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3:45 PM ET, December 10, 2018

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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
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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.
Politico:
Meadows: Being W.H. chief of staff would be an ‘honor’  —  NEWS ... NORTH CAROLINA REP. MARK MEADOWS sends along this comment about the reports that he is a candidate for White House chief of staff: “Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor.  The President has a long list …
Anna Massoglia / OpenSecrets.org:
NRA leader, Jack Abramoff and GOP operative tied to alleged Russian spy Maria Butina have long history …
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
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Comey calls on Americans to ‘use every breath we have’ to oust Trump in 2020
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
James Comey Is Proving that He's a Partisan
Discussion: Mediaite, Hit & Run and VICE News
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Meadows would give Trump a skilled brawler in the White House
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court sides with Planned Parenthood in funding fight
Discussion: National Review, IJR and Daily Wire
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Brett Kavanaugh sides with liberal justices in declining to hear Planned Parenthood defunding case
Jack Crowe / National Review:
SCOTUS Declines to Hear Challenge to Public Funding of Planned Parenthood
Discussion: RedState and LifeNews.com
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed News:
Who Will Be Trump's Next Chief Of Staff?  It Doesn't Really Matter.  —  President Donald Trump is in the market for a new chief of staff, but his management style, reluctance to change, and relationship with his past two top aides suggest it might not ultimately matter much whom he selects.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Washington Post and CNN
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   Good riddance to John Kelly
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
From pinnacle to punchline: How Trump diminished the job of his chief of staff
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 …
Washington Examiner:
Want to avoid legal trouble?  Start by not cheating on your wife and don't cavort with murderous strongmen or their lobbyists  —  Legal trouble for President Trump is coming from all sides.  There's evidence Paul Manafort was still communicating with the White House this year.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Everybody Says Mueller Is Almost Done. What If He Isn't?
Robby Mook / Washington Post:
The sad truth about Russian election interference
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 …
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New York Times:   How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location
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 …
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.
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.
Kathy Kiely / Washington Post:
Michael Bloomberg still doesn't seem to understand how journalism works  —  The former New York mayor says he might end political coverage at his news service if he runs for president.  —  Kathy Kiely is the Lee Hills chair in free press studies at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bloomberg: Democrats are looking for a ‘middle-of-the-road’ strategy
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
US starts to withdraw troops from Trump border mission  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. this week will begin withdrawing many of the active duty troops sent to the border with Mexico by President Donald Trump just before the midterm election in response to a caravan of Central American migrants, U.S. officials said Monday.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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 …
Discussion: Splinter
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.
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Former Bloomberg Executives to Be Charged in Construction Fraud Scheme  —  More than 18 months ago, the Manhattan district attorney's office opened yet another investigation into fraud in the city's $62 billion construction industry, this one involving Bloomberg L.P., the financial information …
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: Washington Post
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Cambridge Analytica's Real Role in Trump's Dark Facebook Campaign  —  Now new data has opened a small window into Trump's social media machinery, and in particular the role played by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica.  —  Donald Trump's Facebook campaign was crucial to his 2016 success …
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi, rebels discussing term limits for party leaders  —  Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a group of House Democratic rebels are discussing a proposal to impose term limits on both party leaders and committee chairs, according to four Democratic sources.  —  Pelosi has been in private talks …
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 …
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.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
At least 16 Trump associates had contacts with Russians during campaign or transition
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:
Meryl Streep on Why People “Should Be Afraid” of Trump
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow turns positive, erases 507-point drop as tech shares rise
David Dayen / The Intercept:
The Remarkable Tale of the Corporate Lobbyist Sworn In as a Temporary U.S. Senator
Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi sues Mueller, Justice, CIA, FBI, NSA for $350 million
Discussion: CNBC and Joe.My.God.
Charles Duhigg / The Atlantic:
The Real Roots of American Rage