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5:15 PM ET, August 18, 2018

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New York Times:
White House Counsel Has Cooperated Extensively With Mueller's Obstruction Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry …
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emptywheel:
The NYT's Latest McGahnObstructAPalooza: Sometimes “Cooperation” Is Just Cover Your Ass  —  By far the most telling passage in this 2,225+ word story laying out Don McGahn's “cooperation” with the Mueller inquiry is this passage: … Over two thousand words and over a dozen sources …
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Truth-Testing Trump's 250-Plus Attacks on the Russia Inquiry
Discussion: The White House
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside the security clearance revolt  —  Several wanted to fiddle with the punctuation, some wanted to add nice things about John Brennan; others thought it would be wiser to pare them back.  —  But in 12 hours, a couple of former CIA senior aides pulled off a first in American history.
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Kori Schake / War on the Rocks:
McRaven's Rousing Protest: Are Civil-Military and Democratic Norms in Tension?  —  President Donald Trump withdrawing the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan has set off a cascade of former professionals from the military and intelligence community condemning the president's public …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Revoking Brennan's Security Clearance: The Right Thing, Even if for the Wrong Reason  —  It's right because he is irresponsible and untrustworthy and has politicized intelligence.  —  I do not share my friend David French's theoretical constitutional concerns about the president's revocation …
CBS Los Angeles:
ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Hospital To Deliver Baby  —  SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — A newborn is without his father Friday after immigration agents detained the man as he was taking his wife to deliver the baby.  —  “I feel very bad right now,” Maria del Carmen Venegas told CBS2 News …
The Daily Beast:
Alleged Russian Agent Marina Butina Moved to Virginia Jail, Unclear Why … Maria Butina, the Russian national accused of acting as a Kremlin agent in the United States, was abruptly moved from a jail in Washington to a lockup in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her lawyer.
Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Trump Blasts Social Media ‘Censorship’: ‘Discriminating Against Republican/Conservative Voices’  —  “Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won't let that happen,” POTUS says in Saturday tweet-storm  —  President Trump on Saturday issued a tweet-storm following the removal …
Discussion: Vox, Townhall and Shareblue Media
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Netflix's ‘Classless’ Cancellation of Michelle Wolf's ‘The Break’ … Well, that was fast.  On Friday, Netflix quietly pulled the plug on The Break with Michelle Wolf, one of the only “late-night” shows on “television” hosted by a female comedian, just three months after it premiered.
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Kofi Annan, Diplomat Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80  —  Kofi Annan, a soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana, who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world's conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles …
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Stanley Meisler / Washington Post:
Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary general, dies at 80
Discussion: CNN, Outside the Beltway and The Week
Joshua Posaner / Politico:
Kofi Annan, former UN chief, dies aged 80
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months  —  The U.S. national debt has increased by more than half a trillion dollars in less than six months, amid predictions that the U.S. is on the verge of returning to another explosion in government borrowing.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Slippery Slope of Complicity  —  When was the last time centrist talking heads declared, “Donald Trump just became president” (because he bombed someone, or something like that)?  I think it's been more than a year.  At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism …
Discussion: Raw Story
Patsy McGarry / The Irish Times:
Cardinal in Pennsylvania withdraws from World Meeting of Families in Dublin  —  Cardinal Donald Wuerl was to give a keynote address on families at RDS on Wednesday  —  A Cardinal who was heavily criticised for his handling of child sexual abuse allegations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report …
Souad Mekhennet / Washington Post:
Austria's far-right government ordered a raid on its own intelligence service.  Now allies are freezing the country out.  —  VIENNA — The raids came without warning, surprising even the intelligence operatives whose job is to never be caught off guard.  —  On the morning of Feb. 28 …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Charter Spectrum plans to report local TV news, 24 hours a day, in Los Angeles  —  Local TV news has settled into a familiar routine: a pingpong of live shots with reporters standing near the scene of a crime, a wildfire or the wreckage of a deadly crash.  Newscasts are peppered with helicopter views …
New York Times:
Tax Cuts Are a Hit With One Pivotal G.O.P. Group: Rich Donors  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are struggling to make the $1.5 trillion Trump tax cuts a winning issue with voters in the midterm congressional elections, but the cuts are helping the party in another crucial way …
Discussion: Florida Politics
Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
Document: George Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo  —  The government has filed a sentencing memorandum in the case of George Papadopoulos, recommending a sentence of between zero to six months.  The document is available in full below.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Mueller prosecutors seek up to six months in prison for George Papadopoulos in Russia probe
Discussion: Raw Story
David Alexander / Reuters:
U.S. special counsel recommends six months in prison for Papadopoulos
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
China's Uighur Camps Swell as Beijing Widens the Dragnet
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump's Plan for Coal Emissions: Let Coal States Regulate Them
Discussion: Bloomberg
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Rahm Emanuel under increasing fire for linking Chicago violence and morals in minority neighborhoods
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and IJR
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Top Republican opens up about Russia probe
Discussion: Power Line
Doug Wead / The Federalist:
These Screenshots Show How Google Shadowbans Conservative And Pro-Trump Content
Discussion: RedState
Los Angeles Times:
Trump backed ‘space force’ after months of lobbying by officials with ties to aerospace industry
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats know they need to talk about how Kavanaugh would rule, and yet they fall into the trap of Senate process
KLRT-TV:
Satanic Temple Rally at State Capitol Targets Arkansas Lawmaker
Discussion: Hit & Run
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Far-right Sweden Democrats hope to topple century of socialism
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Bars Statements Made by Guantánamo Detainees During F.B.I. Interrogations
Pascale Mueller / BuzzFeed News:
She Is The World's Most Renowned Empathy Researcher — And Is Alleged To Have Been Harassing Employees For Years
Discussion: Breitbart
Jason Gay / Wall Street Journal:
It's Obscene to Pay $180 for a Steak Sandwich—But It Sure Was Yummy
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
G/O Media sells The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago firm owned by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson; former NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is CEO

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

Financial Times:
Sources: RedBird IMI prepares to withdraw its Telegraph bid as early as next week, triggering an auction expected to draw bids from Rupert Murdoch and others

 
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