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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller's team questioning Russian oligarchs — Mueller's team questioning Russian oligarchs — Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has taken the unusual step of questioning Russian oligarchs who traveled into the US, stopping at least one and searching …
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New York Times:
Witness in Mueller Inquiry Who Advises U.A.E. Ruler Also Has Ties to Russia — WASHINGTON — A witness who is cooperating in the special counsel investigation, George Nader, has connections to both the Persian Gulf states and Russia and may have information that links two important strands …
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Reuters, The Gateway Pundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Political Wire
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Accused Russian Intel Asset Teamed Up With GOP Operative
Accused Russian Intel Asset Teamed Up With GOP Operative
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Politico, Vox and emptywheel
Cristina Alesci / CNN:
EPA ethics official says he didn't have all the facts on Pruitt's lease — Pruitt: I didn't know about staffers' raises — (CNN)The Environmental Protection Agency's top ethics watchdog clarified his earlier analysis of whether Administrator Scott Pruitt's rental arrangement broke the federal gift rule …
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Axios, Talking Points Memo and KTLA
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Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
EPA's Scott Pruitt pushes back on pay raise, condo controversy in Fox exclusive — Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt fired back at critics Wednesday, defending his decision to take a $50 a day condo rental from the wife of a lobbyist and claiming he just found …
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Washington Post:
After leaving $50-a-night rental, EPA's Scott Pruitt had no fixed D.C. address for a month … This post has been updated. — After moving out of the Capitol Hill condo apartment he rented for $50 a night last summer, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears …
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA, Axios, NPR, CNN, Tulsa World, The Daily Beast, ThinkProgress, VICE News, Media Matters for America and The Daily Caller
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
John Kelly to Scott Pruitt: The Scandals Need to Stop
John Kelly to Scott Pruitt: The Scandals Need to Stop
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New York Post, ABC News, Splinter, CNN, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Politico and Mashable
Mike Schroepfer / Facebook:
An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook — Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices. Today, we want to update you on the changes we're making to better protect your Facebook information.
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Washington Post:
Facebook: ‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities and collect data on a massive global scale … Facebook said Wednesday that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide.
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Bloomberg, FiveThirtyEight, theconversation.com and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Trump administration to impose fresh sanctions against Russia … The United States is expected to impose additional sanctions against Russia by Friday, according to U.S. officials. — The sanctions are economic and designed to target oligarchs with ties to President Vladimir Putin, the officials said.
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Ginger Hervey / Politico:
Lavrov: UK is ‘mocking’ diplomatic ethics in Skripal case
Lavrov: UK is ‘mocking’ diplomatic ethics in Skripal case
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One America News Network and Washington Post
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
‘You Hate America!’: How the ‘Caravan’ Story Exploded on the Right — WASHINGTON — It was the kind of story destined to take a dark turn through the conservative news media and grab President Trump's attention: A vast horde of migrants was making its way through Mexico toward the United States, and no one was stopping them.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Threatening legal fight, Nunes demands document that kicked off FBI Trump-Russia investigation — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding an uncensored copy of the document …
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Sara A. Carter, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
House Intel Chairman Threatens Legal Action Against FBI, DOJ Over Russia Records
House Intel Chairman Threatens Legal Action Against FBI, DOJ Over Russia Records
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
For Mueller, a Feared Weakness Becomes a Strength — WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, transformed this week what has appeared to be a weakness — his relative lack of independence — into a strength.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Paul Manafort's Lawyers Are Trying To Block Mueller's Office From Indicting Him Again
Paul Manafort's Lawyers Are Trying To Block Mueller's Office From Indicting Him Again
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emptywheel and Law & Crime
New York Daily News:
NYPD cops fatally shoot black man holding metal pipe police mistake for gun on Brooklyn street — Police fatally shot a mentally troubled black man on a Brooklyn street Wednesday afternoon, after police said he “took a two-handed shooting stance” and aimed what turned out to be a metal pipe at them.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest ‘obvious bias’ — Ex-Sinclair news director: We had must-run pieces — A morning TV producer at a Sinclair-owned station in Nebraska has resigned in protest of what he calls the company's “obvious bias.” — Justin Simmons gave notice at KHGI TV on March 26.
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Tierney McAfee / People.com:
Trump Told Jared and Ivanka to Go Back to NYC, Said His Son-in-Law Looked Like ‘Little Boy’ on TV — President Donald Trump once mocked Jared Kushner to aides, saying his son-in-law and senior adviser looked like “a little boy” as he addressed reporters during a television appearance, according to a new book.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Planned Parenthood president claims she felt bribed by Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner
Planned Parenthood president claims she felt bribed by Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Patriots' Julian Edelman May Have Thwarted a School Shooting — The New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman was in Texas visiting his former teammate Danny Amendola late last month when he received a direct message on his Instagram account: “Dude, there is a kid in your comment section …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker to introduce legislation to mandate picture of president, VP at post offices — Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) is planning to introduce legislation that will mandate that post offices of the U.S. Postal Service display photos of the president and the vice president.
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Washington Press and The Week
Josh Eells / Rolling Stone:
Dwayne Johnson: The Pain and the Passion That Fuel the Rock — Hollywood's most dependable good guy on saving the day in ‘Rampage,’ his beef with Vin Diesel, presidential rumors and more — If the world seemed a little bit sluggish this morning - if the birds weren't singing as sweetly …
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Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart, KTLA, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Washington Times, news.avclub.com, ABC News, IndieWire and Jezebel
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Rex Tillerson's $12 million army of consultants — It was one of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's core goals: radically reshaping the State Department to make it leaner, cheaper and modernized to the standards of a former private-sector CEO. — Now that Tillerson has been fired …
New York Times:
The True Damage of Trump's ‘Fake News’ — Many people, including many Republican lawmakers, dismiss President Trump's attacks on The Washington Post, CNN and other news organizations as just one of those crazy — but ultimately harmless — things he does to blow off steam. They're wrong.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
John Bolton runs into potential ethics issues before he becomes Trump's national security advisor — John Bolton is continuing to meet with White House attorneys over possible conflicts of interest. — Bolton resigned from his foundation in March. His two political action committees …
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Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and Politico
Benjy Egel / Sacramento Bee:
More than a million undocumented immigrants have received California driver's licenses — More than 1 million undocumented immigrants have received driver's licenses, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday. — Assembly Bill 60, authored by then-Assemblyman Luis Alejo in 2013 …
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The Gateway Pundit, KTLA and Front Page Magazine
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Contract With Authoritarianism — In 1994, Newt Gingrich, brandishing his Contract with America, led a Republican revolution that swept aside Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, initiating an epoch of conservative ascendancy that lingers on.
Page Six:
Rudy and Judith Giuliani to divorce — Rudy Giuliani and his wife Judith are divorcing after 15 years of marriage, the former New York mayor has exclusively confirmed to Page Six. — Giuliani, who married Judith in 2003, said, “It is with great sadness I can confirm that Judith and I are divorcing.
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AOL, NY State of Politics, thecut and TMZ.com
Bloomberg:
U.S. Census Is Not About Citizenship — Government and business depend on a complete and accurate count of who lives in the country. — As former secretaries of Commerce, with direct oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau, we have grave concerns about the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the decennial census in 2020.
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American Prospect and New York Times
CNN:
Stone, on day he sent Assange dinner email, also said ‘devastating’ WikiLeaks were forthcoming — (CNN)Roger Stone appeared on the InfoWars radio show the same day he sent an email claiming he dined with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — and he predicted “devastating” upcoming disclosures about the Clinton Foundation.
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
John Kasich Is Framing His 2020 Pitch Around Millennials — John Kasich still wants to be president. And he thinks he's finally found an audience he can convert to his unusual brand of Republicanism. — If you pay close attention to what the Ohio governor is saying as he weighs another campaign …
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Front Page Magazine
Chip Reid / CBS News:
A giant crack in Kenya opens up, but what's causing it? — WASHINGTON — A giant crack in the Earth opened up almost overnight, 50 feet deep and at its widest 65 feet across, slicing through a highway and terrifying many who live in an area just west of Nairobi, Kenya. — So what caused it?
Leonard Pitts Jr / miamiherald:
50 years after his murder, it's time to kill the myth of Martin Luther King — MEMPHIS — Martin Luther King's men had a different question. — At least, according to his aide, Andrew Young, they did. When the first reports went out that King had been gunned down while standing …
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Washington Monthly
CNN:
Trump gets testy as national security team warns of risks of Syria withdrawal — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump grew irritated with his top military brass and national security team on Tuesday when they advised him an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria would be unwise …
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Political Wire
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Cavuto Battles Kudlow in Tense Standoff: You Don't Sound Like the Larry Kudlow I ‘Respected and Admired’ — Several weeks ago — Larry Kudlow and Neil Cavuto were adversaries of a sort, but also allies in the field of cable news financial punditry. Now, however, Kudlow is gone from CNBC …
CNN:
Lawyer who cut deals for Daniels and McDougal says the whole truth has not been told — (CNN)The attorney who represented a porn star and Playboy model in deals that buried their allegations of sexual encounters with Donald Trump in exchange for six-figure payouts said the “whole truth” about the now-public scandal has not been told.
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