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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Mueller questions Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser — Second former employee of controversial data firm to be questioned by special counsel's inquiry into Russia collusion — A director of the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica, who appeared with Arron Banks …
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Axios
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
‘The Trump-Russia Story’: Cue the Stage Lights
CNN:
Police sources: New evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated attack — Chicago (CNN)Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation tell CNN that Chicago Police believe actor Jussie Smollett paid two men to orchestrate an assault on him that he reported late last month.
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CBS Chicago:
Jussie Smollett Case: Brothers Questioned By Police Were Paid $3,500 To Stage Attack, Which Was Rehearsed Days Before, Sources Say — CHICAGO (CBS) — Jussie Smollett paid two brothers to stage an attack against him, directed them to buy items used in the alleged assault and actually rehearsed it with them, sources say.
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Sara Dorn / Page Six:
Jussie Smollett hires Michael Cohen's criminal defense lawyer
Jussie Smollett hires Michael Cohen's criminal defense lawyer
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TheBlaze, National Review and TMZ.com
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Patrick Caddell, Self-Taught Pollster Who Helped Carter to White House, Dies at 68 — Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped send an obscure peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter to the White House, later became disillusioned with fellow Democrats and finally veered to advise supporters …
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Breitbart and Outside the Beltway
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
How Pat Caddell's Political Life Took Him From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump — The pollster who won Carter the White House and created Bulworth with Beatty ended his life a MAGA man. — I learned through the network of people who worked for Jimmy Carter that Pat Caddell …
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Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Patrick Caddell, pollster who helped Carter channel voter disaffection, dies at 68 — Patrick Hayward Caddell, a political pollster who advised several Democratic presidential candidates but became a pundit on conservative media late in his career, and who was a singular voice in favor …
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Press Herald:
Maine paid for 40 rooms at Trump hotel for LePage, staff — Newly released receipts reveal nearly a dozen trips to the president's luxury hotel, part of $170,000 in out-of-state travel by the former Maine governor in recent years. — AUGUSTA — Former Gov. Paul LePage and his staff members paid …
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Biden tells Europeans in Munich that America is ‘an embarrassment’ — MUNICH — Speaking on German soil 75 years after the U.S. and its allies prepared for D-Day, Joe Biden described America as “an embarrassment” and its trade policies “self-defeating.” — “The America I see values basic human decency …
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New York Times:
Heather Nauert Withdraws From Consideration as U.N. Ambassador
Heather Nauert Withdraws From Consideration as U.N. Ambassador
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Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Heather Nauert withdraws name from UN ambassador consideration
Heather Nauert withdraws name from UN ambassador consideration
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Washington Post, Politico, Townhall and Associated Press
New York Times:
Rift Between Trump and Europe Is Now Open and Angry — MUNICH — European leaders have long been alarmed that President Trump's words and Twitter messages could undo a trans-Atlantic alliance that had grown stronger over seven decades. They had clung to the hope that those ties would bear up under the strain.
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Dwight Garner / New York Times:
In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump's America — On the back cover of his new book, “The Threat: How the F.B.I. Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump,” Andrew G. McCabe looks preposterously fit (he competes in triathlons). His hands are at his hips, gunslinger style.
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The Hill
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Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
McCabe, Rosenstein and the real truth about the 25th Amendment coup attempt
McCabe, Rosenstein and the real truth about the 25th Amendment coup attempt
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RedState
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
In Trump's World, He Never Loses — His Rose Garden speech declaring a national emergency and his decades of self-aggrandizement are more closely related than you might think. — Hanging on a wall behind the omelet bar at President Donald Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida …
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Wall Street Journal and Mother Jones
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump bets on North Korea to break his losing streak — Stung by domestic defeat after a losing battle with Democrats in Washington, D.C., this winter, President Donald Trump hopes his negotiating skills can achieve better results some 8,000 miles away when he meets with North Korea's leader in Vietnam later this month.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The War That Wasn't: Trump Claims Obama Was Ready to Strike North Korea
The War That Wasn't: Trump Claims Obama Was Ready to Strike North Korea
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Common Dreams, Breitbart and Bloomberg
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
The Obama primary: Which Democrat can claim his legacy in 2020? … Sen. Kamala Harris has been called the “female Barack Obama.” Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke has been dubbed “Barack Obama, but white.” Sen. Cory Booker sings from the Obama hymnal of hope and optimism.
Bill Scher / Politico:
How Does a Straight White Male Democrat Run for President? — Of the nine candidates officially running in the Democratic presidential primary, only one is a heterosexual white man. And that guy, former Rep. John Delaney, generally polls somewhere between zero and 1 percent.