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Anna R. Schecter / NBC News:
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files — In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice …
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Associated Press:
White House defends seizure of Trump's medical records — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump's former bodyguard did nothing out of the ordinary when he took possession of the president's medical records in what Trump's former doctor says felt like a “raid.”
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump — Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller — , said Tuesday he believes President Trump — leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends — THE BEGINNING OF May marks the longest period of public silence from special counsel Robert Mueller's team since his first charges last October—more than two months without any new plea deals, fresh indictments, or publicly “flipped” witnesses.
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction — WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump …
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New York Times:
The Questions Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Obstruction, and What They Mean
The Questions Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Obstruction, and What They Mean
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE
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New York Magazine, New York Times and Washington Examiner
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Robert Mueller's former assistant explains how grammar errors prove ‘leaked questions’ came from Trump
Robert Mueller's former assistant explains how grammar errors prove ‘leaked questions’ came from Trump
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CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
Dick Morris / The Western Journal:
Trump Ratings Up, Dem Chances Down — Things are looking better for President Donald Trump and the Republican chances of holding the House and gaining in the Senate. — It's a trend you'll never see in the mainstream media, but it's happening nonetheless.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump might be right — the GOP's House majority is not all but doomed — (CNN)Political prognosticators usually shake their head at President Donald Trump's electoral analyses. He doesn't tout all poll numbers, for example, and instead relies upon the rosiest figures from Rasmussen Reports.
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Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard and Washington Post
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time — You hear it all the time: The 2018 Senate map is bad, even “brutal,” for Democrats. Of the 35 seats on the ballot this cycle, 26 are held by senators who caucus with the Democrats, and just nine are held by Republicans.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
NBC staffers felt pressured to sign letter defending Brokaw — Female staffers at NBC News are complaining they felt under huge pressure to sign the “women's letter” defending Tom Brokaw against sexual harassment allegations. — After former colleague Linda Vester claimed he …
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Variety:
NBC News Urged Its Anchors to Report on Supportive Tom Brokaw Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
NBC News Urged Its Anchors to Report on Supportive Tom Brokaw Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
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New York Daily News, Fox News and RedState
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
White House revises statement saying Iran ‘has’ secret nuclear weapons program — The White House on Monday night revised a public statement that said Iran currently has a secret nuclear weapons program, an assertion that contradicts what international observers have concluded.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare … President Trump's former top health official on Tuesday said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act.
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Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Former HHS Sec. Price: Repealing the individual mandate ‘will harm’ people insured through Obamacare
Former HHS Sec. Price: Repealing the individual mandate ‘will harm’ people insured through Obamacare
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House panel expected to interview EPA chief Scott Pruitt's former head of security in conduct probe — The House Oversight Committee is expected to interview Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's former head of security Wednesday, the latest indication …
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Kyra Phillips / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA whistleblower says Pruitt ‘lied’ to Congress
EXCLUSIVE: EPA whistleblower says Pruitt ‘lied’ to Congress
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Haaretz:
U.S. Officials: Israeli F-15s Struck Syrian Base Storing Iranian Anti-aircraft Missiles — More details soon... Zen Subscribe now — Israeli F-15 fighter jets struck a military base near Hama on Sunday after Iran had transferred a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles there, three U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
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Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of a Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice — The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies — A few years before he started working for Donald Trump …
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Raw Story
Caleb Howe / Daily Wire:
The Truth About RedState's Layoffs, From A Non-Liar — I really didn't feel like defending RedState this week, all things considered, but I've been put in that position by flatly inaccurate information that was spread through a conservative email newsletter. — In that newsletter, The Transom, Ben Domenech called me a liar.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Was In Moscow Just Weeks Before Court Documents Were Unsealed — Joseph Mifsud's trip to Moscow coincided with an official visit by the king of Saudi Arabia. — Reporting From — London — Joseph Mifsud, the enigmatic Maltese professor …
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TMZ.com:
Kanye West — Stirs Up TMZ Newsroom Over Trump, Slavery, Free Thought — Kanye West just told the TMZ newsroom why he believes slavery is a choice and why he decided to sport his Make America Great Again hat ... and it all went down Tuesday morning on “TMZ Live.”
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Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
The Guy Who Threw His Shoes At George W. Bush Is Running For President Of Iraq — This guy, Muntazar al-Zaidi, is running for president of Iraq, and if you're not excited about that, you may not be used to seeing him from the front. … Here's the vantage point most people will recognize him from …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
We must rally around Joy Reid … Joy Reid deserves everyone's support. The most destructive and insidious hacker in journalistic history is on the loose, ready to snatch another career. — Reid, who hosts “AM Joy” on MSNBC, is somehow hanging onto hers.
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
US starts processing asylum seekers slammed by Trump — TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space. But the migrants who crossed Mexico in a caravan may face a long legal path.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon — Digital First Media's financials — revealed here — show how the company has ridden its deep cuts to nearly $160 million in profits and the highest margins in the business.
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Esquire:
The Passion of Jordan Peterson — BY WESLEY YANG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE STANGEL — “WHAT — AM — I EXACTLY? Here in a guest cottage at the summit of a high hill in northern California, the tenth stop on a three-continent tour to promote his new book, — 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,
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Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Apple will buy back up to $100 billion worth of shares — Apple reported earnings on Tuesday for the fiscal second quarter, which has traditionally been the quarter when Apple announces capital return programs like share buybacks and dividends. — Apple on Tuesday announced a plan …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CIA Official Says Some Torture Videotapes May Still Exist … Some videotapes recording the torture of a CIA detainee may have survived the 2005 destruction facilitated by Donald Trump's nominee to run the agency. That's according to an ex-CIA analyst who reviewed massive amounts …
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds — The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported on Tuesday. Since 2004, at least nine such diseases …
David French / National Review:
How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul — Keziah Daum and the insidiousness of the online cultural-appropriation police — I'm going to tell you perhaps the dumbest story you've ever heard — a story that is stupid with a heaping helping of malice on the side.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates — Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is a felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, hiding $900,000 from tax authorities and making false statements under oath. To hear him tell it …
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Daily Kos
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Michael Cohen Hit With New Taxi Taxes, Owes New York $282,000 — Michael Cohen, already under pressure from a federal criminal investigation into his business and financial dealings, has been hit this month with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Carl Higbie, who works at pro-Trump group, says racist comments were ‘statistical observation,’ ‘out of context’ — (CNN)Carl Higbie, a top staffer at an advocacy group closely aligned with President Donald Trump, said on a radio show that past racist comments he made had been taken …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
'I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes': Trying to figure out what matters in today's news cycle … Benjamin Wittes, a legal commentator with a large Twitter following, was on an airplane last month when the FBI raided the office of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Is This Artichoke Kosher? Rome Defends a Classic Jewish Dish — LADISPOLI, Italy — As women wearing artichoke body paint caressed artichoke sculptures shaped like an owl, a snowman and a cobra at this seaside town's 68th annual Festival of the Artichoke, Ada Di Porto stood inside a tent …
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Meet the Schlapps, Washington's Trump-Era ‘It Couple’ — WASHINGTON — Matt Schlapp, the pro-Trump chairman of the American Conservative Union, had a remarkable on-air clash not long ago with his old friend Michael Steele, an anti-Trump former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A. — On Law Day, we celebrate our Nation's heritage of liberty, justice, and equality under the law. This heritage is embodied most powerfully in our Constitution, the longest surviving document of its kind.
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Deputy attorney general depicts latest GOP critics as cowards, vows DOJ won't be ‘extorted’ — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein vowed on Tuesday that the Justice Department “is not going to be extorted” by certain critics, and he depicted as cowards a group of Republicans who have drafted articles of impeachment against him.
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