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8:35 PM ET, April 9, 2019

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe  — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias  — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report  —  Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …
Discussion: NBC News, Axios and Political Wire
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Newly released testimony: Former top FBI lawyer says agency concerned Trump obstructed justice
Discussion: Raw Story
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
What Barr Told Congress About the Mueller Report
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and LAW.com
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Vicki Divoll / New York Times:
Subpoena Isn't the Only Way to Get the Mueller Report  —  By law, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees should already have certain investigative materials relating to Russian election meddling.  —  PAUL KRUGMAN  —  Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?  —  The tax cut fizzled; send in the clowns!
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump's Immigration Crisis
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Homeland Security Purge Is Destined to Fail
Discussion: Washington Post, New Republic and ACLU
Axios:
Trump orders dramatic changes in immigration policy, aims to accelerate deportations
Haaretz:
Israel Election 2019: Gantz and Netanyahu Tied; No Clear Path to Premiership for Either — Exit Polls  —  Netanyahu's party places 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling sites ■ Gantz helps injured motorcyclist ■ 6.3 million people eligible to vote
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Gantz declares victory over Netanyahu in Israel  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on Israel's election (all times local):  —  The leader of Israel's Blue and White party has declared victory in parliamentary elections, despite mixed results in exit polls.  —  Addressing a raucous crowd of supporters.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:   In dramatic shift, Netanyahu's Likud leading in latest exit polls
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement  —  Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel's office about the potential release of President Trump's tax returns …
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New York Times:
The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate  —  A detailed look at the voters with the numbers to decide the 2020 Democratic nominee.  —  Democrats on social media  —  Progressive activists Other Democrats  —  The Democratic electorate off social media
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain's Fed nomination  —  Herman Cain is in deep trouble.  And he hasn't yet even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve.  —  Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult …
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The Daily Caller:
Stephen Moore Isn't Qualified To Sit On The Federal Reserve  —  As a candidate, Donald Trump told voters he would “get the best people” to join the government.  Now the president is on the verge of nominating Stephen Moore, a third-rate political hack, to the Federal Reserve Board.
CNN:
Democrats prepare their response to Barr's redacted report  —  Dems grill Barr on release of Mueller report  —  (CNN)House Democrats are prepping a swift response to Attorney General William Barr's plans to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report within the next week …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Week
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Washington Post:
The full Mueller report could be released — if the House opens preliminary impeachment hearings
Discussion: Daily Kos
Asha Rangappa / Politico:
The Forgotten Reason Congress Needs to See the Mueller Report
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit  —  California Representative Devin Nunes is being mocked on Twitter after filing a $150 million lawsuit over a May 2018 story featuring the headline: “A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes …
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J. Arthur Bloom / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Detailing Google's ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results  —  Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company's official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and NB Blog
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:
What Happened When Pete Buttigieg Tore Down Houses In Black And Latino South Bend  —  “Everyone wants to find a villain,” a South Bend politician said of the Mayor Pete Buttigieg's housing program.  “This is just how economic development happens.”  —  Reporting From  —  South Bend, Indiana
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
'We can't confirm him,' Pat Roberts warns of potential Kobach nomination for DHS  —  One of the GOP senators from Kris Kobach's home state said Tuesday that the Senate would not be able to confirm the Kansas Republican if President Donald Trump tapped him for a cabinet post.
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:   The Dump Trump Debate
Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy  —  President Trump repeated a false claim to reporters Tuesday, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated from their parents at the southern border.
Jonathan Broder / Newsweek:
How Ilhan Omar Is Changing the Conversation About Israel—and Upending the 2020 Campaign  —  In late March, some 18,000 people crowded into a grand ballroom the size of a commercial airline hangar in downtown Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing.  Thank TurboTax.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Former CBS News Reporter Lara Logan Joining Sinclair  —  The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist, who left the network last year, will be a special correspondent for the conservative media giant.  —  In late February, former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan outlined her conditions …
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 ‘wellness’ habits: From no food all weekend to ice baths  —  The ancient philosophy of Stoicism - which teaches to be satisfied with what you have and includes practices like self-denial — has become a trend among Silicon Valley elites.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Quartz
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems cancel vote on budget plan amid internal revolt  —  House Democratic leaders on Tuesday abandoned plans to vote on a key budget measure this week in the face of sharp opposition from both progressives and moderates.  —  The revolt over legislation to set federal spending is a setback …
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Moderate Democrats Back Balanced-Budget Amendment, Countering Liberals
Discussion: Splinter
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends guest: Black families were better off as slaves  —  VIDEO ››› April 9, 2019 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF  —  From the April 9 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:  —  Loading the player reg...  AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Larry, Cory Booker wants to be president.
Discussion: Townhall and twitchy.com
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
If You Are Defending Stephen Miller, You Are an Ally of Anti-Semitism  —  Stephen Miller is personally responsible for the most xenophobic policies of the most xenophobic presidency in modern American history.  The senior White House adviser authored the travel ban that denied a wide variety …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Young Trump judge faces charges of conflict of interest and corporate favoritism  —  WASHINGTON — On Nov. 17, 2017, President Trump added five names  —  to the list of potential Supreme Court nominations his administration might make.  One of those names would become universally known …
Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun-Times:
Johnson Publishing Co., which started Ebony, Jet magazines, files for bankruptcy  —  Chicago's historic Johnson Publishing Company has filed for bankruptcy, court records show.  —  The Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition was filed late Tuesday afternoon by the company once responsible for Ebony and Jet magazines.
 
 
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Yoav Gonen / The City:
Mayor Flunking on Pledge to Put A/C in Every Classroom
Discussion: NY State of Politics
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
German Woman Goes on Trial in Death of 5-Year-Old Girl Held as ISIS Slave
Jacob Holzman / Roll Call:
Kerry, Hagel rip Trump's climate policies, and battle Republicans on House panel
Mike Elk / Payday Report:
UAW Files for New Union Election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga for 1,700 Workers
Ruth Graham / Slate:
The White House Is Hosting a Screening of the Gory Anti-Abortion Film Gosnell
Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Times
John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
It Wasn't ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.
Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
Putin's Russia feels increasingly like a fortress under siege
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Two-thirds of glacier ice in the Alps ‘will melt by 2100’
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 Earlier Items: 
Steve Vladeck / Slate:
Trump Is Abusing His Authority to Name “Acting Secretaries.” Here's How Congress Can Stop Him.
Discussion: Vox
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Hackers attacked California DMV voter registration system marred by bugs, glitches
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Read the Best Parts of Alex Jones's 159-Page Deposition About Pepe the Frog
Lisa DePaulo / Hollywood Reporter:
John F. Kennedy Jr. and George Magazine: A Story of Politics, Love and Loss, 20 Years Later
New York Times:
Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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