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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen did legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity … BREAKING: Trump lawyer Michael Cohen did legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity.  —  President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, told a federal judge Monday that he had three legal clients in the past year …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Under Siege, Michael Cohen Is Vacillating Between a New Level of Exasperation and Trumpian Business-As-Usual  —  Cohen has been dismayed by the silence from Trump's inner-circle in Washington.  One person familiar with his thinking said that he's gotten messages from thousands of people since last Monday …
New York Times:
Judge Rejects Trump's Request to Review Seized Cohen Materials  —  A federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt by President Trump and his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to block prosecutors in Manhattan from reviewing a trove of materials seized in F.B.I. raids last week on Mr. Cohen's office …
Jeffrey Grocott / Bloomberg:
Judge Slows U.S. Review of Trump Lawyer's Records: Cohen Update  —  After an afternoon of pitched arguments over who should have the right to vet documents seized from President Donald Trump's personal attorney, a federal judge in New York delayed a decision on whether to appoint an impartial “special master” to conduct the review.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump lawyer Cohen did secret legal work for Sean Hannity, attorney says  —  The legal battle over federal investigators' raids on President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen took an unexpected turn Monday as an attorney identified Fox News host Sean Hannity as one of Cohen's legal clients.
CNN:
Michael Cohen's mystery third client is Sean Hannity  —  New York (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen also represents Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen's attorneys said Monday afternoon.  —  Cohen had told the court earlier he had at least 10 clients between 2017 and 2018 …
New York Times:
Sean Hannity Is Named as Michael Cohen's Client  —  A lawyer for Michael D. Cohen said in court on Monday that one of Mr. Cohen's clients was Sean Hannity, the Fox News personality and an ardent defender of President Trump.  —  Lawyers for Mr. Cohen, the president's longtime personal lawyer and fixer …
Discussion: Political Wire
Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
Sean Hannity Was a Client of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Discussion: Washington Press
Associated Press:   The Latest: Trump's attorney says raids ‘took everything’
Associated Press:   Trump lawyer forced to reveal another client: Sean Hannity
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump wants to review material seized from personal lawyer before federal investigators
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:   Cohen Says He Gave Legal Advice to Three Clients in Past Year
CNBC:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's mystery client is Fox News host Sean Hannity
Page Six:
George Stephanopoulos is having more sex than you  —  It seems James Comey isn't the only one being thoroughly probed by George Stephanopoulos.  —  Apparently the bijou broadcaster — whose blockbuster interview with the former FBI director aired Sunday — is as relentless in the bedroom as he is in the newsroom.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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ABC News:
Transcript: James Comey's interview with ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos  —  ABC News' chief anchor George Stephanopoulos' interviewed former FBI director James Comey for a special edition of “20/20” that aired on Sunday, April 15, 2018 ahead of the release of Comey's book, “A Higher Loyalty.”
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway slams Comey: He always diverts ‘the spotlight to him’  —  President Donald Trump's senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, slammed former FBI Director James Comey as a publicity hound who is trying to promote his new book.  —  “The president is very confounded that this person …
Jana Winter / The Daily Beast:
James Comey's ABC Interview Has Furious FBI Insiders Lashing Out … James Comey's first interview since President Trump fired him as director of the FBI has enraged his former agents who deluged the Daily Beast with their disdain as they watched him tell his side of the story to George Stephanopoulos on Sunday night.
Discussion: CNN, Hot Air, ABC News and IJR
USA Today:
Exclusive: James Comey strikes back against ‘morally unfit’ Donald Trump in scathing interview
Washington Post:
The morning after Comey's interview airs, Trump throws another punch at the fired FBI director
Lanny J. Davis / The Hill:
Admit it, James Comey: You've been lying all along
Washington Post:
Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley's announcement  —  President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Russia Over Support for Syria
Ren LaForme / Poynter:
Here are the winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes  —  Winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday.  The Pulitzers are highly revered and mark the best in journalism in 14 categories.  —  Neil Brown, Poynter's president, is a member of the Pulitzer Prize board.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Democrats in Good Position to Nab Republican House Seats  —  Trump, tax reform drag down GOP prospects  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Democrats have a 19 point advantage over Republicans in the generic House ballot among all registered voters in the Garden State.
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Washington Post:
Poll: Democrats' advantage in midterm election support is shrinking
Matthew Luxmoore / New York Times:
Russian Journalist Who Reported on Secretive Paramilitary Dies  —  MOSCOW — A Russian journalist who had reported recently on clandestine Russian paramilitary groups in Syria died on Sunday after falling from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment in Yekaterinburg, the authorities there said.
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BBC:
Russian reporter Borodin dead after mystery fall
Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt's $43,000 soundproof phone booth violated spending laws, federal watchdog finds … The $43,000 soundproof phone booth Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had installed in his office last year violated federal spending laws, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'We just went at it like she just didn't exist.' Former Playmate reveals she had sex with Donald Trump in front of her friend during a steamy six-month affair while his then-fiancée Marla Maples was pregnant with Tiffany  — Barbara Moore, 49, told DailyMail.com …
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Arizona special election in dead heat: poll  —  The special election for an Arizona House seat is in a statistical dead heat in the final week of the race, according to a poll released on Monday.  —  A poll from Emerson College found physician Hiral Tipirneni (D) narrowly leading with 46 percent …
Discussion: New York Magazine, Vox and Daily Kos
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump businesses made millions off Republican groups and federal agencies, report says  —  WASHINGTON  —  President Donald Trump's U.S. businesses have received at least $15.1 million in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since 2015, according to a new report to be released Monday.
Philly.com:
Starbucks CEO apologizes for arrests of 2 black men at Philadelphia store; manager has left company  —  Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized Monday for the arrests of two black men at a Center City Starbucks, saying what happened to the pair was “reprehensible.”  —  RELATED COVERAGE
US-CERT:
Alert (TA18-106A)  —  Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices  — Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Enabled Devices  — Cisco Smart Install (SMI) Enabled Devices  — Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Enabled Network Devices
Discussion: CNN, ABC News and The Daily Beast
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: California rejects border duties for troops  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — California has rejected terms of the federal government's initial plans for sending National Guard troops to the border because the work is considered too closely tied to immigration, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Smelling Blood, Democrats Swarm New York House Race  —  CALLICOON, N.Y. — Across New York's Hudson Valley and points west, a sprawling demographic and cultural hodgepodge has emerged as a key battleground for the Democratic Party in its hope to flip the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Never-Trumpers Are Really Just Never-Democrats  —  David Brooks, the New York Times op-ed page's long-standing ambassador from the center-right, recently wrote a self-flagellatory column about the failure of anti-Trump Republicans to influence their own tribe.
Discussion: RedState and twitchy.com
 
 
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
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The collapse of the U.S.-led world order has done more harm than we realize
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Senate poised to allow Duckworth's newborn on the floor
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Dean Obeidallah / CNN:
Who terrifies Trump the most? Mueller and De Niro
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Another white collar lawyer turns down Trump
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BuzzFeed:
Here's What We Learned From Thousands Of Secret NYPD Disciplinary Files
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Spare me’: Tillis draws GOP fire with pro-Mueller push
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