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9:30 AM ET, August 24, 2018

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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Eyes Criminal Charges Against Trump Organization  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen's hush money payment to an adult film actress …
Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
AP: National Enquirer's safe held damaging Trump stories  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election …
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Associated Press:
A president who demands loyalty finds it fleeting in DC  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Et tu, Michael Cohen?  —  Loyalty has long been a core value for President Donald Trump.  But he's learning the hard way that in politics, it doesn't always last.  —  Cohen, the president's former personal attorney …
Wall Street Journal:
David Pecker Granted Immunity in Cohen Case
Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:   Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to National Enquirer head David Pecker in Cohen investigation
New Yorker:
The Conspiracy Memo Aimed at Obama Aides that Circulated in the Trump White House  —  The 2017 document, titled the “Echo Chamber,” accused former Obama officials of undermining the incoming Administration.  —  In early 2017, some of Donald Trump's advisers concluded that they faced …
Axios:
Trump's fantasy legal system  —  When President Trump told “Fox & Friends” that this “whole thing about flipping ... almost ought to be outlawed,” he was continuing a long habit of declaring what he thinks laws and the legal system should be, and ignoring what they are.
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Calvin Lawrence Jr / ABC News:
Trump responds to Jeff Sessions push-back: Look at 'corruption on the 'other side"  —  President Donald Trump Friday morning urged Jeff Sessions to “look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side”’ after the attorney general disputed Trump's assertion a day earlier that Sessions had failed …
Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Ben Sasse threatens to vote against any new AG if Trump fires Jeff Sessions
Discussion: Townhall
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Critics fear Trump's attacks are doing lasting damage to the justice system
Martin London / TIME:
I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew.  President Trump Should Consider Resigning  —  London is a retired partner for the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the author of The Client Decides; he was a principal lawyer for Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Discussion: Just Security and Raw Story
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Fox News:
Autopsy finds Iowa student died from ‘sharp force injuries’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter: My wife handled my finances  —  (CNN)Rep. Duncan D. Hunter seemed to shift any blame onto his wife, Margaret, on Thursday for alleged campaign fund abuses, saying she was the one handling his finances.  —  “She was also the campaign manager …
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Paulina Dedaj / Fox News:
Rep. Duncan Hunter calls indictment ‘pure politics,’ denies using campaign funds for personal expenses
Discussion: USA Today, Splinter, CNN and Contemptor
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Chuck Grassley's Moment  —  The chairman of the Judiciary Committee is no longer Senator Bipartisan.  —  Senator Chuck Grassley seems out of place in Washington.  He loves to eat at Perkins, the Midwest restaurant chain.  But the nearest one from Washington is 60 miles away in Winchester, Virginia—too far for dinner.
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Tom Nichols / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh's confirmation must wait
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Kavanaugh eases off call for presidential immunity in meetings with senators
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘Dangerous and poisoned’: Critics blast Trump for endorsing white nationalist conspiracy theory on South Africa  —  President Trump's promotion of a white nationalist conspiracy theory involving South Africa prompted fierce backlash there Thursday and fresh criticism in the United States …
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Jed Shugerman / Slate:
A Lone Holdout Juror Actually Made It More Likely That Paul Manafort Will Go to Jail Even if Trump Pardons Him  —  On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump had recently discussed with his lawyers the prospect of issuing a pardon for Paul Manafort.
Washington Post:
Trump sought his lawyers' advice weeks ago on possibility of pardoning Manafort but they counseled against it, Giuliani says  —  President Trump sought his lawyers' advice several weeks ago on the possibility of pardoning Manafort, Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said Thursday.
Discussion: New Republic, Raw Story and Axios
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Sky News:
Rudy Giuliani: Impeaching Trump would mean 'people's revolt'
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:   Paul Manafort and Trump's Pardon Pattern
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Russian trolls ‘spreading discord’ over vaccine safety online  —  Study discovered several accounts, now known to belong to the same Russian trolls who interfered in the US election, tweeting about vaccines  —  Bots and Russian trolls spread misinformation about vaccines on Twitter …
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Finds
Discussion: Engadget
NBC News:
Russian trolls pushed divisive content over vaccines, researchers say
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
This Conspiracy Theory Should Worry Trump  —  When two or more people join together to break the law, as Michael Cohen says he and the president did, the penalties can be harsh.  —  Mr. Katyal was an acting solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  President Trump needs a new defense.
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network  —  In the Trump era, hard reporting is being crowded out by opinionated panels, current and former staffers say.  —  Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network …
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Facebook censored my column — and I still can't find out why  —  At 7:55 a.m. Thursday morning, I posted a story I had written for The New York Post on both Facebook and Twitter.  It was a reported piece on how people who voted for President Trump were feeling after both former Trump campaign …
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Tyler O'Neil / PJ Media Home:
Facebook Censors Articles From Salena Zito, Jenna Lynn Ellis, Saying They ‘Look Like Spam’
Discussion: Tennessee Star and Instapundit
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News:
Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy  —  Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday to share their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo:
White House blocks bill that would protect elections  —  WASHINGTON — A bill that would have significantly bolstered the nation's defenses against electoral interference has been held up in the  —  Senate at the behest of the White House, which opposed the proposed legislation, according to congressional sources.
Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Who Is Julia Salazar?  Brooklyn State Senate Candidate's Complex Personal History and Views  —  It's impossible to walk around New York state Sen. Martin Dilan's north Brooklyn district without seeing his 27-year-old opponent peering out from the storefronts on Knickerbocker Avenue …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Conan O'Brien's Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro  —  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Conan O'Brien, the longest tenured late-night TV host, has had them all in his 25 years on the air.  Oscar winners.  Hall of Famers.  Bowie, Springsteen, McCartney.  —  But there's one person who keeps saying no …
Michelle Robertson / San Francisco Chronicle:
It's not just fog turning the sky gray: SF air quality is 3 times worse than Beijing  —  Update: The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a Spare the Air Alert for the Bay Area for Thursday and Friday.  Read the full story here.  —  End of update.  —  The gray haze over San Francisco isn't just summer fog.
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Two Cheers, If Not the Full Three, for Shame  —  Shame is an interesting and difficult topic.  I touch on it at the outset of my Impromptus today.  Earlier this week, four Japanese basketball players apologized for bringing “disgrace” on their country.  What had they done?
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
One hates Trump.  The other loves him.  Two West Virginians wait for the president to come to town.  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — From the driver's seats of their county school buses, longtime friends Paul Black and Paul Cochran have an almost identical view of the struggling community where they have lived nearly all of their lives.
Discussion: Raw Story
Curt Anderson / Associated Press:
Florida candidate says alien abduction doesn't define her  —  MIAMI (AP) — U.S. House candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera has a long list of accomplishments to bolster her campaign in Florida.  But she is perhaps best known for claiming that she was abducted by space aliens as a child.
 
 
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
A cancer on the presidency
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Maria Danilova / Associated Press:
Anger over Ed Dept mulling federal money for guns in schools
Discussion: MSNBC and New York Times
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
For Female Candidates, Harassment and Threats Come Every Day
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Mark Landler / New York Times:
With a Vocabulary From ‘Goodfellas,’ Trump Evokes His Native New York
NBC News:
Trump admin intentionally slowing FBI vetting of refugees, ex-officials say
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
Over 500 Migrant Kids Are Still Separated From Parents Weeks After Court Deadline
Discussion: Political Wire
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
House and Senate Republicans are all complicit
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Scott Morrison, a Pragmatic Conservative, Will Be Australia's New Prime Minister
Discussion: Bloomberg
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Thousands of federal defendants offer to help the government each year.  Trump says that ‘almost ought to be outlawed.’
Discussion: Fox News, Hit & Run and Joe.My.God.
William Saletan / Slate:
We Already Know Trump Is Betraying His Country
Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Orman repels bid by Democrats to strike his name off November ballot
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
The Times of Israel:
Cambridge Analytica-linked businessman helped start Black Cube, lawsuit claims
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo faces a moment of truth on North Korea