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NBC News:
Feds monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones  —  CORRECTION: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Stormy Daniels Damage  —  Does Trump want Americans to believe him in a genuine crisis?  —  Most storms pass eventually.  This week Donald Trump tried to ensure that Stormy Daniels doesn't rain down permanent distraction on his Presidency, though at the cost of further damage to his credibility.
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and Political Wire
NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani insists Trump wasn't aware of Stormy Daniels reimbursement until recently  —  Giuliani said when he found out, the president responded “'Oh my goodness, I guess that's what it was for.'”  —  President Donald Trump only recently found out that he reimbursed his personal attorney …
Discussion: Political Wire, Breitbart, IJR and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump lives out his LBJ fantasy: no chief of staff  —  LBJ withheld the title of chief of staff from his top aides, and President Trump is now living out that fantasy even with John Kelly in the building.  —  As part of his exasperation with being handled, Trump has taken to telling friends that …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and The Week
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Giuliani calls for Sessions to ‘step in’ on Cohen investigation  —  Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.
Washington Post:
Analysts: Giuliani's media blitz gives investigators new leads, new evidence
Washington Post:
‘I was going to get this over with’: Inside Giuliani's explosive Stormy Daniels revelation
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's loyal outsiders elbow Kelly out
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Daily Kos
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:   Neil Cavuto Calls Out Trump on His Pattern of False Statements: 'Mr. President, That's Your Swamp'
John Santucci / ABC News:
Giuliani believes ‘50/50’ chance Mueller subpoenas President Trump
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Giuliani: I Don't Believe That Michael Cohen Was Wiretapped
Washington Post:
Influential outsiders have played a key role in Scott Pruitt's foreign travel … Scott Pruitt's itinerary for a February trip to Israel was remarkable by any standard for an Environmental Protection Agency administrator: A stop at a controversial Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
A Pruitt Aide's Attack on Zinke Angers the White House  —  As Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces a seemingly endless stream of scandal, his team is scrambling to divert the spotlight to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.  And the White House isn't happy about it.
CNN:   Pruitt reimbursed himself $65,000 from Oklahoma attorney general campaign
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin  —  Inside the mystery behind the President's surprise invitation to Russia's leader, and his team's struggle to figure out what to do about it.  —  Late on Monday evening, the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, started making calls to European allies.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Why the Justice Department Is Defiant  —  A House subpoena, another missed deadline.  What is the department hiding?  —  The feud that has simmered for months between Congress and the Justice Department erupted this week into a cage match.  That's because the House is homing in on the goods.
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Mark Penn / The Hill:   Rod Rosenstein is not above the law
USA Today:
Rosenstein impeachment articles are gross abuse meant to sabotage Mueller Russia probe
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Orders Pentagon to Consider Reducing U.S. Forces in South Korea  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare options for drawing down American troops in South Korea, just weeks before he holds a landmark meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un …
Kylie Atwood / CBS News:
U.S. freezes funding for Syria's “White Helmets”  —  Less than two months ago the State Department hosted members of the White Helmets at Foggy Bottom.  At the time, the humanitarian group was showered with praise for saving lives in Syria.  —  “Our meetings in March were very positive.
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
CBS Chicago:
Deputy Consul General Of Israel Allegedly Forced Out Of Uber Ride For Speaking Hebrew On Phone  —  CHICAGO (CBS) - The Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, Itay Milner, says he was ten minutes into his Uber ride on Lower Wacker Drive Thursday night when he was thrown out by the driver.
Reuel Marc Gerecht / The Atlantic:
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd  —  Editor's Note: This article is part of a debate about whether to stay in the Iran deal.  Read the other entries here.  —  It was surely Barack Obama's profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
American and Iranian hard-liners await the end of the nuclear deal
Discussion: Crisis Group and LobeLog
New York Times:
No 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Panel Says Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal  —  STOCKHOLM — The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature said on Friday that it would take the extraordinary step of not naming a laureate this year — not because of a shortage of deserving writers …
New York Times:
They Voted for Obama, Then Went for Trump.  Can Democrats Win Them Back?  —  RITTMAN, Ohio — In the daily race that is her life, Sharla Baker does not think about politics very much.  —  She rises early, drives to the gas station to buy coffee, feeds her baby, dresses her two other children …
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economy adds 164K jobs in April, unemployment lowest since 2000  —  The U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs in April, a modest number which was less than expected as the nation's labor market maintains a steady pace of growth.  —  The unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent, the lowest level since December 2000 …
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Leak: The Atlantic Had A Meeting About Kevin Williamson.  It Was A Liberal Self-Reckoning.  —  In a staff meeting, Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed the hiring and firing of a conservative writer.  But it wound up being about a lot more than that.
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J. Lester Feder / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Targets Major White Nationalist Group In France  —  Facebook closed some pages of the group Generation Identity, best known for trying to stop immigrants from crossing the Mediterranean last summer.  —  Facebook has targeted one of the major white nationalist groups in France …
Rep. Louie Gohmert / LifeZette:
40 Questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller Needs to Answer Now  —  A Republican lawmaker contends the prosecutor has a lot to explain about his present job and prior posts as well  —  A firestorm was ignited earlier this week when The New York Times published a list of 40 questions …
Aaron Randle / Kansas City Star:
Teen ‘distraught and upset’ after KC-area IHOP server prints N-word on her receipt  —  A Kansas City-area IHOP restaurant has fired a server after she printed a racial slur onto a black customer's receipt.  —  An IHOP representative said Tuesday that the server is black as well.
David French / National Review:
An Open Letter to Trump's Evangelical Defenders  —  A Christian's primary purpose is not to defend his own religious liberty.  It's not even to fight abortion — as vital as that task is.  His basic task on this Earth isn't protecting Christian education or preserving the freedom of Christian artists.
The Texas Tribune:
Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says  —  Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism.  A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Detroit radio station boycotting Kanye West music after controversial comments  —  A hip-hop and R&B radio station in Detroit has decided to stop playing Kanye West's music after the rapper's controversial remarks about slavery.  —  On-air DJs BIGG and Shay Shay at Detroit's 105.1 …
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
It Was 122.4°F This Week in Pakistan, Probably a World Record for April  —  Even in Pakistan, no stranger to blistering heat, the temperature on Monday stood out: 122.4 degrees Fahrenheit.  —  The reading came from Nawabshah, a city of 1.1 million people in southern Pakistan …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Alan Dershowitz Hired as Harvey Weinstein Consultant  —  The Harvard Law professor is helping the embattled movie mogul get “exclupatory” emails from The Weinstein Co.  —  Alan Dershowitz may not want to jump aboard Donald Trump's legal team, but apparently, he has no qualms with advising Harvey Weinstein's legal team.
 
 
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Murphy leads Democratic gubernatorial primary with GOP running mate Jolly
Discussion: The Capitolist
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Then they came for Peppa Pig
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Before It Stopped Cooperating With Mueller, Ukraine Hired GOP Lobbyists. Hmm.
Discussion: New Century Times
Char Adams / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can't read them
Discussion: fox8.com and The Daily Caller
Politico:
‘Scam PACs’ rake in millions under guise of charity
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
New York City Just Announced It Will Open Safe Injection Sites
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Smear Campaign Against Michigan Candidate Shows How Hard It Is For Muslims To Run For Office
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Liz Crampton / Politico:
Sam Clovis is leaving USDA
Discussion: The Week and CNN
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
A serial pooper targeted a N.J. high school track. It was a school superintendent, police say.
Eric Holthaus / Grist:
Humans didn't exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air
Shona Ghosh / Business Insider:
Peeing in trash cans, constant surveillance, and asthma attacks on the job: Amazon workers tell us …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Whoops! Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His Federal Filings
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House chaplain rescinds resignation after furor over his ouster by Ryan
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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