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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.
Associated Press:   White House defends seizure of Trump's medical records
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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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.
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing  —  (CNN)The special counsel's office wants two more months before it looks toward sentencing former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and is cooperating in the Russia probe.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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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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.
Discussion: 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.
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
USA Today:   In midterm elections, Republicans are running against ... Hillary Clinton. Still.
Cheri Jacobus / USA Today:   Never Trump Republican's midterm plea to Democrats: Reach out to people like me
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 …
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’
Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine and Breitbart
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates
Discussion: Daily Kos
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A.
Discussion: HuffPost
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
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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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.
Discussion: 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 …
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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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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Western Journal, CNN and Reuters
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Hoy San Diego:
Fourteen Central American caravan members admitted at San Ysidro Port of Entry
Discussion: Breitbart
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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,
Discussion: Samizdata
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
CNN:
Michael Caputo slams Senate intel panel in interview  —  (CNN)Former Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo slammed the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation on Tuesday, charging that the probe has cost him $125,000 and is forcing him to move from the Buffalo area in order to pay off legal bills.
 
 
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump asks court to dismiss emoluments lawsuit against him
Discussion: Axios
Carole Glines / Fox News:
‘DWTS’: Ex-baseball star Johnny Damon: Trump ‘doing a great job’ as president
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Apple's tax break yields $102 billion boon for shareholders
Rachel Mullen / RedState:
Questionable Women For Trump PAC Claims “Unhinged” Is Sexist Word Two Hours After Trump Tweets It
The Harvard Crimson:
Breaking: Harvard Will Bargain With Grad Union
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Victims of Communism Day 2018
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Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Apple will buy back up to $100 billion worth of shares
The Times of Israel:
Abbas says Jews' behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust
Discussion: Informed Comment
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
The Guy Who Threw His Shoes At George W. Bush Is Running For President Of Iraq
Discussion: VICE News
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might …
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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