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Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter — (CNN)When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump's health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient. — It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein.
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Anna R. Schecter / NBC News:
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files — In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice …
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Washington Post:
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team — In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Trump's lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends — THE BEGINNING OF May marks the longest period of public silence from special counsel Robert Mueller's team since his first charges last October—more than two months without any new plea deals, fresh indictments, or publicly “flipped” witnesses.
William Saletan / Slate:
Believe James Comey — I watched all of James Comey's interviews. He's telling the truth. — According to the New York Times, special counsel Robert Mueller has four dozen questions he wants to ask President Donald Trump about the Russia investigation.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
The real reason Mueller hasn't called Ivanka Trump — She was in Bedminster, New Jersey, with President Donald Trump the rainy May 2017 weekend when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey. — She was a passenger on the plane flying home from the G-20 conference in Germany the next month …
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Washington Post:
Under oath or not, Trump owes the country answers — IT IS unclear who leaked a list of questions that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wants to ask President Trump. One possibility is that someone is seeking to ensure that, whatever happens to Mr. Mueller's investigation, the president is forced to confront them.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Mueller requests Flynn's sentencing be delayed at least two more months
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Washington Post:
Lobbyist helped broker Scott Pruitt's $100,000 trip to Morocco — MARRAKESH, Morocco — A controversial trip to Morocco by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last December was partly arranged by a longtime friend and lobbyist, who accompanied Pruitt and his entourage …
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New York Times:
Friend Helped Steer E.P.A. Leader's Agenda Abroad — WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, allowed a lobbyist friend to play an unusually influential role in setting his agenda during a visit in December to Morocco, according to internal communications related …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Two Top Aides to Scott Pruitt Quit the E.P.A. Unexpectedly
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Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
Nancy Pelosi says she intends to remain in leadership role — Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she's not going anywhere. — Despite grumblings from some Democrats and dismal approval ratings, the House minority leader aims to keep an iron grip on her leadership role, saying in an interview Tuesday …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Let the blue wave continue’: Democrats notch 4th Florida bellwether win — MIAMI — Strike ... four. — In the fourth and final Florida bellwether election since 2016, the Democratic candidate beat the Republican in a contested race, providing the best evidence yet that the GOP …
Cheri Jacobus / USA Today:
Never Trump Republican's midterm plea to Democrats: Reach out to people like me
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump might be right — the GOP's House majority is not all but doomed
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump ‘well-positioned’ for 2020, keeps GOP alive for 2018, pollsters say
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
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CNN:
White House poised for more chaos over Veterans Affairs pick — (CNN)The White House is in an increasingly familiar place: Facing down a chaotic nomination process. — As the Trump administration seeks to move past the failed nomination of Ronny Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Iran Deal Is a Lie — “The sanctions lifting will only occur as Iran takes the steps agreed, including addressing possible military dimensions.” — That was State Department spokesman John Kirby in June 2015, speaking just as negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal were wrapping up.
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Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot, giving legal marijuana a new ally — WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime opponent of legalizing recreational marijuana, now says the federal government should not interfere in California's legal marijuana market.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric.
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TMZ.com:
Kanye West — I Got Hooked on Opioids After Liposuction — Kanye West had liposuction, started popping painkillers ... all leading up to the 2016 breakdown that landed him in a hospital for more than a week. — Kanye revealed his battle with opioids during his appearance Tuesday on …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Carl Higbie, who works at pro-Trump group, says racist comments were ‘statistical observation,’ ‘out of context’ — (CNN)Carl Higbie, a top staffer at an advocacy group closely aligned with President Donald Trump, said on a radio show that past racist comments he made had been taken …
David French / National Review:
How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul — Keziah Daum and the insidiousness of the online cultural-appropriation police — I'm going to tell you perhaps the dumbest story you've ever heard — a story that is stupid with a heaping helping of malice on the side.
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Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of a Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice — The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies — A few years before he started working for Donald Trump …
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The Times of Israel:
Abbas says Jews' behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust — In rambling speech, PA president gives a ‘history lesson’ in which he tries to negate Jewish connection to Israel, accuses Zionists of cooperating with Hitler — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday …
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Washington Post:
Before U.S. diplomats, Pompeo pledges to ‘listen and learn’ — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on the first day in his new job, announced Tuesday that he is lifting a hiring freeze on family members of employees posted overseas. — The decision to end the freeze, which slashed their numbers …
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
White supremacist is guilty in Charlottesville parking garage beating of black man … CHARLOTTESVILLE — One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year's “Unite the Right” rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.
Julia Halperin / artnet News:
‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists — The museum is selling seven works to build a “war chest” that will fund acquisitions designed to make its holdings less white and less male.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare … President Trump's former top health official on Tuesday said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act.
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