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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook — Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon, according to five sources who've discussed it with him. “He's obsessed with Amazon,” a source said. “Obsessed.”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is ‘Obsessed’ With Amazon Because He Wants to Crush the Washington Post
Trump Is ‘Obsessed’ With Amazon Because He Wants to Crush the Washington Post
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Tae Kim / CNBC:
Amazon drops 3% on report Trump wants to ‘go after’ company's tax treatment
Amazon drops 3% on report Trump wants to ‘go after’ company's tax treatment
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The Gateway Pundit and Axios
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Trump Aide Spoke During Campaign to Associate Tied to Russian Intelligence — WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official had repeated communications during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race with a business associate tied to Russian intelligence, according to a document released …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
New Gates tie alleged in special counsel filing on van der Zwaan sentencing — (CNN)The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed Tuesday night that prosecutors say they have connected former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates to a person …
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Washington Post:
Manafort associate had Russian intelligence ties during 2016 campaign, prosecutors say — The FBI has found that a business associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, including during the 2016 campaign when Manafort and his deputy …
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IJR, Political Wire, VICE News and The Moderate Voice
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Robert Mueller's Office Wants A Judge To Consider Jail Time For A Lawyer Who Pleaded Guilty To Lying
Robert Mueller's Office Wants A Judge To Consider Jail Time For A Lawyer Who Pleaded Guilty To Lying
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Trump: I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong-un — President Trump confirmed in a tweet this morning that his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is still on. The president expressed hope that Kim, who just visited Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, “will do what is right for his people and for humanity.”
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Republicans to push balanced-budget amendment — BRING 'EM TO THE BALLOT BOX! — THE PRESIDENT at 5:52 a.m.: “THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED! As much as Democrats would like to see this happen, and despite the words yesterday of former Supreme Court Justice Stevens, NO WAY.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The sliming of Parkland students shows the spreading stain of media polarization … Six months ago, the conservative radio host and blogger Erick Erickson wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times, inspiringly titled “How to Find Common Ground.” — “We owe it to one another to disagree agreeably …
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Jesse Kelly / The Federalist:
Stop Using Your Status As A Veteran To Trash The Second Amendment
Stop Using Your Status As A Veteran To Trash The Second Amendment
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Raw Story
Jonathan Turley / USA Today:
Repealing the Second Amendment isn't easy but it's what March for Our Lives students need
Repealing the Second Amendment isn't easy but it's what March for Our Lives students need
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The Federalist, Townhall.com, Vox, ABC News and Breitbart
Zachary Mider / Bloomberg:
Robert Mercer's Secret Adventure as a New Mexico Cop — Why was the fabulously wealthy Trump donor wearing a badge and a gun in a tiny desert town? To obtain something that's impossible to buy. — Robert Mercer probably would have flown into Roswell. From there—1,800 miles from home …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
‘Heartbroken’ Trump Critic Ann Coulter: He's a ‘Shallow, Lazy Ignoramus’ … Right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter, whose 2016 campaign book In Trump We Trust touted the many virtues of the Republican nominee, is having second, third, and possibly even fourth thoughts about Donald J. Trump.
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National Review, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Andy Court / CBS News:
Stormy Daniels' lawyer seeks to depose President Trump, Michael Cohen — Stormy Daniels' attorney asked a federal judge this morning for permission to depose President Donald J. Trump about his knowledge of an agreement to pay the porn star $130,000 a week and a half before the 2016 election.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Voters believe Stormy over Trump
Voters believe Stormy over Trump
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National Review, Politico and IJR
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits … Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration …
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Axios
New York Times:
Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data — As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014, the company received help from at least one employee at Palantir Technologies …
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans' Facebook Data
How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans' Facebook Data
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Raw Story, Crooked Media and The Mozilla Blog, more at Techmeme »
Mike Konczal:
Why Are There No Good Conservative Critiques of Trump's Unified Government? — Obama Prelude — I had the “Obama in 2009” word vomit recently. I was talking with several people on the left involved in politics in the early Great Recession, and Larry Summers' new paper on regional inequality came up.
Facebook:
It's Time to Make Our Privacy Tools Easier to Find — Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data. We've heard loud and clear that privacy settings and other important tools …
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Sessions and Kushner Square Off, and Prisoners Hang in the Balance — WASHINGTON — In the final months of the Obama administration, the Justice Department announced a new approach to preparing prisoners for life beyond their cells. Officials created a prison school system …
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Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne producer on sitcom not being a liberal ‘mouthpiece’ and Mark's ‘tricky’ story line — Whose idea was it to make Roseanne Conner a Trump supporter? Was there always a plan to have her grandson dress in non-traditional attire? In light of Tuesday's debut of Roseanne …
New York Times:
A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder — ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on. — But as the city government's desktops, hard drives and printers flickered …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller — When President Donald Trump lashed out against Robert Mueller by name earlier this month, the president's supporters sprang into action — treating the chief Russia investigator to political campaign-style opposition research.
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Raw Story, CNN and LewRockwell
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Minnesota Woman Blamed For Al Franken's Fall Had Nothing To Do With It — Lindsey Port accused another man of harassment. But fellow Democrats say she “softened the ground” for Franken's resignation. — Lindsey Port, 35, doesn't really know Al Franken.
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Shot in the Dark
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Exclusive: Spurned by top lawyers, Trump's defense elevates Washington outsider — (Reuters) - A little-known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, as many top-tier lawyers shy away from representing …
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Talking Points Memo, AOL and CNBC
PR Newswire:
Statement from Playboy Enterprises, Inc. regarding Facebook — For years, it has been difficult for Playboy to express our values on Facebook due to its strict content and policy guidelines. We have been faced with the only alternative being to alter Playboy's voice in order to meet Facebook's views …
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Dana R. Fisher / Washington Post:
Here's who actually attended the March for Our Lives. (No, it wasn't mostly young people.) — In the days before and after more than two million Americans participated in the March for Our Lives, the gun-violence conversation has focused on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivors and their “student movement.”
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Breitbart, Daily Wire, Bustle and Washington Free Beacon
Leonard N. Fleming / Detroit News:
Snyder aide to Flint activist: ‘Crawl back in your hole’ — Flint — A top Gov. Rick Snyder aide is under fire for a text exchange he started with a Flint activist after the man criticized the governor's handling of the water crisis, telling the resident in a private exchange that Snyder …
Ben Beaumont-Thomas / The Guardian:
R Kelly accused of grooming 14-year-old girl as ‘sex pet’ — In a BBC3 documentary, former girlfriend Kitti Jones alleges the R&B star groomed an underage girl as well as her and other young women; Kelly has refused to comment … The R&B singer R Kelly has been accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Must Be Destroyed — Since the Parkland shootings in Florida, Senator Marco Rubio has done many of the things liberals say they are desperate, desperate for decent Republicans to do. He has changed his position on gun control, expressing support for new restrictions …
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Townhall.com
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Don't Blow Up The Iran Deal. Trump's Strategy Is Working. — The U.S. can play hardball on renegotiating the agreement without alienating European allies. — It looks like the Iran nuclear deal will not survive past May 12. That is the next occasion President Donald Trump will have to certify Iranian compliance with the bargain.
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: ‘Roseanne’ Revival Skyrockets With Stunning Premiere — The ABC comedy returns nearly three decades after its original premiere, averaging a whopping 18.1 million and an unbelievable 5.1 rating in the key demo. — Roseanne returned Tuesday. The ABC sitcom, away from the air …
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Former Disney star joins White House press team — Washington (CNN)The White House press office is getting a bit more Sunshine these days — former Disney Channel star Caroline Sunshine, that is. She's joining the team as a press assistant. — Sunshine, 22, is known for her role alongside Zendaya …
Sunlen Serfaty / CNN:
All 22 female senators slam chamber's ‘inaction’ on sexual harassment — (CNN)All 22 Democratic and Republican female senators have written a letter to Senate leadership expressing their “deep disappointment” in the Senate's “inaction” in moving sexual harassment legislation forward.
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Politico, ThinkProgress, Jezebel, Axios and The Week
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
The anti-LGBT head of a major religious group just mysteriously resigned over an ‘inappropriate relationship’ — Frank Page, the former president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention, revealed this week that he decided to resign his position over a “morally inappropriate relationship” …
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
The Very Male Trump Administration — Earlier this month, a woman broke a glass ceiling: President Donald Trump announced that he would name Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer, the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency. — Yet Haspel is something of a rarity …
Josh Hafner / USA Today:
Planned Parenthood called for Disney princess 'who's had an abortion' in now-deleted tweet … A Pennsylvania branch of Planned Parenthood sparked some controversy after a deleted tweet called for an animated Disney princess “Who's had an abortion.” Buzz60
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