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11:35 PM ET, May 7, 2018

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New Yorker:
Four Women Accuse New York's Attorney General of Physical Abuse  —  Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct.  Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.  —  Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general …
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New York Times:
Eric Schneiderman, New York's Attorney General, Is Accused of Abusing 4 Women  —  The New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, was accused of physically assaulting four women with whom he had relationships, according to an article published Monday by The New Yorker.
Washington Post:
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigns after four women accuse him of physical abuse … New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced his resignation late Monday night, hours after he was accused of physically abusing four women in an article published by the New Yorker.
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Ex: Schneiderman called me his ‘brown slave,’ would slap me until I called him ‘Master’
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
As headlines swirl, Trump grows frustrated with Giuliani  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani's frequently off-message media blitz, in which he has muddied the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and made claims …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump grows frustrated with Giuliani as Stormy Daniels drama rages on  —  President Donald Trump has shaken up his legal team in the last three weeks — and he's still not happy.  —  The president has been griping to associates that Rudy Giuliani, his new personal attorney, has failed to shut down the Stormy Daniels hush money saga.
Discussion: Mediaite
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“I'd Die for My Wife and My Kids.  And This Is All Ruining Their Lives”: After Rudy's Meltdown, Michael Cohen Grapples with His New Reality  —  Besieged by the media and legal bills, and feeling abandoned by Washington, friends say Cohen is in a “dangerous place.”
CBS News:
Mueller rejects Trump request to answer questions in writing  —  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now on President Trump's legal team, told CBS News correspondent Paula Reid Monday afternoon that special counsel Robert Mueller's office has rejected proposals to allow Mr. Trump …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
State Dept.: Giuliani doesn't speak for US on foreign policy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration sought to distance itself Monday from Rudy Giuliani's dramatic public statements about Iran and North Korea, saying that President Donald Trump's new lawyer does not speak for the president on matters of foreign policy.
Discussion: HuffPost, Shareblue Media and USA Today
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Aim to Decide by May 17 Whether President Testifies in Mueller Probe  —  Legal team has long been divided on sit-down interview with special counsel  —  WASHINGTON—Lawyers advising President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation hope to decide whether he should testify by May 17 …
Politico:   Nunes sticks to contempt threat against Sessions
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
White House Aides Are Urging President Trump to Fire Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. Chief  —  WASHINGTON — Senior White House staff members are encouraging President Trump to fire Scott Pruitt, his embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief, according to two top administration officials.
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Politico:
Pruitt fast-tracked California cleanup after Hugh Hewitt brokered meeting  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt placed a polluted California area on his personal priority list of Superfund sites targeted for “immediate and intense” action after conservative radio and television host Hugh Hewitt brokered …
BuzzFeed:   New Documents Show That EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Did Not Face Serious Security Threats
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump Weighs In on West Virginia Senate Race in Sign of Republican Anxiety  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump intervened Monday in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, pleading with voters a day before the election to oppose the former mine operator Don Blankenship …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Exclusive: Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:   GOP primaries gauge the anti-establishment fervor Trump helped unleash
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Federal judge rightly rebukes Mueller for questionable tactics  —  An experienced federal judge has confirmed what I have been arguing for months, namely, that the modus operandi of special counsel Robert Mueller  —  is to charge associates of Donald Trump with any crime he can find in order …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   Roger Stone Says He Had Little Contact With Manafort Deputy
David Fontana / Washington Post:
Washington is now a cool city.  That's terrible news for American democracy.  —  Sparky's Espresso Cafe was a few blocks from my apartment off 14th Street NW, but in the years after I moved to Washington in 2006, it felt to me like home.  To get there from my apartment …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Hatch to McCain: Invite Trump to your funeral  —  Sen. John McCain should reconsider his wish that President Donald Trump not attend McCain's funeral, said Sen. Orrin Hatch, the most senior GOP senator.  —  McCain prefers instead that Vice President Mike Pence attend his funeral rather than Trump …
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Hatch says it's ‘ridiculous’ for McCain to block Trump from funeral
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Sessions: Parents, children entering U.S. illegally will be separated  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to take a tougher approach to families that enter the U.S. illegally by separating parents from their children, instead of keeping them in detention together.
Washington Post:
Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children's Health Insurance Program.  —  President Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping back more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, with the hope that it will temper conservative angst over ballooning budget deficits.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump approval steady amid rising outlook for the country  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating is holding steady in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, but his numbers on handling several key issues are climbing, as almost 6 in 10 say things in the country are going well.
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Closing arguments on the Iran deal  —  We're less than 24 hours away from President Trump's announcement on the Iran nuclear deal, and all indications are that he will throw the agreement into a death spiral by declining to waive sanctions.  —  Between the lines: This is one of the most significant decisions …
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Max de Haldevang / Quartz:
Leaving the Iran deal would play right into Putin's hands, says a former US ambassador to Russia
Discussion: NBC News, The Guardian and CNN
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
People think she's a Parkland ‘crisis actor.’ It's terrifying.  —  NEW YORK — The strangers mocked her on social media.  They called her old boss, saying she should be arrested.  Now she feared one was stalking her.  —  Emma Gonzalez became an Internet obsession after a gunman killed 17 people …
Discussion: Raw Story
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Undercover to under scrutiny: Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, to face Senate grilling  —  One summer night in the late 1980s, Gina Haspel, a young CIA field officer on her first overseas assignment, found herself standing outside a hotel in Addis Ababa talking to Jimmy Carter.
NRA BLOG:
Lt. Colonel Oliver North Poised to Become NRA President  —  “Most exciting news for NRA members since Charlton Heston Became President of Our Association,” Wayne LaPierre said.  —  DALLAS - Lt. Colonel Oliver North, USMC (Ret.) will become President of the National Rifle Association …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Mueller Has to Expose Trump's Crooked Business Empire  —  President Trump has made it perfectly plain that he views any scrutiny of his finances as a mortal threat.  Trump “was especially disturbed after learning [Robert] Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns …
Page Six:
Elon Musk quietly dating musician Grimes  —  Elon Musk has been keeping everyone guessing about his love life, but sources exclusively revealed to Page Six that he has been quietly dating hip musician Grimes — who will walk the red carpet with him at Monday's Met Gala.
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Most Clinton Voters Now Say ‘People Like Them’ Were Better Off 50 Years Ago  —  It's a dramatic shift from 2016.  —  A year and a half after the 2016 election, voters who backed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton increasingly feel as though people like them are losing ground in America …
Walter M. Shaub Jr / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago isn't the ‘Winter White House.’ It's just an embarrassing cash grab. … The “Southern White House” is a nearly perfect symbol of the Trump administration's ethical failings.  President Trump has on a number of occasions tweeted or spoken the phrase “Southern White House” …
 
 
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Aaron E. Carroll / New York Times:
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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Discussion: NPR, The Guardian and Jerusalem Post
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to be sued for suspending Obama-era fair-housing rule
Discussion: Axios
Adrienne Cutway / WKMG:
George Zimmerman threatens to feed investigator to alligator, deputies say
Discussion: CNN, CBS Miami, KTLA and The Root
Ryan Voyles / Pantagraph:
If Illinois legalizes marijuana, what happens to pot-sniffing dogs?
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New York Times:
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 Earlier Items: 
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Discussion: FOX2now.com
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Time to end the crazy secrecy of the Trump-Russia investigation
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
Discussion: Mother Jones
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Obama's calorie rule kicks in thanks to Trump
Discussion: Pacific Standard
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No wonder there's an exodus from religion
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
After Trump won, US journalists question what a “red wave” election says about the information environment and the media's credibility, influence, and audience

Amanda Gerut / Fortune:
Streams Charts: Election Day livestreams generated nearly 84M hours watched with 80.6% on YouTube; Fox News was the top outlet with a record 1.14M+ peak viewers

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In an earnings call, David Zaslav says the Trump Administration may be more merger friendly, enabling a “real positive and accelerated impact on this industry”
 
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