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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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CNN:
Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter — (CNN)When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump's health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient. — It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein.
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Little Green Footballs, The Guardian, Raw Story, Boing Boing, CANNONFIRE, Daily Kos and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team — In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Trump's lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Politico, Raw Story, Boing Boing, New Republic, American Greatness, New York Times, Spectator USA, CNBC, The Guardian, Lawfare, Outside the Beltway, Contemptor, IJR, The Daily Beast, CNN, CANNONFIRE, Roll Call, Common Dreams, Wall Street Journal, The Duran, Shakesville, ThinkProgress and thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
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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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Just Security, New York Times, Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, CNN, Above the Law, Axios, Washington Post, Politico, Washington Press, The Week and Joe.My.God.
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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CNN, National Review and New York Times
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE — It is very hard to read the list of questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump (questions which Trump's lawyers memorialized, and which ultimately leaked to the New York Times) and see how the Russia investigation ends without …
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Politico, Washington Monthly, emptywheel, New York Magazine, Washington Post and VICE News
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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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
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
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
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New York Magazine and Sabato's Crystal Ball
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, The Week, Daily Kos and Mediaite
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.
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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 Breitbart
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates
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Daily Kos
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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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, Mother Jones and The Guardian
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 and New York Magazine
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Mueller requests Flynn's sentencing be delayed at least two more months — on Tuesday requested that sentencing for former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn be delayed by at least two months. — Mueller's team and attorneys for Flynn submitted that Flynn is not ready for sentencing …
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The Gateway Pundit
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing
Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing
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Axios and Political Wire
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, CNN, AOL, In Touch Weekly, FOX6Now.com, Raw Story, Mashable, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
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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.
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New York Magazine
CNN:
White House poised for more chaos over Veterans Affairs pick — (CNN)The White House is in an increasingly familiar place: Facing down a chaotic nomination process. — As the Trump administration seeks to move past the failed nomination of Ronny Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs …
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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RedState, New York Magazine, Raw Story, Daily Kos and Splinter
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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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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Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Why Evolution Is True, WGN-TV, RedState and Instapundit
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Daily Caller
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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New York Daily News, Fox News, RedState and Mediaite
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
White House ignores executive order requiring count of civilian casualties in counterterrorism strikes … The Trump administration has chosen to ignore an executive order that requires the White House to issue an annual report on the number of civilians and enemy fighters killed by American counterterrorism strikes.
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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
BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says — A responsibility “to find common ground.” — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness …
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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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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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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Talking Points Memo
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 …
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, Washington Press and Axios
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 …
The Times of Israel:
Abbas says Jews' behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust — In rambling speech, PA president gives a ‘history lesson’ in which he tries to negate Jewish connection to Israel, accuses Zionists of cooperating with Hitler — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday …
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