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Associated Press:
Records show FBI was probing Michael Cohen long before raid — NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI was investigating President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer for nearly a year before agents raided his home and office, documents released Tuesday show.
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New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Emails Were Sought by Special Counsel in July 2017, Documents Show — Federal authorities began investigating the email accounts of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, as early as July 2017, only months after Mr. Trump took office, according to documents unsealed on Tuesday.
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Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Preet Bharara Expects a ‘Lengthy, Detailed’ Mueller Report — Preet Bharara decided not to do the easy thing and write a made-for-TV book about the sprawling legal inquiries into Donald Trump's campaign and presidency. — But that's all anyone wants to ask the former U.S. attorney …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller's office began investigating Michael Cohen as early as July 2017
Mueller's office began investigating Michael Cohen as early as July 2017
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One America News Network
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Nunes sues Twitter, some users, seeks over $250M alleging anti-conservative ‘shadow bans,’ smears — California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes filed a major lawsuit seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages against Twitter and a handful of its users on Monday …
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The Daily Beast:
Rep. Devin Nunes Files $250M Defamation Lawsuit Against Twitter, Two Anonymous Twitter Accounts — Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) sued Twitter, two anonymous Twitter accounts, and political consultant Liz Mair for more than $250 million, alleging that the defendants engaged in “negligence …
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Washington Post, Daily Wire, Politico, Engadget, Mediaite, Contemptor and Washington Times
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Devin Nunes Files Bonkers $250 Million Lawsuit Over Mean Tweets — Rep. Devin Nunes, who is bringing a $250 million suit against Twitter because he has been the subject of mean tweets, is not an obscure kook. He is a famous and highly influential kook who chairs the House Intelligence Committee.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and RedState
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
‘Devin Nunes’ Cow' reacts to lawsuit: 'I'm not quitting my day job'
‘Devin Nunes’ Cow' reacts to lawsuit: 'I'm not quitting my day job'
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Devin Nunes Sues Twitter for Allowing Accounts to Insult Him
Devin Nunes Sues Twitter for Allowing Accounts to Insult Him
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David Enrich / New York Times:
A Mar-a-Lago Weekend and an Act of God: Trump's History With Deutsche Bank — As President Trump delivered his inaugural address in 2017, a slight woman with feathered gray hair sat listening, bundled in a hooded white parka in a fenced-off V.I.P. section. Her name was Rosemary T. Vrablic.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump officials prepared to stonewall Democratic oversight demands — House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to the White House last month demanding information about President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to fund the construction of a southern border wall.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Andrew Yang, Upstart Democratic Presidential Candidate, Comes Out Against Circumcision — A candidate known for putting out position statements on virtually every policy adds a rather intimate one to the list. — Outsider presidential hopeful Andrew Yang's latest idea is both literally …
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Axios and Power Line
Wall Street Journal:
How the National Enquirer Got Bezos' Texts: It Paid $200,000 to His Lover's Brother — Michael Sanchez sold the billionaire's secrets to American Media, the Enquirer's publisher, said people familiar with the matter — Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and his allies have publicly speculated …
New York Times:
‘Be Weak & Die!’ Seeking Clues Behind Trump's Weekend Twitter Barrage — WASHINGTON — There was no golf. There were no meetings. There were no activities, other than a rare visit to church. So President Trump did what he could do: He tweeted. — Since his election …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
George Conway, husband of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, has an urgent warning about the president's mental health — Kellyanne Conway's husband, George Conway, was once seemingly on his way to a top role in the Trump administration. — Now he has become one of the president's most outspoken critics …
CNN:
White House expects to see Mueller findings before they go to Congress — Washington (CNN)White House lawyers expect to have an opportunity to review whatever version of Robert Mueller's report Attorney General Bill Barr submits to Congress before it reaches lawmakers and the public …
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Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo News:
Last prosecutor on Michael Flynn case departs Mueller's office
Last prosecutor on Michael Flynn case departs Mueller's office
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Fox News, Conservative News Today and Axios
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun — Does the ubiquitous dance troupe really present five thousand years of civilization reborn? — Just as it is impossible for me to articulate with any certainty the moment I entered adulthood or began to believe that human life …
Washington Post:
How social media's business model helped the New Zealand massacre go viral — The ability of Internet users to spread a video of Friday's slaughter in New Zealand marked a triumph — however appalling — of human ingenuity over computerized systems designed to block troubling images of violence and hate.
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New York Times, SFist, Engadget and Fox News
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Chris Sonderby / Facebook:
Update on New Zealand
Update on New Zealand
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Variety:
New-Model Murdochs: Fox Corporation to Emerge Tuesday — UPDATED: 21st Century Fox said Tuesday it has completed the distribution of shares to birth the Fox Corporation. “21CF and FOX are now each a standalone, publicly traded company,” 21st Century Fox said in a statement issued at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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Reveal:
US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children — The federal government is relying on secret shelters to hold unaccompanied minors, in possible violation of the long-standing rules for the care of immigrant children, a Reveal investigation has found.
Brad Kutner / courthousenews.com:
All Eyes on Fourth Circuit Hearing in Emoluments Case — RICHMOND, Va. (CN) - Of the many legal challenges President Donald Trump is facing, few have forced legal experts and historians to dig deep quite like claims that his private business dealings with foreign governments violate the Constitution.
Andrea Drusch / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
This is Sen. Cornyn's attack plan if Joaquin Castro challenges him for Senate — Texas Sen. John Cornyn is readying fire for a potential race against Rep. Joaquin Castro, according to a game plan laid out to the Star-Telegram by Cornyn's campaign Monday. — Though Cornyn already faces …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Indicted Oligarch Dmytro Firtash Praises Paul Manafort, Says Trump Has Third-Grade Smarts — The Ukrainian mogul, a background presence in the story of Russian influence in U.S. elections, praised Manafort's savvy but dismissed Trump in an interview with The Daily Beast. — Betsy Woodruff
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Trump's campaign secret weapon: Facebook — Data: Adapted from a Bully Pulpit interactive chart; Chart: Axios Visuals — While Democrats' campaign launches have sucked up national attention, President Trump's re-election campaign has quietly spent nearly twice as much as the entire …
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Raw Story
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Kazakhstan's president steps down after 30 years — MOSCOW (AP) — Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over the country's future course.
Kansas City Star:
Blunt disinvited to GOP event in backlash over vote to block Trump's emergency powers — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt has been disinvited from a local GOP gathering in Christian County, Missouri, next month amid a backlash over his vote to block President Donald Trump's use of emergency powers to build a border wall.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch — As we struggle against the forces behind decades of violence, we must remember that we aren't fighting with strangers. — The Oklahoma City National Memorial consists of two stark structures connected by a reflecting pool …
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Cambridge Analytica Secrets Allegedly Covered Up by Trump Campaign Veterans — The High Court in London heard that former insiders, including Rebekah Mercer, were pulling the strings of “biased” officials responsible for the fate of the company. — Nico Hines
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Experts push back on Trump-touted poll that shows 50% of Americans calling Mueller probe a ‘witch hunt’ — President Donald Trump on Monday touts poll results that appeared to show more Americans than ever siding with his oft-repeated accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe is nothing more than a “witch hunt.”
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Google VP Stepped In After Employees Offended By Christian Video On Marriage — Google barred a Christian video on same-sex marriage from advertising on YouTube after backlash from employees, internal communications show. — The video said gay people are welcome as Christians …
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The Right Scoop
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Cop Working at High School Revealed as White Nationalist Organizer — Identity Evropa helped plan the Charlottesville hate march. One of its members has been secretly working as a police officer alongside kids. — A Virginia police officer assigned to a high school is involved in onboarding …
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