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10:25 AM ET, April 27, 2018

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New York Times:
Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On  —  MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted …
Discussion: CNN, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:   Ex-CIA Director John Brennan says he's free as ‘ordinary civilian’ to imply Putin has dirt on Trump
Elana Schor / Politico:
Grassley says he wants to release transcripts tied to 2016 Trump Tower meeting
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North and South Korea Set Bold Goals: A Final Peace and No Nuclear Arms  —  SEOUL, South Korea — The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday to work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare …
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North and South Korea agree to work toward ‘common goal’ of denuclearization … GOYANG, South Korea — The leaders of North and South Korea made a bold pledge Friday to work toward a “common goal” of denuclearizing their peninsula and formally ending the Korean War by the end of this year …
YouTube:   Raw: Kim and Moon Embrace After Talks
Bloomberg:
Trump Hails Two Koreas' Deal to End War, Pursue Denuclearization
Discussion: Washington Post
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump touts ‘historic’ meeting between Korean leaders but says ‘only time will tell’ where it leads
New York Times:
For Many, Life in Trump's Orbit Ends in a Crash Landing  —  WASHINGTON — Another day, another casualty.  Or two.  —  By the time the sun set Thursday, Dr. Ronny L. Jackson was a failed cabinet nominee whose life had been picked apart for public consumption, and Michael D. Cohen was back in court facing possible criminal prosecution.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump is running America just like his businesses — right into the ground … Throughout the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged that if elected, he'd run government like a business.  —  “If we could run our country the way I've run my company, we would have a country …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New York Times
Burgess Everett / Politico:   ‘Jon poked the bear’: Tester braces for Trump's revenge
Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
House Chaplain Was Asked to Resign.  He Still Doesn't Know Why.  —  The chaplain of the House said on Thursday that he was blindsided when Speaker Paul D. Ryan asked him to resign two weeks ago, a request that he complied with but was never given a reason for.
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Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:   Kaptur Exploring Legislative Reprieve for Ousted House Chaplain
The Hill:
House chaplain forced out by Ryan
NBC News:
Speaker Paul Ryan forces out the House chaplain, angers lawmakers
Discussion: Common Dreams and AOL
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
NBC News faces skepticism in remedying in-house sexual harassment … NBC News Chairman Andy Lack had barely slept.  Late the night before, he had walked from the art deco headquarters of NBC Universal in Midtown Manhattan to the Upper East Side to fire his most famous employee and longtime friend, “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer.
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Variety:
Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)  —  Linda Vester had a reputation for covering tough stories.  As a war correspondent for NBC News in the '90s, she spent three tours of duty in the Middle East and took two assignments in Africa.
Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Fox & Friends Hurriedly Shuts Down Interview as Trump Rants About Mueller  —  Anchors grew visibly uncomfortable as they listened to the president undermine his own legal defense.  —  In what is surely a first for a news network, the hosts of Donald Trump's favorite variety show, Fox & Friends …
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Claims by Joy Reid's Cybersecurity Expert Fall Apart … MSNBC host Joy Reid claims that recently unearthed homophobic articles attributed to her are fakes.  And she says a cybersecurity consultant has proof that her old blog has been hacked.  —  But that consultant, Jonathan Nichols, had trouble producing the promised evidence.
CNN:
Several White House medical unit staffers describe pressure to hand out meds  —  Washington (CNN)The White House medical unit frequently functioned as a “grab and go” clinic where mid-level staffers to the most senior officials could obtain prescription drugs without being examined by a doctor …
Tim Mak / NPR:
Despite So Much Winning, The Right Feels Like It's Losing  —  Diamond and Silk caused a spectacle on Capitol Hill on Thursday.  —  “Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as ourselves,” the pro-Trump social media stars charged.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:
Feds seized more than a dozen of Michael Cohen's phones  —  Manhattan federal prosecutors seized as many as 16 cell phones when the FBI raided the home, office and hotel room of President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.  —  Prosecutor Thomas McKay made the astonishing revelation …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Attorney Michael Avenatti hints $1.6 million abortion payout was for Trump — not GOP donor
Discussion: Jezebel, Hullabaloo and The Root
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Tenney's red-meat rhetoric alarms House Republicans  —  Rep. Claudia Tenney learned last week that she'd been outraised by her Democratic opponent for the second quarter in a row, a sign that her hold on a moderate upstate New York district is in peril.  —  But if GOP leaders thought …
Discussion: Political Wire
Katie J. M. Baker / New York Times:
What Do We Do With These Men?  —  The bad men are plotting their comebacks.  —  In recent days, Page Six reported that the former CBS anchor Charlie Rose, accused by employees of acts ranging from groping to walking around naked in their presence, is shopping a return to television.  His new project?
Ken Ward Jr / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Coal extracted a steep price, now gas is taking WV down same path … It was a warm Monday afternoon in late February.  Thousands of teachers, public school employees and supporters rallied on the steps of West Virginia's Capitol building, on the banks of the Kanawha River in Charleston.
Prime Minister / pm.gc.ca:
Prime Minister to travel to the United States  —  The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that he will travel to the United States from May 16 to 18, 2018.  —  During the visit - which includes stops in New York and Boston - the Prime Minister will highlight …
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
ADL regrets calling group that targets anti-Israel students Islamophobic and racist  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League said it regretted using “overly broad language” to describe the Canary Mission, a group that posts blacklists of what it says are anti-Israel students on campuses.
Discussion: Reason and Instapundit
Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says  —  Sacramento investigators tracked down East Area Rapist suspect Joseph James DeAngelo using genealogical websites that contained genetic information from a relative, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office confirmed Thursday.
Hartford Courant:
House Supports Connecticut Joining National Popular Vote Compact; Bill Moves To Senate  —  Legislators in the House voted Thursday to join an interstate compact that would ensure the state's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote, provided enough other states join the agreement.
Discussion: Politico
Robert Frank / CNBC:
800,000 people are about to flee New York and California because of taxes, say economists  — 800,000 people will leave New York and California over the next three years due to the new tax bill, conservative economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore said in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts  —  Gross Domestic Product: First Quarter 2018 (Advance Estimate)  —  Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018  —  (table 1), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
WXIA-TV:
Video shows former NFL player being slammed to ground, apparently go limp during arrest  —  The video, posted to Facebook, appears to shows Desmond Marrow being slammed to the ground before being pinned into a position.  —  HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A video of a former NFL player being arrested …
Discussion: Desmond Marrow, The Root and Raw Story
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
A farewell to free journalism  —  Bloomberg, my former employer, is reportedly moving to a paywall.  If that turns out to be true, I can't say I'll be surprised.  —  When I announced that I was leaving Bloomberg View for the Post Opinion section in February, many longtime readers gently reproached …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
The Brooklyn Home Reporter:
BREAKING: Brooklyn Friends of the NRA to hold dinner at Dyker K of C tonight  —  They're back.  —  This paper has learned exclusively that the Brooklyn Friends of the NRA, whose event featuring a gun auction was booted from two Brooklyn venues over the past couple of months after local residents …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Bloomberg:
Will Cohen Flip?  Tenuous Finances May Provide Crucial Clues  —  Taxes, loans, and collapsing medallion values take their toll  —  Does he have compromising information on Trump he can trade?  —  In the two weeks since federal agents seized the files of Michael Cohen …
 
 
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Michael Arceneaux / Rolling Stone:
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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HuffPost:
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Wesley Morris / New York Times:
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Jan Ransom / New York Times:
Women Describe Invasive Strip Searches on Visits to City Jails
Peter Beinart / The Forward:
American Jews Have Abandoned Gaza — And The Truth
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Top Homeland Security officials urge criminal prosecution of parents crossing border with children
Jessica Valenti / New York Times:
When Misogynists Become Terrorists
Discussion: The Week
Wall Street Journal:
‘Boss, I Miss You So Much’: The Awkward Exile of Michael Cohen