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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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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 …
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Washington Post:
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Exclusive: Ty Cobb says special counsel interview with Trump ‘certainly not off the table’
Exclusive: Ty Cobb says special counsel interview with Trump ‘certainly not off the table’
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Washington Post:
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team
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Juliet Macur / New York Times:
How Redskins Used Cheerleaders: Topless Photo Shoots and an Uneasy Night Out — When the Washington Redskins took their cheerleading squad to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot, the first cause for concern among the cheerleaders came when Redskins officials collected …
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Daily Wire
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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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Mueller's Questions for Trump Show the Folly of Special-Counsel Appointments
Mueller's Questions for Trump Show the Folly of Special-Counsel Appointments
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump suggests he may intervene in DOJ release of Mueller probe documents
Trump suggests he may intervene in DOJ release of Mueller probe documents
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
How about a few questions for Robert Mueller?
How about a few questions for Robert Mueller?
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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.
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Renato Mariotti / New York Times:
Mueller's Questions Point to What Trouble Trump Is In
Mueller's Questions Point to What Trouble Trump Is In
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Wall Street Journal:
Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy — Company had lost multiple clients in recent months — Cambridge Analytica , a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, is shutting down following the disclosure of its misuse of Facebook data.
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Cambridge Analytica and Scl Elections Commence Insolvency Proceedings and Release Results of Independent Investigation into Recent Allegations — Earlier today, SCL Elections Ltd., as well as certain of its and Cambridge Analytica LLC's U.K. affiliates (collectively, the “Company” or …
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Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo:
Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down — On Wednesday, Cambridge Analytica employees learned that its parent company, the SCL Group, was shuttering the business, with American-based workers directed to return their keycards immediately, according to documentation reviewed by Gizmodo.
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Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
North Korea set to release US prisoners at summit — North Korea has released the three Americans detained in the country's labour camps in a display of goodwill ahead of the looming summit between its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, campaigners say.
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
House lawmakers formally nominate Trump for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
House lawmakers formally nominate Trump for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
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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 …
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Former Trump campaign aide meets with Mueller's special counsel in Russia probe — Former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo is meeting behind closed doors with special counsel Robert Mueller's team this afternoon as part of their investigation into alleged Russian meddling during …
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Associated Press:
Boy Scouts to get new name after 108 years as girls join group — NEW YORK — For 108 years, the Boy Scouts of America's flagship program has been known simply as the Boy Scouts. With girls soon entering the ranks, the group says that iconic name will change.
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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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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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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
“He's Never Been Happier”: Inside the Red-Pilling of Kanye West
“He's Never Been Happier”: Inside the Red-Pilling of Kanye West
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
West Virginia Senate candidate distorts reality in campaign ad — WASHINGTON — A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia is running an ad showing his primary opponent shaking hands with Hillary Clinton — something that never happened. The ad uses a manipulated version …
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Political Wire
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 is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror as an angry assailant—a neighbor with whom Ra had a dispute—deliberately crashed her vehicle into Ra's car while Ra's two-year-old daughter was playing inside.
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Louise Moon / South China Morning Post:
Chinese dress at US prom wins support in China after internet backlash — After criticism of student Keziah Daum's Twitter post showing her wearing the traditional qipao, Chinese commenters call it cultural appreciation, not appropriation — An American teenager has received support …
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Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan Warns of Subpoenas, Gridlock With Democratic Majority — House Speaker Paul Ryan warned that Democratic gains in November's congressional elections could make it impossible to get anything accomplished and expose President Donald Trump's administration to more aggressive oversight.
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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 …
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Mediaite
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Elected on G.O.P. Line, a Democrat Sits Alone — ALBANY — Erik T. Bohen does not have cooties. He dresses well, sits up straight and comports himself like any other member of the State Assembly, the body to which he was elected late last month in a special election in Buffalo.
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.
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Lauren Yapalater / BuzzFeed:
Help Us Solve This BuzzFeed Office-Wide Debate About What “IMHO” Stands For — HELLO there! Us folks at BuzzFeed are always trying to get to the bottom of serious issues. Today, whilst discussing things like the current political climate, how we can solve the issues facing health care in America …
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The Atlantic
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” …
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New York Times:
Onetime Lobbyist for Foreign Governments Helped Plan a Pruitt Trip to Australia — WASHINGTON — A Washington consultant and onetime lobbyist for foreign governments played a central role in attempting to set up a trip to Australia by Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency …
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Democrats Risk Disaster in California's Top Two Primaries — Republicans badly need a few lucky breaks to hold their House majority in November. So far in 2018, it's been the opposite story — from an unfriendly new Pennsylvania map to Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement and bleak special election results.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg's New Paywall Will Charge Users $35 a Month — The paywall, which allows visitors to read 10 articles a month for free, includes a $39.99 option that comes with a subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek and access to events — For more than a decade, Bloomberg has allowed readers …
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 …
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