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12:40 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
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
New York Times:
Republicans on House Intelligence Panel Clear Trump Campaign in Russian Meddling  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence during a monthslong investigation that the Trump campaign aided Russia's election meddling, the lawmakers concluded …
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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 …
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House Intelligence Committee Republicans release final Russia report
Discussion: The Week, IJR and The Daily Caller
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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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Fox & Friends Hurriedly Shuts Down Interview as Trump Rants About Mueller
Discussion: New Republic and New York Magazine
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Is Comey telling the truth about his memos?
Discussion: NewsBusters, Power Line, AOL and IJR
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
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
‘Mass firing’ at conservative site RedState  —  Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.  —  Bloggers were locked out of their accounts — some just temporarily, while the cuts were made, and others permanently.
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
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
First-quarter GDP grows solid 2.3% as businesses grab baton from consumers
Discussion: MSNBC
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew by 2.3% in First Quarter, Easing Slightly
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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.
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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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
NBC News faces skepticism in remedying in-house sexual harassment
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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.
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: NBC News and Raw Story
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 and Mediaite
Gina Barton / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
No charges against West Milwaukee officers in death of a mentally ill man hit 18 times with Taser  —  Two West Milwaukee police officers who broke down a mentally ill man's door and tased him in the shower 18 times before he died will not be criminally charged, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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Bloomberg:
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
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Prime Minister / pm.gc.ca:
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WXIA-TV:
Video shows former NFL player being slammed to ground, apparently go limp during arrest
Discussion: Desmond Marrow, Raw Story and The Root
Hartford Courant:
House Supports Connecticut Joining National Popular Vote Compact; Bill Moves To Senate
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, AOL and Politico
Jacob Sweet / Yale Daily News:
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