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11:30 PM ET, May 5, 2017

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France's Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online — A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.

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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:

Le Pen Is Just A Gargantuan Polling Error Behind Macron — Donald Trump was just a normal polling error behind Hillary Clinton on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. The far-right National Front candidate in France, Marine Le Pen, by contrast, is an enormous, historic polling error behind …

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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:

Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn — Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn — A word on Obamacare. I relied on it until just recently when I joined New York's staff and went on an employer's plan, and, to tell the truth …

Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:

Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack — PARIS — The campaign staff of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Friday evening that it had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation after internal campaign documents were published online on social media.

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BBC:
Macron condemns ‘massive’ hacking attack

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The Daily Beast:

Trump and Bannon ‘Personally Intervened’ to Save Seb Gorka … When the White House backed off its efforts to dump Sebastian Gorka on another federal agency, the controversial counterterrorism advisor had the president himself to thank, The Daily Beast has learned.

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

G.O.P. House Candidate in Montana Is Caught on Tape Praising Health Bill — WASHINGTON — When Greg Gianforte, the Republican running for an open House seat in Montana, was asked on Thursday whether he would have supported the bill repealing the Affordable Care Act that passed the House that day, he declined to answer.

Discussion: Occupy Democrats, Political Wire and Axios

Jeff Stein / Vox:
“I've never seen anything like this”: progressives see huge donation spike after AHCA vote

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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House 2018: Rating Changes in 20 Districts

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Democrats' Losses in 2010 Can Tell Us About G.O.P.'s Chances in 2018

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:

No, the AHCA Doesn't Make Rape a Preexisting Condition — The latest less-than-truthful meme about Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed by the U.S. House on Thursday, is that it makes rape a “preexisting condition” for health-insurance purposes.

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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Gov. Scott Walker would consider dropping fed pre-existing condition coverage rules for Wisconsin — MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he would consider having Wisconsin opt out of the pre-existing condition policies under the Affordable Care Act, depending on the final version of legislation headed to the U.S. Senate.

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David Nather / Axios:
Walker considers waiving pre-existing condition rules

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Washington Post:

Flynn was warned by Trump transition officials about contacts with Russian ambassador — Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by senior members of then President-elect Donald Trump's transition team about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador weeks …

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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:

Trump Army secretary nominee withdraws — DON'T MISS A BRIEF. SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Political Wire

New York Times:
Trump's 2nd Nominee for Army Secretary Withdraws

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Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity

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CNN:
Mark Green withdraws his nomination for Army secretary

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon and Axios

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

FCC to investigate, ‘take appropriate action’ on Colbert's Trump rant — Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert's controversial joke about President Trump drew the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency received “a number” of complaints about Colbert's commentary earlier …

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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:

CNN's Hughes demands apology from ‘bully’ Sam Bee for mocking her ‘mazel tov cocktail’ defense of Trump — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN contributor and Donald Trump booster Scottie Nell Hughes thinks comedian Samantha Bee “bullied” her last weekend during the …

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Daily Mail:
The president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, says the four networks are engaging in ‘an unprecedented act of censorship’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Trump: ‘Everybody’ has better healthcare than US — President Trump said Friday that “everybody” has better healthcare than the United States. — “Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do —everybody does. ObamaCare is dead! But our healthcare will soon be great,” Trump tweeted.

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Dan Merica / CNN:
Deputy press secretary substitutes for Spicer

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House on health care bill: ‘Never underestimate this president’

Discussion: Media Matters for America, ABC News, Vox and The Atlantic

CNN:

Republicans defend having no women in health care group — Cassidy: Health bill should pass Kimmel test — Washington (CNN)Just hours after House Republicans managed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate is signaling it will write its own proposal …

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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys....

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Juan Forero / Wall Street Journal:

Venezuela Is Starving — Once Latin America's richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls. The resulting hunger and malnutrition are an unfolding tragedy.

Discussion: Hot Air and IJR

Ashley Parker / Washington Post:

White House fires its chief usher — the first woman in that job — The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, the first woman and second African American to hold the position. — When the White House residence staff arrived at work Friday morning, they were told that Reid …

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Dan Diamond / Politico:

Trump budget would effectively kill drug control office — President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget would cut about 95 percent of funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, effectively ending its mission as the lead agency in charge of combating the opioid crisis and other drug epidemics …

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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
White House Proposes Cutting Drug Control Office Funding by 95%

Discussion: The FADER

Ari Berman / The Nation:

Georgia Can't Block New Voters From Registering in the Ossoff-Handel Runoff — In a big win for voting rights, a federal court overturns the state's 90-day registration deadline — On March 22, 2017, Jill Boyd Myers moved from Atlanta to Sandy Springs, Georgia, relocating from the Fifth Congressional District to the Sixth.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Politicus USA, New York Magazine and New York Times

Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:

A Government Official Said The Trump Administration Ordered All Their Agency's TVs To Display Fox News — Staffers at the Food and Drug Administration were told that office TVs were switched from CNN to Fox News by order of the “current administration,” according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Sputnik denied permanent congressional credentials — The Congressional Periodical Press Gallery committee has denied Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news website, a permanent congressional press pass. — Sputnik has the opportunity to appeal the decision, said Senate Periodical Press Gallery Director Justin Wilson.

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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:

Anti-vaccine activists spark a state's worst measles outbreak in decades — MINNEAPOLIS — The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don't let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella — it causes autism, they said.

Discussion: Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway

Anthony Cormier / BuzzFeed:

This Is The Inside Of Trump's Lawyer's Passport — Trump's lawyer gave BuzzFeed News exclusive access to his passport, saying it proves he couldn't have attended an alleged secret meeting with Russian agents. — Since the publication of an unverified 35-page dossier alleging …

Discussion: IJR

Donald J. Trump / The White House:

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing H.R. 244 into Law — Today I have signed into law H.R. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, which authorizes appropriations that fund the operation of the Federal Government through September 30, 2017.

Discussion: Politico

Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:

This Teen's Dad Told Her She Was Dead To Him For Going To Prom With A Black Friend — Anna Hayes is a high school senior from a small town in southern Arkansas called Lake Village. She told BuzzFeed News that racism is a big issue in her community. … Unfortunately, Anna said that bigotry extends to her own family.

Discussion: Raw Story and PerezHilton

Fox News:

George Soros battles $10B lawsuit, familiar charges of wielding political influence — A $10 billion suit against George Soros accuses the self-styled humanitarian of meddling in the politics of a poor African country in order to settle his own scores, a charge the billionaire's critics say reflects his longtime modus operandi.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit