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12:05 PM 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 …
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Grassley says he wants to release transcripts tied to 2016 Trump Tower meeting
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:   Ex-CIA Director John Brennan says he's free as ‘ordinary civilian’ to imply Putin has dirt on Trump
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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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 …
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
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 …
Reuters:   Korean leaders aim for end of war, ‘complete denuclearization’ after historic summit
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Sean Hannity: 400% rise in eviction orders since host bought Georgia apartment complex  —  Records show 61 different residents have received notice to vacate their homes in Perry complex since Hannity took over in 2014  —  The number of eviction orders obtained against tenants …
Discussion: Raw Story
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Intelligence Committee Releases Findings on Russian Election Interference  —  WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee released on Friday a roughly 250-page report on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, laying out Republicans' conclusion after a yearlong investigation …
Discussion: Political Wire and Althouse
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump hails House Intelligence Committee report on Russia  —  The House Intelligence Committee has released a 253-page report on its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.  —  The GOP report signals the committee found no evidence of collusion between Trump …
Discussion: ABC News
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House Intelligence Committee Republicans release final Russia report
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway tells ‘Fox & Friends’ that Trump wants to come on once a month … Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway  —  told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning that President Trump  —  wants to come on the show regularly.  —  “The president has said he would like …
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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.
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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
Discussion: MSNBC, Politico and The Hill
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)
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: Washington Post and Political Wire
Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
First-quarter GDP grows solid 2.3% as businesses grab baton from consumers  —  The numbers: The U.S. grew in the first quarter at the slowest pace in a year owing to a big pullback in consumer spending, but the economy held up better than expected owing to solid business investment and a smaller trade deficit.
Discussion: MSNBC
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew by 2.3% in First Quarter, Easing Slightly
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Dear President Macron: Le Bromance with Trump Won't End Well  —  Just ask congressional Republicans.  —  Right before France's President Emmanuel Macron flew back to Paris from Washington on Wednesday, he popped out of a conference room at George Washington University to personally greet a final set of visitors.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:   ‘Jon poked the bear’: Tester braces for Trump's revenge
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
Nicole Bitette / New York Daily News:
Rob Schneider thinks ‘Saturday Night Live’ is ruining the joke  —  “Saturday Night Live,” you can do it — better.  —  Comedian Rob Schneider burst out on the scene on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1990s, but nearly three decades later, he thinks the hit NBC comedy series is bursting …
Financial Times:
Deripaska agrees to relinquish control of sanction-hit Rusal  —  Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has agreed in principle to sell down his stake in holding company EN+ to relinquish control of aluminium producer Rusal as he attempts to release the company from crippling US sanctions.
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.
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 …
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Scenes Unseen: The Summer of '78  —  Six months ago, a parks official cleaning out an office came across two cardboard boxes that had been sitting around for decades.  —  Inside were 2,924 color slides, pictures made in parks across New York City's five boroughs late in the summer of 1978.
Los Angeles Times:
ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days.  He's not the only one who had to prove his citizenship  —  Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans.  —  But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens …
Discussion: Splinter
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?
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 …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
The Puzzle of Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders is best known to the American public for running the White House daily briefing, a televised performance in which, without so much as raising her voice, the president's press secretary manages to deflect questions …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Hartford Courant:
House Supports Connecticut Joining National Popular Vote Compact; Bill Moves To Senate
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Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Likely coldest April since 1895 - U.S. farmers delay planting crops
Discussion: National Review
HuffPost:
Bureau Of Indian Affairs Director Resigns After Just 6 Months On The Job
Discussion: Washington Post
Robert Frank / CNBC:
800,000 people are about to flee New York and California because of taxes, say economists
Peter Beinart / The Forward:
American Jews Have Abandoned Gaza — And The Truth
Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says