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10:45 AM ET, August 17, 2018

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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump and Omarosa Had a ‘F*cking Weird’ Fight With Vietnam Vets … Early on in the Donald Trump administration, the president vested many of his nearest and dearest with tasks they were woefully unprepared for—and Apprentice superstar Omarosa Manigault Newman was no exception.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Raw Story and Splinter
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New York Times:
Omarosa Manigault Newman Releases Tape of Lara Trump's $15,000-a-Month Job Offer  —  Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording on Thursday that she said backed her claim that President Trump's daughter-in-law had offered her a $15,000-a-month contract in exchange for her silence about her time as a White House adviser.
John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
Trump and the N Word  —  Omarosa Manigault-Newman has provided …
Discussion: Althouse
William H. McRaven / Washington Post:
Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President  —  William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014.  He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.  —  Dear Mr. President:
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Olivia Gazis / CBS News:
Top former intelligence bosses speak out in favor of John Brennan  —  Twelve former directors and deputy directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and a former Director of National Intelligence signed a letter of support for former CIA director John Brennan, calling the signal sent …
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Free-speech conservatives, this is your call to arms
Discussion: CBS Chicago
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Press needs to restore its credibility on FBI and Justice Department  —  I will never call the mainstream media “the enemy of the people.”  But I will call them out for having strayed from fairly reporting some of the biggest stories of the last two years.  No matter how egregious their errors …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?  —  Justice releases some damning documents, but much of the truth is still classified.  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have continued to insist they did nothing wrong in their Trump-Russia investigation.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Judge: Trump's release of dossier memos opens door to disclosures from FBI
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump cancels military parade, blames ‘local politicians’ for ballooning cost  —  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has canceled a planned military parade in Washington, accusing “local politicians” of price gouging and announcing that the government will redirect funds …
Discussion: The Week and CNBC
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CNN:
Pentagon postpones Trump's military parade  —  (CNN)The Department of Defense says the military parade originally scheduled for Veterans Day will be postponed.  —  “The Department of Defense and White House have been planning a parade to honor America's military veterans and commemorate …
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Trump Paris-Bound in November to Watch a Military Parade Instead
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Reuters and Axios
New York Times:
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year  —  Elon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure.  “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” he said.  “It was excruciating.”  —  The year has only gotten …
Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Metro Times:
Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'  —  More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).
Wall Street Journal:
As ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape Surfaced, Michael Cohen Changed Tune on Paying Stormy Daniels  —  Federal prosecutors investigating former Trump lawyer view October 2016 tape as trigger for burying potentially damaging information, people familiar with the matter say
Discussion: MSNBC, Splinter, Mother Jones and CNN
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Chance of Michael Cohen Facing Criminal Campaign Finance Charges Just Went Up
Discussion: New Republic
Yahoo:
Judge says Trump campaign screwed up on wording of confidentiality agreements  —  A Manhattan judge issued a ruling on Thursday that thwarted the Trump campaign's attempts to keep a lawsuit out of open court, with potential implications for the looming battle over fired Trump aide Omarosa …
Discussion: Splinter and Weekly Standard
Morning Call:
Lehigh Valley velodrome board put Pennsylvania congressional candidate Marty Nothstein on leave after sexual misconduct allegation  —  Congressional candidate Marty Nothstein was the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation prior to leaving his job this summer as leader …
Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
565 Migrant Children Remain Separated From Families 3 Weeks Past Judge's Deadline  —  The number of kids who have been reunited in the last couple of weeks can be counted on two hands, according to court filings on the immigration detentions.  —  Only a small fraction of the nearly 600 …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Nancy Gertner / Washington Post:
The extraordinary bias of the judge in the Manafort trial  —  Nancy Gertner, a retired U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts, is a lecturer at Harvard Law School.  —  It is not unusual for judges to intervene in court proceedings from time to time — to direct the lawyers to move …
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
DOJ Sues Ivanka's Ex-Business Partner for Massive Fraud  —  Moshe Lax and members of his family allegedly conspired to deprive the U.S. of $60 million.  —  The Justice Department is suing a friend and former business partner of Ivanka Trump for his alleged role in schemes to defraud …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jericka Duncan / CBS News:
Woman accusing Rep. Keith Ellison of abuse speaks out  —  Rep. Keith Ellison — deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a candidate for Minnesota attorney general — has denied allegations that he abused his ex-girlfriend, Karen Monahan.  On Thursday, Monahan, 44 …
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
Meet the Special Counsel Team: So Careful They Won't Even Disclose Their Shake Shack Orders  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Greg D. Andres looked like any ordinary guest at the Westin hotel here, standing near the valet in flip-flops and a white Notre Dame boxing T-shirt, waiting for a Postmates delivery from Shake Shack.
Matt Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
‘The Fighters’ Review: An Honest Reckoning  —  C.J. Chivers, an artist among war correspondents, fashions a vast mosaic of bravery and miscalculation from the lives of American combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan.  —  A full generation of American service members have gone across the globe to fight for their country since 9/11.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Debt-Shaming of Stacey Abrams  —  Our pernicious double standard on politicians who owe money.  —  The campaign for governor of Georgia is a supersaturated microcosm of American politics right now, offering the starkest possible choice between irreconcilable visions of the country's future.
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
‘Unbearable’ Noise and Dust: Kushner Companies Accused of Driving Out Tenants in Brooklyn Building  —  When the Kushner Companies bought the building at 184 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn in 2015, there were 316 rent-stabilized tenants, seemingly protected from eviction and large rent increases.
Discussion: Raw Story
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Hero Exposed as Pro-Trump Gamer … In the world of #Resistance Twitter, @GuardianRover was a hero.  As a former intelligence operative and Delta Force soldier, the person behind the account used a cartoon secret agent avatar and the alias “Mr. Smith” …
Christopher Barca / m.qchron.com:
Ocasio-Cortez bans press from town hall  —  MEDIA WAS BARRED AFTER REPORTERS ‘MOBBED’ HER AT AN EARLIER EVENT  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her “listening tour” throughout the district, like the one held a day earlier in Corona, are “intended for lively …
WSYX:
Teen shot and killed after knocking on grandfather's window  —  A 19-year-old was shot and killed after knocking on her grandfather's window, trying to wake him up (WSYX/WTTE)  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) - A 19-year-old died after she was shot late Wednesday night outside her grandfather's southeast Columbus home.
Musa al-Gharbi / Heterodox Academy:
Vox's Consistent Errors on Campus Speech, Explained  —  Musa al-Gharbi is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University, and managing editor at Heterodox Academy.  —  The Free Speech Project (FSP), based out of Georgetown University, attempts to document …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Are Frosted Mini-Wheats less frosted than their generic competitors?  An investigation.  —  The whole point of Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats is summed up right there in the name: It's the frosting.  At some point in the mid-20th century somebody at Kellogg's got the brilliant idea to spray …
Patrick Leahy / U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
BREAKING NEWS From Senator Feinstein, Senator Leahy, And Senator Durbin: Documents Indicate That Kavanaugh Misled Senate; Make Them Public  —  Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Thursday asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley …
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and Splinter
Associated Press:
Next mission for women with military service: Run for office  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A dragon winds around a cherry tree in the tattoo across MJ Hegar's arm and back, over the shrapnel wounds she had, at one point, not wanted to see with her young children around.
Discussion: Axios
Paul Dallison / Politico:
Slovenian lawmakers back new government  —  The Slovenian parliament on Friday approved a minority government led by former comedian Marjan Šarec, ending more than two months of political stalemate since an inconclusive election.  —  Šarec's center-left LMS party struck …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
'Oh that's cool — do that!':  Super PACs use new trick to hide donors  —  Mere days after it sprang to life in a burst of paperwork, the new super PAC Red and Gold spent nearly $1 million attacking Rep. Martha McSally, a battleground GOP Senate candidate favored by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
 
 
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Our republic will never be the same
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Trump administration is considering pulling back $3 billion in foreign aid
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
Feminist Admits Anti-Sex Discrimination Law Is Actually Anti-Men
YouTube:
Trump Freely Criticizes the Free Press
Discussion: Political Wire
Bob McManus / City Journal:
“Never That Great”  —  Andrew Cuomo's widely panned comments …
Discussion: New York Post and HuffPost
Manu Raju / CNN:
Speaker's super PAC drops huge dollars in attack ads to save endangered GOP majority
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
Aretha Franklin Bashed Trump in Private, Blew Off Inauguration Invite
NBC News:
New Mexico compound mysteriously destroyed by authorities
Discussion: twitchy.com
Frank Witsil / Detroit Free Press:
These Americans are filing for bankruptcy more than ever
Howard Fischer Capitol / Arizona Daily Star:
Poll: Martha McSally's lead in Arizona GOP race for U.S. Senate nearly insurmountable
 

 
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