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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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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Giuliani says decision on Trump-Mueller interview ‘several weeks away’  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told The Hill on Wednesday that President Trump  —  's legal team was still “several weeks away” from determining whether the president would consent to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller
Washington Post:
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood  —  White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who served as the administration's point person in dealing with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, is stepping down and is expected to be replaced …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Lawyer Likely to Cut Him Off From Mueller Interview: Source
Discussion: ABC News, Fox News and Townhall
Renato Mariotti / New York Times:
Mueller's Questions Point to What Trouble Trump Is In
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Exclusive: Ty Cobb says special counsel interview with Trump ‘certainly not off the table’
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Redskins Cheerleaders Describe 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 …
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 …
Discussion: CNN and New York Times
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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.
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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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.
CA Commercial:
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 …
Washington Post:   Cambridge Analytica shuts down amid scandal over use of Facebook data
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
Discussion: ThinkProgress, AOL, Splinter and Daily Wire
Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
North Korea reportedly hands Trump another big win by releasing US prisoners
Discussion: The Resurgent
Washington Post:
Trump becomes more dovish toward North Korea, but surrounds himself with hawks
Discussion: Politico
Bonnie Kristian / The Week:
Will John Bolton sabotage peace in Korea?
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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 …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Greitens lied to state ethics commission, took charity donor list, report says  —  • Gov. Eric Greitens ran an off-the-books political campaign in 2014, took a charity donor list to raise campaign funds and ultimately lied about that list in a signed statement to the state's ethics commission …
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Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Greitens lied about charity donor list and misused it, allegations in report say
Daily Mail:
‘God damn you to hell!’:  Former Trump campaign consultant explodes at Democratic Senate aides after he loses his house to legal fees in ‘witch hunt’ congressional Russia probe  — Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says he has spent $125,000 on lawyers to comply with the demands of the Senate Intelligence Committee
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:   Former Trump campaign aide meets with Mueller's special counsel in Russia probe
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Summer Zervos, Trump Accuser, Subpoenas ‘The Apprentice’ Recordings  —  Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who accused President Trump of sexual assault, is seeking records to prove that he defamed her by calling her a liar.  —  A lawyer for Ms. Zervos …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, IJR, Vox and twitchy.com
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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.
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
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.
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 …
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
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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 …
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.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
White House adviser pitching Trump on a Kanye summit  —  The White House is exploring plans to host multiple summits on race between prominent athletes and artists and President Donald Trump, according to the outside adviser spearheading the effort.  —  Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott …
Discussion: The Root and Mediaite
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.
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.
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” …
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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,” …
Online NewsHour:
James Comey loves Beyonce, says he doesn't watch ‘The Americans’  —  James Comey says he doesn't watch the Russian spy-themed TV series “The Americans.”  Nor did he watch CIA thriller “Homeland” during his tenure as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a post he was dismissed from by President Donald Trump in May 2017.
Discussion: Splinter and The FADER
 
 
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Sessions sending more feds to border to help process ‘caravan’ immigrants
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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Michelle Obama says she's America's ‘forever first lady’
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Trudeau Hilariously Blames U.S. For His Illegal Immigration Problem
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U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Returns Thousands of Ancient Artifacts To Iraq
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's peculiar sense of morality
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Spike Lee Unleashes ‘BlacKkKlansman’: Race, Trump and Being “Robbed” of Cannes' Palme d'Or
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
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