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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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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 …
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, Taylor Marsh, The Week and The Mahablog
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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Campaign Manager Gave Polling Data to Russian Agent — The idea that Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia always rested on an implausible scenario, in which every single one of the many trails connecting Trump Tower to Moscow ended short of contact.
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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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Russian Lawyer Linked To Trump Tower Meeting And Fusion GPS Is Charged In New York Case
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller believes Manafort fed information to Russian with intel ties
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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Trump to make public case for border wall but is not expected to declare emergency in Oval Office address
Trump to make public case for border wall but is not expected to declare emergency in Oval Office address
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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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump administration pushes shutdown food stamp crisis back a month
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“There Is No Endgame”: White House Aides Fear Trump Has Turned the Border Wall into His Alamo
“There Is No Endgame”: White House Aides Fear Trump Has Turned the Border Wall into His Alamo
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POLITICUSUSA, Law & Crime, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Post and Courier and New York Times
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Shutdown will not impact February food stamp benefits: USDA
Shutdown will not impact February food stamp benefits: USDA
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's job: Convince nation there really is crisis at border
Trump's job: Convince nation there really is crisis at border
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RedState, Washington Post and Daily Wire
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a racist. The White House response may have proved her point.
Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a racist. The White House response may have proved her point.
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Breitbart and Fox News Insider
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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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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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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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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Raw Story, BloombergQuint, Shakesville and SCOTUSblog
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
A growing number of Americans blame Trump for shutdown: Reuters-Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A growing proportion of Americans blame President Donald Trump for a partial government shutdown that will cut off paychecks to federal workers this week, though Republicans mostly support …
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Politico, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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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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Julie K. Brown / miamiherald:
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel tells staff he's being suspended over Parkland response — It appears that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is preparing to pack up his office. — The two-term sheriff, the object of fierce criticism over BSO's handling of the Parkland massacre …
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Hit & Run, Miami New Times, Townhall, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, TheBlaze, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
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.
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Why Men Find the New Congresswomen So Frightening — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib aren't just radicals—they also have institutional power. — There's an extraordinary scene in the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex, in which crusading civil rights …
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Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Trolls and Grifters: David Reaboi and Charlie Kirk Edition
Trolls and Grifters: David Reaboi and Charlie Kirk Edition
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The Hill, The Federalist, Washington Post, Washington Press and Hot Air
David Siders / Politico:
‘Not a whole lot of red lights’: Beto O'Rourke leaning toward 2020 run — Beto O'Rourke is leaning toward running for president, according to four people who have spoken with him or his advisers in recent days. — But for a presidential contender, his radio silence is becoming increasingly awkward.
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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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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Trump Reportedly Keeps Calling His National Security Advisor John Bolton ‘Mike’
Trump Reportedly Keeps Calling His National Security Advisor John Bolton ‘Mike’
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New York Times, The Week and Just Security
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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Hullabaloo and Politico
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Most Democrats identify as liberals for first time in Gallup poll — Most Democrats now identify as liberal rather than moderate or conservative, a Gallup poll released Tuesday found, marking the first time since the polling giant began asking the question in the 1990s.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains
U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains
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Hot Air, The Week, CNN and NTK Network
Stephanie Valera / Geek.com:
Rare Penny Found in Boy's Lunch Money Could Fetch Up to $1.7 Million in Auction — A rare 1943 copper Lincoln cent — found by a Massachusetts teenager in his change after he paid for lunch at a school cafeteria — is expected to fetch up to $1.7 million when it is auctioned off.
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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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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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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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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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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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: NC election fraud probed long before 2018 race — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Long before accusations of absentee ballot fraud in a small North Carolina county cast doubt on the results of a heated 2018 congressional race, a state elections investigator spent weeks probing whether …
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Washington Post:
How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money — The solicitations piled into voters' email accounts — sometimes multiple times a day. And they carried alarming messages, often in blaring capital letters. — “We're on the verge of BANKRUPTCY.”
Dara Lind / Vox:
What's actually happening at the US-Mexico border, explained — Beyond rhetoric and rebuttals, here's what you need to know. — President Trump wants you, and everyone else in America, to believe that the US-Mexico border isn't just in trouble but in crisis.