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5:25 PM ET, December 18, 2018

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Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions  —  President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology  —  One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor.  —  Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor?  It was early 2017.  Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump backers just had their anti-Mueller hopes and dreams dashed  —  Watch live video from washingtonpost on www.twitch.tv  —  On Saturday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro engaged in a bit of wishful fantasizing.  —  Earlier that week, Michael Flynn's attorneys seemed to imply that he was tricked into lying to the FBI.
Washington Post:
Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, scheduled to be sentenced  —  Under questioning from a federal judge, President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn conceded Tuesday he was aware lying to the FBI was a crime when he did so and declined to withdraw …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Judge Rips Flynn, Asks About Treason Ahead Of Sentencing For Lying To FBI
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Wonkette
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘You sold your country out!’ Judge delivers scathing smackdown of Michael Flynn during sentencing
Discussion: emptywheel and CANNONFIRE
NY State Attorney General:
A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities  —  News from the New York Attorney General's Office  —  Attorney General's Office Press Office / 212-416-8060  —  nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit  —  President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and give away its remaining funds amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The Trump Foundation Gets Put to Sleep
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
Washington Post:   Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit
Washington Post:
White House signals it will back down on President Trump's demand for border wall funding and avert a partial government shutdown  —  The Trump administration wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall money it wants, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
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Washington Post:
White House says it wants to avoid government shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wall  —  The White House wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall President Trump is demanding, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties  —  On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump.  Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Sykes / Axios:
White House asks federal agencies to contribute to border wall funding
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Arizona Republic:
Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain.  —  Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Arizona governor taps Martha McSally to fill Senate seat once held by McCain
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein ‘directed’ her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz  —  A second alleged trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein says the billionaire pedophile “directed” her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz — a claim the prominent attorney adamantly denies.
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Ken White / Popehat:
Alan Dershowitz Is Lying To You  —  Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law School professor and successful trial and appellate lawyer, is lying to you.  —  He's lying about American law — the subject he ostensibly teaches, the subject on which he is called upon as an expert — for partisan reasons …
Discussion: Raw Story, Hot Air, The Hill and Law & Crime
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
Penny Marshall, who played feisty Laverne in ‘Laverne & Shirley’ before directing movies, dies at 75  —  Penny Marshall, who costarred as a Milwaukee brewery worker in the top-rated 1970s and '80s sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming a director of hit movies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” has died.
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Anita Gates / New York Times:   Penny Marshall, TV Sitcom Star and Hollywood Director, Dies at 75
Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Backs Off Trump's Promise of 10% Middle-Class Tax Cut  — Tax focus will be on technical fixes, Treasury secretary says  — Trump floated idea of middle-class relief before elections  —  The Trump administration is setting aside a middle-class tax cut and planning to focus …
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“The Staff Is Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut”: Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness, More Departures—And Mueller  —  Javanka blocked Bannon ally David Bossie for chief of staff—but bigger problems are looming.  —  Donald Trump plans to head to Mar-a-Lago for a 16 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Wonkette
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow  —  New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations?  —  For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
Shannon Houser / Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH:
Cleveland man alleges racial profiling after bank refuses to cash check, calls 911  —  BROOKLYN, OH (WOIO) - A Cleveland man says he was racially profiled at a local branch when they called the cops on him for trying to cash a check.  —  Paul McCowns tells Cleveland 19 he went …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Root and Hill Reporter
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:   A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops.
Riley Snyder / The Nevada Independent:
Nevada becomes first state with majority female Legislature  —  The Legislature and guests look on during Gov. Sandoval's State of the State address on Jan. 17, 2017.  Photo by David Calvert  —  Nevada will become the first state in the country to have a majority female Legislature …
Discussion: Mother Jones
German Lopez / Vox:
The Trump administration just banned bump stocks for guns  —  More than a year after the Las Vegas mass shooting, bump stocks are officially set to become illegal.  —  President Donald Trump's administration has banned bump stocks, which effectively let semiautomatic weapons mimic machine guns.
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries  —  Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).  —  Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …
Washington Post:
An unseen opioid epidemic in the nation's capital  —  America's drug epidemic is commonly associated with rural towns and suburbs.  But more people died from opioid overdoses than homicides last year in the District of Columbia as local government officials looked the other way.
Guru Gowrappan / Verizon Fios & Custom TV:
Introducing Verizon Media Group  —  Verizon Media Group will replace the Oath brand, representing our strong alignment as a core pillar of Verizon's business.  —  I'm excited today to share that beginning January 8, 2019, Verizon Media Group will replace the Oath brand …
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Jenna Amatulli / HuffPost:
Here Are The Advertisers Boycotting Tucker Carlson's Show  —  The Fox News host is facing backlash after suggesting that immigrants make our country “poorer and dirtier and more divided” on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”  —  Fox News' Tucker Carlson is rapidly losing advertisers amid a controversy …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
New York Times assailed for Alice Walker interview endorsing ‘anti-Semitic’ conspiracy theorist  —  Critics call it anti-Semitic, saying it places Holocaust revisionism at the center of an odious and addled worldview.  Its title has been borrowed by followers of QAnon, a conspiracy movement …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine  —  President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.
Howard Berkes / NPR:
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners.  Regulators Could Have Stopped It … Greg Kelly's grandson, Caden, scampers to the tree-shaded creek behind his grandfather's house to catch crawdads, as Kelly shuffles along, trying to keep up.  Kelly's small day pack holds an oxygen tank with a clear tube clipped to his nose.
New Yorker:
Senator Amy Klobuchar on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump in 2020  —  As she mulls a run for the Presidency, the Minnesota lawmaker advises potential candidates, “You go not just where it's comfortable but where it's uncomfortable.”  —  Whether we like it or not, the 2020 race for President is on.
Robert Moore / Texas Monthly:
Thousands of Migrant Children Could Be Released With Trump's Major Policy Reversal  —  Federal officials have reversed course and announced they will no longer require fingerprints of potential sponsors for detained children.  —  In a major policy reversal, the Trump administration is changing …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
A mother's leap of faith at an African airport, and a 15-year mystery  —  The story of Tom and Maya and Zainab is about trust, about listening to your heart over your mind, and about that gut feeling you have when you meet a good person.  —  And it's a story that could've gone horribly wrong.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Says Strong Dollar Reflects Confidence in U.S. Economy
Discussion: Breitbart, CNBC and Wall Street Journal
Emery P. Dalesio / Associated Press:
N. Carolina gov. vetoing bill with congressional race redo
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Yes, Russian Trolls Helped Elect Trump
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Hill
Michael McFaul / Washington Post:
Why Vladimir Putin is a terrible strategist
Damon Linker / The Week:
The perils of our Great Awokening
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Right to bear ... nunchucks?  Federal judge strikes down ban on weapon as violation of Second Amendment
USA Today:
Poll: Most Americans don't believe Trump's denials, setting a rocky landscape ahead
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
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Lawrence Lessig / USA Today:
Democratic House will address most important civil rights issue in half century
Mark Rober / YouTube:
Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap
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Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

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