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5:55 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: The Atlantic, Hot Air and Politico
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, ThinkProgress and Joe.My.God.
James Downie / Washington Post:
Giuliani stumbles into another fiasco … “He"ll get his facts straight," President Trump said Friday of his new personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “  I say, You know what?  Learn before you speak.  It's a lot easier.  ” Yet there Giuliani was Sunday morning, speaking on ABC News's “This Week” with host George Stephanopolous.
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
State Dept.: Giuliani doesn't speak for US on foreign policy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration sought to distance itself Monday from Rudy Giuliani's dramatic public statements about Iran and North Korea, saying that President Donald Trump's new lawyer does not speak for the president on matters of foreign policy.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense
Discussion: CNN, MSNBC and Daily Kos
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 …
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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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump unveils her platform, tells kids to ‘Be Best’
Discussion: LifeZette and twitchy.com
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's popularity jumps in new CNN poll
Discussion: LifeZette, KTLA and IJR
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Melania Trump's popularity sees boost in new poll
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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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
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Selection …:
Schiff Requests Intelligence Assessment of Effect of U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Deal on North Korea Negotiations  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee, sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats requesting …
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Associated Press:
Trump to announce decision on Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday
Discussion: his vorpal sword
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.
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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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
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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”
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 …
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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
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George Bennett / Post On Politics:
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