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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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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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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
News networks should not air Trump Wall speech without fact-checking first — On the same day Donald Trump asked broadcast networks for air time, he attacked the news media as ‘the enemy of the people.’ — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he “will Address the Nation …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown — Mike Pence was set up to fail. — It seemed that way a lot over the past three weeks. In the days ahead of the federal funding deadline in December, it was the vice president who told Senate Republicans that the president would back a short-term spending bill to keep the government open.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's border address sparks extraordinary debate inside and outside TV networks
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
As shutdown effects loom for normal Americans, Trump is feeling pressure to solve the stalemate
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House GOP leaders fear support eroding for Trump's shutdown fight
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Undecided on Emergency Declaration for Border Wall, Officials Say
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Here's the offer Trump is making to Democrats to end the shutdown
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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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New York Times:
Bolton Walked Back Syria Statement. His Disdain for Debate Helped Produce It. — WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton found himself last weekend in a familiar but dangerous spot for any White House aide: cleaning up after his boss, President Trump, announced the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria …
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Turkish leader Erdogan scolds and snubs Bolton over Kurdish fighters — ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan scolded and snubbed visiting White House national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday, saying that he had made a “very serious mistake” by demanding protection for U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria.
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Erdogan Snubs Bolton Over Comments That Turkey Must Protect Kurds
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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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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Only six immigrants in terrorism database stopped by CBP at southern border in first half of 2018
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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Trump vs. Schumer and Pelosi — THE SPLIT SCREEN ... PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will give his first Oval Office address tonight. HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI and SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER will respond, from the Capitol. — THE BIG QUESTION …
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Ilya Somin / Reason:
Eminent Domain, Emergency Powers, and Trump's Wall — President Donald Trump claims he can use an “emergency” declaration to secure funding to use eminent domain to acquire land for his border wall, even without any additional congressional authorization. The validity of this claim is dubious at best.
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Andrea Pitzer / Washington Post:
If Trump declares a state of emergency, he might actually cause one
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Can Trump Build a Wall Under a National Emergency?
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Pence says Trump's wall claim was ‘impression’ — WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): — Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump's recent claim …
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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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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Receives New Filing in Apparent Mueller Case — A new U.S. Supreme Court filing suggests the public may soon get more information about a mystery case believed to be tied to the criminal investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Ginsburg misses second day in a row at Supreme Court
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Los Angeles Times:
Second body found in West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck — A man's body was found early Monday in the West Hollywood home of prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck, authorities said. — Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's West Hollywood station responded …
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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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Task & Purpose and The American Conservative
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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Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Corey Stewart, the firebrand Virginia Republican, will leave politics in December — Corey A. Stewart, the Republican firebrand whose fights to crack down on illegal immigration and preserve Confederate monuments reflected the nation's increasingly polarized political landscape …
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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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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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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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
'It's Just Too Much': A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane — MARIANNA, Fla. — A federal prison here in Florida's rural Panhandle lost much of its roof and fence during Hurricane Michael in October, forcing hundreds of inmates to relocate to a facility in Yazoo City, Miss., more than 400 miles away.
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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