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Washington Post:
Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian employee, according to court filing — Paul Manafort shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a former employee whom the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing.
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New York Times:
Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Data With Russian Associate, Prosecutors Say — WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort shared Trump campaign polling data with an associate tied to Russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign, prosecutors alleged, according to a court filing unsealed on Tuesday.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, Taylor Marsh and The Mahablog
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Manafort accused by Mueller of sharing 2016 polling data with Russian linked to Moscow intelligence
Manafort accused by Mueller of sharing 2016 polling data with Russian linked to Moscow intelligence
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POLITICUSUSA
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A new link between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence that's more evocative than definitive
A new link between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence that's more evocative than definitive
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Axios
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Manafort Shared Trump-Campaign Polling Data with Russian Associate, Prosecutors Claim
Manafort Shared Trump-Campaign Polling Data with Russian Associate, Prosecutors Claim
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RedState
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Manafort allegedly lied about sharing 2016 polling data with Russian operative
Manafort allegedly lied about sharing 2016 polling data with Russian operative
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Paul Manafort shared campaign polling data with a ‘Russian spy’ …
Paul Manafort shared campaign polling data with a ‘Russian spy’ …
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New York Times:
Trump Invites TV Representatives to Lunch Ahead of His Prime-Time Speech — WASHINGTON — President Trump has invited representatives from cable and broadcast news channels to an off-the-record lunch at the White House ahead of his prime time speech Tuesday night, an address in which he is expected …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
As shutdown effects loom for normal Americans, Trump is feeling pressure to solve the stalemate
As shutdown effects loom for normal Americans, Trump is feeling pressure to solve the stalemate
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NBC News, The Nation, Washington Post, Law & Crime and Hot Air
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
GOP in the dark as Trump weighs emergency declaration
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Undecided on Emergency Declaration for Border Wall, Officials Say
Trump Undecided on Emergency Declaration for Border Wall, Officials Say
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Vanity Fair, Axios, Vox, TheStreet, Talking Points Memo, illegal immigration …, Breitbart, Patterico's Pontifications and Washington Post
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump to argue national security ‘crisis’ at southern border in prime-time address
Trump to argue national security ‘crisis’ at southern border in prime-time address
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA, Media Matters for America and Axios
Mike Allen / Axios:
The next juicy White House memoir comes out in 3 weeks, and ABC scored the first interview with its author
The next juicy White House memoir comes out in 3 weeks, and ABC scored the first interview with its author
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Joe.My.God.
Dara Lind / Vox:
Here's the offer Trump is making to Democrats to end the shutdown
Here's the offer Trump is making to Democrats to end the shutdown
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NBC News, Washington Post and Politico
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court turns down mysterious Mueller subpoena fight — The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a mysterious subpoena fight that apparently involved an unidentified foreign-government-owned company and special counsel Robert Mueller. — Last month, the unknown firm asked …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Receives New Filing in Apparent Mueller Case
Supreme Court Receives New Filing in Apparent Mueller Case
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SCOTUSblog, Raw Story, BloombergQuint and Shakesville
Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation from ‘Country A’ fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation
Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation from ‘Country A’ fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Ginsburg misses second day in a row at Supreme Court
Ginsburg misses second day in a row at Supreme Court
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That Shows Kremlin Ties — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower …
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Washington Post:
Russian lawyer at Trump Tower meeting charged in separate case — A Russian lawyer whose role at a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower has come under scrutiny from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was charged Tuesday in a separate case with obstructing justice in a money-laundering investigation.
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Raw Story
DailySabah:
A soft coup against Donald Trump — If U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton thought yesterday's visit was going to be a walk in the park, he must have had a rude awakening thanks to the lukewarm reception in the Turkish capital Ankara. In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea …
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The Right Scoop and New York Times
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Turkish leader Erdogan scolds and snubs Bolton over Kurdish fighters
Turkish leader Erdogan scolds and snubs Bolton over Kurdish fighters
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New York Times, Associated Press, Lawfare, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, NPR, The American Conservative, Hit & Run and TheBlaze
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed — WASHINGTON — America's carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in eight years, according to a preliminary estimate published Tuesday. — Strikingly, the sharp uptick in emissions occurred …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. Downgraded E.U.'s Diplomatic Status (but Didn't Say Anything) — BRUSSELS — The Trump administration downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union's delegation to the United States last year without making a formal announcement or informing the bloc about the change, a European official said on Tuesday.
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Joe Bruno / WSOC-TV:
Emergency Exit: Mark Harris trips alarm trying to evade Channel 9 in uptown — CHARLOTTE, N.C. - After Republican 9th Congressional District candidate Mark Harris finished addressing Mecklenburg County Republicans at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center Monday night, reporters …
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Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Political Wire, twitchy.com and Talking Points Memo
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Kellyanne Conway Corrects Sarah Sanders' Border Terrorist Claim: ‘Unfortunate Misstatement’ — Kellyanne Conway said her colleague, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, made an “unfortunate misstatement” on illegal immigration at the border on Fox News.
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Law & Crime, Washington Post, Contemptor, Splinter and Vox
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
ABC's Jon Karl Grills VP Pence on Trump's Lies About Immigration: ‘This is About Credibility!’ — Vice President Mike Pence gave an interview to ABC's Jon Karl on Tuesday, during which, he was pressed hard on President Donald Trump's credibility amid the ongoing immigration debate.
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Joe.My.God. and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone — T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers' location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to posses it, letting them track most phones in the country.
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Was Just Handed a Chance to Supercharge Voter Suppression in 2020 — In a short unpublished opinion so far garnering only slight media attention, the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit decided on Monday what may be one of the most consequential cases poised to affect the 2020 elections.
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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
U.S. envoy working on Qatar dispute resigns from State Department — Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general and former head of U.S. Central Command who has been working as an envoy for the Trump administration to resolve a dispute with Qatar, has resigned from his position with the State Department.
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CNN, Task & Purpose, Al Jazeera and The American Conservative
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Inside Facebook's ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time — More than a dozen former Facebook employees detailed how the company's leadership and its performance review system has created a culture where any dissent is discouraged.
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Andrea Pitzer / Washington Post:
If Trump declares a state of emergency, he might actually cause one — President Trump recently announced that he could “call a national emergency” to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Despite his assertions to the contrary, no national security crisis exists at the border.
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Mark Zuckerberg:
Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn something new. I've built an AI for my home, run 365 miles, visited every US state, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin. — Last year, I focused almost all my time on addressing important issues around elections, speech, privacy, and well-being.
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TMZ.com:
R. Kelly Under Criminal Investigation in Georgia Thanks to ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ — EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — R. Kelly is being criminally investigated in Georgia — and it's all because of Lifetime's docuseries ... TMZ has learned. — Sources connected to the case tell us …
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Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Trolls and Grifters: David Reaboi and Charlie Kirk Edition — “The crazies have started rolling into Kandahar like it's a f—king bathtub drain.” — It is axiomatic that while change creates opportunity, chaotic change creates the most dramatic opportunities for the most unsavory actors.
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Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Gavin McInnes' Wife Threatens Neighbors Over ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ Signs — The Proud Boys founder's newest battleground is his neighborhood; his new enforcer is his wife, Emily McInnes. — Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes usually fights his own battles, by way of inciting his membership to commit acts of violence.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' assessment of their political ideology was unchanged in 2018 compared with the year prior when 35% on average described themselves as conservative, 35% as moderate and 26% as liberal.
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Hot Air, The Week, CNN and NTK Network
NBC New York:
NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All in Historic Surprise Announcement — It's not health insurance; it's the city paying for direct comprehensive care for those who can't afford it or are undocumented, a spokesman said — NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All
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