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Russian source who confirmed Vladimir Putin's involvement in 2016 election was removed by CIA over safety concerns
•The network said the spy was pulled out of Russia in 2017 due to concerns that President Donald Trump and his cabinet could expose the asset
Fox News to back CNN in court battle with White House over reporter Jim Acosta's credentials
•The announcement came a day after CNN—part of the WarnerMedia division of AT&T—said it was suing to restore the press pass of Acosta, barred after a testy exchange with Trump at a White House news conference.
White House flip-flops on Jim Acosta's suspension: From 'hands on female intern' to 'refused to surrender mic'
Fp Staff •Where the administration had last week accused Jim Acosta of placing his hands on a female intern who was trying to take the microphone from him during an argument with Donald Trump, in on Tuesday suggested that the decision was about Acosta refusing to yield the microphone while questioning the president.
Expert says video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta distributed by White House was doctored to make him look more aggressive
•Sarah Sanders tweeted the video, which shows Acosta asking Trump a question on Wednesday as the intern tries to take his microphone away. But a frame-by-frame comparison with an AP video of the same incident shows that the one tweeted by Sanders appears to have been altered to speed up Acosta's arm movement as he touches the intern's arm, according to Abba Shapiro, an independent video producer who examined the footage
'America is divided': US media op-eds on what the 2018 midterm election results mean for Democrats, Donald Trump
Fp Staff •US president Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated Senate Republican gains in the 2018 midterm election but immediately threatened Democrats.
White House suspends press accreditation of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after Donald Trump confrontation
•They began sparring after Acosta asked Trump about the caravan of migrants heading from Latin America to the southern US border. When Acosta tried to follow up with another question, Trump said, "That's enough!" and a female White House aide unsuccessfully tried to grab the microphone from Acosta.
Donald Trump slams reporters at post-election news conference at White House, calls CNN's Jim Acosta 'rude and terrible'
•To a CNN reporter's question on a migrant caravan from Central America moving towards the United States, many members of whom were termed "criminals" by Trump, the visibly upset president said, "I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN."
Donald Trump brands journalists writing against White House 'very unpatriotic', accuses scribes of putting lives at risk
•Trump alleged that "the failing New York Times and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements - and they will never change!"
Trump tweets 'very nice note' from North Korea's Kim Jong-un; says 'great progress being made!'
•US President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted a letter to him from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un heralding "epochal progress" in U.S.-North Korea relations, despite signs that path-finding diplomacy between the adversaries is running into problems.
Trump tags US 'Fake News' media as nation's 'biggest enemy' after Singapore summit, challenges skeptical media coverage
Fp Staff •President Donald Trump challenged skeptical media coverage of his historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, declaring that "Fake News" is the nation's "biggest enemy."