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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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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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and TheBlaze
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 …
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, Breitbart, The Guardian and Just Security
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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Political Wire, twitchy.com, Deadline, Washington Press and Above the Law
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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Fox & Friends Hurriedly Shuts Down Interview as Trump Rants About Mueller
Fox & Friends Hurriedly Shuts Down Interview as Trump Rants About Mueller
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New Republic, New York Magazine and Splinter
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
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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Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Joy Reid Praised Islamophobic Blog Post About Muslims With ‘AK-47s’ in ‘Mud Huts’
Joy Reid Praised Islamophobic Blog Post About Muslims With ‘AK-47s’ in ‘Mud Huts’
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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.
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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 …
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Political Wire
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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Talking Points Memo and Wall Street Journal
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.
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Raw Story
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.
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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
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump offers more praise for rapper Kanye West, cites other African Americans who've said to give him a chance — President Trump on Friday said that rapper Kanye West had “performed a great service to the Black Community,” continuing a series of friendly tweets between the two that began earlier …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and IJR
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Michael Arceneaux / Rolling Stone:
Why Kanye West's Pro-Trump Tweets Are a Real Threat
Why Kanye West's Pro-Trump Tweets Are a Real Threat
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CNN, Hit & Run and Daily Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump hails House Intelligence Committee report on Russia — The release caps a year of partisan acrimony on the panel. — The House Intelligence Committee has released a 253-page report on its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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 …
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Raw Story
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.
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 …
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Raw Story, Daily Wire and Althouse
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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The Root, The Hill, JONATHAN TURLEY, Washington Press and 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?
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Common Dreams, Weekly Standard and The Guardian
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 …
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 …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Is Comey telling the truth about his memos? — As he presses on with his bookselling tour, fired FBI Director James Comey is leaving a trail of confusing statements about how he handled the memos he wrote after conversations with President Trump, including the memo he leaked for the purpose …
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Power Line, NewsBusters, AOL and IJR
Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
States That Raise Tolls and Taxes Will Have an Edge in Getting DOT Funds — Department to consider amount of new money raised with tolls and taxes in doling out grants for roads and bridges — States and cities that raise taxes and tolls will have a better chance at winning federal money …
Bloomberg:
McConnell Cements a Legacy for Trump With Reshaped Courts — Young conservative judges labeled ‘frightening’ by the left — Republican leader speeding nominations after stalling Obama — President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are rapidly filling U.S. federal courts …
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Barry Meier / New York Times:
A Spy's Tale: The TV Prankster Who Says He Became a Double Agent — Robert Moore posed as a documentary filmmaker to monitor activists for a K2 Intelligence client. He contends he switched sides. Now he's being sued. His unusual case offers a peek into a growing industry.