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4:00 PM ET, May 7, 2018

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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 …
Discussion: Politico
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore
Hot Air:
Yikes: Two Internal Polls Show Don Blankenship Leading In WV On Eve Of Senate Primary
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress and Political Wire
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
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 …
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.
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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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Oliver North to be NRA's new president  —  Washington (CNN)Oliver North, the Fox News contributor and central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will be the National Rifle Association's new president, the group announced Monday.  —  “Oliver North is, hands down, the absolute best choice …
Washington Post:   Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North slated to become president of the NRA
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 …
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
Broward Schools Lied to Sen. Rubio About Parkland Shooter's Record
Discussion: IJR and National Review
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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Time to end the crazy secrecy of the Trump-Russia investigation
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's popularity jumps in new CNN poll  —  (CNN)First lady Melania Trump has in recent weeks experienced a significant surge in support, a new CNN poll reveals, including among women and Democrats.  —  In a poll conducted by SSRS last week, 57% say they have a favorable impression of Trump, up from 47% in January.
Discussion: IJR and KTLA
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Kate Bennett / CNN:   Melania Trump unveils her platform, tells kids to ‘Be Best’
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Melania Trump to Roll Out a Children's Agenda, With a Focus on Social Media
Discussion: NPR
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
Michael Roberts / Denver Westword:
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper” … On Friday, May 4, Dean Singleton, who owned the Denver Post from 1987 to 2013, resigned as the newspaper's chairman and also left his position on the editorial board.  In a wide-ranging conversation with Westword …
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Denver Newspaper Guild:   Denver Post Newsroom Statement on Resignation of Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Rejected Denver Post editorial decries ‘outright censorship’ at Digital First papers
Discussion: Splinter
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense … Rudolph W. Giuliani has been all over TV in recent days- making damaging concessions, opening up the possibility President Trump used a slush fund to pay off many women and, worst of all, floating the idea Trump doesn't need to respond to a subpoena because he is president.
Discussion: USA Today, CNN and Hit & Run
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ‘not aware’ of other Trump hush agreements
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
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.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DONALD TRUMP AND THE MEDIA'S QUEST FOR A GOLDILOCKS CONSERVATIVE
Discussion: Commentary Magazine
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 …
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 …
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.
George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Shocker: Republican candidate says ‘I was just wrong’ — and Obama was right  —  ORLANDO — Candidates rarely admit being wrong about anything.  —  It's even more rare for a candidate in a Republican primary to say he was wrong and former President Barack Obama was right.
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Trump to announce Iran deal decision on Tuesday … Between the lines: All indications are that Trump will decline to waive sanctions on Iran, unilaterally violating the terms of the deal and likely throwing it into a death spiral.  The big questions are whether he'll leave some wiggle room …
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
This American Is A General For A Foreign Army Accused Of War Crimes In Yemen  —  “We would call him ‘Little Napoleon.’”  —  Stephen Toumajan spent most of his professional life as an officer in the US Army — but these days the country he serves is not the US but the United Arab Emirates.
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul  —  Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.  —  If I get addicted to vaping, I thought, in March, I will always remember this Texas strip mall.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Obama's calorie rule kicks in thanks to Trump  —  An oft-forgotten provision of Obamacare is being pushed over the finish line by Trump's FDA.  —  One of Barack Obama's top food policy rules has escaped Donald Trump's war on regulations.  —  Starting Monday, calorie counts will have to be posted …
 
 
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
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Discussion: Townhall
Jennifer Lothspeich / cbs8.com:
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Discussion: Breitbart, Althouse and Mashable
Jacqueline Howard / CNN:
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Discussion: FOX2now.com
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
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Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
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 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Pence Demands That Venezuela Suspend ‘So-Called’ Elections
Discussion: Politico, National Review and Axios
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr's urging
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Metro wants to rebuild 20 station platforms in three years, creating SafeTrack-like disruptions
Joe Uchill / Axios:
Carter Page: Senate Intel Committee was literal torture
Ilya Shapiro / The Federalist:
What This Term's SCOTUS Decisions Reveals About Neil Gorsuch
Discussion: Instapundit
Christian Davies / The Guardian:
Poland's Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum
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