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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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CNN:
Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails show follow-up after Trump Tower meeting  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The British publicist who arranged the June 2016 meeting with Russians and Donald Trump Jr. sent multiple emails to a Russian participant and a member …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Ethics Committee clears Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes  —  Washington (CNN)The House Ethics Committee has cleared House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes in its investigation into whether he disclosed classified information to the Trump White House, which could create an avenue for Nunes …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Rep. Trent Franks to resign after discussing surrogacy with female staffers  —  Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) announced Thursday that he would resign from office as of Jan. 31, 2018, after discussing surrogacy issues with female staffers.  —  “I have recently learned that the Ethics Committee …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Fired For Misconduct By Morgan Stanley  —  A woman who was interviewed as part of the company's HR probe separately told HuffPost that Ford harassed her one evening in Manhattan several years ago.  —  Former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREXIT talks move to phase 2 — SHUTDOWN AVERTED, problems punted to the end of the month …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Ethics Committee launches investigation into Farenthold sexual harassment allegations
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Not Interested in Trent Franks' Seat …
Discussion: Political Wire
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Paul Ryan forces GOP colleague out of Congress
Discussion: The Week
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.
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John Fund / Fox News:   Democrats forced Franken out to ramp up their strategy to bring down Trump
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
How to beat Roy Moore, according to the guy who nearly did
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Daily Kos
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Was Al Franken's punishment fair?
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 …
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.”
Pew Research Center:
Stark Partisan Divisions Over Russia Probe, Including Its Importance to the Nation  —  Trump's style, Twitter use top ‘disappointments’ among supporters  —  A majority of Americans say they think senior members of Donald Trump's administration definitely or probably had improper contacts …
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.
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.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Justice Department Moves To Investigate Planned Parenthood's Fetal Tissue Practices … The Justice Department is taking steps to investigate Planned Parenthood, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  The head of Justice's office of legislative affairs has sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee asking …
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Fox News:
Planned Parenthood under investigation by Justice Department over sale of fetal tissue
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Nearly Every Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Disagrees With Trump's Jerusalem Decision  —  All but two of 11 former United States ambassadors to Israel contacted by The New York Times after President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital thought the plan was wrongheaded, dangerous or deeply flawed.
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump's embassy decision isn't diplomacy. It's pandering.
Discussion: Ynetnews and ABC News
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.
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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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
2 Times Reporters Will Write Book on Sexual Abuse Scandals  —  The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey will publish a book about the sexual abuse and harassment scandals that have convulsed the nation over the past two months, Penguin Press confirmed on Thursday.
David Choi / Business Insider:
Secretary Ryan Zinke reportedly spent $6,250 on a government helicopter ride so he could go horseback riding with Mike Pence  — Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke reportedly spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on government helicopter rides.  — During one trip, Zinke ordered a helicopter …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Grist
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Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke booked government helicopters to attend D.C. events
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trust no one: Scholar risked all to document Islamic State  —  The historian carried secrets too heavy for one man to bear.  —  He packed his bag with his most treasured possessions before going to bed: the 1 terabyte hard drive with his evidence against the Islamic State group …
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
California's vulnerable GOP members watch closely as final tax bill is negotiated … Vulnerable California Republicans say they are watching closely as House leaders work on a final tax bill with the Senate, hoping they'll win back at least part of some popular deductions that would lower tax bills in their districts.
Discussion: KTLA
BBC:
Brexit: ‘Breakthrough’ deal paves way for future trade talks  —  PM Theresa May has struck a last minute deal with the EU in a bid to move Brexit talks on to the next phase.  —  There will be no “hard border” with Ireland and EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens in the EU, will see their rights protected.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Axios and The Week
 
 
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Dan Charles / NPR:
Is The Tide Of Antibiotic Use On Farms Now Turning?
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Inside the Opposition to a Net Neutrality Repeal
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David Freedlander / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand's Moment Has Arrived
Discussion: Political Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Is Rotting  —  A lot of good, honorable Republicans used …
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
North Korea is ready to open direct talks with US, says Russia's Sergei Lavrov
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
James O'Keefe, Practitioner of the Sting, Has an Ally in Trump
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Ex-Governor's Run Gives Democrats a Bit More Hope of Retaking the Senate
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Exclusive: Wells Fargo sanctions are on ice under Trump official - sources
Discussion: The Hill
Los Angeles Times:
Heavy winds and dry air could prolong Ventura County wildfire for weeks, officials say
Discussion: The Week and Curbed LA
Blair Miller / TheDenverChannel.com:
Former Colorado GOP chairman Steve Curtis found guilty of voter fraud, forgery
Discussion: Politicus USA
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Steele Dossier on Trump and Russia Is Looking More and More Real
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year's Holiday Parties
Discussion: Axios, The Week and The Daily Caller
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Less-guarded Sessions spars with interns in internal DOJ video
 

 
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