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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Asked Ford for Records After It Rejected Michael Cohen Consulting Overture — Trump's personal lawyer touted his proximity to the president — WASHINGTON)— Michael Cohen, who has served as President Donald Trump's personal attorney, made an overture to provide consulting services …
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani Says Cohen Never Spoke With Trump About His Big-Dollar Clients — The president's new lead lawyer sees this as proof Trump is draining the swamp. — WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen was paid millions of dollars in consulting fees by corporate clients …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Lawyer for 2 Women Who Say They Were Schneiderman Victims Talked to Michael Cohen — A lawyer who said he was working on behalf of two women who claimed that the former New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, had “sexually victimized” them, asserted on Friday that he had discussed …
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
'I don't get involved with pimps': Rudy Giuliani escalates battle with Stormy Daniels' lawyer — President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani explained on Friday why he won't debate Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti. — Avenatti tweeted earlier this week that he was …
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John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Special counsel probing donations with foreign connections to Trump inauguration — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has questioned several witnesses about millions of dollars in donations to President Donald Trump's inauguration committee last year, including questions …
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Maya Oppenheim / The Independent:
Bizarre video of Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag while being seduced by Donald Trump resurfaces — ‘Oh, you dirty boy, you!, the mayor exclaims and slaps Mr Trump in the face,’ says former New York mayor's alter-ego — Donald Glover ‘avoided the internet’ after Childish Gambino went viral
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CNN:
Rudy Giuliani showed up in court. His client wasn't the President. — (CNN)One day after Rudy Giuliani announced he was leaving his law firm to offer his “sole concentration” to President Donald Trump, Giuliani appeared in a Broward County, Florida, courtroom Friday to represent a woman accused in an insurance fraud case.
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Says Michael Cohen Was a Disappointment
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Says Michael Cohen Was a Disappointment
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Tim Mak / NPR:
FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation
FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Giuliani: Trump special counsel interview decision delayed
Reuters:
Exclusive: AT&T CEO says Cohen payments ‘big mistake,’ chief lobbyist retiring
Exclusive: AT&T CEO says Cohen payments ‘big mistake,’ chief lobbyist retiring
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Giuliani says he wouldn't debate Avenatti ‘if they paid me $10 million’
Giuliani says he wouldn't debate Avenatti ‘if they paid me $10 million’
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Maggie Haberman and the Toxic Swamp — On this week's episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times and an analyst at CNN. She previously worked at the New York Post and Politico, has been at the Times since 2015 …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
White House Refuses to Apologize for Aide's Joke About McCain — WASHINGTON — The White House declined on Friday to renounce or apologize for an aide whose joke at a meeting that Senator John McCain was irrelevant because he would soon die went viral, outraging relatives, friends and admirers of the ailing lawmaker.
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
Nicolle Wallace Jokes, Then Apologizes About Choking Sarah Sanders....While Bemoaning Incivility
Nicolle Wallace Jokes, Then Apologizes About Choking Sarah Sanders....While Bemoaning Incivility
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Meghan McCain asks how WH staffer who joked about her father's brain cancer still has a job
Meghan McCain asks how WH staffer who joked about her father's brain cancer still has a job
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NPR:
Transcript: White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly's Interview With NPR — Editor's note: This post contains language some may find offensive. — NPR's Southwest correspondent John Burnett speaks with White House chief of staff John Kelly. Here's a partial transcript of their conversation, which has been edited for clarity.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Kelly's agonizing relationship with the press
USA Today:
We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Their dominant strategy: Sowing racial discord — The Russian company charged with orchestrating a wide-ranging effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential election overwhelmingly focused its barrage of social media advertising …
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Big Think
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance — Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted under a secretive US effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’ — Rakem Balogun thought he was dreaming when armed agents in tactical gear stormed his apartment.
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Alex Pareene / Splinter:
If Good Reporting Was In Any Way Useful to Conservatives, They'd Already Be Doing It — Ben Howe, a longtime conservative media veteran and former Red State contributor (until the site's owners purged the site of its anti-Trump voices), appears in the Daily Beast with a polite request of his compatriots:
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Bloomberg:
Trump Was Told of Schneiderman Women Years Ago, Lawyer Says — Lawyer asks judge seal Michael Cohen records to protect women — New York Post journalist said to take allegations to Trump — Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was informed about allegations of sexual misconduct …
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Rudy Giuliani: Trump might've been told about ‘pervert’ …
Rudy Giuliani: Trump might've been told about ‘pervert’ …
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New York Times:
Pruitt's Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Abuse Was Kept Off Public Schedule — WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined last year in Rome with Cardinal George Pell, a prominent climate-science denialist and Vatican leader who was also facing sexual abuse allegations.
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Without Nuclear Deal, U.S. Expects Resurgence in Iranian Cyberattacks — Inside the Pentagon's cyberwarfare unit, analysts have been closely monitoring internet traffic out of Iran. Six thousand miles away, Israel's elite cyber intelligence Unit 8200 has been running war games in anticipation …
Foreign Policy:
Top State Department Nuclear Expert Announces Resignation After Trump Iran Deal Exit — Officials warn of brain drain across government offices. — One of the State Department's top experts on nuclear proliferation resigned this week after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal …
Jackie Kent / KRQE-TV:
Congressional F-bomb ad set to air Friday at noon — ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) - People see a lot of outrageous political ads, but it's not usually the language that's controversial. — Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis wants people to see his congressional campaign spot …
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Arthur Allen / Politico:
Kushner-backed health care project gets ‘devastating’ review — The first stage of a multibillion-dollar military digital health program championed by Jared Kushner has been riddled with problems so severe they could have led to patient deaths, according to a report obtained by POLITICO.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Price of Getting Inside Trump's Head — Michael Cohen has profited from it, but we're all Trumpologists now. — On Easter Sunday, Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, was holding forth in the green room at ABC News in New York before going on the air.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP has few takers for 2020 convention — Cities across the country are turning down the opportunity to host the 2020 Republican National Convention, where President Trump — is expected to be nominated for a second term. — The cities that have rejected hosting duties insist Trump …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Democratic House candidate in Pennsylvania deletes tweets blasting progressives, praising Trump — (CNN)A Democrat running for a US House seat in Pennsylvania offered praise for then-President-elect Donald Trump, called on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign and said progressives …
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Political Wire
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Why Did the US Ambassador to Germany Defend a Human Trafficker? — It's no secret that the Trump administration, in office for almost 16 months now, has a devilish time filling top positions. An unprecedented number of plum jobs in our nation's capital, including senior ones of the kind …
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Washington Post
Spiegel Online:
Time for Europe to Join the Resistance — U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal marks the temporary suspension of the trans-Atlantic alliance. What now? — Trump's renown is rooted in American hero myths. Trump says that women like Carla Bruni lust after him …
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
SEAL Team leaders investigated for alleged sexual misconduct — The commander and the senior enlisted officer of a SEAL Team currently deployed to Africa are being investigated for allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment, officials said. — Both senior leaders have been sent …
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CNN
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Richard Overton, America's Oldest Veteran, Is Cooler Than You — Richard Overton, America's oldest veteran — and oldest man, period — is cooler than you. That's because Overton is cooler than pretty much everyone. The WWII veteran turned a stunning 112 years old today …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends' Hegseth Trashes NY Times For Not Covering ISIS Capture Story First Reported by NY Times — Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth had some fun mocking his favorite punching bag on Friday morning: The New York Times, which he proudly calls the “Failing New York Times,” a genius witticism he borrowed from Trump.
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Globe and Mail:
The Democrats' new star is an Obama with bite — As Gina Haspel, the first female nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, found out Wednesday, it doesn't bode well to face Senator Kamala Harris at a congressional hearing. — Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was once …
Emma Roller / Splinter:
D.C.'s Biggest Homeless Shelter Is About to Close. Will Amazon Take Its Place? — On a recent spring evening, a group of mothers at D.C. General Family Homeless Shelter were enjoying the weather, chatting outside near the building's entrance. Two young boys whizzed past on scooters, colorful lights flashing.
CNN:
Senate intelligence panel seeking Sam Nunberg communications with Stone — (CNN)Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg has been requested to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a closed-door interview and to produce his communications with Roger Stone that relate to Russia, WikiLeaks and Russian hacking.
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Law & Crime