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11:55 AM ET, December 8, 2017

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CNN:
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address …
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Washington Post:
Russian social media executive sought to help Trump campaign in 2016, emails show … An executive at a leading Russian social media company made several overtures to Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 — including days before the November election — urging the candidate to create …
CNN:
Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails show follow-up after Trump Tower meeting
David Brooks / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Is Rotting  —  A lot of good, honorable Republicans used to believe there was a safe middle ground.  You didn't have to tie yourself hip to hip with Donald Trump, but you didn't have to go all the way to the other extreme and commit political suicide like the dissident Jeff Flake, either.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Roy Moore is the last straw, you can now call me a Democrat  —  The GOP would rather elect a sexual predator who preys on teenagers than a prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat.  That's it, I'm switching parties.  —  My first exposure to politics was at the local level.
Discussion: Vox
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Roy Moore Believes America Was Great During Slavery.  Twitter Users Detonate.  —  “Families were united” then, the Senate candidate actually told an African-American person.  —  GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore stunned some listeners when he said he thought America was “great” during the era of slavery.
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Arizona Congressman Resigns for —Wait, What Was That Again?  —  When word got around this afternoon that Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) was about to resign for “inappropriate behavior,” it was generally assumed it involved sexual harassment, abuse, assault, or some other misconduct toward women.
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Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Arizona's Trent Franks to Resign Jan. 31  —  Updated 7:24 pm |  Arizona Republican Trent Franks said Thursday he is resigning from Congress effective Jan. 31 amid an Ethics Committee investigation into discussions he had with two female staffers about surrogacy.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his child as a surrogate, says he will resign  —  Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House, said he would resign his seat after House officials learned that he had asked …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREXIT talks move to phase 2 — SHUTDOWN AVERTED, problems punted to the end of the month …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson ‘scared to go anywhere’ since her sexual assault allegation  —  One of the women accusing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, Beverly Young Nelson, told ABC News it “sickens” her to think what might happen if Moore is elected to the U.S. Senate.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:   Anti-Trump conservatives place $500,000 ad buy against Roy Moore
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
How to beat Roy Moore, according to the guy who nearly did
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Congressional Democrats Left Out of White House Hanukkah Party  —  WASHINGTON — The latkes were fried and the kosher lamb chops were prepared on Thursday, just as in past years, for the first White House Hanukkah party of the Trump era.  But there was one prominent break with tradition …
Rhonda Schwartz / ABC News:
George Papadopoulos' fiancee: He's a patriot, not a Trump campaign coffee boy  —  The Italian fiancee of George Papadopoulos offered the first public defense of the embattled former Trump campaign adviser, who in October was revealed as the first campaign adviser to plead guilty and cooperate with the special counsel's Russia probe.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dossier author was in contact with Obama Justice Department  —  It's been ten months since Washington learned that former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the so-called “Trump dossier,” took the Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research document to the FBI, which considered sponsoring …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   Obstruction of Congress  —  Mueller, the Justice Department …
Rebecca Shapiro / HuffPost:
Poll Shows Trump's Support Dropping Among White Evangelicals  —  The president's approval rating continues to fall in his first year in office.  —  A new national Pew Research Center poll released Thursday shows that President Donald Trump's approval rating is declining among demographic groups …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Axios and Joe.My.God.
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Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Al Franken's Resignation and the Selective Force of #MeToo  —  On what he called the worst day of his political life, Senator Al Franken articulated two points that are central to understanding what has become known as the #MeToo moment.  In an eleven-minute speech, in which Franken announced …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Was Al Franken's punishment fair?
BBC:
Jerusalem row: Clashes erupt over Trump move  —  Violence has flared between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting at Donald Trump's contentious recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.  —  Clashes erupted in the occupied West Bank and over the Israeli-Gaza border, where one Palestinian was killed.
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CNN:
Lindsey Vonn: I won't be representing US President at Winter Olympics
Benjamin Brown / Fox News:
Al Qaeda calls for attacks against US and its allies over Jerusalem policy
Discussion: BillMoyers.com
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fox's pro-Trump hosts are working overtime to discredit Robert Mueller  —  This is why Trump loves ‘Fox & Friends’  —  What's President Trump hearing when he watches Fox News?  —  He's hearing that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is “illegitimate and corrupt.”
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke booked government helicopters to attend D.C. events  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent more than $14,000 on government helicopters this summer to take himself and staff to and from official events near Washington, D.C., in order to accommodate his attendance at a swearing-in ceremony …
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David Choi / Business Insider:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reportedly spent $6,250 on a government helicopter ride …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bella DePaulo / Washington Post:
I study liars.  I've never seen one like President Trump.  —  He tells far more lies, and far more cruel ones, than ordinary people do.  —  President Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)  —  I spent the first two decades of my career …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Collins' Obamacare deal faces moment of truth  —  House conservatives thumb their nose at the Maine moderate's bid to slow the demise of the health law.  —  Sen. Susan Collins is barreling toward yet another health care showdown with her own party.  But this time, she might not have the leverage to get what she wants.
Discussion: Political Wire
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Private War: Erik Prince Has His Eye On Afghanistan's Rare Metals  —  BuzzFeed News is publishing the slide presentation by the founder of Blackwater to privatize the Afghan war and mine Afghanistan's valuable minerals.  He pitched the proposal to the Trump administration.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Users Like Long Tweets More Than Short Ones  —  The early verdict is in: People are retweeting and liking longer tweets almost twice as much as shorter ones.  —  Given the deluge of complaints about Twitter's 280-character limit when it debuted this fall, you'd think people would be ignoring the new, lengthier tweets.
Los Angeles Times:
Inside a secret 2014 list of hundreds of L.A. deputies with histories of misconduct  —  It was a critical piece of evidence: an inmate's shirt, bloodied from a jailhouse brawl.  —  When it went missing, Deputy Jose Ovalle had an idea.  —  He picked out a similar shirt …
Discussion: Raw Story
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market  —  A few massive investors can rock it with a shrug.  —  On Nov. 12, someone moved almost 25,000 bitcoins, worth about $159 million at the time, to an online exchange.  The news soon rippled through online forums …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Washington Post:
Trump's richest friends are asking for changes to the GOP tax plan, and he's listening … Some of President Trump's wealthiest New York friends have launched a last-minute campaign to pressure him for changes to the GOP tax bill, telling the president personally that the current plan would drive up their taxes and hurt his home state.
Arizona Republic:
Ex-Mesa Officer Philip Brailsford found not guilty of murder in shooting of unarmed man  —  Former Mesa police Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting of Texas man Daniel Shaver in January 2016.  Here's an overview of the case.  Wochit  —  CONNECT
Nina Martin / NPR:
Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth.  Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why  —  On a melancholy Saturday this past February, Shalon Irving's “village” — the friends and family she had assembled to support her as a single mother — gathered at a funeral home in a prosperous black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta to say goodbye.
Discussion: STAT
 
 
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Southern California ‘like a war zone’ as raging wildfires grow
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Democrats look to 2020 with proposals to change superdelegate and primary system
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Lindsay Kornick / NewsBusters:
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Another strong jobs report
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Tory Newmyer / Washington Post:
The Finance 202: GOP drive to repeal estate tax risks making its tax plan more unpopular
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Trump's ‘fake news’ mantra a hit with despots
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Republican War on Children
Discussion: American Prospect
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David Freedlander / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand's Moment Has Arrived
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
2 Times Reporters Will Write Book on Sexual Abuse Scandals
Reuters:
Exclusive: Wells Fargo sanctions are on ice under Trump official - sources
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Politico and The Hill
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Ethics Committee clears Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes