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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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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Preet Bharara Expects a ‘Lengthy, Detailed’ Mueller Report
Preet Bharara Expects a ‘Lengthy, Detailed’ Mueller Report
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Associated Press:
Records show FBI was probing Michael Cohen long before raid
Records show FBI was probing Michael Cohen long before raid
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Feds Got Past Data On Where Cohen's Cell Phones Were In Run Up To Election
Feds Got Past Data On Where Cohen's Cell Phones Were In Run Up To Election
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
FBI Suspected Cohen as Foreign Agent Nearly a Year Before Raids
FBI Suspected Cohen as Foreign Agent Nearly a Year Before Raids
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Raw Story
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
The Politics of Beto and Amy O'Rourke's Marriage — Beto O'Rourke plonked down on his living room sofa beside his wife, Amy, and promptly removed his shoes and socks. It was a late February morning, weeks before announcing his candidacy for president, and Beto had just returned from his favorite hike in the nearby Franklin Mountains.
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Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Prosecutors Offer to Drop Charges Against Patriots Owner Robert Kraft — Florida prosecutors have offered to drop charges against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a number of other men charged with soliciting prostitution.
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Ted Hesson / Politico:
Supreme Court rules for Trump on detaining immigrants — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the federal government can detain immigrants indefinitely for past crimes, even if they have been previously released. — In a 5-4 decision that fell along ideological lines …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court says government can detain immigrants with past criminal records even years after their release from custody — (CNN)The Supreme Court held on Tuesday that the government can detain — without a bond hearing — immigrants with past criminal records, even if years have passed since they were released from criminal custody.
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court hands Trump a victory on immigration detention
U.S. Supreme Court hands Trump a victory on immigration detention
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The ridiculousness of Devin Nunes suing ‘Devin Nunes’ cow' — and what it really signals — There is a Twitter account called “Devin Nunes' cow” that has tweeted nasty things about Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Evidently, the account is not actually run by a cow belonging to Nunes.
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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'
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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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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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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Mulvaney on cusp of permanent status upgrade
Mulvaney on cusp of permanent status upgrade
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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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Amy Spiro / Jerusalem Post:
Kushner's peace plan ‘includes land swaps with Saudi Arabia,’ book claims — A draft of the plan included an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Gaza, according to newly released ‘Kushner, Inc.’ — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan at one point included Jordan giving land …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Who Do Jared and Ivanka Think They Are? — A new book probes …
Who Do Jared and Ivanka Think They Are? — A new book probes …
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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 …
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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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Washington Post:
‘A total loser!’: Trump lashes out at George Conway, who has been questioning his mental health — President Trump on Tuesday ratcheted up a remarkable public spat with the husband of one of his top advisers, attacking Kellyanne Conway's husband as a “total loser” on Twitter in response …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The demobilization of the resistance is a dangerous mistake — Remember when protest was the new brunch? — The Women's Marches over-awed Donald Trump's Inauguration. Protesters at airports checked the initial version of Trump's travel bans. Ordinary Americans' phone calls …
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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 …
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Mysterious Buyer Pumps $2.9 Million Into President Trump's Coffers — President Trump sold a $2.9 million New York City condo to a mysterious buyer March 8, in a previously unreported deal laid out in public documents. — Officially, the buyer was an entity named Koctagon LLC.
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.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Ben Sasse Became the One Thing a Trump-Era Pol Should Never Be: Weak — With that pro-Trump emergency vote, the Nebraska senator threw away his credibility and showed he doesn't get the core lesson of Trumpism. — Matt Lewis — BEAST INSIDE — Fresh off of voting to uphold Trump's …
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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 …
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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Jenna McLaughlin / Yahoo News:
Amid nuclear deadlock, top CIA official on Korea leaves for Google — A senior official at the CIA's Korea Mission Center is leaving the agency to work for Google in Asia, according to two sources directly familiar with the matter, marking the second high-ranking employee to leave …
CNN:
State Department bars press corps from Pompeo briefing, won't release list of attendees — (CNN)The State Department on Monday said it would not be distributing a transcript or list of attendees from a briefing call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held that evening …
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Washington Post:
The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court — Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years, an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president's agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters.
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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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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
A 40-Year-Old Mexican Immigrant Died In US Custody — The Fourth Death In Recent Months — The unidentified man died after being diagnosed with flulike symptoms, liver failure, and renal failure — A 40-year-old Mexican immigrant died in US custody on Monday — the fourth person to die …
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Rosenstein Extending Stay At DOJ Indefinitely — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is extending his stay at the Department of Justice for at least “a little longer,” according to Tuesday NBC reporting. — Slated to leave in mid-March, Rosenstein has reportedly spoken …
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David Marchese / New York Times:
Ricky Gervais on Provocation, Picking Targets and Outrage Culture — 'I try and make it so that if anyone's offended, I can explain why they shouldn't be.' — In Ricky Gervais's new Netflix show, “After Life,” he plays a small-town journalist who, after being widowed …