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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts  —  The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.  —  Aitan Goelman, Strzok's lawyer …
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gofundme.com:
Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok  —  $25,031 of $150,000 goal Raised by 607 people in 3 hours  —  Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok  —  Peter Strzok, a man who has spent his entire life working to help keep us and our nation safe, has been fired.  He needs your help.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News … It is “in the public interest” for a pair of senior White House officials to be excused from federal ethics laws so they can meet with Fox News, according to President Donald Trump's top lawyer.
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Politico:
Omarosa claims to have secretly recorded Jared and Ivanka  —  The former White House aide is saying the president's son-in-law and daughter offered emotional support after she was fired.  —  She says she's got Javanka on tape, too.  —  Jilted ex-"Apprentice" star and former White House …
Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers discounted merch from his golf club  —  Ethics experts say the arrangement is a disturbing blurring of lines between his private business and the presidency.  —  There's an under-the-radar perk being offered to staffers in President Donald Trump's administration …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Omarosa Manigault Newman reveals recording she made of President Trump day after she was fired  —  The tape, which was played exclusively Monday on “Today” show, appears to show Trump having no idea that Newman had been dismissed by his Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Dana Perino / Fox News:
Omarosa's book will be forgotten — her despicable behavior will not
Discussion: Mediaite
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The utter collapse of Donald Trump's ‘best people’ boast
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump responds to ‘wacky’ Omarosa: ‘She never made it, never will’
Discussion: ABC News and New York Times
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's diplomatic learning curve: Time zones, ‘Nambia’ and ‘Nipple’  —  The president has often perplexed foreign officials and his own aides as he learns how to deal with the world beyond America's borders.  —  Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Foreign Policy Held Back by Struggle to Grasp Time Zones, Maps  —  Running an effective foreign policy for a global hyperpower is always tricky when the president happens to be a personally corrupt authoritarian bigot who is concealing shady ties to a strategic adversary.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump-appointed judge upholds Mueller's legitimacy
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
David S. Glosser / Politico:
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite.  I Know Because I'm His Uncle.  —  Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.  —  It begins at the turn of the 20th century in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
There's a big tell in Trump's latest defense of Donald Jr.  —  President Trump has spent the past year and a half emphatically declaring that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, adamantly and angrily insisting that any suggestion to the contrary is nothing but a “hoax.”
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
2016 Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives  —  The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded …
Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:
3 missing men at the Manafort trial  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman resumes today, it appears prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office have decided not to call three seemingly key figures.  The absence of these witnesses offers …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism.  Attitudes toward socialism among Democrats have not changed materially since 2010 …
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event  —  BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — The dress code for President Trump's by-invitation meet-and-greet with motorcycle enthusiasts here on Saturday was biker chic — leather, bandannas and for at least one of the supporters who posed …
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Washington Post:
Trump signs defense bill but snubs the senator the legislation is named after — John McCain
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Splinter
CBS News:
Trump excludes McCain in speech about defense bill named in his honor
Discussion: New Republic and Shakesville
Peter Beinart / The Forward:
I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs  —  Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my kids.  Last weekend I can say, with some confidence, that I succeeded.  —  The weekend started on Rhodes, the Mediterranean island …
Elon Musk / Tesla:
Update on Taking Tesla Private  —  As I announced last Tuesday, I'm considering taking Tesla private because I believe it could be good for our shareholders, enable Tesla to operate at its best, and advance our mission of accelerating the transition to sustainable energy.
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Liam Denning / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Hands Tesla's Wheel to Saudi Arabia
Discussion: Electrek, VentureBeat and Breitbart
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.  —  An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices …
CNN:
Keith Ellison denies allegations he abused ex-girlfriend  —  (CNN)Rep. Keith Ellison is denying allegations made public on Saturday that he physically abused an ex-girlfriend.  —  The allegations were detailed in a Facebook post by Austin Monahan, the son of Ellison's former girlfriend Karen Monahan.
WSB-TV:
She ran on responsible gun regulation, now she's accused of killing her campaign treasurer  —  ATLANTA - A former Georgia Congressional candidate has been charged with murder after her former campaign treasurer was found dead inside her apartment.  —  Kellie Collins, of Thomason …
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Juliana Knot / The Federalist:
Former Gun Control Candidate Charged With Shooting Her Campaign Treasurer
Discussion: twitchy.com
ProPublica:
Did You Go to a Washington Nationals Game With Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh?  —  Trump's pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets.  Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge.  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accrued …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
ProPublica: The Fate Of The Republic Rests On Kavanaugh's Nats +1, Or Something
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Archeology of Trumpism  —  Over what are now the years since Donald Trump entered, took over and now totally permeates American political culture, I now and again think back to something that happened years ago, long before his presidential campaign.  Starting in 2011 Trump started posting …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
In 2014, political spending at Trump properties was $35K.  In 2018, it's $3.5M  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J.  —  At least 125 Republican campaigns and conservative political groups spent more than $3.5 million at President Donald Trump's resorts, hotels and restaurants since January 2017 …
Benjamin Kentish / The Independent:
Jeremy Corbyn admits being present at wreath-laying for Munich terrorists but says 'I don't think I was actually involved in it'  —  Labour leader confirms he attended ceremony where ‘wreath was laid’ for attackers who murdered 11 Israeli athletes  —  POPULAR VIDEOS
Kansas City Star:
JoCo accepts nearly 1,500 new votes.  Not all unaffiliated voters' ballots will count  —  Gov. Jeff Colyer's campaign staff left Monday morning's canvassing meeting in Johnson County with the belief that the state's most populous county would be counting all unaffiliated voters who cast ballots in the primary for governor.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Arit John / Bloomberg:
Billionaire Steyer Adding $10 Million to Trump Impeachment Drive  — Steyer has already pledged to spend $110 million on election  — His groups target voters who have skipped midterm voting  —  Billionaire Tom Steyer plans to spend an additional $10 million on helping Democrats …
 
 
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Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
Hip hop community eying new political party line on ballot, wants Busta Rhymes or LL Cool J to run for governor
Discussion: Breitbart
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
State probe says Latino teens strapped down, but not abused
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Mueller Is Examining Roger Stone's Emails
Discussion: Law & Crime
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Marco Rubio looks for his place in Trump's Republican Party
Discussion: Townhall
Ben Leonard / NBC News:
Under Trump arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record have tripled
Discussion: Splinter, ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Ayanna Pressley Wants to Shake the Democratic Party Again
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Chris Collins, Indicted for Insider Trading, Wrote Bill That Could Help His Company
 Earlier Items: 
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Facebook's message to media: “We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic …
Naomi Colvin:
Rather unfortunately, I have been obliged to resign from Courage. An explanation:
Politico:
RPOF beats Snipes — Where's the blue wave, part 2 — Florida schools' new abnormal — TV cash not cutting it
James Ball / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Hacked Emails Take Us Inside the Billionaires' Club Around Vladimir Putin
Discussion: New Yorker
New York Times:
You Know Who the Tax Cuts Helped? Rich People
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Sleepin’ Joe' hears alarm bells in Indiana Senate brawl
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
History will wonder why these men defended Trump but not their country