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7:20 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 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
State Dept.: Giuliani doesn't speak for US on foreign policy
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and MSNBC
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Exclusive: Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals  —  Republicans are panicking as internal polls show Don Blankenship, a coal baron who spent time in jail for a mining disaster that killed 29 workers, surging into the lead in the West Virginia Senate GOP primary …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At McConnell's Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald J. 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 …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore … If there's one person who has run the most Donald Trump-esque campaign since the 2016 election, it's probably Don Blankenship.  And yet, Trump is trying to stop him.
Hot Air:
Yikes: Two Internal Polls Show Don Blankenship Leading In WV On Eve Of Senate Primary
Discussion: Vox, EPIC JOURNEY and ThinkProgress
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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Time to end the crazy secrecy of the Trump-Russia investigation  —  On Jan. 24, 2017, then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was questioned by the FBI in his White House office.  The session, focusing on Flynn's transition talks with the Russian ambassador, led to Flynn pleading guilty to a charge of lying to investigators.
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New York Times:
‘Smoke and Mirrors’: Emails Detail Pruitt's Drive for Secrecy at the E.P.A.  —  WASHINGTON — The invitation-only breakfast at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington gathered 250 executives from the nation's largest electric utilities, assembled in a ballroom to meet with Scott Pruitt …
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.
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 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
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.
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
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.
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 …
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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 …
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
Discussion: The Atlantic, WND, ABC News and The Guardian
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump unveils her platform, tells kids to ‘Be Best’  —  Melania Trump's popularity jumps in new poll  —  Washington (CNN)Melania Trump, nearly 16 months into her tenure as first lady, has at last revealed her formal platform: “Be Best.”  The comprehensive program will focus on three main points …
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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 …
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.
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Michael Roberts / Denver Westword:
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper”
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 …
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 …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump to announce Iran nuclear deal decision Tuesday  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday afternoon that he planned to reveal his final decision on whether the U.S. should remain in the Iranian nuclear agreement on Tuesday, just days ahead of the May 12 deadline.
Discussion: Vox, Axios, Washington Post and The Guardian
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Reuters:
Germany, France vow to stick to Iran deal if U.S. pulls out
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” …
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.
Discussion: The FADER and Consequence of Sound
CNN:
Ryan noncommittal on vote to hold Sessions in contempt  —  Nunes threatens to hold Sessions in contempt  —  (CNN)Conservatives in the House of Representatives are making a push to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Political Wire and The Week
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No wonder there's an exodus from religion … Do you wonder why the proportion of Americans declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion has skyrocketed in recent decades?  —  This trend is especially pronounced among adults under 30, roughly 40 percent of whom claim …
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 …
Jennifer Lothspeich / cbs8.com:
Music video for Childish Gambino's ‘This is America’ gets big reactions, views  —  WARNING: The video featured in this story contains graphic content.  —  (NEWS 8) — A day after pulling double-duty as both the host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover …
 
 
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Ryan Voyles / Pantagraph:
If Illinois legalizes marijuana, what happens to pot-sniffing dogs?
Discussion: The Week
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Association of State Criminal Investigative …
Discussion: Splinter, Politico and 89.3 KPCC
New York Times:
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Discussion: Mother Jones
Mona Zhang / Forbes:
Cannabis Industry Could Be ‘A Form Of Reparations,’ Says Cynthia Nixon
Discussion: Instapundit and Power Line
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Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
Discussion: Mother Jones
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr's urging
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Obama's calorie rule kicks in thanks to Trump
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
This American Is A General For A Foreign Army Accused Of War Crimes In Yemen
George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Shocker: Republican candidate says ‘I was just wrong’ — and Obama was right
Discussion: Raw Story
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