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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.”
Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
Nancy Pelosi says she intends to remain in leadership role — Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she's not going anywhere. — Despite grumblings from some Democrats and dismal approval ratings, the House minority leader aims to keep an iron grip on her leadership role, saying in an interview Tuesday …
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Political Wire, Washington Post and Common Dreams
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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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Reuters
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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Weekly Standard, Outside the Beltway 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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Sabato's Crystal Ball and New York Magazine
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.
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emptywheel, Just Security and Politico
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Rosenstein: Justice Department won't be extorted by Congress — WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday lashed out at Republican allies of President Donald Trump who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying the Justice Department won't be extorted or give in to threats.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Rosenstein To Republicans: DOJ ‘Will Not Be Extorted’
Rosenstein To Republicans: DOJ ‘Will Not Be Extorted’
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CNN, New York Magazine and Mother Jones
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Deputy attorney general depicts latest GOP critics as cowards, vows DOJ won't be ‘extorted’
Deputy attorney general depicts latest GOP critics as cowards, vows DOJ won't be ‘extorted’
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CNN, Politico, Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A.
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A.
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HuffPost and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Lobbyist helped broker Scott Pruitt's $100,000 trip to Morocco — MARRAKESH, Morocco — A controversial trip to Morocco by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last December was partly arranged by a longtime friend and lobbyist, who accompanied Pruitt and his entourage …
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
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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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brokaw's Accuser Fights Back
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Fox News, New York Daily News, RedState and Mediaite
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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Politico, Weekly Standard, New York Times, Washington Post, Above the Law, Washington Press, The Week and Joe.My.God.
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE
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Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic and National Review
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot, giving legal marijuana a new ally — WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime opponent of legalizing recreational marijuana, now says the federal government should not interfere in California's legal marijuana market.
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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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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Washington Post, New York Magazine and Raw Story
Kyle Smith / National Review:
How Much Does Hillary Clinton Drink? — Amy Chozick probably knows, but she isn't telling. — When the author of a book on the Hillary Clinton campaigns admits to breaking down in tears as Clinton's defeat registered, you have to read between the lines to guess just how flawed Clinton is.
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The Daily Caller
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats
Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats
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Sean Hannity and twitchy.com
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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IJR, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, ThinkProgress and Mediaite
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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The Root, New York Times, In Touch Weekly, Mashable, Daily Wire, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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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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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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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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NBC News
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
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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Slate, USA Today, Washington Press, Politico, CNBC, MSNBC, Splinter and Political Wire
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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New Republic and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Splinter
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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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 …
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VICE News
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 …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke wants to debate Ted Cruz 6 times, including twice in Spanish — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's campaign sent a letter to senior staff of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz proposing six debates across Texas, two of them in Spanish. — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, has invited U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz …
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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CNN, National Review and Reuters
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Apple's tax break yields $102 billion boon for shareholders — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Apple's tax break on its overseas profits is turning into a $102 billion boon for shareholders. — The iPhone maker is raising its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 73 cents per share …
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 …
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The Week
Aaron Smith / CNNMoney:
Vista Outdoor may dump its gun brands — Vista Outdoor, a manufacturer of guns and ammunition, said on Tuesday that it could divest from its gun brands, prompting a steep decline in stock price. — Vista said that it's “potentially” selling its Savage brand of shotguns and rifles …
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National Review, Vista Outdoor, Axios and Washington Press
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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CNN, The Week, BloombergQuint, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and ABC News