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n that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump sets up a struggle between the nation's top

"could deal a blow to Democratic assertions that President Trump and the White House counsel might have used undu

up a struggle between the nation's top spies and Mr. Trump's skeptical Republican allies." Trump's "past two

ER WASHINGTON NEWS • Media Analyses Skeptical Of Trump's Distancing Himself From "Send Her Back" Chant.

fatal shooting that contradicted the officers' police reports." The board "found that the officers exaggerated the threat posed by the 17-year-old McDonald in order to justify the actions of Officer Jason Van Dyke in shooting the teen 16 times." EFTA01659547 Philadelphia Officers Fired For Facebook Po

eland. • Lawmakers Press Secret Service For Plan To Avoid Future Mar-a-Lago Security Breaches. OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS • Media Analyses Skeptical Of Trump's Distancing Himself From "Send Her Back" Chant. • Prosecutors Signal Additional Charges Related To Alleged Trump "Hush Money" Payments Are Unlikel

(7/18, Bennett, 154K) reports, "Three senior Senate Democrats are pressing the US Secret Service on whether security has been beefed up at President Donald Trump's Florida and New Jersey resorts after a 33-year-old Chinese woman talked her way into his Mar-a-Lago property while he was there." Yujing Zhang, 33,

he talks fell apart, but any chance "for some sort of truce in the 2020 election effectively ended this week." Speaking to a group of reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Rep. Tom Emmer (R- MN) "balked at a question about coming to an agreement with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee regarding

mentary COUNTERTERRORISM • Continued Reporting: New Orleans Ramps up Security for Super Bowl Just Weeks After Terror Attack • Continued Reporting: Trump's Pick to Lead the National Counterterrorism Center Has Called Jan. 6 Rioters 'Political Prisoners' • Continued Reporting: U.S. Court Convicts Foun

on Monday. In his responses, Patel repeatedly denied any involvement in or direction of any of the FBI firings that have taken place since President Donald Trump's inauguration, including those that have occurred since Patel's Jan. 30 confirmation hearing. The article stated that when asked more broadly whethe

roy Baltimore Power Grid • Continued Reporting: Donald Trump Reveals Dead-Man's Switch in Case of Iran A

Minutes' Interview With Kamala Harris • What Do President Trump's Immigration-Related Executive Orders Do? BIG P

Weeks After Terror Attack • Continued Reporting: Trump's Pick to Lead the National Counterterrorism Center

ely be for less pay and lower retirement benefits. The Wall Street Journal (02/05, Gurman, barber, Viswanatha), WVEC (ABC-13) (02/05, Gooding), the Christian Science Monitor (02/05, Gass, Babcock), and CNN (02/05, Video) also reported on the story. Continued Reporting: FBI Agents Sue DOI, Allege Retaliation Over Jan. 6 C

, had a long career of work for leading Republicans, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. But by the time he became Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016, Manafort was best known for his work on behalf of foreign political leaders, including several with distinctly autocrati

se, 2016), http‘Wfreedomhouse otglreport/heedom•world/free- dom•vmrl47I116t 3. See, among others, Steve Rosenberg, 'Russian Media's Love Affair with Trump:British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), November 2, 20161 4. Javier Corrales, "Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela,' Journal of Democracy 26, na 2 (Ap

yed a clear preference for Republi- can candidate Donald Trump and disdain for Clinton.3) For Putin, the

ce the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor? The answer to that question may never be

'Foreign Agents,- Wall Street Journal, August 16,2015, http:/I 13. Fred Weir.*Russia Moves to Silence Civil Society and Its 'Undesirable Contacts,' Christian Science Monitor, May 27.2015, http:// 14. 'Russia Deems Two U.S.-Based NGOs 'Undesirable,- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 18, 2016, http://www.rferlorda/r

-critics-at-home-by-declaring-them-foreign-agents-1439778187. 13. Fred Weir, “Russia Moves to Silence Civil Society and Its ‘Undesirable’ Contacts,” Christian Science Monitor, May 27, 2015, http:// www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/052 7/Russia-moves-to-silence-civil-society-and-its-undesirable-contacts. 14. “Russia Dee

reedom House Chapter 6 Flacks and Friends Did the Russian government attempt to surrepti- tiously influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor? The answer to that question may never be definitively known. There is, neverthe- less, a critical mass of evidence that Kremlin-allied forces

t-truth era,” in which lies and distortions carry as much weight as facts. Clearly, at least some of this hand-wring- ing was a partisan reaction to Trumps victory. But it followed an election in which the winning candidate falsely claimed, among other things, that the balloting was rigged against him, t