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2:25 AM ET, May 10, 2017

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CNN:
CNN exclusive: Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI's Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year's election …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has dismissed the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Tuesday.  —  “While I greatly appreciate you informing me …
New York Times:
Updates and Reactions to F.B.I. Director Comey's Firing  —  President Trump has fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, the White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Tuesday.  —  Mr. Comey was delivering a speech in Los Angeles when he learned he had been fired.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Behind Comey's firing: An enraged Trump, fuming about Russia  —  President Donald Trump weighed firing his FBI director for more than a week.  When he finally pulled the trigger Tuesday afternoon, he didn't call James Comey.  He sent his longtime private security guard to deliver …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Bwittes / Lawfare:
The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him  —  FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee regarding the Clinton email investigation / CSPAN  —  Make no mistake: The firing of James Comey as FBI director is a stunning event.
The Daily Beast:
President Donald Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey, and Even White House Aides Are Stunned  —  President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey.  —  The stunning and sudden removal comes after Comey told Congress in March that the FBI was engaged in an ongoing investigation …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
A Former Top Official Cited In The DOJ's Comey Memo Calls Firing A “Sham”  —  Donald Ayer, who served as the deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, told BuzzFeed News that Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation was being used to justify his firing “for a very different reason.”
Politico:
Is This a Constitutional Crisis?  —  As the news broke late this afternoon, the politicos of Washington stared into their smartphones, stunned, struggling with what to make of it.  TV networks cut into their regularly scheduled programming.  Chyrons promising “breaking news” actually delivered it …
mccain.senate.gov:
STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON DISMISSAL OF FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY  —  Washington, D.C. ­- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey:  —  “While the President has the legal authority to remove the Director of the FBI …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
FBI agents in tears as news of Comey's firing spread  —  The news of FBI director James Comey's firing struck like a thunderclap at field offices around the country, where agents heard first from TV or the internet that their boss had been dismissed by President Donald J. Trump.
Discussion: Business Insider, Axios and ABC News
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Into the Abyss: Trump Fires Comey  —  Let me add a few more thoughts on the events of the evening.  —  There is a glorious swirl of irony, disingenuousness and bad faith in the vortex of opinions about James Comey and the notional rationale for firing him.
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.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   There's no reason to believe Donald Trump's rationale for firing James Comey
James S. Robbins / USA Today:
James Comey firing was inevitable
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer to Trump: Comey firing a ‘big mistake’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
FBI Director James Comey has been fired
Washington Examiner:
GOP senators must demand an independent FBI director
Discussion: Hit & Run
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Fires James Comey as FBI Chief
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Mack / BuzzFeed:   President Trump Has Fired FBI Director James Comey
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 …
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Trump Hires Law Firm to Fight Suggestions of Russia Business Ties
Discussion: USA Today, NBC News, Gizmodo and The Week
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Sen. Hatch: ‘The public wants every dime they can be given’  —  Washington (CNN)Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch warned Tuesday that efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in the Senate might be complicated because once the public “is on the dole, they'll take every dime they can.”
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
The Senate really, really doesn't want to repeat the House's health care mistakes
Discussion: Politico
Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senators Signal They're On Board With Big Medicaid Cuts
Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
Former ‘Apprentice’ star has a white hot emotional meltdown while defending GOP's all-male healthcare group  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Former “Apprentice” contestant Erin Elmore on Tuesday veered completely off-topic during a discussion on the all-male Senate healthcare group …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Who is Keith Schiller, the man Trump sent to fire Comey?  —  Washington (CNN)Few people inside Donald Trump's orbit are more important than Keith Schiller, the President's longtime bodyguard who has risen from part-time hired muscle to director of Oval Office operations.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Custom Could Trip Up G.O.P.'s March to Reshape Courts  —  WASHINGTON — When the White House found itself caught up in difficult spending and health care fights last week, Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's budget director, deemed it necessary to assure the public that administration officials …
Discussion: BizPac Review
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)
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Sessions weighs return to harsher punishments for low-level drug crimes  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing policy changes set in place by the Obama administration that eliminated harsh punishments for low-level drug crimes and could direct federal prosecutors to again charge drug offenders …
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Atlantic
 
 
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CNN:
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