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Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton from Assange, Emails Show  —  Ex-Trump adviser urged intermediary to ask WikiLeaks for specific dates of rival candidate's communications  —  Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton …
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CNN:
Assange's refuge in Ecuadorian embassy ‘in jeopardy’  —  Washington (CNN)Julian Assange's nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger, opening the WikiLeaks founder to arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, multiple sources with knowledge tell CNN.
Sara Murray / CNN:
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel  —  Stone: I chalk this up to effort to silence me  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has been probing Roger Stone's finances as it summons a series of witnesses to gather more information about one of President Donald Trump's longtime advisers …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
NBC News:
Inside the summit collapse: Trump wanted to cancel before N. Korean leader could  —  WASHINGTON — Early Thursday morning, after a flurry of calls with a handful of senior advisers, an angry President Donald Trump personally dictated the three-paragraph letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Trump threatens war against North Korea — and says South Korea and Japan will pay for it
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump's summit flip-flop risks fallout far beyond North Korea
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
Jeff Collins / Orange County Register:
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors  —  U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
McConnell Says He Supports Mueller Investigation  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told NPR in an interview that he continues to support the Mueller Russia investigation — and that nothing in Thursday's hotly anticipated secret briefing on the Russia probe to congressional leaders changed his mind.
Discussion: Axios and Shareblue Media
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The Daily Beast:
White House Lawyer Crashes FBI Meeting on Trump-Russia Investigation … Two highly classified meetings about the Trump-Russia investigation held Thursday had a surprise participant: one of President Donald Trump's lawyers.  And he got an earful for it.  —  Emmet Flood, the new lawyer …
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
A defense of Roger Goodell  —  Whatever you think of Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, you should recognize that he's trying to solve a genuinely hard problem.  Or rather two problems.  On one hand, he's trying to maximize the audience for NFL games.
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Lorenzo Reyes / USA Today:
Seahawks' Doug Baldwin: President Trump is ‘an idiot, plain and simple’  —  Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin ripped into President Trump for comments made earlier Thursday in which he said players who protest social inequality during the playing of the national anthem “maybe ... shouldn't be in the country.”
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Impending Arrest  —  After a seven-month investigation, the producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the New York Police Department's First Precinct on Friday to face sexual-assault charges.  According to law-enforcement officials …
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Shayna Jacobs / New York Daily News:
Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York
KHQ-TV:
FIRST ON KHQ: Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud  —  Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars.  KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name …
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Q13 FOX News:   Ex-Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal charged with welfare fraud
New York Times:
Turf War Between Kushner and Sessions Drove Federal Prisons Director to Quit  —  WASHINGTON — When Jared Kushner hosted a high-profile summit meeting on federal prison reform at the White House last Friday, some in attendance noticed that the man who was ostensibly in charge of the federal prison system …
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
The Reporter Who Took Down a Unicorn … In late September of 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the once-high-flying but now disgraced Silicon Valley health-care company Theranos, was in the News Corp. office of Rupert Murdoch.  She had first met Murdoch in 2014 to pitch him on Theranos …
Tess Owen / VICE News:
NRA wants Congress to set “limitations” on how the news can cover school shootings  —  The National Rifle Association is calling for outright censorship as news of yet another school shooting dominates national headlines.  —  “It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings …
Discussion: National Review
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YouTube:   How To Stop “The Media” From Inspiring Killers - Colion Noir
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Delayed Is Justice: Mueller Fights To Delay Russian Collusion Trial  —  There is an old joke among criminal defense attorneys that “justice delayed is justice,” a twist of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.”  The joke reflects that fact that the defense almost always benefits …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees?  Evangelicals.  —  In February 2017, as debate raged nationally over President Trump's decision to curtail immigration to the United States, the conservative Christian Broadcasting Network dipped into the Bible …
Steve Reilly / USA Today:
Trump's company wouldn't say what his new $107K business was, until after we tracked it down  —  NEW YORK — For more than a week, nobody at the Trump Organization wanted to talk about the mysterious new corporation from which President Trump earned more than $100,000 last year.
Martin Bagot / mirror:
No amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to cancer experts  —  Even small amounts of processed meats and booze increase the risk of a host of cancers outlined in World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) guidelines updated every decade  —  No amount of alcohol …
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
REPORT: Deputy Peterson Accused Of ‘Covering Up’ Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff's Son  —  A local Miami news station released an explosive report on Thursday night about a “disturbing assault” that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years to the day before the tragic shooting in February.
Will Rahn / CBS News:
Commentary: The plot against Donald Trump  —  It's easy to get the basic gist of the Deep State conspiracy theory, which posits that the FBI and CIA ginned up a devious plot to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump.  But there's an arch, coy, almost feline quality to the way these arguments are presented.
Gary Horcher / KIRO:
Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact  —  A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and that the recorded audio …
Politico:
Meet Europe's new chief regulator of data privacy  —  Few people outside privacy circles know who Andrea Jelinek is.  —  That's all about to change.  —  As chair of the European Data Protection Board, a regional group of EU data protection authorities, the Austrian regulator is in charge …
WRTV-TV:
Man injured when his gun goes off inside downtown Whole Foods store  —  INDIANAPOLIS — A man was injured when his gun went off while he was shopping at the Whole Foods in Downtown Indianapolis Thursday night.  —  Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department say the 76-year-old man …
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests  —  One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
Discussion: Axios
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Capitol Police Accidentally Gave Evidence To House Hacking Suspect's Defense Attorney  —  The Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the alleged Imran Awan House cyberbreach and theft case to the defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver it to prosecutors instead, according to court documents and a source.
CBC News:
2 males wanted after improvised explosive device blast at Mississauga restaurant injures 15  —  Peel police say it's early to say if explosion is terror-related  —  An improvised explosive device set off inside an Indian restaurant in Mississauga is responsible for a blast that injured 15 people on Thursday night, police say.
The Guardian:
Facebook accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps  —  Company gathered data from texts and photos of users and their friends, court case claims  —  Facebook used its apps to gather information about users and their friends, including some who had not signed up to the social network …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
WATCH: Pompeo Absolutely Explodes at Dem Senator For Suggesting Trump Has Foreign Policy Conflicts of Interest  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got furious today when asked if President Donald Trump has any conflicts of interest.  —  The secretary of state testified before the Senate …
Discussion: Townhall
Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
Immigration Discharge Petition Will Get Final Signatures, Deputy GOP Whip Says  —  House Chief Deputy Whip Patrick T. McHenry on Thursday said an immigration discharge petition that GOP leaders oppose will get to 218 signatures after the recess, and the only way they can stop …
 
 
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