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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 …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The Porn Star's Lawyer Maps the Trump Money Trail — Michael Cohen's clients included a firm linked to a Russian oligarch and a South Korean aerospace company. — There may be any number of reasons why a management firm linked to a powerful Russian oligarch favored by the Kremlin paid …
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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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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.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Special Counsel's Office Has Been Looking Into Payments To Michael Cohen's Company Since Last Year
The Special Counsel's Office Has Been Looking Into Payments To Michael Cohen's Company Since Last Year
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ThinkProgress and Political Wire
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Trump's Two Biggest Scandals Converge in a Single Tweet
Trump's Two Biggest Scandals Converge in a Single Tweet
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Conservative News Today, Axios, Washington Press, IJR, Raw Story and Mediaite
Victor Reklaitis / MarketWatch:
Drugmaker Novartis ties payments made to Trump's lawyer to former CEO
Drugmaker Novartis ties payments made to Trump's lawyer to former CEO
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Reuters and Joe.My.God.
John Fritze / USA Today:
Swiss drug maker Novartis was questioned over ties to Trump attorney
Swiss drug maker Novartis was questioned over ties to Trump attorney
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Vox and Talking Points Memo
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Paid Trump Lawyer for ‘Insights’ on Administration
AT&T Paid Trump Lawyer for ‘Insights’ on Administration
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The Week
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Tonight's Staggering Revelations
Tonight's Staggering Revelations
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The Week, Bloomberg, Raw Story and The Mahablog
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
AT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for ‘insights’ on administration
AT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for ‘insights’ on administration
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Washington Post:
Why Trump torpedoed Obama's Iran deal … The lobbying campaign to save the Iran nuclear agreement was intense and took months. British Prime Minister Theresa May raised the deal with President Trump in more than a dozen phone calls. French President Emmanuel Macron pressed him on it during an elaborate state visit.
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Hours into his new job, Trump's ambassador to Germany offends his hosts … BERLIN — For the past year, German officials have been urging their U.S. counterparts to send a new ambassador to Berlin. But after finally receiving one, many may be having second thoughts.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
No Longer Held Back by His Advisers, Trump Puts His Imprint on Foreign Policy
No Longer Held Back by His Advisers, Trump Puts His Imprint on Foreign Policy
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Task & Purpose, Contemptor, CNN, Washington Times and Hit & Run
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Europeans scramble to save Iran nuclear deal but face new concerns over U.S. sanctions
Europeans scramble to save Iran nuclear deal but face new concerns over U.S. sanctions
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Washington Post:
Trump's Iran decision just brought us closer to war
Trump's Iran decision just brought us closer to war
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Politico:
Trump ‘unleashes general rage’ in scrapping Iran deal
Trump ‘unleashes general rage’ in scrapping Iran deal
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Axios, One America News Network and Associated Press
Thomas Wright / Politico:
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Are Headed for a Clash
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Are Headed for a Clash
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The American Conservative, The Daily Beast and The Week
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Courageous Trump Call on a Lousy Iran Deal
A Courageous Trump Call on a Lousy Iran Deal
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Washington Free Beacon and Viking Pundit
Axios:
“Going big”: Inside Trump's great Iran gamble
“Going big”: Inside Trump's great Iran gamble
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Washington Post, Raw Story, CNN, AOL and Mediaite
Scott Bland / Politico:
Top takeaways from the first big primary of 2018 — Republicans can exhale now. — Convicted coal magnate Don Blankenship's surprise third-place finish in Tuesday's West Virginia GOP Senate primary sidestepped yet another debacle for the party after consecutive meltdowns in special elections in Alabama and Pennsylvania.
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STAT, New Republic, Washington Monthly, HuffPost and New York Magazine
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G. Elliott Morris / The Crosstab:
Democrats Scored a Big, Unexpected Win in the May 8 Primaries — For the first time in 2018, an incumbent U.S. House Representative has been ousted by a primary challenger. Republican U.S. House Rep. from North Carolina's 9th Congressional District Robert Pittenger lost his primary bid …
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Axios, Washington Post and Splinter
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican
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New York Times, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
Challenger Mark Harris on verge of upsetting U.S. Rep. Pittenger of NC
Challenger Mark Harris on verge of upsetting U.S. Rep. Pittenger of NC
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NPR, ABC News, The Week, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
‘She Should Have Fought Back. Other People Did’: Inside Gina Haspel's Black Site … Ahead of her Senate reckoning, Gina Haspel's defenders in U.S. intelligence circles have adopted the fallback position that she'll be a check on Donald Trump as his CIA director.
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Politico, ABC News, Lawfare, Weekly Standard, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, RT and Splinter
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Daily Beast refuses to budge on its Gina Haspel story … When Gina Haspel appears on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee in her confirmation hearing for CIA director, she'll likely field a question or two about her time overseeing a “black site” prison in Thailand in 2002.
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Vox, Washington Free Beacon, HuffPost, The Atlantic 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 …
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Breitbart, Raw Story, The Right Scoop and Axios
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Washington Post:
North Korea releases 3 American prisoners in apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between Trump and Kim
North Korea releases 3 American prisoners in apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between Trump and Kim
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Mother Jones, The Atlantic, National Review, CNN, ThinkProgress, Townhall, Axios, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Fox News Insider, New York Times, The Guardian, Daily Wire, RT and Politico
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
3 Americans Are Released From North Korea, Trump Says
3 Americans Are Released From North Korea, Trump Says
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RedState, Fox News, CNBC, Outside the Beltway and Joe.My.God.
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Pompeo Offers Olive Branch to North Korea During Visit to Free Americans
Pompeo Offers Olive Branch to North Korea During Visit to Free Americans
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The Daily Beast and Politico
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's Rightward Pull on the GOP Primaries — The results of Tuesday's primary elections simultaneously bolstered the Republican Party mainstream and demonstrated how much ground it has yielded to Donald Trump, particularly on the volatile issue of immigration.
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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 …
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Mother Jones, Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, The Week, Raw Story, Axios, Mediaite and Democracy21
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
FX Lands New York Times TV Series ‘The Weekly’ — Hulu will stream episodes of the half-hour series, based on the Michael Barbaro-hosted podcast ‘The Daily,’ the day after their linear premiere. — FX has landed The New York Times' television news series, The Weekly.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
With ‘The Weekly,’ The New York Times Gets Serious About TV
With ‘The Weekly,’ The New York Times Gets Serious About TV
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Scripting News and Splinter
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 …
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The Atlantic, Deadspin, Splinter and Raw Story
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced — Critics of the left aren't oppressed and they don't believe in “rational debate.” — Irony can be a difficult concept to grasp, but some hypothetical examples can illustrate it clearly. It would be ironic, for instance, if people who claimed …
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RedState, Crooked Timber and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship … The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America, ending a century-old tradition deeply ingrained in the religious life of Mormon boys.
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Deseret News, Outside the Beltway, Friendly Atheist, Daily Wire, Front Page Magazine and Joe.My.God.
Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
On the Road With Rose McGowan: An Actress Turned Activist Leaves the “Hollywood Bubble” Behind — Six months since going public with rape accusations about Harvey Weinstein and helping to ignite the #MeToo movement, McGowan has been portrayed as both a fearless hero and flame-throwing narcissist.
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The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
Rachel Crooks, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her, wins uncontested Ohio House primary … Rachel Crooks, one of at least 19 women who have publicly accused President Trump of sexual assault, won an uncontested primary Tuesday for a seat in the Ohio state House of Representatives, her campaign manager confirmed.
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Charles J. Sykes / Weekly Standard:
When Everything Is Possible and Nothing Is True — Hannah Arendt proves indispensable in understanding the Trump era. — One of my favorite stories about Winston Churchill goes like this. … Unfortunately, the story is what we would now call fake news.
Britton O'Daly / Yale Daily News:
Black student reported to YPD for napping in dormitory common room — Yale Police officers on Monday evening interrogated a black graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola GRD '19, for more than 15 minutes, after a white graduate student reported Siyonbola to the police for sleeping in the HGS common room.
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Raw Story
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Is This How Avenatti Found Out? — TPM Reader TH thinks he knows where Michael Avenatti got his amazingly specific details. And it sounds right to me ... I have no idea who leaked this or whether it was a leak per se. But this is extraordinarily detailed information. It all seems accurate.