Discussion: twitchy.com and CBS News
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 …
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
“Men for Others, My Ass”: After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep's Culture of Omertà  —  For generations, the renowned Jesuit prep school groomed its students to live up to the mantra “men for others.”  But after Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, the school and its alumni are contending with other demons.
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 …
 
 
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Supporters of criminal justice reform bill warn of ‘poison pills’ as legislation heads for Senate floor
Discussion: Washington Post
Tosten Burks / SPIN:
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Most teen drug use is down, but officials fret vaping boom
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right
NBC News:
New White House legal team gears up for House investigations
Wall Street Journal:
Jailed Women's Rights Activists Tell Saudi Investigators of Torture
Bloomberg:
Trump Opposes Short-Term Funding to Avoid Shutdown, Source Says
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Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
Trump offering farmers extra $4.9 billion in trade relief
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Who's Equipped to Hold the Trump Coalition Together?
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Power Line
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
These Democrats Will Soon Have the Power to Investigate the White House. How Far Will They Go?
John Harwood / CNBC:
Most Americans want action on climate change. Republicans are the exception: Poll
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
California Upends 2020 Democratic Primary Calendar
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

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