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6:50 PM ET, May 5, 2017

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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.
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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 …
FOX News Radio:
Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump Dr. Sebastian Gorka On Reports He Is Leaving …
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
White House Proposes Cutting Drug Control Office Funding by 95%
Discussion: The FADER
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: Political Wire and Axios
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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
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.
Discussion: Axios and Talking Points Memo
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
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CNN:
Mark Green withdraws his nomination for Army secretary
Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and God and Country
Tennessean.com:
Mark Green withdraws as Army secretary nominee
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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 …
Reuters:
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.
Discussion: BBC, Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:   Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys....  (CNN)House Republicans marched to the White House on Thursday afternoon to celebrate their victory: Passage of the American Health Care Act.  —  President Trump welcomed them with a Rose Garden celebration.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Hullabaloo
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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.
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 …
New York Times:
Second Chance for ‘Obamacare’ Repeal.  And for Reince Priebus.  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican health care overhaul might never become law, but it has already changed the life of one American: Reince Priebus, who knew it was his best and perhaps last hope of becoming an empowered White House chief of staff.
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Jfarrell / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Court Rules State Department Must Release Clinton Emails Detailing Obama Response to Benghazi  —  Trump Administration Asks Court Again to Keep Records Secret  —  Group Argues Agency Violating FOIA to Cover for Hillary Clinton  —  (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today announced …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News trying to pull Jesse Watters from Bill O'Reilly comedy tour  —  This is why Bill O'Reilly was fired  —  Bill O'Reilly says his former protege at Fox News, Jesse Watters, will continue to make a series of public appearances with him this year.  Fox News has other ideas.
Discussion: IJR, Mediaite and Axios
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
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Watch: Chris Collins admits he didn't read health care bill  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Collins told CNN that he didn't read the entire Republican health care bill that the House passed Thursday.  —  And then he told The Buffalo News that he was unaware of a key provision in the bill …
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.
Media Matters for America:
Gateway Pundit Threw A Gala For The “Alt-Right” And We Were There  —  On April 29, about a mile away from the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, a little over a hundred members of a group who dubiously brand themselves as purveyors of the “real news” gathered …
 
 
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F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
The Senate filibuster may trigger a constitutional crisis
Discussion: American Greatness
Fox News:
Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say
Discussion: Raw Story
Alastair Gee / The Guardian:
Homeless, a Democrat and in jail: is this America's most unlikely candidate?
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
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'It's f*cking racist': Watch a black teen confront his white teacher who insists on using the N-word
Juan Forero / Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela Is Starving  —  Once Latin America's richest country …
Discussion: IJR and Hot Air
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
HHS Secretary On Premium Hikes For The Older: 'Somebody's Going To Pay'
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Krauthammer: “I Would Predict That In Less Than Seven Years, We Will Be In A Single-Payer System”
Discussion: Washington Times
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
We're Getting Awfully Close to Full Employment
Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Rape charges to be dropped against immigrant teens in Md. case
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Islamic State magazine steers followers to U.S. gun shows for ‘easy’ access to weapons
Discussion: Defense One and twitchy.com
Jasmin Fox-Skelly / BBC:
There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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