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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Sean Hannity's Ties to Two More Trump-Connected Lawyers — Sean Hannity has had no shortage of lawyers. In court on Monday, his name was disclosed as the third “mystery client” of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Though Hannity says he was never actually Cohen's client …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hannity's rising role in Trump's world: ‘He basically has a desk in the place’ — The phone calls between President Trump and Sean Hannity come early in the morning or late at night, after the Fox News host goes off the air. They discuss ideas for Hannity's show, Trump's frustration …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“You Only Hire Cohen for One Reason”: Inside Fox News, Sean Hannity's Michael Cohen Disclosure Stokes a Crisis as Murdoch Wavers on Trump — The revelation that Trump's lawyer offered legal advice to Fox News's biggest name was shocking, even to Fox loyalists. “This is bad,” one Fox staffer said.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump sours on talking with Mueller after FBI raid of lawyer's office
New York Times:
Sanctions Flap Erupts Into Open Conflict Between Haley and White House — WASHINGTON — President Trump was watching television on Sunday when he saw Nikki R. Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, announce that he would impose fresh sanctions on Russia.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Image projected on Trump's DC hotel: 'There's a rapist in the White House' — A social network company projected “There is a rapist in the White House” on the side of President Trump — 's Washington, D.C., hotel on Monday night. — Care2, a company that describes itself as …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump letting Haley take heat despite signing off on sanctions
Trump letting Haley take heat despite signing off on sanctions
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Haley fires back at White House: 'I don't get confused'
Haley fires back at White House: 'I don't get confused'
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Robin Bravender / E&E News:
Trump's top energy aide stepping down
Trump's top energy aide stepping down
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Enid Nemy / New York Times:
Barbara Bush, Wife of 41st President and Mother of 43rd, Dies at 92 — Barbara Bush, Wife of 41st President, Dies — Mrs. Bush avoided controversial issues while in the White House and became known for her straight talk, lack of pretension and self-deprecating humor. She was 92.
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Jon Meacham / New York Times:
Barbara Bush, a First Lady Without Apologies — She knew who she was, and she saw no need to apologize for it. In the spring of 1990, the administration of Wellesley College — the alma mater, as it happened, of Hillary Rodham Clinton — invited Barbara Bush, then the first lady of the United States …
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Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Barbara Bush, matriarch of American political dynasty, dies at 92
Barbara Bush, matriarch of American political dynasty, dies at 92
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Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92
Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend … CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend as an envoy for President Trump to meet with that country's leader, Kim Jong Un, according to two people with direct knowledge of the trip.
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Vince Lattanzio / NBC 10 Philadelphia:
Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks Mid-Flight; Plane Lands Safely in Philadelphia — Southwest Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Philly — A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely in Philadelphia Tuesday after the jet violently depressurized when a piece …
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Southwest Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Philadelphia - live updates
Southwest Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Philadelphia - live updates
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Official: Passenger Dies After Southwest Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing At PHL
Official: Passenger Dies After Southwest Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing At PHL
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Washington Post:
One person killed when engine fails on Southwest flight, forcing emergency landing
One person killed when engine fails on Southwest flight, forcing emergency landing
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Southwest emergency landing: 1 dead after engine fails in midair
Southwest emergency landing: 1 dead after engine fails in midair
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Mattis Wanted Congressional Approval Before Striking Syria. He Was Overruled. — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged President Trump to get congressional approval before the United States launched airstrikes against Syria last week, but was overruled by Mr. Trump …
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court strikes down part of immigration law as too vague — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced. — The court's 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Neil Gorsuch voted with the liberal justices, but his opinion should chill you to the bone — Broadly speaking, there are two different approaches to the law on the Supreme Court's right flank. — Justice Samuel Alito is the consummate partisan. Unlike his other conservative colleagues …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Handful of House Republicans mobilize to protect Mueller — A small band of House Republicans has suddenly backed a bill to prevent President Donald Trump from unilaterally firing special counsel Robert Mueller — giving some bipartisan life to a measure that has largely been shunned by GOP leaders.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Privilege is real. But being a white man shouldn't disqualify me. … I am the child of privilege — or so I am being told. I am white, I am male. Put them together and you would think I've been sitting on a trust fund — unearned, unappreciated and unjustified.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Richard Cohen's privilege, explained
Richard Cohen's privilege, explained
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Paul Waldman / The Week:
Americans don't pay enough taxes — As you filed your taxes this year, you might have spent some time grumbling. Why does it have to be so complicated? Am I paying too much? Couldn't the system be more fair? — But it's at this time of year when you ought to consider that as an American …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
President Trump isn't going to file his taxes to the IRS on time
President Trump isn't going to file his taxes to the IRS on time
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Internal Revenue Service:
IRS provides additional day to file and pay for taxpayers through Wednesday, April 18; IRS processing systems back online — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Here's Why Congressman Blake Farenthold Resigned So Abruptly — He was about to get some bad news. — WASHINGTON It's been a mystery why former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) abruptly resigned earlier this month. — But HuffPost has new details on what happened.
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels' Penthouse Reveal: Plans to Donate $130K to Planned Parenthood in Trump and Cohen's Names … In addition to her 60 Minutes sit-down with Anderson Cooper and appearance on The View this morning, Stormy Daniels will grace the cover of Penthouse magazine.
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New York Times:
San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble — SAN FRANCISCO — Sailors arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century used two giant redwood trees perched on a hill to help guide their ships into the bay. The redwoods were felled for their lumber at around the time of the gold rush …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump campaign paid Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller's lawyers, records show — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid more than $66,000 to the law firm that represents Keith Schiller, his former longtime bodyguard, newly filed campaign records show. — Schiller, who left a White House job …
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Oliver Carroll / The Independent:
‘Russian Elon Musk’ raped and tortured to death in custody, say experts — Entrepreneur Valery Pshenichny had been accused of embezzling 100m rubles (£1.1m) and told to prepare for his coffin — Flooding continues in New York City subway stations after downpour
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump's trade rep spends $1M on new furniture, blames Obama — WASHINGTON - President Trump's Trade Representative is spending nearly $1 million on new furniture — and blaming the Obama Administration. — US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent more than $917,000 to furnish …
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Facebook enlists conservative help to resist privacy rules — Facebook asked conservative groups for help last week in heading off European-style privacy rules, just as CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepared to apologize to Congress for his company's data scandal. — The company's outreach comes …
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised, MPs told
Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised, MPs told
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