Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Evening Edition: Democrats walk careful line as GOP warns against impeachment

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Democrats walk careful line as GOP warns against impeachment
Republicans are bracing for it. President Trump's lawyer is warning about it. But Democrats running in the most crucial midterm races have so far refused to threaten impeachment for the president after his former lawyer implicated him Tuesday in directing the commission of a crime.
The Daily 202 | Analysis
A terrible day for Trump could foretell more bad days to come
Michael Cohen's plea deal and Paul Manafort's conviction offer a timely reminder that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III still knows so much more than we do. And he keeps digging.
 
The Fix | Analysis
6 big questions after the Cohen and Manafort convictions
The legal drama raises even bigger questions about President Trump's potential legal jeopardy and the future of the Mueller probe.
 
 
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Perspective: This is the moment all of Trump's anti-media rhetoric has been working toward
The Cohen and Manafort news is huge. But how much will a divided, disbelieving nation care?
 
Citing Cohen plea, Senate Democrats seek delay in Kavanaugh hearings
Lawmakers argued that a new justice could decide legal questions directly affecting President Trump, now that his ex-lawyer has admitted illegal acts that involve him.
 
Sarah Huckabee Sanders on whether Trump lied about payment to Stormy Daniels: 'That's a ridiculous accusation'
In April, President Trump told reporters that he didn't know about his personal attorney's $130,000 payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Trump told "Fox & Friends" that he did know — "later on."
 
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Analysis: Trump's comparison of the Cohen allegations to Obama is entirely wrong
The president responds to being implicated in campaign finance violations: Whatabout Obama?
 
Cohen doesn't want to be 'dirtied' by a Trump pardon, lawyer says
In media interviews, Lanny Davis delivered stinging assessments of President Trump that served to further distance Michael Cohen from a president for whom he once said he would take a bullet.
 
Democratic National Committee says hackers unsuccessfully targeted voter database
Party officials say they notified the FBI after the cyberattack was fended off. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attempted breach.
 
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Mollie Tibbetts's suspected killer, in the U.S. illegally, told investigators about her final moments
Cristhian Rivera was in the country illegally, but appears to have used a stolen identification card to satisfy a federal immigration background check by his employer.
 
How much of the press is 'the enemy of the people'? Trump puts it at about 80 percent.
The president has repeatedly used the derogatory term to describe journalists, but he explained in an interview with Fox News that some reporters do their jobs to his satisfaction.
 
Category 4 Hurricane Lane closes in on Hawaii
The island chain may face torrential rain, damaging winds and battering waves between Thursday and the weekend.
 
 
The Fix | Analysis
10 of the ickiest allegations in the Rep. Duncan Hunter indictment
The extremely detailed allegations paint the picture of a member of Congress raising money from donors and boldly using it for himself and his family to live outside their means.
 
On Leadership | Analysis
Elon Musk is the 'poster boy' of a culture of 'obsessive overwork.' Can his revelations inspire change?
After a tearful, revealing interview of the leader of Tesla and SpaceX, experts say all the attention on Musk's emotional state may have little effect on a culture celebrated in Corporate America.
 
Mom was a Neanderthal. Dad was something else entirely. Meet the strangest hybrid in human history.
A report in the journal Nature adds to a growing body of evidence that ancient hominids interacted and interbred repeatedly over the course of evolutionary history.
 
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