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8:25 PM ET, December 15, 2018

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Washington Post:
Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations  —  Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke submitted his resignation to the White House Saturday, facing intense pressure from the White House amid multiple probes tied to his real estate dealings in Montana and conduct while in office.
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Interior Chief Zinke to Step Down Amid Ethics Probes
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
A Guide to the Ryan Zinke Investigations
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation  —  Two years after Donald Trump won the presidency, nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation.  —  Trump's private company is contending with civil suits digging …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
As Trump prepares for his holiday respite in Florida, he is more isolated than ever  —  President Trump, more isolated than at any point in his presidency, is scheduled to leave Washington at the end of this week for a holiday respite: two-plus weeks at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
‘Stop,’ 'I wasn't there,' 'I don't know anything about that': Republicans dodge or dismiss Trump's legal woes
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
New York Times:
As the Trumps Dodged Taxes, Their Tenants Paid a Price  —  They were collateral damage as Donald J. Trump and his siblings dodged inheritance taxes and gained control of their father's fortune: thousands of renters in an empire of unassuming red-brick buildings scattered across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
Discussion: Vox and Raw Story
New York Times:
What the Lawless Obamacare Ruling Means  —  It's not based on a solid legal argument.  It's an exercise in raw judicial power.  —  Mr. Adler is a professor of law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  Abbe R. Gluck is a professor of law and the faculty director …
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New York Times:
How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments  —  This year's McKinsey & Company retreat in China was one to remember.  —  Hundreds of the company's consultants frolicked in the desert, riding camels over sand dunes and mingling in tents linked by red carpets.
Ace of Spades HQ:
Weekly Standard Shuts Down  —  There's a lot of whining by NeverTrumpers that this is terrible because we need dissenting voices in media, and the closing of the Weekly Standard means that we must all “kneel” to one rich arrogant man's ego.  —  Well, you know who might agree with that?
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:   How The Anti-Trump, Conservative ‘Weekly Standard’ Bit The Dust
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump makes unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery  —  President Trump made an unscheduled visit to Arlington National Cemetery on a rainy Saturday, following weeks of criticism for skipping ceremonial visits in the United States and abroad that other presidents have made and for his lack …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Philip Ewing / NPR:
The Russia Investigations: An Unfinished Case Looks Weaker Than Ever  —  This week in the Russia investigations: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison ... Maria Butina pleaded guilty ... but the finish line looks no closer  —  The shifting sands
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
After a petition called Gandhi ‘racist,’ his statue was removed from the University of Ghana  —  Another marker has been felled in the intense argument over whether historic figures with racist histories should be honored.  The University of Ghana in Accra no longer has a statue of India independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Mick Mulvaney's move to chief of staff  —  President Trump had a meeting scheduled Monday with a possible candidate for White House chief of staff.  Guess that guy ain't getting it.  —  You can tell so much about West Wing dynamics by the way Trump announced Mick Mulvaney …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Mick Mulvaney Trashes ‘Terrible’ Donald Trump In Newly Resurfaced Video
Discussion: RedState, Daily Wire and The Atlantic
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Next Chief of Staff Called Him ‘A Terrible Human Being’ Just Before He Was Elected President
Jordan Crucchiola / Vulture:
Benedict Cumberbatch Is the Man Who Scammed a Nation in the Trailer for HBO's Brexit  —  The swindlers of the world really took things to a new level in 2016, and HBO has a movie that digs into one of the great con jobs in modern political history.  (There was definitely another …
Discussion: Breitbart and Joe.My.God.
Alan Judd / myajc:
AJC INVESTIGATION: How Brian Kemp turned warning of election system vulnerability against Democrats  —  In a dead heat with Stacey Abrams, Brian Kemp created a diversion from computer security breakdown  —  Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had a problem.
Elizabeth Bruenig / Washington Post:
My advice to progressives: Don't back down  —  A reductive, but not incorrect view of the Democratic debacle in the 2016 elections holds that when President Trump took office, centrists lost the present and leftists lost the future.  In 2020, Democrats will have a new opportunity …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Discussion: Power Line
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For Kushner, Criminal Justice Has Been a Personal Issue and a Rare Victory
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Ukraine Asserts Major Russian Military Buildup on Eastern Border
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Discussion: NPR
Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic:
Bruce Springsteen Explains It All
New York Times:
Star Economist at Harvard Faces Sexual Harassment Complaints
Pamela Brown / CNN:
Mueller continues to be interested in interviewing Trump
Discussion: HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite