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9:45 PM ET, August 14, 2018

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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
White House Falsely Says Trump Beat Obama on Black Employment  — Falsely claims that Obama created only 195,000 jobs for blacks  — African-American employment grew by 3 million under Obama  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely claimed that President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Root
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump campaign retains Hulk Hogan lawyer Charles Harder for arbitration action against Omarosa Manigault Newman  — Attorney Charles Harder is representing President Donald Trump's campaign in its arbitration fight against former senior White House official Omarosa Manigault Newman …
Discussion: IJR and Balloon Juice
CBS News:
Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word  —  President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape.  The president tweeted Monday night, “I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Charges against Omarosa filed by Trump campaign, ‘millions’ sought  —  President Trump's campaign organization Tuesday filed charges against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman, claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her new book …
Annie Karni / Politico:
‘People are terrified’: Trump staffers live in fear of Omarosa's next tape  —  Trump aides are suffering from the same type of psychological warfare that gripped Clinton's campaign during the WikiLeaks dumps.  —  A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Says It Has Filed Case Against Omarosa Manigault Newman  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's campaign said on Tuesday that it had filed an arbitration case against Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former campaign aide and West Wing official whose tell-all book has roiled the White House.
Discussion: Splinter
Associated Press:   No leaks: Cushy job offers for discarded Trump staffers
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump unloads on special counsel Robert Mueller, the FBI, Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Trump will pardon Paul Manafort  —  Today saw a major development in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, as the defense decided not to call any witnesses.  So not only won't Manafort be testifying, neither will anyone else on his behalf.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:   Manafort Lawyers Rest Without Calling Witnesses in Fraud Trial
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Paul Manafort Defense Rests Without Calling Any Witnesses
Discussion: Breitbart
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Manafort attorneys opt to skip defense, proceed to closing arguments
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer concedes GOP primary to Trump ally Kris Kobach  —  Exactly a week after an election that produced one of the closest races in Kansas history, incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded the Republican gubernatorial primary to Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state …
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Kansas City Star:
Kris Kobach continues to build his lead after Johnson County ballots tallied  —  Johnson County may prove decisive in handing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach the GOP nomination for governor after the conservative firebrand increased his lead over Gov. Jeff Colyer on Tuesday in the closest primary race in Kansas history.
Kansas City Star:
Kobach is Republican nominee for Kansas governor after Colyer concedes
Discussion: Political Wire and NPR
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Colyer's lawyers tell Johnson County to count 153 discarded ballots in tight gov race
Discussion: HuffPost and Bloomberg
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
More than 300 accused priests listed in Pennsylvania report on Catholic Church sex abuse  —  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday released a sweeping grand jury report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, listing more than 300 accused clergy and detailing a “systematic” coverup effort by church leaders over 70 years.
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Catholic Church Covered Up Child Sex Abuse in Pennsylvania for Decades, Grand Jury Says
Discussion: Mother Jones and National Review
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Claims Power to Bypass Limits Set by Congress in Defense Bill  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump signed a $716 billion military spending bill on Monday, he claimed the authority to override dozens of provisions that he deemed improper constraints on his executive powers.
Discussion: The White House
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:   Trump criticizes some Russia provisions of defense bill, suggests in signing statement he may ignore them
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Trump Won't Follow Congressional Directives on Russia and Crimea
Discussion: MSNBC and Shareblue Media
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Exclusive: Pentagon spokeswoman under investigation for misusing staff, retaliating against complaints  —  Washington (CNN)One of Defense Secretary James Mattis' most senior civilian advisers is being investigated by the Defense Department Office of Inspector General for allegedly retaliating …
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: Penn Jillette Talking magic, truth, and Trump's alleged Apprentice Tapes.  —  The long and successful career of Penn Jillette, the bigger half (physically and personality-wise) of the magic duo Penn & Teller, itself constitutes a kind of trick.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, HuffPost, AOL and Mediaite
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Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Penn Jillette Says Trump ‘Apprentice’ Tapes Exist: “I Was in the Room”  —  “He would say racially insensitive things that made me uncomfortable,” the comic and magician said of Trump during their time on ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’  —  Penn Jillette says he knows for a fact that Mark Burnett possesses tapes …
Discussion: HuffPost
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
DNC Gives Statement On Keith Ellison Allegations; Ex-Official Calls For Suspension  —  The Democratic National Committee released its first statement on Tuesday regarding the abuse allegations recently made against Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison — conveniently waiting till just hours before polls closed in Minnesota's primary elections.
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NBC News:
How three conspiracy theorists took ‘Q’ and sparked Qanon  —  Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanon's spread — and the originators' financial gain.  —  In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website …
Discussion: New Republic
BuzzFeed News:
Senate Intel Wants To Follow The Money In The Russia Probe.  But Treasury Isn't Making That Easy.  —  In its investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election, the Senate Intelligence Committee has spent more than a year trying to follow the money.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Roger Stone shares image of himself and Trump as ‘Space Force’ wearing swastikas  —  on Monday shared a digitally altered image on Instagram of himself, President Trump  —  and several other people serving in or aligned with the administration wearing spacesuits with swastikas on them.
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Why the Washington Post's Twitter Has Been So Good Lately  —  Or, how the Smash Mouth tweet came to be.  —  There is no shortage of ideas about how news organizations should promote their work on Twitter.  They should deploy an authentic voice and use relevant hashtags.  They should use native photos and video.
New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Is Rattling China's Leaders  —  BEIJING — China's leaders have sought to project confidence in the face of President Trump's tariffs and trade threats.  But as it becomes clear that a protracted trade war with the United States may be unavoidable, there are growing signs …
Discussion: Breitbart
WTVY:
Doug Jones heckled over Brett Kavanaugh at Birmingham town hall  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AL.com) — Sen. Doug Jones was heckled at a town hall meeting Monday night in Birmingham when a woman threw a pair of stuffed lips in the senator's direction while venting her anger that Alabama's junior senator …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Tight Race in CD03  —  Low awareness of either candidate  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur faces a tough challenge from former national security adviser Andy Kim in the race for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Roll Call
New York Times:
Tesla Directors Do Damage Control After Elon Musk Tweets  —  Members of Tesla's board are scrambling to control a chief executive who some directors think is out of control.  —  Elon Musk, the electric-car maker's co-founder and chief executive, stirred up a public storm by announcing …
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Fentanyl Used to Execute Nebraska Inmate, in a First for U.S.  —  LINCOLN, Neb. — Prison officials in Nebraska used fentanyl, the powerful opioid at the center of the nation's overdose epidemic, to help execute a convicted murderer on Tuesday.  The lethal injection at the Nebraska State Penitentiary …
Adan Salazar / NewsWars:
Infowars.com Site Goes Down Amid Big Tech Censorship  —  Alex Jones' flagship website Infowars.com went down for several hours Tuesday, in a suspected DDOS cyber attack targeting critical Infowars infrastructure.  —  Alex Jones Statement On Infowars Being Taken Down! pic.twitter.com/zIJfjgNAQi …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won  —  Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them.  Then came a challenge in their own backyard.  —  The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening …
Philip Marcelo / Associated Press:
ACLU: Federal agencies setting ‘trap’ to deport immigrants  —  BOSTON (AP) — Federal immigration agencies have launched a coordinated campaign to arrest and deport immigrants seeking to become legal U.S. residents through marriage, according to documents released this week in a class-action lawsuit filed …
 
 
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Live results: The biggest Wisconsin and Minnesota primary races
Discussion: Associated Press and Vox
Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Democratic Poll Shows Close Race for Pete Sessions' Seat in Texas
New York Times:
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
With Felix Salmon, Axios Continues Its Push to Commandeer the Bloomberg Set
David French / National Review:
End the Double Standards in Reporting Political Violence
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine:
SEO Is Back. Thank God.
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / The Daily Beast:
Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil
Bloomberg:
Fox News Segment Draws Angry Reaction From Danish Government
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Roy Strom / LAW.com:
Mayer Brown Supreme Court Practice Founder Shot and Killed
Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the Sarah Palin of the Left
 

 
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