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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 …
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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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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.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Giuliani says decision on Trump-Mueller interview ‘several weeks away’
Exclusive: Giuliani says decision on Trump-Mueller interview ‘several weeks away’
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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
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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
Reminder: GOP Target Rod Rosenstein Is A Lifelong Republican Trump Appointed
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Alex Ward / Vox:
Trump just ominously threatened the Justice Department
Trump just ominously threatened the Justice Department
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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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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 …
Cambridge Analytica and Scl Elections Commence Insolvency Proceedings and Release Results …
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Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo:
Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down
Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down
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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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Manu Raju / CNN:
Michael Caputo says 'it's clear' Mueller investigators focused on Russia collusion — (CNN)After being interviewed by special counsel investigators on Wednesday, former aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign Michael Caputo told CNN that Robert Mueller's team is “focused on Russia collusion.”
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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:
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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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Thinking the Unthinkable: What If Trump Succeeds? — Let us assume for the moment that Donald Trump is an “idiot” and a “f— ing moron” who hasn't got a clue about the substance of legislation. (These judgments, if multiple news reports are accurate, come from the president's current chief of staff …
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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's medical deceptions should be a scandal … “Trump disseminated false medical records to fool the public about his health.” That is a headline you have never seen, though you should have. — If you've gotten tired of hearing how something President Trump did would have been a major …
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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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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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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Memo: Pruitt landlord's husband sought EPA work for client — WASHINGTON (AP) — The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client, according to a newly released EPA memo.
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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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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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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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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
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.
Joshua Holland / The Nation:
YES, DONALD TRUMP IS MAKING WHITE PEOPLE MORE HATEFUL — A new study finds empirical evidence of the “Trump Effect.” — Has Donald Trump's relentless demagoguery of Mexicans, Muslims and African Americans made Americans more hateful? Or did Trump capitalize on a white backlash …
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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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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,” …
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Reuters:
Trump has all but decided to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal: sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has all but decided to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord by May 12 but exactly how he will do so remains unclear, two White House officials and a source familiar …
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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.
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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 …
New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Melania Trump's parents arrive for hearing on U.S. citizenship in lower Manhattan — For President Trump, some immigrants are outlaws. And others are in-laws. — The mother and father of First Lady Melania Trump arrived Wednesday morning in Lower Manhattan for a hearing on their pending applications for U.S. citizenship.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
HHS official who shared conspiracy theories and said ‘forefathers would have hung’ Obama is back at work — (CNN)A political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services has apologized and is now back at work at the department after it came to light that she spread conspiracy theories …
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