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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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Ken White / The Atlantic:
Note to Michael Flynn: Federal Court Is Not Twitter — A muscular public relations strategy is often a terrible litigation strategy. — Attorney and former federal prosecutor — Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn on Tuesday got an unpleasant lesson on the difference between …
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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 …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump backers just had their anti-Mueller hopes and dreams dashed
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Judge's accusations mar Michael Flynn sentencing hearing
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'I'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain': Veteran judge upends hopes of Trump allies as he spotlights Flynn's misdeeds
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New York Times:
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants — Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed. — For years, Facebook gave some of the world's largest technology companies …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Court orders company to comply with special counsel subpoena in mystery grand jury appeal — (CNN)Four days after attorneys secretly argued over a grand jury subpoena suspected to be related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Washington's Mystery Witness Turns Out to Be a Corporation, Not a Person — WASHINGTON — A mystery witness fighting a secret fight over a sealed subpoena with a prosecutor who may be Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the Trump-Russia affair, turns out to be a corporation owned …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Appeals Court Upholds Grand Jury Subpoena In Secret Mueller-Linked Case
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Washington Post:
Senate overwhelmingly backs overhaul of criminal justice system — The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping overhaul of the criminal justice system, after a remarkable political shift from Republicans who voted in large numbers to save money by reducing prison sentences …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill — WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the most substantial changes in a generation to the tough-on-crime prison and sentencing laws that ballooned the federal prison population and created a criminal justice system …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate approves Trump-backed criminal justice overhaul
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The Trump Foundation Gets Put to Sleep — New York's attorney general dissolves the president's personal piggy bank, but a lawsuit against the faux charity alleging fraud continues. — The Trump Foundation, a tiny New York outfit masquerading as a philanthropy but operating, essentially …
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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
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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 …
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.
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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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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Trump signed letter of intent for Trump Tower Moscow project despite Giuliani insisting he didn't — Giuliani changes Trump Tower Moscow timelines — (CNN)A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia …
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 …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
All 83 Of The Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Were Dismissed Because He's On The Supreme Court Now — WASHINGTON — All of the ethics complaints filed against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation proceedings were dismissed on Tuesday after a panel of federal judges concluded …
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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 …
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops. — Three weeks into his new job, Paul McCowns was ready to cash his first paycheck. — There were no issues when he first entered a Huntington Bank branch in Brooklyn, Ohio, on Dec. 1. The bank asked for two forms of ID …
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Shannon Houser / Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH:
Cleveland man alleges racial profiling after bank refuses to cash check, calls 911
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New York Times:
Hacked European Cables Reveal a World of Anxiety About Trump, Russia and Iran — WASHINGTON — Hackers infiltrated the European Union's diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles …
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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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 …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Putting the 2020 Democrats into tiers
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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 …
Marissa J. Lang / Washington Post:
Rats are everywhere in D.C. Even on the White House lawn. — The District for years has been plagued by a growing mischief in its midst. Rats — the four-legged, bewiskered kind — have been spotted roaming the streets, scurrying across alleys and eating their way through trash cans.
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed News:
Another Migrant Girl Nearly Died After She Was Detained In New Mexico By The Border Patrol — LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO — A young girl who was in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection went into cardiac arrest in November at a hospital in El Paso where she was resuscitated …
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