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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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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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MJ Lee / CNN:
Head of Demeter Direct tells CNN he worked for Cohen in Korea Aerospace deal — (CNN)Mark Ko, the head of a company called Demeter Direct, told CNN on Friday that he served as a middle person between Trump aide Michael Cohen and Korea Aerospace Industries. — “With regards to your inquiry …
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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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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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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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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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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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John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Special counsel probing donations with foreign connections to Trump inauguration
EXCLUSIVE: Special counsel probing donations with foreign connections to Trump inauguration
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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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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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time … At long last, have they left no sense of decency? — White House official Kelly Sadler, during a meeting Thursday, had this to say about Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for opposing President Trump's CIA nominee over her failure …
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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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Kelly's agonizing relationship with the press
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The 6 most interesting parts of Trump's mostly disappointing drug price plan — Trump's big speech on drug prices actually focused on costs to consumers — a very different issue. — “We're gonna see those prices go down. It'll be a beautiful thing to watch,” President Donald Trump said in the Rose Garden on Friday.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Has Now Broken Every One of His Economic Populist Promises
Trump Has Now Broken Every One of His Economic Populist Promises
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump's Plan to Lower Drug Prices Diverges From Campaign Promise
Trump's Plan to Lower Drug Prices Diverges From Campaign Promise
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Tom Eblen / Lexington Herald-Leader:
‘Tricked by the devil.’ They backed Trump. Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them. — Eddie Devine voted for President Donald Trump because he thought he would be good for American business. Now, he says, the Trump administration's restrictions on seasonal foreign labor may put him out of business.
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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CNN:
US stealth fighters intercept Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska — Washington (CNN)Two Russian TU-95 “Bear” bombers were intercepted by US F-22 stealth fighters in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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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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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Kalina Oroschakoff / Politico:
Italian court lifts ban on Berlusconi running for office: paper — An Italian court has lifted a ban on Silvio Berlusconi holding public office, Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday. — The decision by the court in Milan, issued late on Friday afternoon, shakes up Italy's political landscape …
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Courtney Han / ABC News:
Police drag 65-year-old woman from car at traffic stop: Video — A police department in Georgia has opened an internal investigation into why an elderly female driver was dragged out of her vehicle at a traffic stop, according to a Facebook post by Alpharetta police. — “I just panicked.
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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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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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Saeed Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Young Activists, Fed Up With Alleged Abuses, Challenge Pakistan's Military — Movement wants to end fighting in Pashtun areas of country's northwest, where government's war on terror has focused — BANNU, Pakistan—A movement of young activists, tired of being caught up in the crossfire …
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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Yascha Mounk / Slate:
The Red and the Brown — On Aug. 23, 1939, the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and the Third Reich secretly met in Moscow to sign a treaty of non-aggression. The infamous “red-brown pact” paved the way for the Nazis' conquest of large swathes of central Europe.
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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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.