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George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, sources say — As attorneys for Michael Cohen rush to meet Judge Kimba Wood's Friday deadline to complete a privilege review of over 3.7 million documents seized in the April 9 raids of Cohen's New York properties …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen's Attorneys Expected to Quit His Case — Firm expected to cease representation after review of seized documents for client-attorney privilege — The attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, are expected to stop representing …
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New York Times:
Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Parting With Lawyers as Federal Investigation Continues — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings …
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CNN:
Trump's personal attorney splits with his own legal team — (CNN)President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has split with the legal team that has shepherded him through a criminal investigation that included a high-profile FBI raid, a source familiar with the change said Wednesday.
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What Could Michael Cohen Tell Mueller about Russia Collusion? — With news breaking that President Donald Trump's personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, is likely to cooperate with federal investigators, one question is what his cooperation might mean for the Russia investigation.
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Prosecutors ‘preparing paperwork’ to arrest Michael Cohen: MSNBC
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Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Michael Cohen hunts for new lawyers in FBI probe
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Negotiating Style Is Pure Art of the Moron … I'm often on the receiving end of the Trumpentariat's criticisms of Never Trump conservatives. — Don't I get it? Don't I love how Trump is achieving the impossible, and soaring to heights to which no other president could aspire?
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US Department of State:
Remarks to Traveling Press — Special Briefing Secretary of State Seoul, South Korea — MS NAUERT: And so this will be on the record, but again, we have the meetings with Japan and South Korea tomorrow, and so we're not going to get ahead of those. — QUESTION: So to make the most …
William Saletan / Slate:
The Kim Con — Trump isn't trying to win over North Korea's leader. He's using him to win over you. — At the press conference following his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on Tuesday, President Trump called himself “an emissary of the American people” …
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘Harebrained’: National Security Council owns up to widely derided Trump video
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Trump Is Playing a Dangerous Game With North Korea
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Pompeo calls questions about gaps in Trump-Kim statement ‘insulting and ridiculous’
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Troy Patterson / New Yorker:
The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump's Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un
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Erick Erickson / Macon Telegraph:
Trump tried diplomacy. He ended up legitimizing a monster in North Korea.
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Scott Adams: Trump Video Message To Kim “Might Be The Best Thing Anybody Ever Did In A Negotiation, Period”
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James Dobbins / Reuters:
Commentary: Why this wasn't Kim's father's - or grandfather's - summit
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Two Norwegian lawmakers nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
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Washington Post:
EPA chief Scott Pruitt tapped aide, donors to help wife land job at conservative group — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last year had a top aide help contact Republican donors who might offer his wife a job, eventually securing her a position at a conservative political group …
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Pruitt had aide, GOP donors help wife find job: report
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
He's Not a ‘Firebrand,’ and He's Not a ‘Far-Right Activist’ — How are reporters still struggling to call people like Corey Stewart what they are? — The Republicans in Virginia, like their co-religionists in Alabama, have picked themselves a real winner to run against incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine in the fall.
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Winner of Virginia Republican Senate Primary Immediately Suggests His Opponent Should Be Put in Jail
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
4 winners and 3 losers from the June 12 primary elections
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP shuns Stewart in Virginia
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Foreign Policy:
Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State — Mari Stull's arrival at the State Department's International Organization Bureau is triggering an exodus of top career staffers. — A senior advisor to the State Department appointed just two months ago …
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Mercury News:
California woman ‘in shock’ after ICE agents detain father, a legal resident, outside home — The daughter of an Arleta man who was detained Sunday outside his home by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents spoke out this week about his treatment and the immigration policies that appear …
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Washington Monthly
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Poll shows Mueller's public image at all-time low — Special counsel Robert Mueller's public image has sunk to an all-time low since he began his probe into possible collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
New York Times Examines Work History of Reporter in Leak Case — The New York Times is reviewing the work history of Ali Watkins, a Washington-based reporter at the newspaper whose email and phone records were seized by prosecutors in a leak investigation case that has prompted an outcry among press advocates.
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Associated Press:
Nevada pimp Dennis Hof wins GOP primary, ousts incumbent — Pimp Dennis Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brothels in Nevada and star of the HBO adult reality series “Cathouse,” won a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker.
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
‘Daily News’ Writer Tells Puerto Rican Kimberly Guilfoyle to ‘Pick Grapes’ — New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi wants Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is Puerto Rican, fired from Fox News and says “she'd be better off picking grapes.” — The far-left Stasi, whose mean-girl column is titled …
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Axios:
Giuliani's son loses West Wing access — Several months ago, Donald Trump ordered the promotion of Rudy Giuliani's son. But instead of getting promoted, he has lost his West Wing pass. — Details: Trump ordered junior White House staffer Andrew Giuliani's promotion after dining at Mar …
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot … California's 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent's edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan …
Paris Martineau / The Outline:
How alt-right Twitter tricks the media into panicking @thebradfordfile has been cited as evidence of the rise of the alt-right, but its popularity is faked through power-engagement groups and networks of sockpuppets. — A year ago, @thebradfordfile didn't exist.
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
A Day in the Life of George and Simona Papadopoulos — Talking foreign spies, federal agents and romantic drama with the newlyweds waiting out the Mueller probe — Over a recent lunch in Chicago, George Papadopoulos searches for words strong enough to describe the importance of his wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos.
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues we are in serious trouble. — Antarctica's ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half millimeter every year, a team of 80 scientists reported Wednesday.
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Noah Michelson / HuffPost:
If You Really Love LGBTQ People, You Just Can't Keep Eating Chick-fil-A — When I was growing up, there were few things as exciting to me as a trip to the Regency Mall in Racine, Wisconsin, for lunch at Chick-fil-A. — My family didn't have much money then so eating out was a rare treat.
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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Stormy Daniels' crowdfunding cash could be seized in Avenatti firm bankruptcy — An Orange County lawyer has asked a bankruptcy judge to seize much of the $577,000 donated to porn star Stormy Daniels to pay legal bills in her suit against President Trump. — The lawyer, Jason Frank …
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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Catholic bishops rebuke Trump's asylum changes, suggest policy is a ‘life’ issue — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (RNS) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened its spring meeting this week with a stern reproach of the Trump administration's latest immigration policies …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Hate, Hate, Hates It”: Sessions Fumes as Kushner Pushes Pardons — With Kim Kardashian and liberals like Van Jones, the princely Trump son-in-law is trying to reset his reputation. But not everyone in the administration is happy about it. — Donald Trump's biggest week on the global stage …
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