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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Novartis paid Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen more than $1 million for work he was unable to do, company says — Drug giant Novartis paid President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen more than $1 million for work that he actually ended up being “unable” to do, the company said Wednesday.
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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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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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Washington Post:
Treasury inspector general launches probe into possible leak of Michael Cohen's banking records — The Treasury Department's inspector general is investigating whether confidential banking information related to a company controlled by President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen may have been leaked, a spokesman said.
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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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Law Firm That Partnered With Michael Cohen Says Shell Company Work Was A Side Hustle — The legal giant Squire Patton Boggs, which had a strategic partnership with Cohen, says it had nothing to do with his shell company. — WASHINGTON A major law firm that formed a strategic partnership …
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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Political Wire
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Mueller questioned Novartis payment to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Mueller questioned Novartis payment to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
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Vox, ThinkProgress, Shareblue Media and Joe.My.God.
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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Joe.My.God. and The Week
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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Washington Post and The Week
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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Brian Flood / Fox News:
New York Times slams AWOL Pompeo, then learns he was rescuing Americans — As the New York Times was bashing Mike Pompeo for being missing in action while President Trump tore up the Iran nuclear deal, it turned out the secretary of state was busy rescuing three Americans who have been held captive in North Korea.
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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 and The Daily Beast
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
Washington Post:
Why Trump torpedoed Obama's Iran deal
Why Trump torpedoed Obama's Iran deal
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One America News Network, Hit & Run, Politico and Deadline
Yonhap News Agency:
N. Korea to release 3 U.S. captives: Cheong Wa Dae official
N. Korea to release 3 U.S. captives: Cheong Wa Dae official
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Breitbart, Raw Story, Axios and The Right Scoop
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, Washington Times, CNN and Hit & Run
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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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Eroding GOP Resistance to Trump's Immigration Agenda — 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.
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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Washington Post, Axios and Splinter
New York Times:
6 Takeaways From Tuesday's Primary Elections
6 Takeaways From Tuesday's Primary Elections
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RedState, Vox, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Indianapolis Star, Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican
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Hot Air, New York Magazine and Media Matters for America
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.
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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
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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Axios, The White House, Just Security, MSNBC and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »
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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Shakesville, CBS Chicago and twitchy.com
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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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, The Atlantic, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times and Mediaite
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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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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CNN, Mother Jones, Politico, The Daily Caller, The Week, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Axios, Mediaite and Democracy21
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
NYC lunch spots are killing off the chopped salad — That staple of New York City lunch hour, the chopped salad, has been, well, chopped. — Just Salad, with 20 Manhattan locations, is the latest chain to do away with chopped-on-demand greens. You'll just have to chew.
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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage … A generous interpretation of President Trump's views on “fake” news is that he believes that media outlets are overly quick to be critical of his decisions and his administration. In other words, he applies an overly broad term …
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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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CNNMoney:
Trump's latest shot at the press corps: ‘Take away credentials?’ — How to keep up with all of Trump's lies — President Trump has mused privately during his nearly 16 months in office about revoking reporters' press credentials, according to multiple people familiar with his comments.
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Washington Post, Washington Press and The Political Insider
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Big Donors Form New Alliance to Seize House From Republicans — Major Democratic donors in New York have discreetly formed a new political alliance to raise roughly $10 million that would be injected into as many as two dozen key House battlegrounds in an effort to wrest control of Congress from Republicans.
ResistanceHole:
Mr. Drumpf, Your Newest Nightmare Is A Website Called ResistanceHole — Hey, Drumpf (a.k.a. President Donald Trump), don't get too cozy in the White House, because there is a new website that wants to kill you. It's called ResistanceHole, and it's your new worst nightmare.
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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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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Mediaite, RedState and Crooked Timber
Ladders:
Ronan Farrow to Loyola Marymount's Class of 2018: ‘Trust that inner voice’ — “I wish I could tell you I was confident. That I was sure of myself. That I didn't care,” Farrow said of reporting the hardest story of his life. “But the real version was that I was heartbroken and scared …
Robert Schroeder / MarketWatch:
CBO forecasts largest-ever monthly surplus as record tax receipts pour in — Record tax receipts will lead to the largest-ever monthly budget surplus for the federal government, congressional analysts said in a new report, as Americans hand over more money to Washington.
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Townhall and The Daily Caller
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet — For years, Ev Williams was saddled with doubts. — As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams transformed the way millions of people publish and consume information online.
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.