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10:45 PM ET, May 8, 2018

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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller's team questions Russian oligarch about payments to Cohen  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company's US affiliate made to President Donald Trump's personal attorney …
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New York Times:
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Made Payments to Michael Cohen  —  A shell company that Michael D. Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch and several corporations with business …
Noah Shachtman / The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen Took Cash From Russian Oligarch After Election  —  The Daily Beast can confirm that Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company controlled by Putin-aligned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
Paul Campos / New York Magazine:
Here's a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model  —  On May 2, Rudy Giuliani revealed that the Trump administration has been lying for months about the fact that Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he fronted …
NBC News:
Daniels' lawyer: Cohen got $500K from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg  —  Michael Avenatti provided no documentation for his claims, which he posted on Twitter  —  Stormy Daniels' attorney claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen received $500,000 …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Tonight's Staggering Revelations  —  Tonight we have what I'd say may be the most staggering revelations since the tangle of “Trump/Russia” investigations began almost two years ago.  This is not hyperbole.  —  Late this afternoon Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti posted what he called a …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
AT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for ‘insights’ on administration  — Telecommunications giant AT&T said it has paid President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen for “insights” on the Trump administration.  — The disclosure came after a lawyer …
Bloomberg:   Michael Cohen Puts Up Family Apartment Against Bank Debts
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Is This How Avenatti Found Out?  —  TPM Reader TH thinks …
Washington Post:   Trump's attorney Michael Cohen was hired by U.S. affiliate of Russian company
Bloomberg:
Russian Oligarch Tied to Trump's Lawyer in Stormy Bombshell
Discussion: Mediaite
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Withdraws U.S. From ‘One-Sided’ Iran Nuclear Deal  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump declared on Tuesday that he was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, Barack Obama, and isolating the United States among its Western allies.
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Barack Obama:
There are few issues more important to the security of the United States than the potential spread of nuclear weapons, or the potential for even more destructive war in the Middle East.  That's why the United States negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the first place.
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:   Trump was asked the most basic question about his Iran deal decision. He had no answer.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Is Now Free to Fight for Iranian Freedom
Discussion: The Federalist
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
5 big consequences of Trump's Iran blunder
Discussion: The White House
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iranians Fear Deeper Crisis as Trump Ends Nuclear Deal
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Courageous Trump Call on a Lousy Iran Deal
Washington Post:
Why Trump torpedoed Obama's Iran deal
Discussion: Politico
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:   Iran Threatens Harsh Reprisals After U.S. Exits Nuclear Deal
Washington Post:
Risk to intelligence source who aided Russia investigation at center of latest showdown between Nunes and Justice Dept.  —  Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an urgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes …
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story, Democracy21 and Mediaite
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
I went back to the man who hit me.  Why?  —  It's been a quarter-century, and I can still hear clearly the sound of my voice that night.  It wavered with a plaintive, childish note as I spoke into the phone: “He hit me.”  That sound, which I had never before heard in my own voice, broke something.
Discussion: New York Post, City Journal and CNN
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Eric Schneiderman's Reputation: From 'Wouldn't Get a Bawdy Joke' to Brute, Overnight
Discussion: New York Post, HuffPost and CNN
Halimah Abdullah / ABC News:
LIVE UPDATES: Big stakes in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio bellwether primaries  —  The candidates who emerge victorious from a fierce faceoff Tuesday night in tough and pricey primary battles in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia will provide critical clues into which party might …
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Patrick Morrisey pulls off upset in West Virginia Senate primary, beats Blankenship and Jenkins
Discussion: CNN, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Yonhap News Agency:
N. Korea to release 3 U.S. captives: Cheong Wa Dae official … North Korea is expected to release three U.S. citizens held in the communist state on Wednesday, an official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said, in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a historic meeting between …
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and The Right Scoop
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Mike Pompeo / US Department of State:
Remarks to the Traveling Press
Discussion: Washington Press
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
9/11 Planner, Tortured by C.I.A., Asks to Tell Senators About Gina Haspel  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the C.I.A. has revived debate over the agency's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program and still-murky questions about her involvement.
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Richard Cordray Just Won Ohio's Democratic Primary.  His Party Thinks Trump Will Help Make Him Governor.  —  “People in Ohio know there's an opportunity here we have not had in a very long time.”  —  Reporting From  —  Richard Cordray, the Democrat who entered the Ohio governor's race with endorsements …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Ohio primary elections: live results for governor, Senate, and House races
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Vice President's Brother Captures G.O.P. House Primary in Indiana  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Greg Pence, the oldest brother of Vice President Mike Pence, won the Republican primary on Tuesday for the Indiana House seat once held by his more famous sibling, successfully leveraging his family name …
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox
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CNN:
Mike Pence's brother wins Republican nomination for Indiana congressional seat, CNN projects
Discussion: Townhall and The Week
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Senate Intel: Russia waged ‘unprecedented’ cyber campaign on U.S. voting systems  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the unclassified version of its investigation into Russian cyberattacks on digital U.S. voting systems ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Katie Jane Fernelius / News, Indy Week:
A Duke University VP Walked Into the Campus Joe Van Gogh, Heard a Rap Song, Demanded That the Employees Be Fired  —  On Monday, two employees of Duke University's Joe Van Gogh location had their contracts terminated after vice president for student affairs Larry Moneta and executive director …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web  —  An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation.  Should we be listening?  —  By Bari WeissPhotographs by Damon Winter  —  Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Under Fire After Host Hugh Hewitt Helped Broker Meeting With EPA Leader  —  “We'll get back to you,” an MSNBC spokesman told THR when asked about the host's role in brokering a meeting between EPA head Scott Pruitt and lawyers at his firm representing a California water district.
Kim Dacey / WBAL:
Deputy shoots groundhog blocking traffic in Carroll County  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  ELDERSBURG, Md. —  A Carroll County sheriff's deputy shot a groundhog that was holding up traffic Monday morning.  —  The Sheriff's Office said the deputy was traveling …
Discussion: Deadspin
Washington Post:
U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants.  Trump officials did it anyway.  —  In the past six months, the Trump administration has moved to expel more than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living and working legally in the United States, disregarding senior U.S. diplomats …
CBS News:
6 months before midterms, both parties face challenges - CBS News poll  —  Six months before Election Day, the 2018 midterms look like a contest that's up for grabs — both for control of Congress, and for which arguments will dominate the campaign.  —  More voters say they'd prefer …
Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
US military wives threatened by Russian hackers posing as IS  —  PARIS (AP) — Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone from hackers threatening to slaughter her family.  —  “Dear Angela!” the Facebook message read.
 
 
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Boeing, Airbus to lose $39 billion in contracts because of Trump sanctions on Iran
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
Challenger Mark Harris on verge of upsetting U.S. Rep. Pittenger of NC
Daily Mail:
‘No other religion would be made fun of in this way’: Christian fury at Met Gala's 'blasphemous …
Discussion: WND and New Republic
New York Times:
New Files Shed Light on the Day Guards Smashed Scott Pruitt's Door
Los Angeles Times:
George Deukmejian dead at 89, public safety and law-and-order dominated two-term governor's agenda
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
First Mueller convict reports to prison
Adam Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
New Florida poll shows dead heat governors' races, Rick Scott edging Bill Nelson
Discussion: Political Wire
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