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6:50 AM ET, May 6, 2018

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The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal  —  Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran  —  Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump is ‘committed to’ regime change in Iran  —  Rudy Giuliani pushed for regime change in Iran on Saturday, saying President Donald Trump is “as committed to regime change as we are.”  —  It's “the only way to peace in the Middle East” and “more important than an Israeli-Palestinian deal …
Associated Press:   Trump exit from Iran nuclear deal enters uncharted territory
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
McCain says he regrets picking Palin as running mate  —  (R-Ariz.) said he regrets choosing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to be his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.  —  The New York Times reported on Saturday that McCain, while still defending Palin's performance …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
McCain doesn't want Trump at funeral, friends tell White House  —  WASHINGTON — People close to Sen. John McCain have told the White House that the ailing Arizona Republican does not want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral and would like Vice President Mike Pence to come instead …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
John McCain Battles Donald Trump With His Dying Breaths  —  Senator Lindsey Graham once described his friend John McCain as someone who would “run across the street to get in a good fight.”  —  McCain's final battle came straight to him.  —  I'm not talking about the one against brain cancer …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At His Ranch, John McCain Shares Memories and Regrets With Friends  —  PHOENIX — When former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. traveled to Senator John McCain's Arizona ranch last Sunday to spend a few hours with his ailing friend, the two reminisced about the “crazy senators” they had served with …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
McCain's inner circle planning on having Pence, not Trump, at funeral: report
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary  —  There is growing concern among Republicans that Don Blankenship, a bombastic coal baron who has spent time in prison, is surging ahead of Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary — and a last-minute campaign is underway to stop him.
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Early GOP primaries shaping up as rightward march with Trump
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Mueller team questions Trump friend Tom Barrack  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed one of President Donald Trump's closest friends and confidants, California real estate investor Tom Barrack, The Associated Press has learned.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Naked Truth About Trump
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair and AOL
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   WATCH: MSNBC segment explodes after Dershowitz calls lawyer Richard Painter ‘un-American and a liar’
The Onion:   Mueller Poses As Fox News Host To Coax Rudy Giuliani Into Giving Him Testimony On Trump
New York Times:
How Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire  —  He was a personal-injury lawyer who often worked out of taxi offices scattered around New York City.  —  There was the one above the run-down auto repair garage on West 16th Street in Manhattan, on the edge of the Meatpacking District before it turned trendy.
Salena Zito / New York Post:
The 2016 election was far from a fluke  —  America's political experts got it wrong in 2016 — not because they took too few polls, but because they made the false assumption that American elections are immune to societal change.  —  They are, in large part, still getting things wrong …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Anna Sanders / New York Post:
Rosie O'Donnell's campaign donations to Dems went over legal limit  —  Rosie O'Donnell made illegally over-sized campaign donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings.  —  The liberal comedian has regularly broken Federal Election …
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump borrowed to build his empire.  Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash. … In the nine years before he ran for president, Donald Trump's company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties — including 14 transactions paid for in full …
Discussion: Splinter
Bill Cummings / Connecticut Post:
Popular vote for president passes General Assembly  —  HARTFORD — The General Assembly on Saturday agreed to join a compact with 10 other states to use the national popular vote to elect a president.  —  “When you change our system, it takes thoughtful debate and moments when people …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Mueller's got a secret  —  The transcript of the hearing before Judge Ellis on Paul Manafort's motion to dismiss the indictment pending against him in the case transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia has been posted online here and probably elsewhere.
Diane Lederman / Union-News:
Police report describes footage of woman slashing Hadley bus passengers' throats  —  HADLEY - After the woman charged with slashing two passengers and the driver of a Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus was handcuffed and read her rights, she apologized.  —  “I'm so sorry, I don't know what came …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
For Mueller, a question of three conflicts  —  As the special counsel investigation surrounding President Trump  —  goes on, we still don't know what evidence Robert Mueller  —  and his team have amassed behind closed doors.  It's entirely possible they have built a strong case …
Hemant Mehta / Friendly Atheist:
Franklin Graham: Trump's Affair with Stormy Daniels is “Nobody's Business”  —  Want more evidence of white evangelical Christian hypocrisy?  —  Evangelist Franklin Graham, who questioned President Obama's Christianity and said his agenda was “against Christ and against His teachings,” …
CBS News:
Cambridge Analytica ordered to release data on American voter, report says  —  The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has ordered Cambridge Analytica to release all the personal information and data it has on an American voter, opening the way for as many as 240 million U.S. voters …
Discussion: HuffPost
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Amos Harel / Haaretz:
U.S. Exit From Nuclear Deal Would Help Iran, Former Israeli General Says
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Between Two Pennsylvania Lawmakers, Plenty of Ill Will — and a Bodyguard
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Democrats take cautious approach on sexual assault allegations against California congressman
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
The fake news Russians hear at home
Felicia Fonseca / Associated Press:
Dozens of wild horses found dead amid Southwest drought
HuffPost:
How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today's Nightmare Politics
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Faced ‘Conundrum’ In Its Investigation Of Michael Flynn
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
NRA hopes you won't notice the Kremlin-linked company at its convention
 Earlier Items: 
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Welcome To Partytown, Baghdad
John Aglionby / Financial Times:
Refugee camps are an untapped opportunity for private sector
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
White House calls China's threats to airlines ‘Orwellian nonsense’
Washington Post:
Mike Pence dishonors himself. Again.
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
The unavoidable Brian Stelter: CNN's media wonk doesn't want to waste a moment
Hilary Weaver / Vanity Fair:
Ava DuVernay to Angry Male Directors: Go Ahead, Sue Me
Discussion: Mashable and The Root
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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