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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.
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
RedState Is No More — RedState's owners have engaged in a mass purge of talent. … The site name will linger, but RedState is all but dead now. I have invited the fired writers here. — When RedState started in 2004, it was about collaborating between all sides of the GOP and, after I took over, had a real grassroots focus.
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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Washington Post:
The new House GOP report on Russia is revealing. But not in a good way for Trump. … Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee today released a report on Russia's involvement in the 2016 election. Although it's meant to exonerate President Trump and everyone around him …
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New York Times:
Republicans on House Intelligence Panel Absolve 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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Congressman Patrick Meehan:
Congressman Meehan Announces Resignation — Representative Patrick Meehan (R-PA) today transmitted a letter of resignation to Governor Tom Wolf and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan effective Friday, April 27, 2018. Representative Meehan had previously announced he would not seek re-election …
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Jonathan Tamari / Philly.com:
Rep. Pat Meehan resigns; will pay back $39,000 used for harassment settlement
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Meehan resigns with promise to pay back alleged sexual harassment claim
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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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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They're Looking for a Place for Kelly to Land That Won't Be Embarrassing for Him”: Will Trump Move His Chief of Staff to Veterans Affairs? — The president has talked about pushing Kelly out for months—and Ronny Jackson's crash-and-burn creates a logical opening.
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Photos: Angela Merkel's visit to the White House
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump is running America just like his businesses — right into the ground
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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
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Reuters:
Korean leaders aim for end of war, ‘complete denuclearization’ after historic summit
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker touts Nobel Peace Prize for Trump
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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.
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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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Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Brokaw Rips “Sensational” Accuser Claims: I Was “Ambushed and Then Perp Walked” — The revered NBC News anchor accused of unwanted advances pens a strenuous denial and defense of his legacy. — Tom Brokaw, the NBC News anchor who has served as a distinguished anchor emeritus since stepping …
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Neil Vigdor / Hartford Courant:
Linda McMahon Replaces Tom Brokaw As Sacred Heart U. Commencement Speaker
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Mercury News
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. judge tosses Paul Manafort suit seeking to bar special counsel Mueller from bringing future charges … A federal judge Friday dismissed a challenge brought by Paul Manafort to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's criminal probe of Russian interference in 2016 U.S. elections …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tosses Manafort civil suit challenging special counsel
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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 …
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Washington Monthly and Splinter
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Yiannopoulos' business implodes after death of crypto-billionaire — Running out of money and down on his luck, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos laid off the small staff of Milo Entertainment Inc. earlier this month, according to three people familiar with the situation.
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The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn and Son Met With Russia Ambassador Before RT Gala … Before traveling to Russia in 2015 for a dinner hosted by a propaganda network, retired Gen. Michael Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., went to the home of Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak for a private meeting.
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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Richard Kim / The Nation:
The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts — I don't know if Reid wrote the posts in question, but it wouldn't surprise me if she, or any liberal blogger at the time, had. — If you haven't the foggiest notion of what this headline refers to and want to sail smoothly …
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Claims by Joy Reid's Cybersecurity Expert Fall Apart
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Cabal Of Wealthy Donors Financing $50 Million Trump-Russia Investigation — A group of wealthy donors from New York and California have forked out $50 million to fund a Russia investigation being conducted by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former Senate staffer for Dianne Feinstein.
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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
Jeffrey Adam Sachs / Niskanen Center:
There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence — The campus free speech debate is heating up. Last month I made the case (first in a Twitter thread and then again at the Washington Post's The Monkey Cage) that there is no campus free speech crisis.
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The Daily Signal
Jim Newell / Slate:
Why Did Paul Ryan Ax the House Chaplain? — On April 16, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a personnel change among the House of Representatives staff: Father Patrick Conroy, the House chaplain since 2011, who opens each daily session with a prayer and advises members on faith matters, would be stepping down in May.
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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
House Chaplain Was Asked to Resign. He Still Doesn't Know Why.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram — And Cashing In — In late February, an Instagram account called Viral Hippo posted a photo of a black square. There was nothing special about the photo, or the square, and certainly not the account that posted it.
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.
The Daily Beast:
Mick Mulvaney Met With Lobbyist Donors While at Trump White House … Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump's top budget and financial consumer watchdog, had a hierarchy of access in his former congressional office: first were constituents, then lobbyists who'd donated to his campaign, and then, at the bottom, lobbyists who hadn't.
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