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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials  —  In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal.  Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser …
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CNN:
Giuliani: I'm ‘focused on the law more than the facts right now’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he is still getting up to speed on the facts of the President's legal situation, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details at hand.
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Politico:   Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency
Reuters:   Giuliani suggests it's possible Michael Cohen paid off other women to stay silent about alleged affairs with Trump
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Giuliani: It is possible Michael Cohen paid off other women for Trump
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Inside Melania Trump's complicated White House life: Separate schedules, different priorities … Donald and Melania Trump's remarkably separate daily routines begin with him getting up around 5:30 a.m., watching cable news shows and tweeting.  —  The first lady wakes in her own bedroom a bit later …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump to announce formal platform Monday during Rose Garden ceremony
Discussion: The Guardian, The Daily Caller and IJR
Washington Post:
Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program  —  Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Media Can Have Ideological Diversity Without Conservatives  —  Donald Trump's election exposed the irrelevance of conservative intellectuals — and thereby, the incoherence of many a liberal publication's mission statement.  —  During the 2016 primaries, the right-wing intelligentsia mobilized in opposition to Trump.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's GOP ‘warriors’ lead charge against Mueller  —  Trump has hailed a quartet of aggressive House Republicans whom Democrats say are trying to ‘sabotage’ the Russia probe.  —  They have demanded thousands of documents central to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Discussion: Political Wire and RedState
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Christopher Carbone / Fox News:
Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress
Discussion: CNN, New York Post, Splinter and Raw Story
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The Man Who Bought New York  —  Money hasn't made Stephen Schwarzman universally beloved.  Who cares?  —  Last May, a familiar routine took place on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  —  Katy Perry ascended the red carpet at the annual Costume Institute gala looking like the bride …
Wall Street Journal:
House Democrats Plan to Release 3,000 Russian-Linked Facebook Ads  —  Lawmakers on House Intelligence Committee could release trove of ads as soon as this week  —  Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are preparing to release 3,000 Russia-linked Facebook ads, according to people familiar …
Discussion: HuffPost
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
George Conway, Spouse of Top Trump Counselor, Takes White House to Task on Twitter  —  WASHINGTON — In legal circles, George T. Conway III is perhaps best known as the lawyer who argued a securities case before the Supreme Court and won with an 8-to- vote, or for his behind-the-scenes work …
Katherine Mangan / Chronicle of Higher Education:
He Makes a Joke.  She Isn't Laughing: ‘Lingerie’ Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars  —  He says he was joking when he asked to be let off an elevator at the ladies' lingerie department.  A female scholar who was attending the same annual meeting of the International Studies Association …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Scott Pruitt's “miserable” bunker  —  President Trump is unhappy about a report in The Atlantic which says a member of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's press team has been shopping negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple outlets.
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and Mediaite
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:
Boy regains consciousness after parents sign papers to donate his organs  —  A 13-year-old boy who suffered severe brain trauma in an accident regained consciousness after his parents signed paperwork to donate his organs.  Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama, suffered the injury two months ago …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Republicans fear a Roy Moore redux in West Virginia  —  Republicans in D.C. are panicking over Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary.  —  The problem: Don Blankenship, a coal baron who's spent time in prison, is running a demagogic campaign in which he's repeatedly invoked the Chinese heritage …
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Jessica Bakeman / WLRN Miami Herald News …:
Stoneman Douglas Shooter Was Assigned To Controversial Broward Discipline Program, Officials Now Say  —  Broward school district officials admitted Sunday that the confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman was assigned to a controversial disciplinary program …
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
How Buzzfeed's ‘Data-Monster’ Leveraged User Data To Fuel Super PACs, Target Voters  — BuzzFeed created dozens of native political ads for anti-Trump super PACs in 2016 that were “based off mounds and piles and troves of data and information” it had collected on its own users, according to former BuzzFeed vice president.
Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million  —  Even by the dizzying standards of New York City philanthropy, a recent $6.24 million donation to the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side was a whopper — the largest single gift from an individual to the social service group in its 125-year history.
Discussion: The Week
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Joel Schectman / Reuters:
Republican House Armed Service chair warns Trump against leaving Iran deal
Discussion: The Week
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Mark Murray, NBC News senior political editor  —  How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom?  “I'm actually spending my actual birthday with Chuck Todd & Co. on the West Coast, as Chuck moderates a California gubernatorial debate on Tuesday.
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Nikki Haley says she won't defend Trump's ‘communication style’  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley  —  said on Sunday that she won't defend President Trump  —  's “communication style.”  —  “First of all, he has his communication style,” Haley told CBS's “Sunday Morning.”
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Bloomberg:
Record Numbers of Women Running for Office May Not Mean Big Gains in Congress
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
From Bakersfield to DC, McCarthy's unlikely rise in GOP
Discussion: Axios
Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Chao's interviews with father raise ethical flags
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Mueller puts politics above the law
Washington Post:
Republicans whose jobs once seemed safe are struggling for a 2018 survival strategy
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who's Guarding It?
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Michelle Obama on 2016 election: ‘What is going on in our heads where we let that happen?’
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Iraq's prime minister is making electoral history in the former jewel of the Islamic State
Discussion: Power Line
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Looking beyond one-party rule in California
Discussion: American Greatness
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Admiral Cuomo prepares for war
Discussion: New York Post
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
An Urgent Debate for California Republicans: How to Get Back in the Game
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
YouTube:
Michael Cohen Wiretap Cold Open - SNL
Discussion: The Week and Vox
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
North Korea says US ruining mood of detente ahead of summit
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire