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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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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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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.
CNN:
Rudy Giuliani showed up in court. His client wasn't the President.
Rudy Giuliani showed up in court. His client wasn't the President.
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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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Maya Oppenheim / The Independent:
Bizarre video of Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag while being seduced by Donald Trump resurfaces
Bizarre video of Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag while being seduced by Donald Trump resurfaces
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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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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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Tim Mak / NPR:
FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation — The FBI warned four years ago that a foundation controlled by the Russian oligarch who allegedly reimbursed Donald Trump's personal lawyer might have been acting on behalf of Russia's intelligence services.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: AT&T CEO says Cohen payments ‘big mistake,’ chief lobbyist retiring — (Reuters) - Hiring President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was a “big mistake,” AT&T Inc (T.N) Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said in an employee memo, reviewed by Reuters, that went out Friday morning.
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Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Executive Who Oversaw Michael Cohen's Contract Forced Out
AT&T Executive Who Oversaw Michael Cohen's Contract Forced Out
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Not Just Michael Cohen: AT&T Met With Other Allies For Trump Intel
Not Just Michael Cohen: AT&T Met With Other Allies For Trump Intel
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The servile D.C. media
The servile D.C. media
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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.
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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Ben Howe / The Daily Beast:
Dear Conservative Media: Do Some More Damn Reporting … The American political left has something that their counterparts on the right do not. — It's not a particular point of view, or a thing that is particular to a point of view. It is more foundational than that.
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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:
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Giuliani: Trump special counsel interview decision delayed — NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and his lawyers probably won't decide whether to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller until after the president's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month, according to the president's legal team.
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Associated Press:
AP sources: WH aide dismisses McCain view, says 'he's dying' — WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official dismissed Sen. John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's CIA nominee, saying “it doesn't matter” because “he's dying anyway,” two people in the room told The Associated Press.
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace suggests Sarah Sanders should be choked
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace suggests Sarah Sanders should be choked
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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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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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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.
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
Olivia Solon / The Guardian:
They mock vegans and eat 4lb of steak a day: meet ‘carnivore dieters’ — For the last 18 months, Shawn Baker has eaten around 4lb of steak every day. — “I've got two rib-eye steaks waiting for me when I get off this call,” said the trained orthopaedic surgeon from Orange County, California.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
How the Online Left Fuels the Right — I think I know what it feels like to be “red-pilled,” the alt-right's preferred metaphor for losing one's faith in received assumptions and turning toward ideas that once seemed dangerous. — For me, it happened over several visits to the West Bank.
YouTube:
Mothers Day — This Mother's Day, talk to your child about the Republican Party. www.nextgenamerica.org/register
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Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Richard Overton, America's Oldest Veteran, Is Cooler Than You — Richard Overton, America's oldest veteran — and oldest person, 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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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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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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Carol Rosenberg / miamiherald:
Federal court wants to know who, if anyone, is spying on Guantánamo defense attorneys — In a sweeping order, a federal court has ordered the Justice Department to get them top-secret information about suspicions of eavesdropping on attorney-client meetings at Guantánamo …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Lizard Wisdom — We're all educated by our peers, and, over the years, a good portion of Donald Trump's peers have been thugs. Operating in the New York construction world meant dealing with S&A Concrete, co-owned by “Fat Tony” Salerno of the Genovese crime family …
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NBC News:
Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years leaves family of 7 dead — CANBERRA, Australia — A family of seven including four children was found dead with gunshot wounds Friday at a rural property in southwest Australia in what could be the country's worst mass shooting in 22 years, police and news media said.
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Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Kasich Balks at Endorsing GOP Nominee for Ohio Governor — Ohio's term-limited Republican governor, John Kasich, has so far avoided endorsing the GOP nominee to replace him, state attorney general Mike DeWine, citing concerns about the future of one of his signature policies, Medicaid expansion.
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