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6:45 PM ET, December 17, 2018

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New York Times:
Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans  —  The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard …
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David McCabe / Axios:
Senate-commissioned reports show scale of Russian misinformation campaign
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Napolitano Corrects Wall Street Journal on Fox Business: FBI Agents Did Not Entrap Mike Flynn  —  Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano dismissed claims that FBI agents “entrapped” former national security adviser Michael Flynn when they interviewed him at the start of the Trump administration.
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Comey Blasts GOP, ‘Lying’ Trump: ‘At Some Point Someone Has to Stand Up’
Discussion: ABC News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The ‘Michael Flynn is an innocent hero’ conspiracy theory suffers a major setback
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
John Harwood / CNBC:   Most Americans want action on climate change. Republicans are the exception: Poll
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Comey bashes GOP after latest closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Townhall and RedState
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Michael Cohen Adviser Deals Major Blow To The Steele Dossier
Lawrence S. Robbins / Politico:
How Trump Could Get Away With It  —  This weekend, President Donald Trump raged against Michael Cohen, calling his former lawyer and accuser a “rat” for cooperating with federal prosecutors.  Cohen has accused Trump of directing him to make secret hush-money payments to two women …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise  —  The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Mueller's probe is finished.  —  As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, they'll have to contend …
Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Woody Allen's Secret Teen Lover Speaks: Sex, Power and a Conflicted Muse Who Inspired ‘Manhattan’  —  In 1976, 16-year-old model Babi Christina Engelhardt embarked on a hidden eight-year affair with the 41-year-old filmmaker that mirrors one of his most famous movies.
Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
The New York Times Just Published An Unqualified Recommendation For An Insanely Anti-Semitic Book  —  The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, dubs the Talmud “among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,” and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey  —  A business partner of Michael Flynn is being charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for attempting to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States.
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New York Times:
CBS Says Leslie Moonves Will Not Receive $120 Million Severance  —  The CBS Corporation, battered by scandal and facing a leadership vacuum, said its former chief executive, Leslie Moonves, misled the company about multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and tried to hide evidence …
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Jen Vafidis / CBS Corporation:
Statement from CBS Board of Directors
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Moving Toward An Unconventional Presidential Campaign.  Her Fans See “Bernie 2.0.”  —  Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic member of Congress from Hawaii, is known — insofar as she is known — for bucking her party.  She criticized President Barack Obama's handling of ISIS.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's high time for media to enter the No Kellyanne Zone — and stay there  —  Lies are coming at the American public in torrents — raining down on them everywhere they turn.  —  A report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and obtained by The Washington Post, made that breathtakingly clear over the weekend.
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Joel Ebert / The Tennessean:
Tennessee US Sen. Lamar Alexander will not seek re-election in 2020
Discussion: HuffPost and Conservative Review
Natalie / DCist:
After Bloodbath, The National Zoo's Naked Mole-Rats Finally Choose Their Queen  —  At last, we've reached the conclusion of this scintillating drama: the National Zoo's naked mole-rat colony has chosen its queen.  —  In case you've been living under a rock, let us catch you up …
Washington Times:
Time to finish the Wall  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  If President Trump sends a wish list to the North Pole, it might say something like this (and he had better hurry): “All I want for Christmas is a big, beautiful wall.”  If congressional Democrats send a letter, it would be addressed to the Grinch …
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USA Today:
Americans' message to Washington on the looming shutdown: Don't
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Bloomberg:
Trump Opposes Short-Term Funding to Avoid Shutdown, Source Says
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Mick Mulvaney in October 2016: Trump would be disqualified from office in an ‘ordinary universe’  —  (CNN)Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once said Donald Trump's past words and actions would disqualify him from becoming president in an “ordinary universe.”
Discussion: Contemptor and Mediaite
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job  —  A children's speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin …
Luciano Guerra / Washington Post:
I voted for Trump.  Now his wall may destroy my butterfly paradise.  —  The Republican party is abandoning the conservative principles I treasured.  —  Right now, in Mission, Tex., we don't worry about immigrants who crossed the border illegally or drug smugglers.
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Associated Press:
US sportswear traced to factory in China's internment camps  —  HOTAN, China (AP) — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China's far west.  Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe  —  The German Chancellor and other European leaders have run out of patience with the President.  —  This past July, on the final day of the nato summit in Brussels, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, proposed a closed-door emergency meeting.
Discussion: Politico
The Daily Beast:
‘Vice,’ the Dick Cheney Biopic, Might Be the Worst Movie of the Year  —  Filmmaker Adam McKay's political satire, starring an unrecognizable Christian Bale, is getting major awards buzz.  But is it any good?  Marlow Stern and Kevin Fallon break it down.  —  Kevin: One of the last major …
Discussion: ELLE and The Week
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations  —  WHILE POPULAR MEMORY today remembers Watergate as five DNC burglars leading inexorably to Richard Nixon's resignation two years later, history recalls that the case and special prosecutor's investigation at the time was much broader …
Todd May / New York Times:
Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?  —  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering.  —  Mr. May is a professor of philosophy at Clemson University.  —  There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human extinction.
Discussion: Breitbart
Cheryl Wischhover / Vox:
How spray-on hair does (and doesn't) work  —  In case Stephen Miller has you wondering.  —  On Sunday, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller appeared on Face the Nation.  His contentious interview included the assertion that President Donald Trump was quite willing to shut down the government …
Discussion: twitchy.com and CBS News
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Pennsylvania meltdown triggers Republican alarms  —  PHILADELPHIA — A GOP implosion in Pennsylvania has Republicans alarmed about President Donald Trump's reelection prospects in a state that proved essential to his 2016 victory.  —  The enfeebled state party — still reeling …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Russian disinformation during 2016 was worse than you thought
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Giuliani stumbles into admitting Trump's hush money payments were probably illegal
Discussion: AOL
Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
Trump offering farmers extra $4.9 billion in trade relief
John Stanton / BuzzFeed News:
Border Patrol Tells Congressional Delegation It Can't Meet With Agents Who Detained 7-Year-Old
Beth Musgrave / Lexington Herald-Leader:
AG Andy Beshear says he will fight to keep Affordable Care Act
Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg:
U.S. Student Loan Debt Sets Record, Doubling Since Recession
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
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Evangelical Writer Kisses An Old Idea Goodbye
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Who's Equipped to Hold the Trump Coalition Together?
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Power Line
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
These Democrats Will Soon Have the Power to Investigate the White House. How Far Will They Go?
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
California Upends 2020 Democratic Primary Calendar