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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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Associated Press:
Pompeo: US hopes to have NKorea as ‘close partner’ not enemy — WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States aspires to have North Korea as a “close partner” and not an enemy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, noting that the U.S. has often in history become good friends with former adversaries.
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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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Committee to Investigate Russia:
FBI Issued Vekselberg Foundation Warning in 2014 — Viktor Vekselberg - the sanctioned Russian oligarch who may have funneled money to Michael Cohen through an American company tied to his own - is the president of a foundation the FBI warned U.S. companies to steer clear of back in 2014. — NPR:
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