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4:40 PM ET, April 29, 2018

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
At the White House correspondents' dinner, the buzz was reduced to a snore — until Michelle Wolf showed up … There were no sitcom actors.  No Olympians or supermodels or Real Housewives, either.  Even some of the usual high-profile media names were missing, too.  And for the second consecutive year, so was the president.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Michelle Wolf's Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner  —  WASHINGTON — The panna cotta had been served and the First Amendment duly celebrated by the time the comedian Michelle Wolf took the stage on Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Mike Allen / Axios:
Media hands Trump big, embarrassing win  —  The White House Correspondents' Dinner ended with a barrage of vulgar anti-Trump jokes by comedian Michelle Wolf, who attacked the appearance of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who was sitting with her at the head table.
Discussion: HuffPost, AOL, Breitbart and Washington Post
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
For the sake of journalism, stop the White House correspondents' dinner  —  The 2018 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner should be the last.  —  It never has been a particularly good idea for journalists to don their fanciest clothes and cozy up to the people they cover …
Discussion: The Atlantic, LifeZette and The Week
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Michelle Wolf's caustic comedy routine at the White House correspondents' dinner, annotated
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Wolf routine stuns White House Correspondents' Dinner
Axios:
Michelle Wolf's vulgar anti-Trump jokes draw intense criticism
Discussion: CNN, Mother Jones and Raw Story
Washington Examiner:
Declining standards on the media menu at White House Correspondents' dinner
Discussion: Instapundit
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements as well as practical guidance to prosecutors on how to do their jobs.
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Kim Prepared to Cede Nuclear Weapons if U.S. Pledges Not to Invade  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Keeping diplomatic developments coming at a head-snapping pace, the South Korean government said on Sunday that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, had told President Moon Jae-in that he would abandon …
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump's ‘unpredictability,’ ‘bellicosity’ played into N. Korea's choice to talk: Dem
Discussion: Breitbart
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Times and IJR
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
MMA Fighter With Links To Trump, Cohen Is Questioned By FBI  —  ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — A Russian mixed martial arts fighter who has connections with President Donald Trump, the president's personal attorney Michael Cohen and Russian President Vladimir Putin was questioned this week by the FBI, his manager confirmed Saturday.
Washington Post:
Israeli gunfire is taking a severe toll on the lower limbs of Palestinian protesters  —  But last month, while participating in a protest along Gaza's border, he was struck by a bullet fired by an Israeli soldier.  It penetrated his calf, shattering his leg before exiting the shin.
Orin Kerr / Lawfare:
Did Donald Trump Jr. Admit to Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?  —  The recently-released Minority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) discloses a copy of an e-mail sent by Donald J. Trump Jr., on September 21, 2016, to a group of top Trump campaign officials.
Andrew MacAskill / Reuters:
Britain, France and Germany agree on support for Iran nuclear deal  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany have agreed that the nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap remains the best way of stopping Tehran getting nuclear weapons, British Prime Minister Theresa May's office said on Sunday.
Discussion: IJR
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Pompeo in Israel: If we can't fix Iran deal, Trump will withdraw
Discussion: Associated Press
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
After firestorm, Rep. Mark Walker has “stepped down” from search committee to select new House chaplain  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Mark Walker, a North Carolina Republican, has stepped down from a special committee tapped to select a new House chaplain.  —  The move comes after Walker …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
James Comey dismisses GOP report on Russia as ‘political document’  —  WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey on Sunday dismissed the findings of a GOP report claiming there is no evidence President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russians during the 2016 election.
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:   New Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in House Intelligence Committee Minority Report
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What savvy journalists say when they are minimizing Trump's hate movement against journalists  —  For two years I have been tracking a speech pattern among American journalists, in which they try to explain to us — and perhaps to themselves — why Donald Trump's campaign to discredit them is not what it seems, or no big deal.
NBC News:
Safe seats?  Anti-Trump wave may wash out some Democrats, too  —  WASHINGTON — When Rep. Mike Capuano won his Boston-area congressional seat two decades ago, he had good reason to think of it like a Supreme Court appointment: For life.  —  The low-profile Democrat cruised to re-election nine times …
Evan Hill / BuzzFeed:
Silicon Valley Can't Be Trusted With Our History  —  We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it.  —  Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed.  The orange glow of the streetlamps and the ramshackle barricade of furniture …
 
 
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