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8:45 AM ET, December 11, 2017

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NBC News:
18 crucial days: What did the president know and when did he know it?  —  WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller is trying to piece together what happened inside the White House over a critical 18-day period that began when senior officials were told that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn …
Discussion: Axios, The Week and Raw Story
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
As Russia probes progress, one name is missing: Bannon's  —  As special Russia counsel Robert Mueller wraps up interviews with senior current and former White House staff, one name has been conspicuously absent from public chatter surrounding the probe: Steve Bannon.
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Why Conservatives Should Embrace Bob Mueller  —  Conservatives have strong reasons to embrace—rather than try to discredit—Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.  An effort appears underway to damage the credibility of Mueller's team in anticipation that damning evidence may emerge …
Discussion: National Review
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
The Trump-Russia Probe Is About to Get Uglier
Discussion: CNN
New York Post:
Suspected bomber in custody after explosion at Port Authority  —  A suicide bomber set off a device at the Port Authority bus terminal Monday morning, law enforcement sources said.  —  The suspected bomber - who had wires attached to him - was armed with a pipe bomb and a battery pack, sources said.
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New York Times:
Police in New York Respond to Report of Explosion  —  Reports of an explosion Monday morning caused the authorities to evacuate one of the busiest transit hubs in New York City.  —  The Police Department said in a tweet that it was responding to reports of an explosion of unknown origin …
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Shadowy Facebook Ads That Pushed Trump Are Back for Roy Moore … BIRMINGHAM, Alabama—Yvonne Trosclair doesn't know who's behind America First Action—which keeps running pro-Roy Moore ads here on television and on Facebook ahead of the U.S. Senate election on Tuesday—but she knows they're not from Alabama.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:   Rise of the Roypublicans  —  If Alabama voters on Tuesday elect …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / VICE News:
He's disappeared the weekend before Alabama's special election
Discussion: BuzzFeed, New York Magazine and YouTube
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
The Taxman Cometh: Senate Bill's Marginal Rates Could Top 100% for Some  —  Certain high-income business owners would face backwards incentives; lawmakers work to bridge gap  —  WASHINGTON—Some high-income business owners could face marginal tax rates exceeding 100% under the Senate's tax bill …
The Boston Globe / BostonGlobe.com:
BOSTON.  RACISM.  IMAGE.  REALITY.  —  The Spotlight team takes on our hardest question  —  Google the phrase “Most racist city,” and Boston pops up more than any other place, time and time again.  —  It may be easy to write that off as a meaningless digital snapshot of what people say about us …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Splinter
Bloomberg:
Trump Takes Credit for Killing Hundreds of Regulations That Were Already Dead  —  As the Trump administration nears its one-year mark, White House officials are touting cuts to regulations as one of their top achievements.  —  “In the history of our country, no president, during their entire term …
Irene Plagianos / Eater NY:
Mario Batali Steps Away From Restaurant Empire Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations  —  Four women accuse the chef of inappropriate touching in a pattern of behavior that spans at least two decades, according to dozens of Eater interviews  —  About 10 years ago, at the after-party …
Discussion: Splinter and Mediaite
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
How Trump came around to an accused child molester  —  Mitch McConnell had publicly disavowed Roy Moore when the Senate majority leader received one of several phone calls from President Donald Trump.  McConnell wanted Trump's help to push Moore out of the Alabama Senate race after he'd been accused …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Pioneering black journalist Simeon Booker dies at age 99  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Simeon Booker, a trail-blazing African-American journalist and the first full-time black reporter at The Washington Post, died Sunday at the age of 99.  —  Booker died at an assisted-living community in Solomons …
Discussion: The Root
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Emily Langer / Washington Post:
Simeon Booker, intrepid chronicler of civil rights struggle for Jet and Ebony, dies at 99
Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
The Myth of Vladimir Putin the Puppet Master … I. The Hack  —  The large, sunny room at Volgograd State University smelled like its contents: 45 college students, all but one of them male, hunched over keyboards, whispering and quietly clacking away among empty cans of Juicy energy drink.
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Nikki Haley Says Women Who Accuse Trump of Misconduct ‘Should Be Heard’  —  WASHINGTON — Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that women who have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct “should be heard,” a surprising break from the administration's …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PUTIN in Syria — WSJ: Some will pay 100 percent marginal rate — WHERE IS ROY MOORE?  — SPOTTED: Jared and Ivanka take the kids skating — B'DAYS: John Kerry and Max Baucus  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW IN THE MIDDLE EAST — AP at 3:41 a.m.: “RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
Can a President Obstruct Justice?  —  Yes, but not by doing any of the things we know Trump to have done.  —  Speculation about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has turned toward obstruction of justice—specifically, whether President Trump can be criminally prosecuted …
Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
In 1990, when liberal journalists still had some sense of obligation to the truth, Michael Kelly wrote the following for GQ: … The incident above took place in 1985 at the restaurant La Brasserie in Washington, D.C., where Loh and Gavigilio both worked as waitresses.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Most Americans doubt GOP bill will cut their taxes or boost the economy  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are poised to pass the biggest tax overhaul in a generation, but Americans remain unconvinced that the measure will cut their own taxes or significantly boost the economy.
Discussion: New York Magazine, Mediaite and AOL
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Precision sacrificed for speed as GOP rushes ahead on taxes  —  Republicans are moving their tax plan toward final passage at stunning speed, blowing past Democrats before they've had time to fully mobilize against it but leaving the measure vulnerable to the types of expensive problems popping up in their massive and complex plan.
 
 
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Paper Tiger  —  Why the media shouldn't be distracted by Trump's attacks on them
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin Futures Debut With 26% Rally, Trigger Cboe Trading Halts
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The economy is on a sugar high, and tax cuts won't help
Mohammad Javad Zarif / New York Times:
Europe Must Work With Iran
Discussion: Politico and Just Security
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Microbes by the ton: Officials see weapons threat as North Korea gains biotech expertise
Heather Long / Washington Post:
‘Very, very scary’: 8.8 million Americans face big tax hike if Republicans scrap the medical deduction
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
The Middle Class Might Not Even Notice If the GOP Cuts Their Taxes
Mike Hixenbaugh / Houston Chronicle:
Dozens camp out for shot at free medical, dental care in west Houston
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China's foreign influence operations are causing alarm in Washington
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Faculties' outcries slow UA System's tenure-policy redo
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Yonhap News Agency:
Trump nominates Cha as U.S. ambassador to S. Korea: sources
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Schiff: Evidence of coordination between Trump campaign and Russia ‘pretty damning’
New Yorker:
In Memory of Otis Redding and His Revolution
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Liberal Outsiders Pour Into Alabama Senate Race, Treading Lightly
miamiherald:
‘What I am detained for?’ Comedian Hannibal Buress arrested in Miami
Discussion: AOL and The Root
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Republicans step up defense of ‘not qualified’ judicial nominees
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