| No Images? Click here  (This email has been updated with the correct links in the Before You Go section. Apologies.)Wednesday, December 12FLYNN STILL HASN’T SAID WHY HE LIED Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn asked a judge to spare him prison for lying about Russian contacts, suggesting FBI agents who interviewed him last year tricked him. They argued Flynn’s willingness to help the special counsel probe into Russian election interference should be enough to spare him prison, but offered no explanation for why Flynn lied to agents about his meetings with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TORIES TRY TO OUST MAY British Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to fight off an attempt to oust her from power with “everything I’ve got.” Conservative Party MPs have triggered a vote of no confidence in the prime minister’s leadership of the party following her decision to delay the vote on her Brexit deal. [HuffPost]3 DEAD IN STRASBOURG ATTACK French authorities detained five people as they hunted Wednesday for a suspected extremist who sprayed gunfire at one of Europe’s most famous Christmas markets in the eastern city of Strasbourg, killing three and wounding at least 13. [AP]'JAVANKA' TO PROFIT FROM WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump’s daughter and his son-in-law, own a major stake in a real estate investment firm set to take advantage of the Opportunity Zone program — a tax break plan the couple pushed. [AP]STORMY ORDERED TO PAY TRUMP’S LEGAL FEES Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Trump, was ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in the president’s legal fees after her defamation lawsuit was thrown out in October. [HuffPost]TRUMP FLOATS HUAWEI EXEC ‘DEAL’ Trump said he could intervene in the Justice Department’s case against a top executive at China’s Huawei Technologies if it could help close a trade deal with China. [Reuters] RELEASE FOR MOM WHOSE BABY WAS SNATCHED BY COPS A judge ordered the immediate release of Jazmine Headley, 23, whose 1-year-old son was ripped from her arms by police while she waited for a child care voucher at the Human Resources Administration office in Brooklyn. [HuffPost]HUCKABEE SANDERS WANTS TO BE REMEMBERED FOR ‘HONESTY’!? Sarah Huckabee Sanders hopes to be remembered for being “transparent and honest” when her tenure as White House press secretary comes to an end. She won’t. [HuffPost]ICE RAMPS UP UNDOCUMENTED ARRESTS Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ramped up its investigations of workplaces suspected of employing undocumented immigrants, with a surge in the number of workers arrested from 300 last year to 2,300 in 2018. [HuffPost]JOURNALISTS TOP TIME’S ‘PERSON OF THE YEAR’ Time magazine announced a group of journalists it called “The Guardians” as 2018 Person of the Year, referring to individuals “who have taken great risks in pursuit of greater truths.” Slain columnist Jamal Khashoggi topped the list. [HuffPost]‘NOT QUALIFIED’ JUDGE CONFIRMED Senate Republicans voted to confirm a Trump judicial nominee, Jonathan Kobes, even though Kobes has earned an abysmal “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association. [HuffPost]GOP UNNERVED BY MUELLER DROPS Trump’s intensifying legal troubles are unnerving some of his fellow Republicans. Despite the president’s brash denials, they believe the turmoil has left him increasingly vulnerable as he gears up for what is sure to be a nasty fight for re-election. [AP]COHEN TO DISCOVER FATE Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will find out today whether his decision to walk away from the president will spare him from a harsh prison sentence. [AP]
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