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9:00 AM ET, May 7, 2018

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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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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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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes warned Sunday that he plans to urge lawmakers “this week” to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for failing to hand …
Discussion: The Week
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report
Christopher Carbone / Fox News:
Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress
Discussion: New York Post, Splinter and Raw Story
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump divines his own truth without consequences
Discussion: Althouse, Washington Post and The Week
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
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
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 …
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 …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye  —  I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely seven years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
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.
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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Washington Post:
Republicans whose jobs once seemed safe are struggling for a 2018 survival strategy  —  SALISBURY, N.C. — Republican Rep. Ted Budd opened the calendar on his iPhone during a campaign day last week to reveal a jam-packed schedule — wake up at 4:55 a.m., breakfast with veterans …
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Axios
David Morgan / Reuters:
Republicans in key election races turn down volume on Trump's tax cuts  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Right after Republicans in the U.S. Senate passed their income tax overhaul in December, delivering tax cuts to businesses and most American taxpayers, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was buoyant.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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 …
Discussion: RT, The Week, CBS 4, KFOR-TV and twitchy.com
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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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Kellyanne Conway's Husband 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 that ultimately hastened …
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
Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Chao's interviews with father raise ethical flags  —  The transportation secretary appears with her father, founder of the family shipping business, in Chinese-language interviews with the DOT emblem behind them.  —  In at least a dozen interviews with Chinese and Chinese-American media outlets since …
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Mueller puts politics above the law  —  finally found a federal judge to whom he could relate.  Judge T.S. Ellis III on Friday blasted prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller  —  's office as using their case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
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
 
 
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Pelosi: Democrats have cash and environment to win House
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
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Sean Stevens / Heterodox Academy:
Research Summary: Education Is Related To Greater Ideological Prejudice
Washington Post:
Americans are starting to suffer from Trump's health-care sabotage
Wall Street Journal:
The Mystery of Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Mark Murray, NBC News senior political editor
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
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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?’
Washington Post:
Iraq's prime minister is making electoral history in the former jewel of the Islamic State
Discussion: Power Line
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
How Buzzfeed's ‘Data-Monster’ Leveraged User Data To Fuel Super PACs, Target Voters
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Nikki Haley says she won't defend Trump's ‘communication style’
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Admiral Cuomo prepares for war
Discussion: New York Post
Boris Johnson / New York Times:
Don't Scuttle the Iran Nuclear Deal
Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million
Discussion: The Week