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Pete Madden / ABC News:
Maria Butina, accused Russian agent, reaches plea deal with prosecutors that includes cooperation  —  Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian gun rights activist who stands accused developing a covert influence operation in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with federal …
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CNN:
Accused Russian spy Maria Butina appears to reach plea deal  —  Washington (CNN)Accused Russian spy Maria Butina appears to have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.  —  Butina is accused of trying to infiltrate Republican political circles and party leaders during the 2016 campaign …
Discussion: Vox
Washington Post:
Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina poised to plead guilty in case involving suspected Kremlin attempts to influence NRA  —  Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist, is poised to plead guilty in a case involving accusations that she was working as an agent for the Kremlin in the United States, according to a new court filing.
Anna Massoglia / OpenSecrets.org:
NRA leader, Jack Abramoff and GOP operative tied to alleged Russian spy Maria Butina have long history as foreign agents lobbying together  —  Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina has changed her plea to guilty, according to a new joint motion filed by her attorneys this morning.
Discussion: Shakesville
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Maria Butina Agrees to Cooperate With U.S.  —  Butina has inked an agreement with prosecutors and becomes the first Russian since the 2016 election to confess to a crime connected to efforts to influence American politics.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  Maria Butina, a Russian national …
Discussion: ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Amid chief of staff search, Trump increasingly anxious over political future  —  Washington (CNN)While President Donald Trump and Nick Ayers were still in the middle of negotiations about him replacing John Kelly as chief of staff, Trump had already given Ayers a task, according to a source familiar with the discussion.
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘The bottom is going to fall out’: White House reporter says Republicans are privately discussing abandoning Trump  —  Donald Trump is facing “looming problem” as Republicans contemplate abandoning the president as more evidence of wrongdoing comes to light, Los Angeles Times White House …
Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:   Trump Doesn't Want a Chief of Staff
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed News:
Who Will Be Trump's Next Chief Of Staff? It Doesn't Really Matter.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Everybody Says Mueller Is Almost Done.  What If He Isn't?  —  In late 2015, the British spy agency GCHQ, and then other Western intelligence agencies, learned of suspicious interactions between Russian agents and Donald Trump's inner circle.  By the summer of 2016, James Comey testified Friday …
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Washington Examiner:   Want to avoid legal trouble? …
David French / National Review:
Republicans Must Reject ‘Russia Hoax’ Conspiracies and Examine the Evidence
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and NPR
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Meet the Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again  —  It was President Trump's signature campaign promise: He would build a wall along the nation's southern border, and Mexico would pay for it.  —  Shortly after becoming president, Trump dropped the Mexico part …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner did what?  —  The New York Times reports: … As a preliminary matter, we should recognize this as yet another example of why a president should not put a relative in a position of power — especially if the relative possesses questionable judgment and is utterly unqualified for the job.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, CNN and Mediaite
Sarah Aziza / Washington Post:   Saudi Arabia's brutal treatment of female reformers should have woken us up long ago
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest rage-tweets expose the depth of his own corruption  —  The news contained in the fusillade of new legal filings relating to President Trump can be summed up this way: Federal prosecutors are now alleging that Trump personally directed a criminal conspiracy that helped get him elected …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Sudden shift in get-Trump talk; now it's campaign finance, not Russia  —  Prosecutors investigating President Trump made big news Friday, but it wasn't about Russia.  Rather, in their sentencing recommendation for fixer Michael Cohen, lawyers with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Shareblue Media
Streiff / RedState:
President Trump Is Going To Be Impeached the Question Is How Much Damage It Does
Discussion: Feeds and Crooked Media
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Dan Bongino Out at NRATV  —  Trump loves the guy.  But the gun rights group is downsizing its media operation and his show appears to be a casualty of those plans.  —  The National Rifle Association's media arm has dropped pro-Trump firebrand Dan Bongino from its lineup …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Dan Bongino Out at NRATV  —  Trump loves the guy.  But the gun rights group is downsizing its media operation and his show appears to be a casualty of those plans.  —  The National Rifle Association's media arm has dropped pro-Trump firebrand Dan Bongino from its lineup of conservative commentators …
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Establishment looks to crush liberals on Medicare for All  —  The united front that helped Democrats save Obamacare just a year ago is falling apart over single-payer health care.  —  Deep-pocketed hospital, insurance and other lobbies are plotting to crush progressives' hopes of expanding …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
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Alex Thompson / Politico:   LinkedIn co-founder backs $35 million voter data project in ‘existential threat’ to Democratic Party
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court declines to review rulings that blocked efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review lower court decisions that blocked efforts in two states to end public funding to Planned Parenthood, refusing for now to get involved in state battles over abortion rights.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Brett Kavanaugh sides with liberal justices in declining to hear Planned Parenthood defunding case
Harry Enten / CNN:
An insane amount of people turned out to vote in the midterm elections  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump solved a problem that no other president before him could: Getting people to vote in a midterm election.  —  Whether they were voting for or against his agenda, it is now clear that voters turned out in record numbers in 2018.
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Former Trump Campaign Staffer Was Ordered To Pay $25,000 For Violating Her Nondisclosure Agreement  —  WASHINGTON — Jessica Denson, a former staffer for President Donald Trump's campaign, is fighting an order to pay nearly $25,000 for violating a nondisclosure agreement, according to court papers.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Talk About Pizzagate  —  The former Clinton campaign chairman is among the victims still recovering from a vile conspiracy theory that ended in gunfire  —  WASHINGTON — John Podesta has given it a lot of thought and believes the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them.
miamiherald:
Epstein sex abuse victims press judge for decision on tossing his lenient plea deal  —  Victims of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who have waged a decade-long fight for justice, on Monday pressed a federal judge to finally take action on their motion to throw out a controversial plea agreement …
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Why ‘No Hate Here’ signs are actually pretty hateful  —  My walks with my dog take me to a quiet off-street, with middle-class houses made expensive because they're inside the Beltway.  Their owners are mostly youngish attorneys who work as assistant-deputy-director-somethings in some government department or other.
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Academy Looks Warily at Oscar Host Options As Board Meeting Looms  —  Kevin Hart's abrupt departure as Oscars host has left the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences scrambling to find someone to take the gig.  As of now, the situation remains fluid as the group's leadership explores options …
Suyin Haynes / TIME:
TIME Announces 2018 Person of the Year Shortlist on Today Show  —  The shortlist of candidates for TIME's 2018 Person of the Year was unveiled Monday on NBC's Today show.  Since 1927, TIME has identified the Person of the Year, recognizing the person or group of people who most influenced …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
YouTube Bans Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes  —  YouTube banned Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes on Monday, marking the latest social-media blow for the man who started the far-right men's group.  McInnes had amassed more than 220,000 subscribers on YouTube before the ban …
Des Bieler / Washington Post:
Colin Kaepernick reportedly ‘ready and willing’ to play for the Redskins  —  The Redskins' increasingly makeshift situation at quarterback has done nothing to end questions about why the team has been hesitant to sign Colin Kaepernick.  For his part, the noted free agent was reported Sunday to be …
Tablet Magazine:
In an email to Tablet the Women's March wrote: … But whatever concerns were popping up were ultimately no match for the steamroller of the event's progress.  And when the day came, the reality far exceeded expectations.  Estimates for the March on Washington range between half a million …
New York Times:
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret  —  Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds.  They say it's anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.  —  The millions of dots on the map trace highways …
Alex Kotch / Sludge:
Beto Got $430,000 From Individuals in Oil and Gas.  Should We Care?  —  It all started with one Sunday morning tweet from investigative reporter David Sirota.  —  On Dec. 2, Sirota was browsing through OpenSecrets.org, the most popular website for campaign finance data.
Discussion: Splinter
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW Sues FBI for Giuliani Leak Records  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  The FBI is in violation of the law for failing to turn over documents related to the FBI's investigation into the leak of information to Rudy Giuliani in October 2016 that then-FBI Director James Comey was going to reopen …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
YouTube's Biggest Personality Promoted an Anti-Semite  —  Felix Kjellberg, a Swedish YouTube personality best known online by his account name “PewDiePie,” promoted, in one of his video offerings, another YouTube account that has posted white nationalist and anti-Semitic content.
Discussion: The Verge
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Paul Ryan's long con  —  He betrayed his promises and left a legacy of debt and disappointment.  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan's legacy can be summed up in just one number: $343 billion.  —  That's the increase between the deficit for fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2018 — that is …
 
 
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New York Times:
With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash
US Department of State:
Report on Serious Human Rights Abuses or Censorship in North Korea
Discussion: ABC News
Russell Gold / Wall Street Journal:
Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—and the Water Underneath
Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
Russia sends bombers to Venezuela amid country's economic, humanitarian crisis
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Sarah Smith / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Hundreds of sex abuse allegations found in fundamental Baptist churches across U.S.
Ashley Balcerzak / Center for Public Integrity:
You're young and broke. Here's how to still win a congressional seat.
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump administration poised to strip protections from up to 80% of California waters, millions of acres nationwide
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Defeat and the Dossier Explain Everything
Jerusalem Post:
Al-Arabiya slams Linda Sarsour as Muslim Brotherhood ally
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
US starts to withdraw troops from Trump border mission
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Splinter
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
What Good Did USA Today's Ambushing Kyler Murray Do Anyone?
Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Wire and Mother Jones
Kathy Kiely / Washington Post:
Michael Bloomberg still doesn't seem to understand how journalism works
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Observer
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren, other key Democratic senators investigate Fox News bonus payments to Trump aide Bill Shine
Discussion: Mediaite
David Dayen / The Intercept:
The Remarkable Tale of the Corporate Lobbyist Sworn In as a Temporary U.S. Senator
 

 
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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New York Times:
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