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Washington Post:
In a rare move, Mueller's office denies BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie about Moscow project — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's office on Friday denied an explosive report by BuzzFeed News that his investigators had gathered evidence showing President Trump directed his former lawyer …
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
What happened to Michael Cohen? Mystery ex-Trump fixer arrives at home with apparent black eye and arm in sling hours after bombshell report that president ordered him to LIE to Congress — Longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arrived at his Manhattan apartment with was treated at a New York hospital with his left arm covered
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Washington Press, Axios, CNN, The Gateway Pundit and What The Fuck …
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Mueller's Office Disputes BuzzFeed Report That Trump Told Cohen To Lie To Congress — The office of special counsel Robert Mueller used a rare statement on Friday night to dispute the report by BuzzFeed News that President Trump had instructed his former lawyer to lie to Congress.
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Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Conservative News Today and Raw Story
Fox News:
Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
CNN And MSNBC Repeatedly Floated Impeachment Over Disputed BuzzFeed Report — CNN and MSNBC collectively used the word “impeach” nearly 200 times on Friday before the Special Counsel's office disputed a bombshell report by BuzzFeed News. — According to a Daily Caller review …
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NB Blog and Mueller's Office …
New York Times:
Mueller Statement Disputes Report That Trump Directed Cohen to Lie
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Senate panel subpoenas Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi
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emptywheel:
Compromise: Before Trump Won His First Primary, Putin Collected His First Receipt
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The Economist, RAPPLER, USA Today, New York Times, Above the Law and Raw Story
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Trump says he'll make “major announcement” about border — President Trump said on Twitter that he will be making a “major announcement” about the southern border and the government shutdown on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. — “I will be making a major announcement concerning the Humanitarian Crisis …
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Conservative News Today, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Raw Story, KTLA, Deadline, Jamie Dupree - AJC, Chicks On The Right and Townhall
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CNN:
Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end shutdown, not declare national emergency, in Saturday speech, official says — (CNN)President Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats another proposal to end the shutdown when he addresses the nation from the White House on Saturday afternoon …
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Denver Post, The Week and Raw Story
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Trump says he will make a ‘major’ announcement on Saturday about border and shutdown — President Donald Trump said he will make a “major” announcement on Saturday about the border and ongoing government shutdown. — The president did not provide any further details on what he would discuss …
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Shareblue Media, Joe.My.God., Liberty Unyielding, AOL and Shakesville
Nancy Cook / Politico:
‘Theater of the absurd’: How the shutdown's bleakest week unfolded for Trump — President Donald Trump met with a group of House lawmakers on Wednesday to talk about ending the month-long government shutdown. But he was more focused on the two people who weren't in the room: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
White House pushes long odds strategy for wall
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ABC News, Breitbart, US Macmillan and Axios
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
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Political Wire, The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Conservative News Today, ABC News, Townhall and The Daily Caller
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Graham criticizes Trump canceling Pelosi trip as ‘inappropriate’
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Power Line, VICE News and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department's Reversal on Online Gambling Tracked Memo From Adelson Lobbyists — Analysis sent to Justice Department argued that 2011 opinion that helped online gambling was wrong — The legal reasoning behind the Justice Department's unusual reversal this week of an opinion …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen — Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.
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USA Today, Raw Story, Home Page Rotator and CNN
New York Times:
Americans Killed in Syria Were No Strangers to War — The four Americans who were killed by a suicide bomber in Syria on Wednesday were no strangers to America's war zones overseas. — One was a top military linguist who worked closely with the National Security Agency and was on her eighth deployment.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Mnuchin Flew to L.A. on Private Jet of Billionaire Michael Milken — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin flew from Washington to Los Angeles this month on the private aircraft of Michael R. Milken, the billionaire “junk bond” king who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in prison.
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Raw Story
Jeff Carlson / theepochtimes.com:
Transcripts of Former Top FBI Lawyer Detail Pervasive Abnormalities in Trump Probe — Former top FBI attorney James Baker admitted to House lawmakers in October last year that the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was riddled with abnormalities.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Beware the permanent exclusive — Bloomberg Businessweek spent more than a year reporting on an alleged breach of U.S. computer infrastructure by China — a hardware hack supposedly affecting Apple, Amazon, Supermicro and nearly 30 other companies. That story was published on Oct. 4 under the headline …
Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
2020 WATCH: Gavin Newsom Is Running Facebook Ads in Ohio, Florida & Other Swing States — From January 12 to 16, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ran Facebook ads that were focused on list building in Ohio, Florida, and other swing states. — The newly sworn-in governor of California …
NBC News:
50,000 Coast Guard retirees at risk of not receiving pension checks during shutdown — It's a shame that Congress and the president “can't see the pain and damage they're causing to thousands of people,” one Coast Guard retiree said to NBC News. — The 50,000 retired members of the U.S. Coast Guard …
France 24:
Same old elite? Macron's ‘revolution’ fails with fed up French — Jean-Baptiste Moreau, a farmer who splits his time between parliament and his cow sheds, thought he would be part of the solution to France's political problems when he was elected. — The 41-year-old won a seat in parliament …
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Why can't Trump make deals? No one trusts him anymore … Sen. Mitch McConnell was jolted with a fresh reminder of President Trump's capriciousness last month: The majority leader persuaded Republican colleagues to take a politically difficult vote to temporarily fund the government …
Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis newscaster apologizes for inserting slur into Martin Luther King Jr.'s name on air — ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis newscaster apologized on air Thursday morning, saying that his mispronunciation of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name that included a racial slur was “not intentional in any way.”
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Advisers to former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz are looking at him running as an independent for president in 2020 — Advisers to former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz have been exploring the possibility of launching an independent bid for the White House in 2020, according to two people who have been informed of the discussions.
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Joe.My.God.
Ben Adler / NPR:
Defying Trump Administration, Calif. Offers Federal Workers Unemployment Benefits — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration has told states they can't offer unemployment benefits to federal employees who are required to report to work without pay during the government shutdown.
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IJR, The Democrats and Politico
Stephanie Maida / Guest of a Guest:
Upper East Side Restaurant Nello Bans Single Women From Eating At The Bar — Because, apparently, the owners consider all of us escorts, and they have “special” seating rules for them. — And yes, this is as disgustingly ridiculous as it sounds, so let's backtrack.
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Republican Congressman: Trump's Border Crisis Is a ‘Myth’ — A conversation with Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who knows the border better than most of his colleagues — WASHINGTON — Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump.
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Brian Kahn / Earther:
TV News Coverage of Climate Change Somehow Got Even Worse Last Year — That Sunday morning TV news shows suck is not exactly a secret. But they've reached a new level of suck when it comes to climate change. — Despite Chuck Todd spending a whole episode of Meet the Press talking climate …
Jen Kirby / Vox:
9 experts on Theresa May's “Plan B” and what's next for Brexit — The United Kingdom still doesn't have a plan for how to break up with the European Union. — Prime Minister Theresa May returns to Parliament with her so-called “Plan B” for Brexit on Monday, not even a week …
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