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2:10 PM 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.
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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 …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump Picked Fight With Vietnam Vets Over Who Better Understood What Agent Orange Was  —  President Trump is comprehensively unfit for his job.  He's bad at the big, historically important stuff, like understanding legislation and how it gets passed, setting coherent diplomatic goals …
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.
Fox News:
DOJ's Bruce Ohr wrote Christopher Steele was 'very concerned about Comey's firing — afraid they will be exposed'  —  A collection of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's emails, texts and handwritten notes, reviewed by Fox News, reveals that he was deeply connected to the unverified Steele dossier …
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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 …
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
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” …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: Manafort trial is a ‘very sad day for our country’  —  President Donald Trump on Friday refused to say whether Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman who's been wrapped up in the special counsel's Russia investigation, could count on a pardon from the White House.
Discussion: ABC News
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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, CNN and Breitbart
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:   Trump Calls Manafort ‘Good Person’ and Criticizes Fraud Trial
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 …
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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 …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Banned the Media From Her Latest Town Hall Event
NBC News:
Officials worry Trump may back Erik Prince plan to privatize war in Afghanistan  —  “I know he's frustrated,” Blackwater founder Prince said of the president.  “He gave the Pentagon what they wanted.  And they haven't delivered.”  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Free-speech conservatives, this is your call to arms  —  To all those supposed constitutional conservatives out there, consider this your call to arms: The First Amendment is under direct attack, and this time from a much more powerful foe than misguided college freshmen.
Discussion: Daily Kos and BuzzFeed News
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New York Times:
Melania Trump, a Mysterious First Lady, Weathers a Chaotic White House  —  WASHINGTON — Hours after Melania Trump moved into the White House in June of last year, she peered out a window and took in a stunning view of the Washington Monument: “Looking forward to the memories we'll make in our new home! …
Discussion: AOL, The Daily Beast and Splinter
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Trump cuts funding for projects to stabilize Syria  —  The Trump administration is ending up to $230 million in funding intended to help stabilize Syria, David Satterfield, the State Department's Acting Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs, told reporters on a call Friday.
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: AP Sources: US ends Syria stabilization funding
Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Detroit legislator apologizes for racial slurs  —  A Detroit legislator apologized after making racial slurs against a then-rival Asian-American candidate for state Senate.  —  State Rep. Bettie Cook Scott apologized in a statement issued Thursday after liberal advocacy group Progress Michigan revealed …
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Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Metro Times:
Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'
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 …
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.
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Signs of Trump-Putin collaboration, starting years before the campaign?  —  Shane Harris is a staff writer at The Washington Post.  He covers intelligence and national security and the Russia investigation.  —  Of all the allegations contained in the “Steele dossier,” …
Discussion: Shakesville
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul to ask Trump to lift sanctions on Russian leaders  —  (R-Ky.) says he will ask President Trump  —  this weekend to lift sanctions against top Russian officials so they can visit the United States later this year.  —  Paul said members of both bodies of Russia's legislature …
Discussion: DC Tribune
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate gets to work in August — but many don't show up  —  The Senate is working through the August recess.  Sort of.  —  Senators didn't arrive in Washington for this week's work until late in the day Wednesday and held their last votes of the week at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, adjourning a few hours later.
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
Los Angeles Times:
California homeowners get to pass low property taxes to their kids.  It's proved highly profitable to an elite group  —  Actors Jeff and Beau Bridges, along with their sister, own a four-bedroom Malibu home with access to a semi-private beach and panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.
Joe Johnson / Athens Daily News:
Half-naked Athens woman punches officer  —  A 32-year-old Athens woman was arrested early Wednesday after she created a disturbance on Bray Street and then fought with a police officer, Athens-Clarke County police said.  —  Police said they responded to the area at about 12:30 a.m. on a report …
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 …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In a Divided Era, One Thing Seems to Unite: Political Anger  —  Ken Storey was in a pique, the kind that often seizes and overwhelms the better judgment of people who follow politics closely these days.  —  Hurricane Harvey was about to douse Texas with deadly flooding, and Mr. Storey had identified the culprit: Republicans.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NEW: Dem super PAC hammers House GOP leadership in new ad  —  NEW ... YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS BOMBSHELL AD ... HOUSE MAJORITY PAC — a top super PAC that aims to elect Democrats to the House — drops a shockingly tough and sharp ad on House GOP leadership …
Discussion: Political Wire
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trump cancels military parade, feuds with D.C. mayor over ballooning cost  —  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has canceled plans for a military parade in Washington, and ignited a feud with the D.C. mayor after accusing “local politicians” of price gouging.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, IJR, The Week and CNBC
The Texas Tribune:
Federal appeals court upholds Texas campus carry law  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin, which aimed to block the law and allow professors to prohibit firearms in their classrooms.
 
 
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Justin Wm. Moyer / Washington Post:
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Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Taxpayers' bill for Trump Jr.'s business trip to India: $32,000 and counting, documents show
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Natasha Singer / New York Times:
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Hussein Ibish / Bloomberg:
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Plain Dealer:
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Our republic will never be the same
Maggie Severns / Politico:
'Oh that's cool — do that!': Super PACs use new trick to hide donors
Discussion: Splinter
WSYX:
Teen shot and killed after knocking on grandfather's window
Musa al-Gharbi / Heterodox Academy:
Vox's Consistent Errors on Campus Speech, Explained
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jericka Duncan / CBS News:
Woman accusing Rep. Keith Ellison of abuse speaks out