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Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Cohen for Stormy Daniels Payment  —  The ex-New York mayor, now a member of president's legal team, says there were no ‘campaign finance violations’ in payment to former adult film star  —  WASHINGTON—Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the president had repaid his longtime attorney …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and KTLA
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Washington Post:
Giuliani: Trump repaid lawyer Cohen for Stormy Daniels settlement  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a recent addition to President Trump's legal team, said Wednesday night that Trump made a series of payments reimbursing his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 settlement …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
New York Times:
Trump Repaid Cohen for Stormy Daniels Hush Money, Giuliani Says  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump reimbursed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer, for a $130,000 payment that Mr. Cohen has said he made to keep a pornographic film actress from going public before the 2016 election …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Michael Cohen For The Stormy Daniels Hush Money  —  In a television interview that appeared to contradict President Donald Trump's prior statements, Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Wednesday night that Trump had repaid Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he facilitated to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Discussion: Slate, Associated Press and Bloomberg
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 …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Giuliani: Trump fired Comey because he wouldn't tell Trump he wasn't target in Russia probe  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Wednesday that President Trump  —  because Comey wouldn't tell Trump that he wasn't a target of the FBI investigation into Russia's election interference.
Axios:
Giuliani says Trump personally repaid Cohen $130k for Daniels' silence  —  Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's latest additions to his legal team, told Fox News' Sean Hannity that Trump personally reimbursed Michael Cohen the $130,000 he paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels promising her silence.
Discussion: Politico
Fox News:
Giuliani calls for Comey to be prosecuted, end to Mueller probe ‘in the interest of justice’  —  Attorney for President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, says on ‘Hannity’ that Mueller owes the Trump team a report saying Russian collusion means nothing.  —  Rudy Giuliani, a member of President Donald …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“I've Been Approached by a Number of Networks”: Did Michael Avenatti Ask Phil Griffin for an MSNBC Show?  —  Stormy Daniels's attorney has been a near-constant cable presence—and in the inevitable, hard-to-imagine post-Trump era, he doesn't plan to go away.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Josh Hafner / USA Today:   Trump voters think he's lying about Stormy Daniels. And no, they don't really care.
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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Washington Post:
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood
Wall Street Journal:   Emmet Flood to Replace Ty Cobb on Donald Trump's Legal Team
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Giuliani says decision on Trump-Mueller interview ‘several weeks away’
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
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.”
Discussion: Power Line and IJR
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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
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:
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 …
The Guardian:   Cambridge Analytica closing after Facebook data harvesting scandal
NBC News:
Cambridge Analytica to close down after Facebook data scandal
Discussion: The Guardian
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?
Tom Nichols / USA Today:   Hold the irrational exuberance on North Korea. Kim is already winning.
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 …
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?
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 …
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 …
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 …
Leo Vidal / POLITICUSUSA:
New NBC Poll: 61% of Americans Think Trump Is Dishonest  —  FacebookTwitterSubscribeGooglePinterest PrintMailFlipboard  —  In the age of Trump shocking news no longer shocks people.  And today's NBC News/Survey Monkey poll is a case in point.  —  We should all be shocked by this poll …
Discussion: The Hill, NewsBusters and Contemptor
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 …
Discussion: Althouse
Alex Burness / Daily Camera:
Boulder City Council calls for ‘full editorial independence’ at Daily Camera  —  Late Tuesday night, the Boulder City Council unanimously approved a declaration in “support of the journalistic and editorial independence of our local newspaper,” the Daily Camera.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republican lawmakers must decide: Can Trump snub a subpoena? … For months now, Republican lawmakers have been asked what happens if President Trump fires special counsel Robert S. Mueller III or Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, and whether they will support legislation to protect either or both.
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.
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: CBS New York, The Daily Caller and AOL
 
 
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David French / National Review:
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Teacher Pay Is So Low in Some U.S. School Districts That They're Recruiting Overseas
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Lobbyist connected to Pruitt's Capitol Hill townhouse stay did contact EPA, despite denials
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Over 50 caravan migrants seeking asylum allowed into U.S., organizers say
Discussion: NBC News and Front Page Magazine
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Pamela Anderson: Pal Julian Assange ‘hated because of the Clinton monopoly on the media’
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite
Reuters:
Trump has all but decided to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal: sources
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Large New York Money Manager AllianceBernstein Is Moving to Nashville
Discussion: Power Line
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's medical deceptions should be a scandal
Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNN and ABC News
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
U.S. returns smuggled Hobby Lobby artifacts to Iraq
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
Mario Parker / Bloomberg:
China Seen Jolting Soybean Market by Shunning U.S. Supplies
Discussion: CNBC, Mother Jones and Axios
Online NewsHour:
James Comey loves Beyonce, says he doesn't watch ‘The Americans’
Discussion: Splinter and The FADER
New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Melania Trump's parents arrive for hearing on U.S. citizenship in lower Manhattan
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Democrats Risk Disaster in California's Top Two Primaries
YouTube:
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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
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