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12:25 PM ET, May 9, 2018

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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 …
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 …
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.
Victor Reklaitis / MarketWatch:
Drugmaker Novartis ties payments made to Trump's lawyer to former CEO
Discussion: Reuters and Joe.My.God.
John Fritze / USA Today:
Swiss drug maker Novartis was questioned over ties to Trump attorney
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Paid Trump Lawyer for ‘Insights’ on Administration
Discussion: The Week
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.
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg and The Local
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Europeans scramble to save Iran nuclear deal but face new concerns over U.S. sanctions
Politico:
Trump ‘unleashes general rage’ in scrapping Iran deal
Thomas Wright / Politico:
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Are Headed for a Clash
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Courageous Trump Call on a Lousy Iran Deal
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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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 …
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and Splinter
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican
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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.
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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Washington Post:
North Korea releases 3 American prisoners in apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between Trump and Kim
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Pompeo Offers Olive Branch to North Korea During Visit to Free Americans
Discussion: 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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New York Times:
West Virginia Primary Election Results
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 …
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
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: 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.
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.
Discussion: 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.
 
 
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James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD investigating disappearance of Iron Man suit used in Marvel's ‘Avengers’ films
YouTube:
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Trump to get millions from sale of New York housing complex
Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg:
The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers
Reuters:
Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen fire missiles at Saudi capital
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
How Two Persian Gulf Nations Turned The US Media Into Their Battleground
Politico:
Shouting match erupts on House floor over chaplain
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jeffrey Young / HuffPost:
The Uninsured Rate Is Worsening After Years Of Obamacare's Gains
 Earlier Items: 
Ladders:
Ronan Farrow to Loyola Marymount's Class of 2018: ‘Trust that inner voice’
Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
Congress Overturns Obama-Era Auto-Loan Rule
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Primary results confirm 2018 is a terrible year to be a House Republican
Discussion: Vox and MSNBC
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former CIA Case Officer Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Espionage and Retention of National Defense Information
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Wave watch: Democrats get more votes for their money
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
I went back to the man who hit me. Why?
 

 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they'll be expected to work from the office five days a week, instead of three, by June 2, and by February 3 for managers

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In an earnings call, David Zaslav says the Trump Administration may be more merger friendly, enabling a “real positive and accelerated impact on this industry”

 
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