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New York Times:
Trump to Add Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Emmet Flood to Replace Ty Cobb  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing …
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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.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Lacks Security Clearances Needed for Mueller Negotiations  —  Possibility of a grand jury subpoena raised by Mueller's team  —  President's lawyers have listed 40 questions Mueller may pose  —  Donald Trump's current team of lawyers lacks the security clearances needed …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Exclusive: Ty Cobb says special counsel interview with Trump ‘certainly not off the table’  —  White House lawyer Ty Cobb told ABC News during an exclusive interview on Wednesday that a presidential interview with special counsel Robert Mueller has not been ruled out.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Why Answering Mueller's Questions Could Be a Minefield for Trump
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation With Mueller Investigation  —  KIEV, Ukraine — In the United States, Paul J. Manafort is facing prosecution on charges of money laundering and financial fraud stemming from his decade of work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Did Trump Bribe Ukraine to Stop Cooperating With Mueller?  —  Donald Trump's habitual dishonesty is a trait well understood by the entire mainstream news media, and even many members of the conservative media.  But it is not fully understood.  Trump manages to lie in ways that hardened cynics never anticipated.
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump threatens to use presidential powers on DOJ  —  President Trump in a Wednesday tweet called out the Justice Department for refusing to hand over un-redacted documents related to the Hillary Clinton email probe to Congress.  —  The big picture: The Justice Department has become …
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
How about a few questions for Robert Mueller?  —  has plenty of questions for President Trump  —  , and maybe he will get to ask them.  Most of them seemed like perjury traps rather than real questions for the president and, surprisingly, they contain very little that wasn't in the public domain though prior leaks.
Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight and Vox
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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What we didn't know about Trump on Election Day 2016 … It's hard to dispute that voters knew far less about Donald Trump on Election Day 2016 than voters had about any other major-party presidential candidate in modern history.  Some of this was a function of Trump's background.
Discussion: Vox, Shareblue Media, IJR and CNN
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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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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Two Top Aides to Scott Pruitt Quit the E.P.A. Unexpectedly  —  WASHINGTON — Two top aides to Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency chief who is facing an array of investigations related to his spending and management practices, have resigned amid widening scrutiny of their roles at the agency.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Majority of voters say Trump White House running chaotically
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Redistribution of Sex  —  One lesson to be drawn from recent Western history might be this: Sometimes the extremists and radicals and weirdos see the world more clearly than the respectable and moderate and sane.  All kinds of phenomena, starting as far back as the Iraq War and the crisis …
Discussion: Slate
Marco Rubio / National Review:
Two Cheers for Corporate Tax Cuts  —  On the whole, the tax cut bill helps workers.  It's just not massive tax cuts to multinational corporations that do it.  —  Overall, the Republican tax-cut bill has been good for Americans.  That is why I voted for it.
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Suffolk University:
Suffolk University NH Presidential Primary Poll Shows Non-Candidate Warren Leading Dems  —  Even though Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has declared that she is not running for president in 2020, her shadow looms over the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary …
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James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
New poll shows Elizabeth Warren leading the N.H. Democratic primary field
Discussion: Axios
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Playmate to Politico: How Pamela Anderson Became an International Woman of Mystery  —  The former ‘Baywatch’ star opens up about her relationship with Julian Assange ("We talk about the Bible"), attending Donald Trump's birthday party (for a $500 fee), her activism, ex Kid Rock …
Discussion: Mediaite
Associated Press:
Trump makes first visit to State to swear-in Pompeo  —  President Donald Trump is making his first visit to the State Department to attend the ceremonial swearing-in of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.  —  Pompeo, the former CIA director, is replacing Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon executive …
Discussion: Axios
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump touts renewed ‘spirit’ at State Dept. under Pompeo
Discussion: ABC News
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric.
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:   Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Understand Journalism
Bill D'Agostino / NewsBusters:
One A Day: CNN Hosts Porn Star's Lawyer Michael Avenatti 59 Times in Less Than Two Months  —  CNN has exhibited a fetish for the Stormy Daniels story, particularly for her Trump-smacking lawyer, Michael Avenatti.  In less than two months (from March 7 to April 30), Avenatti has been a guest …
Doug Sosnik / Washington Post:
President Trump is sowing the seeds of his own demise  —  Doug Sosnik, a Democratic political strategist, was a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000.  —  How President Bill Clinton managed the threat of removal from office has become a model in effective crisis management.
Mic:
Exclusive: Kim Kardashian West has talked to White House about pardoning nonviolent drug offender  —  Kim Kardashian West and President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner have spoken over the phone about a possible presidential pardon for Alice Marie Johnson …
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
White supremacist is guilty in Charlottesville parking garage beating of black man … CHARLOTTESVILLE — One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year's “Unite the Right” rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.
Brian Kahn / Earther:
Pakistan May Have Just Set a World Heat Record  —  High temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-80s this week in New York, and I'm dreading it.  But I have a plan to stay cool: just thinking of how much hotter it is in Pakistan, which is in the middle of a blistering heat wave.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
In ‘kill list’ case, judge questions government's unilateral authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad … A federal judge Tuesday challenged a U.S. government claim of unilateral authority to kill American citizens abroad, speaking at a hearing for a lawsuit brought in Washington by two journalists …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Santorum: Obama's lies ‘more important’ than Trump's … Rick Santorum on Wednesday brushed off questions about false and misleading claims by President Trump  —  , arguing that his predecessor, Barack Obama  —  , told more substantial lies.  —  Asked on CNN's “New Day” …
Clay Travis / Outkick the Coverage:
ESPN Loses 500,000 Subscribers In April  —  It's become a major trend, when tax season arrives, cable and satellite subscriber numbers tank according to Nielsen estimates.  I don't know if that's because come spring tax season everyone looks at their yearly budgets and many people …
Sean Hannity:
NBC NIGHTMARE: Network ‘PRESSURED’ Female Employees to DEFEND Brokaw  —  Network executives at NBC reportedly pressured female staffers to sign a “women's letter” defending embattled reporter Tom Brokaw after multiple accusations of sexual harassment surfaced last week, reports the New York Post.
YouTube:
Tough
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Black Gun Owner Will Give Birth in Prison After Trying to Protect 2-Year-Old Daughter from Assailant  —  Siwatu-Salama Ra used a legally purchased firearm to protect her family.  She was sentenced to 2 years in prison.  —  Siwatu-Salama Ra is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror …
BBC:
Macron thanks Australian leader's ‘delicious wife’  —  French President Emmanuel Macron committed a rather delicious faux pas on Wednesday that left his Australian audience scratching their heads.  —  Mr Macron has been in the country on a diplomatic trip, discussing weighty issues like climate change and defence.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Optimism rules at this year's Milken conference  —  Three takeaways from this week's Milken Global Conference, where many of the world's top financiers, politicians and philanthropists gathered to exchange ideas and host dinners:  —  1. Optimism.  So much optimism, about nearly everything.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Vanity Fair's Hilariously Bad Account of the ‘Red-Pilling’ of Kanye West  —  Reporting on the Right with no understanding of the Right.  —  I believe it was in 2003 when I coined the term “conservatives in the mist” for a certain style of reporting.  A play on “Gorillas in the Mist,” …
 
 
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Georgia governor candidate aims gun at teen in campaign ad. ‘Get over it,’ he tells critics.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Playbook: Pelosi shows extraordinary confidence
Wall Street Journal:
Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
YouTube:
Republicans Love Rod Rosenstein
Paul Grondahl / Albany Times Union:
How a boy from Troy won the Pulitzer Prize
David Moye / HuffPost:
School Principal Jokes About Telling Police Black Special Needs Student Has A Gun
Discussion: Click2Houston.com and Raw Story
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Senate candidate promised to vote against GOP more than 20% of the time. She rarely ever did.
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Kansas City Star:
Greitens' financial forms detail travel paid for by big donor, show new LLC
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Top Interior Official Resigned Amid Claims Of Intimidating Behavior
Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press:
Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories roil DC city government
Ben Shapiro / Townhall:
Oh, Say Kanye Sees
William Cummings / USA Today:
Ex-Trump official Carl Higbie defends racist remarks that led to his resignation
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Iran Deal Is a Lie
 

 
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