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Washington Post:
Giuliani: Trump repaid attorney 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 attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 settlement …
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New York Times:
Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Cohen for Stormy Daniels Hush Money — 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 …
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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 …
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Fox News Insider:
Judge Nap: Giuliani's Claim That Trump Didn't Know About Stormy Daniels Payment Is ‘Unworthy of Belief’ — Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday said that President Trump reimbursed his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, the $130,000 that Cohen paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in exchange …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Grills Giuliani on Stormy Daniels Payment: ‘Sounds Like the Story is Changing’ — Rudy Giuliani made huge waves last night with the bombshells he dropped over the President Trump-Stormy Daniels saga, and today, he joined Fox & Friends for an encore performance.
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Rudy Giuliani May Have Just Implicated President Trump In Serious Campaign Finance Violations — Donald Trump's new lawyer Rudy Giuliani took to Sean Hannity's Fox News program Wednesday night to defend the president from the ongoing Mueller investigation and to calm the waters for the Trump faithful.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Giuliani follows up disastrous Hannity appearance with equally damaging Fox & Friends spot — A day after contradicting Donald Trump's and longtime Trump general counsel Michael Cohen's claims that the president knew nothing about Cohen's payments to Stormy Daniels, Rudy Giuliani contradicted himself in a Fox & Friends interview.
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Associated Press:
Giuliani comments on Stormy payment raise legal questions — WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani's revelation that President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney for a $130,000 payment to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged affair is raising new legal questions …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Giuliani Appears to Veer Off Script. A Furor Follows. — WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani has been President Trump's lawyer for only a few days, and already he is causing political explosions. — In one of his first interviews since joining Mr. Trump's legal team …
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New York Times:
What Giuliani Said About Cohen's Payment to Stormy Daniels — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Wednesday that President Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, for a payment that Mr. Cohen has said he made to Stephanie Clifford, a pornographic film actress widely known by her stage name, Stormy Daniels.
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Fox News:
Giuliani calls for Comey to be prosecuted, end to Mueller probe ‘in the interest of justice’
Giuliani calls for Comey to be prosecuted, end to Mueller probe ‘in the interest of justice’
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's fixers revolt
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Giuliani: Trump fired Comey because he wouldn't tell Trump he wasn't target in Russia probe
Giuliani: Trump fired Comey because he wouldn't tell Trump he wasn't target in Russia probe
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Says Payment to Stormy Daniels Did Not Violate Campaign Laws
Trump Says Payment to Stormy Daniels Did Not Violate Campaign Laws
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Axios
Harry Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Paid Back Stormy Daniels' Hush Money, Rips ‘Pervert’ Comey
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Paid Back Stormy Daniels' Hush Money, Rips ‘Pervert’ Comey
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New Republic and The Daily Beast
Axios:
Giuliani says Trump personally repaid Cohen $130k for Daniels' silence
Giuliani says Trump personally repaid Cohen $130k for Daniels' silence
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The blatant coverup of Trump's Stormy Daniels payment
The blatant coverup of Trump's Stormy Daniels payment
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Vox, Talking Points Memo and New York Magazine
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“I've Been Approached by a Number of Networks”: Did Michael Avenatti Ask Phil Griffin for an MSNBC Show?
“I've Been Approached by a Number of Networks”: Did Michael Avenatti Ask Phil Griffin for an MSNBC Show?
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Giuliani says Trump reimbursed Cohen for Stormy Daniels payment
Giuliani says Trump reimbursed Cohen for Stormy Daniels payment
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Michael Cohen For The Stormy Daniels Hush Money
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Michael Cohen For The Stormy Daniels Hush Money
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Washington Post:
Charlie Rose's misconduct was widespread at CBS and three managers were warned, investigation finds … Incidents of sexual misconduct by Charlie Rose were far more numerous than previously known, according to a new investigation by The Washington Post, which also found three occasions …
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New York Times:
Army Green Berets Secretly Help Saudis Combat Threat From Yemen Rebels — WASHINGTON — For years, the American military has sought to distance itself from a brutal civil war in Yemen, where Saudi-led forces are battling rebels who pose no direct threat to the United States.
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Defense One and The Week
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
New York Times Co. Reports Revenue Growth as Digital Subscriptions Rise — The New York Times Company added 139,000 digital-only subscribers in the first quarter of 2018, a 25.5 percent increase from the same period a year ago, helping to fuel total revenue growth and offset a decline in digital advertising.
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Eric Lichtblau / TIME:
The FBI Is in Crisis and America Is Paying the Price — Former FBI Director James Comey leaves a Senate hearing on June 8, 2017, after testifying about Donald Trump Stephen Voss — In normal times, the televisions are humming at the FBI's 56 field offices nationwide, piping in the latest news as agents work their investigations.
Politico:
Corker-Blackburn drama risks must-win Senate seat for GOP — The GOP incumbent's kind words for former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen have given centrist Republicans tacit permission to break ranks. — Republicans are increasingly unnerved by the rift between retiring Sen. Bob Corker and Marsha Blackburn …
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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Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
Laser from Chinese Base Aimed at U.S. Military Pilots In Africa's Skies, Pentagon Charges — Incidents in recent weeks increase tensions, threaten Flight safety, U.S. says — WASHINGTON—Chinese military personnel are targeting American flight crews in the skies over the east African nation …
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Zach Everson / Condé Nast Traveler:
Inside the World's Most Controversial Hotel — The hotel that was expected to take its place among the crown jewels of D.C.'s travel scene has become a magnet for protestors, a West Wing Annex, and—possibly—the center of a constitutional crisis. — Just inside the main entrance …
New York Times:
Kelly Finds Himself in a Familiar Place in the Trump White House: Eyeing the Exits — WASHINGTON — When President Trump learned this week that his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, reportedly called him “an idiot” on several occasions, he expressed little in the way of frustration or anger …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
After Garland Defeat, New Group Hopes to Draw Democrats to Judicial Battlefield — WASHINGTON — Democrats learned the hard way in 2016 that the right is much more animated by judicial fights after Republicans' refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick B. Garland helped …
Karen Heller / Washington Post:
Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It's landed him on our cultural divide. … NEW YORK — The world is wretched with weak men. Slouchers, slackers, chumps, low-status dudes who have amassed a crumpled pile of inferior habits and made the world a messier place.
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YouTube:
Inside Don Blankenship's Wild, Super-Trumpy West Virginia Senate campaign … Don Blankenship is now blaming Obama and the deep state for the blast that killed 29 miners at his West Virginia mine in April, 2010. In reality, the ex-con coal baron was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiring …
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Mother Jones
Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service:
Trump to sign executive order creating new White House faith-based initiative — WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Trump plans to unveil a new initiative that aims to give faith groups a stronger voice within the federal government and serve as a watchdog for government overreach on religious liberty issues.
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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Mothers a last line against outright famine in Yemen's war — ADEN, Yemen (AP) — The young mother stepped onto the scale for the doctor. Even with all her black robes on, she weighed only 84 pounds — 38 kilograms. Umm Mizrah is pregnant, but starving herself to feed her children.
Kit Chellel / Bloomberg:
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code — Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn't lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time. — Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth.
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 …
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New York Times:
Trump Joins House Attacks Over Investigations — WASHINGTON — President Trump plunged into an angry dispute on Wednesday between conservative House Republicans and the deputy attorney general, siding with hard-line lawmakers over his own Justice Department as they pressed for access …
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Clint Smith / New Republic:
Wake Up, Mr. West! — This week, in an interview with TMZ, Kanye West claimed that slavery was a choice. “When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... 400 years? That sounds like a choice,” he said. — Much has already been written about West's recent exploits on and off Twitter.
Gareth Davies / Telegraph:
Mother, 19, stabbed boyfriend during sex after telling him men should only be used for ‘human sacrifice’ — A young mother has been jailed for 11 years for stabbing her occasional boyfriend as they has sexual intercourse after texting him to say men should only be used as “human sacrifice”.
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Daily Wire
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Eric Bolling returning to media with CRTV show — Former Fox News anchor Eric Bolling is returning to media after signing a deal with CRTV to host his own show titled “America.” — Bolling became a leader in the opioid crisis after his son Eric, 19, died of an accidental overdose last year …
Reuters:
Iran will not renegotiate nuclear deal: foreign minister — ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday that demands by U.S President Donald Trump to change Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers were unacceptable, as a deadline set by U.S. for Europeans to “fix” the deal loomed.
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