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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 …
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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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Lawyer Likely to Cut Him Off From Mueller Interview: Source … President Donald Trump's legal team became significantly more cohesive on Wednesday with the addition of Emmet Flood, a veteran white collar defense attorney.  It also became more aggressive, which could prove tricky for Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Giuliani says decision on Trump-Mueller interview ‘several weeks away’
Discussion: NY State of Politics and Mediaite
Washington Post:
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:   ‘A very steady hand’: New White House lawyer brings deep experience as he enters fray of Russia investigation
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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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Reminder: GOP Target Rod Rosenstein Is A Lifelong Republican Trump Appointed  —  In 1984, a Republican celebrity president was under attack by the media elite, and the future deputy attorney general wasn't going to stand for it.  —  WASHINGTON If Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …
Discussion: Mediaite
Alex Ward / Vox:
Trump just ominously threatened the Justice Department  —  “At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!”  Trump tweeted.  —  President Donald Trump just issued a direct and ominous threat to the Justice Department.  —  “What are they afraid of?
New York Times:
Trump Assails Justice Dept., Siding With House Conservatives in Dispute
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Washington Post
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Thinking the Unthinkable: What If Trump Succeeds?
Tom Nichols / USA Today:   Hold the irrational exuberance on North Korea. Kim is already winning.
Bonnie Kristian / The Week:
Will John Bolton sabotage peace in Korea?
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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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CA Commercial:
Cambridge Analytica and Scl Elections Commence Insolvency Proceedings and Release Results …
NBC News:
Cambridge Analytica to close down after Facebook data scandal
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Guardian
The Guardian:   Cambridge Analytica closing after Facebook data harvesting scandal
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.
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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Daily Mail:
TRUMP AIDE MICHAEL CAPUTO'S SHOCKING STATEMENT TO THE SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE  —  Caputo, a former Trump campaign adviser, delivered this statement to the committee on Tuesday, May 1, 2018:
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: CNN, Political Wire, Mediaite and Raw Story
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 …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's fixers revolt  —  Longtime associates whose job was to clean up messes are suddenly in the spotlight making things worse for the president.  —  Looking the part has always mattered to President Donald Trump.  —  The president's preference for people who look like they came from …
Discussion: The Root and Mediaite
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's medical deceptions should be a scandal
Discussion: CNN, ThinkProgress and ABC News
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
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 …
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.
Washington Post:
America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated  —  The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044.  But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.  —  Black  —  White  —  Hispanic  —  Asian/Pacific Islander  —  Native American Multi-race and other
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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Mario Parker / Bloomberg:
China Seen Jolting Soybean Market by Shunning U.S. Supplies  — China is ‘very deliberately not buying anything from the U.S.’  — Bunge CEO Schroder says Canada, Brazil picking up sales  —  The world's biggest oilseed processor just confirmed one of the soybean market's biggest fears …
Discussion: CNBC and Axios
Fox News:
Police release body cam footage from Las Vegas Massacre  —  Las Vegas police have finally released partial footage from police body cameras that showed officers nearing the hotel room where gunman Stephen Paddock unleashed a hail of gunfire on concert-goers last October.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Kanye West Is Building Up A Republican Fan Base  —  Most in the GOP still say celebrities shouldn't weigh in on politics, a new poll finds.  —  Kanye West's latest foray into Twitter commentary may have boosted the rapper's standing with the GOP, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll …
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.
YouTube:
Hillary Clinton: Being A Capitalist Probably Hurt Me Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists … At the Shared Value Leadership Summit, Hillary Clinton says that being a capitalist hurt her during the 2016 Democratic primaries because so many Democrats now identify themselves as socialists.
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,” …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
 
 
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Alex Burness / Daily Camera:
Boulder City Council calls for ‘full editorial independence’ at Daily Camera
Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Arkansas Supreme Court rules state can enact voter ID law
Joshua Holland / The Nation:
YES, DONALD TRUMP IS MAKING WHITE PEOPLE MORE HATEFUL
Discussion: Althouse
Senator Dick Durbin / U.S. Senator Dick Durbin …:
Durbin Raises Questions About Possible Collusion Between U.S. & Texas Attorneys General In Termination Of DACA
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
Trudeau Hilariously Blames U.S. For His Illegal Immigration Problem
Discussion: Daily Wire
U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Returns Thousands of Ancient Artifacts To Iraq
Alexandra Deabler / Fox News:
Budweiser releases new beer based on George Washington's handwritten recipe
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's peculiar sense of morality
Discussion: Indianapolis Star, Vox and IJR
Lauren Yapalater / BuzzFeed:
Help Us Solve This BuzzFeed Office-Wide Debate About What “IMHO” Stands For
Discussion: The Atlantic
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Santorum: Obama's lies ‘more important’ than Trump's
Marco Rubio / National Review:
Two Cheers for Corporate Tax Cuts
 

 
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