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9:55 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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Rudy Giuliani is repeating seven mistakes that brought down previous Trump advisers … THE BIG IDEA:  —  Rudy Giuliani has neither reduced Donald Trump's legal exposure nor helped him in the court of public opinion during his weeklong media blitz, but the former …
Discussion: CNN, CNBC and Politico
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report  —  The FBI and DOJ have been burying the investigators' questionable judgments and information helpful to Flynn.  —  Cute how this works: Kick off the week with some “the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted” bombast …
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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
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 …
Wall Street Journal:   The Mystery of Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump divines his own truth without consequences  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has learned he can get away with anything.  —  While the President has always profited from creating his own reality, the impact of having a commander in chief who so frequently bends fact is only beginning to be understood.
Discussion: Althouse, Washington Post and The Week
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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.
Washington Post:
Giuliani pleased with his media tour: 'Everybody's reacting to us now'
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Associated Press:
Iranians say uncertainty over nuclear deal is bringing fear  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — On the streets of Tehran, every day seems to bring more worry and fear ahead of President Donald Trump's decision this week on whether to pull America out of the nuclear deal with Iran.
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Jenna McLaughlin / CNN:
National security officials preparing contingency plans if Haspel's nomination fails  —  WaPo: Haspel sought to withdraw CIA nomination  —  Washington (CNN)National security officials and some Republicans are preparing contingency plans in case President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA …
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Washington Post:
Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Save Barnes & Noble!  —  Barnes & Noble is in trouble.  You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business.  You feel it when you walk into one of the chain's stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games, DVDs (DVDs?) and books.  And you really see the problems if you dig into the company's financial statements.
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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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
Don Blankenship won't rule out third party bid in West Virginia senate race
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.
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
EPA clamps down on document requests linked to Pruitt
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Denver Newspaper Guild:
Denver Post Newsroom Statement on Resignation of Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett  —  To our readers:  —  Newspapers tell the truth.  —  They must.  Always.  —  That is why we, the newsroom of The Denver Post, are outraged at the unconscionable censorship imposed on our now-former editorial page editor, Chuck Plunkett.
Circa / WJLA-TV:
Southwest Airlines plane struck by truck at BWI Airport in Maryland  —  Southwest Airlines plane is struck by truck at BWI Airport in Maryland (Photo provided to WJLA by Michael Simon, @Thee_Tree)  —  WASHINGTON (WJLA) - A pickup truck hit a Southwest Airlines plane coming into BWI Airport …
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.
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, KFOR-TV, CBS 4 and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Americans are starting to suffer from Trump's health-care sabotage  —  IT IS a tribute to the resilience of the United States' public and private institutions that, despite President Trump's incoherent management, the country has, by many measures, continued to improve, notching …
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
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 …
 
 
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Pelosi: Democrats have cash and environment to win House
Sean Stevens / Heterodox Academy:
Research Summary: Education Is Related To Greater Ideological Prejudice
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
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
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who's Guarding It?
 Earlier Items: 
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
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The Man Who Bought New York
Wall Street Journal:
House Democrats Plan to Release 3,000 Russian-Linked Facebook Ads
Discussion: AOL, more at Techmeme »
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Kellyanne Conway's Husband Takes White House to Task on Twitter
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Nikki Haley says she won't defend Trump's ‘communication style’
Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million
Discussion: The Week
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

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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