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4:05 PM ET, May 9, 2017

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ProPublica:
Comey's Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate  —  FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his “incredibly painful” decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Comey misstated key Clinton email evidence at hearing, say people close to investigation  —  FBI Director James B. Comey overstated key findings involving the Hillary Clinton email investigation during testimony to Congress last week, according to people close to the inquiry.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Chris Murphy: We'll hit Republican “liars” with Medicare-for-all if Trumpcare passes.  —  The staggering dishonesty of the Republican Party's efforts to sell the American Health Care Act hasn't gone unnoticed among Democrats, and it will have a lasting impact on national politics, especially if the bill becomes law.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A French Lesson for the American Media  —  The hacked emails from Emmanuel Macron's French campaign appear to be spectacularly mundane, according to people who have read them.  They include briefings on issues, personal exchanges and discussions of the weather.
Discussion: AOL, more at Mediagazer »
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Trump team marks 6-month election anniversary by vowing to air video of Clinton campaign's concession call  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's upset November victory never seems to be far from the White House's mind.  —  On Tuesday, Dan Scavino, the White House director of social media …
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump  —  White Americans carried Donald Trump to the White House.  He won college-educated white voters by a four-point margin over Hillary Clinton, according to exit polls.  But his real victory was among members of the white working class …
Discussion: IJR, Washington Post and Axios
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PRRI:
Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump |  PRRI/The Atlantic Report  —  Perhaps the most contested question from the 2016 presidential election is what factors motivated white working-class voters to support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a margin of roughly two to one.
Discussion: Vox, Washington Monthly and Hit & Run
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)  —  A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters.  —  Donald Trump holds a campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, November 1, 2016.  (Reuters / Carlo Allegri)
Discussion: RedState and Common Dreams
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Iowa congressman walks out of a TV interview and into an angry town hall meeting  —  DUBUQUE, Iowa — An Iowa congressman walked out of a television interview on Monday, declining to explain why his staff is pre-screening constituents who plan to attend his town hall meetings this week.
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KCRG-TV:
Blum walks out of interview with TV9
Tegna / KING-TV:
Tunnel at plutonium finishing plant collapses in Hanford … Hundreds of workers were in “take cover” position after a tunnel in a plutonium finishing plant collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation early Tuesday morning.  —  The AP reports no workers were in the tunnel at the time of collapse.
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Tegna / KING-TV:
Tunnel collapses at Hanford; no radiation released, officials say
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Sean Spicer defends lag in Michael Flynn's dismissal, takes aim at Sally Yates  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended President Donald Trump's handling of the dismissal of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, taking aim at then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates in the process.
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and Yahoo
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Harry Walker / Daily Express:
Bit rich?  Barack Obama ‘to pocket £2.5million for sold-out speech in Milan today’  —  BARACK Obama will reportedly pocket a staggering £2.5million (€3million) today for delivering a speech to a sold-out audience in Milan as part of his lucrative post-presidential speaking tour.
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
OBAMA STARTS DEFINING HIS NEW ROLE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
Discussion: Need To Know Network
New Republic:
Sarah Jones  —  The New York Times allowed an anti-choice group to write a press release on the op-ed page.  —  Mad about Bret Stephens?  The Times sees that and respects your rage, choosing to double down on its decision to publish right-wing propaganda.
Discussion: Eschaton and New York Times
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Lori Szala / New York Times:
The Problem With Linking Abortion and Economics
Discussion: RedState and twitchy.com
CNN:
Spirit Airlines cancels flight, passenger brawl breaks out  —  (CNN)Screams and commotion took over Fort Lauderdale's airport Monday as travelers clashed with Spirit Airlines employees and police.  —  About 300 Spirit flights have been canceled over the past seven days, leaving thousands of passengers angry.
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Gareth Davies / Daily Mail:
Spirit Airlines customers clash at Fort Lauderdale airport
David Byler / Real Clear Politics:
How Bad Is the Democratic Senate Map for 2018?  —  Right now, the stars seem aligned for Democratic gains in 2018.  President Trump's approval rating is low, Democrats lead in the House generic ballot and special elections show Republicans losing ground with some voters.
Discussion: Need To Know Network
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Associated Press:   Senate GOP struggles to find challengers for some Democrats
Elizabeth Roberts / CNN:
Mexico was second deadliest country in 2016  —  (CNN)It was the second deadliest conflict in the world last year, but it hardly registered in the international headlines.  —  As Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan dominated the news agenda, Mexico's drug wars claimed 23,000 lives during 2016 …
Discussion: Axios
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Marc Champion / Bloomberg:
Mexico Now World's Deadliest Conflict Zone After Syria: Survey
Discussion: The Daily Caller
HuffPost:
Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban  —  In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn't investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.  —  WASHINGTON In a brief defending its ban on citizens …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Left adopts shock tactics in Obamacare repeal fight  —  One newly formed progressive super PAC is planning to cart caskets to Republican lawmakers' districts and hold mock funerals for their constituents.  Another activist is encouraging protesters to ship their own ashes — should they die without health care —to GOP lawmakers.
Sean Cockerham / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
President Kamala Harris?  She's making the first moves.  —  LOS ANGELES  —  Now's the time prospective presidential candidates start taking the subtle but crucial behind-the-scenes steps that get them noticed by the political intelligentsia, and Sen. Kamala Harris is quietly following the script.
John Bowden / The Hill:
Graham wants panel to look into Trump's business dealings: report  —  Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) wants to look into President Trump's potential business ties to Russia as part of a Senate investigation, according to a CNN report.  —  The GOP senator told CNN's Manu Raju that his interest …
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Goodbye To My Friend, Bob Owens  —  Like many people, I first “met” Bob Owens through the Internet when he was running his own blog about firearms and other musings.  His work was regularly forwarded to my email inbox and it quickly became clear that not only was his work good, he had many fans.
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Raul Labrador Announces Bid For Governor  —  The congressman plans to complete his current term in the House.  —  WASHINGTON Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) announced Tuesday that, instead of running for re-election in his safe Republican seat, he will run for governor of Idaho in 2018.
Discussion: Daily Kos, CNN, TheBlaze and The Week
John Agar / MLive.com:
White cop sues city, chief for racism: Ancestry.com says he's part black  —  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A Hastings police sergeant says he has been subjected to racial taunts within the department after he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com that showed he was 18 percent black.
Discussion: CBS Detroit and The Daily Caller
ABC News:
Richard Simmons sues National Enquirer over stories claiming he is changing gender  —  Fitness guru Richard Simmons has filed a lawsuit against the National Enquirer, Radar Online and the media outlets' owner, American Media, over stories claiming that Simmons is transitioning from a male to a female, according to court documents.
Discussion: People.com and IJR
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
The Passion Of Ivanka Trump  —  Ivanka Trump's new book, Women Who Work, reads like an alien who only speaks French wrote it with Google Translate.  —  “We enjoyed riffing on our core values,” Ivanka writes in a section on personal mission statements.  “We're training for marathons and learning to code …
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
'Y'all see why I voted for him?':  Jimmy Carter says he was a Bernie Sanders supporter  —  Jimmy Carter and the Clintons have long had a frosty relationship.  In 1992, he declined to endorse Bill Clinton, saying “people are looking for somebody who is honest and tells the truth.”
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Nicolle Wallace: Trump Announcing Muslim Ban Was ‘Titillating’  —  MSNBC contributor Nicolle Wallace used a very curious choice of words on Tuesday when she talked about the impact President Trump had when he first announced his intention to ban Muslims from immigrating to the United States.
Discussion: New York Times
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
The author of Rise of the Creative Class is grappling with its dark side  —  No one has done more to promote the return of educated professionals to cities than Richard Florida.  In his 2002 classic The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida argued that “creative class” professionals like engineers …
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Moon Declares Election Win, Pledges to Unify South Korea
Discussion: IJR
Vasudevan Sridharan / International Business Times:
Erdogan calls on Muslims to flood Jerusalem's iconic mosque and protect its Islamic identity
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Once Rock Star of French Right, Marion Le Pen Announces She Is Quitting Politics
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Associated Press
Mark Thoma / The Fiscal Times:
Killing Banking Rules Will Invite a Whopper of a Recession
Discussion: EconLog and bradford-delong.com
CNN:
Podesta lobby group did not disclose extent of work for Ukrainian campaign advised by Paul Manafort
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Fox News:
Texas sanctuary city crackdown: AG Paxton sues Austin, others
 Earlier Items: 
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Officials: Trump Approves Plan to Arm Syrian Kurds
Discussion: NBC News and AOL
Media Matters for America:
Roger Stone Selling “Advertising Opportunities” With “President Donald Trump's Confidant”
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Coffee Shops Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk
Anna Momigliano / Washington Post:
Italian forces ignored a sinking ship full of Syrian refugees and let more than 250 drown, says leaked audio
Discussion: The Week
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Anonymous warns world to ‘prepare’ for World War 3
Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Analysts say Netflix's live boxing match Friday night between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is designed to get new subscribers, particularly on its ad-supported tier

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

 
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