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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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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.
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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 …
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Don Blankenship has a shot at winning on Tuesday, GOP sources tell ABC News
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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 …
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
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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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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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials
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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 …
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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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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 …
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.
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Axios and Political Wire
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.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Step Up Prosecution of Border-Crossing Parents
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ‘not aware’ of other Trump hush agreements — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday she is “not aware” of any other women who were paid to keep silent about alleged affairs with President Donald Trump.
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Townhall, Politico, The Guardian and Jamie Dupree - AJC
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr's urging — Roseanne Barr hopes to teach tolerance and compassion in the next installment of her ABC sitcom. — On Tuesday's episode of Roseanne, a Muslim family living next door to the Conners elicits such fear in Roseanne …
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