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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump … Top lawyers with at least four major law firms rebuffed White House overtures to represent President Trump in the Russia investigations, in part over concerns that the president would be unwilling to listen to their advice …
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Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Exclusive: Comey will stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice in Flynn probe, source says  —  There will be much in former FBI Director James Comey's upcoming congressional testimony that will make the White House uncomfortable, but he will stop short of saying the president interfered …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Trump will live-tweet during testimony of former FBI Director James Comey: report  —  President Donald Trump will reportedly respond live on Twitter as former FBI Director James Comey testifies to a Senate committee this week.  —  On Thursday, Comey is expected to testify …
Mike Allen / Axios:
It's Comey time, and Trump's war room has no soldiers  —  With CNN's clock already counting down to fired FBI Director Jim Comey's testimony on Thursday morning, where's the White House war room?  Remember the scandal-containment unit that was supposed to quarantine the rest of the White House …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
How Trump is stalling his own nominees
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:   Marc Kasowitz, ‘Toughest of the Tough Guys,’ Stands Beside Trump
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House ices Russia war room idea
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New York Times:
Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  WASHINGTON — Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump's campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America.  But more than four months into his presidency …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Has anyone told Donald Trump that he runs the government?  —  The buck clearly does not stop with Donald Trump.  —  On Monday, President Trump tweeted something strange.  “The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump signals to his base that he is a man of action
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Trump Tanks His Own Case at the Supreme Court
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
As Trump lashes out, Republicans grow uneasy
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business  —  LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES, sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Sen. Mark Warner: More state election systems were targeted by Russians  —  WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked …
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Errata Security:
How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner  —  Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker.  Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named “Reality Winner” was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept.
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
The easy trail that led the feds to Reality Winner, alleged source of NSA leak
Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:
NSA Leaker: ‘Being White Is Terrorism’
Discussion: Power Line and TheBlaze
Albert Samaha / BuzzFeed:
Kids Are Quoting Trump To Bully Their Classmates And Teachers Don't Know What To Do About It  —  BuzzFeed News reviewed more than 50 reports of school bullying since the election and found that kids nationwide are using Trump's words to taunt their classmates.  If the president can say those things, why can't they?
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Uber Fires 20 Amid Investigation Into Workplace Culture  —  Uber has fired more than 20 employees in conjunction with an internal investigation into its workplace culture, according to a current Uber employee.  —  The company disclosed the move at an all-hands meeting at its San Francisco headquarters …
Discussion: Daily Mail and The Week
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in ‘Two Weeks’  —  The president has a penchant for making and missing deadlines  —  Tax and infrastructure plans are taking longer than promised  —  President Donald Trump has a plan.  It'll be ready in two weeks.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Week and Axios
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Notre Dame: Man shot by French police after attacking them with hammer  —  Live: security operation near Notre Dame  —  French police have shot a man outside the Notre Dame in Paris after he tried to attack them with a hammer, according to local media.  One policeman was injured in the attack.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Nevada's legislature just passed a radical plan to let anybody sign up for Medicaid  —  Nevada, with little fanfare or notice, is inching toward a massive health insurance expansion — one that would give the state's 2.8 million residents access to a public health insurance option.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
We Found Mike Flynn's Secret Twitter Account … Retired three-star lieutenant general and former national security advisor Michael Flynn has a special counsel and grand jury exploring his dealings with Turkey, and he may have something else: a secret alt-Twitter account with just a single follower.
Discussion: Raw Story
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Trump effect: Everyone's thinking of running for president.  —  When former vice president Joe Biden announced a few days ago that he was setting up a new political action committee called American Possibilities, the political world read it as a signal: He's seriously thinking of running for president in 2020.
Discussion: The Slot
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Former Vice President Biden to headline Romney summit
Discussion: The Resurgent
Lawfare:
The $110 Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia is Fake News  —  Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.  —  Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced that he had concluded a $110 billion arms deal with the kingdom.  Only problem is that there is no deal.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
An Excerpt From My Definitely Not a Presidential Campaign Book  —  I regret to say, friends, that the Potential Candidates are At It Again.  Chaos may currently reign, but some people have enough confidence in the future to sow seeds and conceive children, and other people have enough confidence …
Matthew Walther / The Week:
Ben Sasse is insufferable  —  The Vanishing American Adult, Sen. Ben Sasse's slick new paean to hard work and old-fashioned middle-class American family values, is the most boring book I've ever read.  —  The Nebraska Republican is, if not absolutely insufferable, the least sufferable person in the Senate.
Discussion: Washington Post
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Lawless Presidency  —  Democracy isn't possible without the rule of law — the idea that consistent principles, rather than a ruler's whims, govern society.  —  You can read Aristotle, Montesquieu, John Locke or the Declaration of Independence on this point.  You can also look at decades of American history.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Reuters:
Russian jet fighter intercepts U.S. bomber over Baltic Sea  —  Russia scrambled a fighter jet on Tuesday to intercept a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 strategic bomber it said was flying over the Baltic Sea near its border, in an incident that had echoes of the Cold War.
New York Times:
Where Are the United States Attorneys?  —  Three months after President Trump abruptly fired half of the nation's 93 United States attorneys, following the resignations of the other half, he has yet to replace a single one.  —  It's bizarre — and revealing — that a man who called himself the …
Discussion: Washington Post
Dylan Scott / Vox:
“Show them a body”: Senate Republicans prepared to take a failed vote on Obamacare repeal  —  It's not their first choice, but it may be their only option.  —  Senate Republicans are pushing desperately this week to find a health care plan they can coalesce around — but hopes are fading, even among lawmakers.
 
 
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Sam Pazzano / Toronto Sun:
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Everything we know about the Mueller probe so far
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Argument over politics and sports led to fatal Oakley stabbing
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