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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:
Rudy's interview and Trump's lies create a crisis  —  Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst and author, most recently, of “American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst”, and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.”  Follow him on Twitter @JeffreyToobin.
NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani insists Trump wasn't aware of Stormy Daniels reimbursement until recently
Associated Press:   The Latest: Giuliani tries to clarify hush money comments
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani tries to clarify comments on Trump's reimbursement of payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
Democrats might have a better chance to flip the Senate than you think
Discussion: The Guardian, MSNBC and Daily Kos
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Deutsch: Michael Cohen Told Me Giuliani 'Doesn't Know What He's Talking About'
Discussion: Hot Air, CANNONFIRE and Bloomberg
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump lives out his LBJ fantasy: no chief of staff
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani tries to clean up his hubris-inspired mess
Discussion: Faithwire, Washington Press and CNN
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation … A federal judge in Virginia on Friday grilled lawyers from the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III about the motivations for bringing a bank and tax fraud case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Shakesville
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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of ‘lying,’ trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!'  —  Giuliani: Mueller investigation should be dismissed  —  A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge challenges Mueller's actions in Manafort case  —  A federal judge sharply challenged Special Counsel Robert Mueller's prosecution team Friday, questioning how its indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on financial charges relates to Mueller's core mandate …
Discussion: Vox, RedState, ABC News and Daily Kos
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:   A Judge Questioned What Paul Manafort's Indictment Really Had To Do With Russia
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. judge questions special counsel's powers in Manafort case
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:   Judge Questions Mueller's Authority to Prosecute Manafort
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:   Mueller requests 70 blank subpoenas in Manafort case
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle  —  Vice President Mike Pence's physician has resigned, the latest fallout from the collapse of Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs.  —  Dr. Jennifer Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House …
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CNN:
Pence's doctor resigns after reports of concerns about Jackson's conduct  —  Washington (CNN)The White House physician assigned to Vice President Mike Pence, Jennifer Pena, has resigned, his office told CNN in a statement Friday.  Pena worked in the White House Medical Unit.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999  —  More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have until January 2020 to leave the country or face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security …
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump is manufacturing an immigration crisis. Here's why that helps him.
Discussion: Reuters
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Thousands of Hondurans to Lose Protected Status in the U.S.
Discussion: Axios
CNN:
Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records.  Then he doesn't read them.  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was livid.  —  For months, he had been demanding a fully uncensored version of a highly sensitive document from the Justice Department explaining …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Why the Justice Department Is Defiant
Discussion: RedState
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape.  He Became A Progressive Star Anyway.  —  For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them.  —  On April 28, 2008, Sarah Schacht received an email that terrified her.
New York Times:
Sex Abuse Scandal's Latest Casualty: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature  —  STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's most prestigious accolade for writing, will not be awarded this year, for the first time since 1949, as the fallout from a sexual abuse scandal that has battered …
Washington Post:
Behind Erik Prince's China venture  —  The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders.  But is it against U.S. interests?  —  Beijing's International Security Defense College, which boasts of becoming “the largest private security training school in China …
Discussion: Axios
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Never mind the Nobel talk.  Trump has a different mission on North Korea.  —  The prospect of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is understandably tantalizing for President Trump.  After all the contempt he has faced from the political establishment, watching liberal heads explode at the suggestion …
Discussion: HuffPost and Axios
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Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment  —  In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of multiple acts of corruption, some of which preceded his appointment to the federal bench …
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Trump Is Fighting A Computer Program That Has Decided To Kill Humans  —  Before Alex Jones headed to court to face his ex-wife today, he told Infowars listeners that President Trump is part of an effort to fight against a sentient computer program that has decided to kill all humans.
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Unemployment is below 4% for the first time since 2000  —  The job market hasn't been this good in a very long time.  —  The unemployment rate dropped below 4% in April for the first time since 2000.  The Labor Department reported Friday that it fell to 3.9% — inching closer to territory not seen in half a century.
Discussion: Grabien News and twitchy.com
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The Daily Beast:
Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property  —  Qatar's mission to the United Nations bought an apartment valued at $6.5 million in New York's Trump World Tower on Jan. 17, one month after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump was not violating the Emoluments Clause …
Discussion: The Guardian
Geoff Edgers / Washington Post:
As R. Kelly's career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women  —  R. Kelly was in trouble again, and it was really bad this time.  It was 2002, and police were investigating a sex tape that appeared to show the R&B superstar with a 14-year-old girl.
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Edmund H. Mahony / Hartford Courant:
Kennedy Cousin Michael Skakel Wins At Connecticut Supreme Court, Conviction Vacated In 1975 Slaying Of Martha Moxley  —  In a decision certain to start new debate about a notorious, old crime, a divided state Supreme Court abruptly reversed itself Friday, overturning Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's conviction …
 
 
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
1 Year After Obamacare Repeal Vote, GOP Has Largely Dropped The Cause
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state …
Discussion: Politico
Jane Kim:
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Discussion: CBS San Francisco
Des Moines Register:
Nearly all abortions banned in Iowa, as Gov. Kim Reynolds signs ‘fetal heartbeat’ law
Discussion: Associated Press, WLTX-TV and IJR
Wichita Eagle:
County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell indicted on bank, wire fraud and money laundering
Discussion: Raw Story
William Anderson / Weekly Standard:
Alfie Evans and the Reality of Evil
New York Post:
LaGuardia Airport's security robot is giving women the creeps
Discussion: Breitbart and Gothamist
 Earlier Items: 
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Media Is Killing the Democratic Party
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Man Arrested for Illegal Guns Belongs to Neo-Nazi Group That Wants ‘Ethnostate Rape Gangs’
CBS Chicago:
Deputy Consul General Of Israel Allegedly Forced Out Of Uber Ride For Speaking Hebrew On Phone
New York Times:
They Voted for Obama, Then Went for Trump. Can Democrats Win Them Back?
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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