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4:45 AM ET, April 9, 2019

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CNN:
Trump is removing US Secret Service director  —  (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.  —  President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been pushing to reinstate broader family separation policies and sought to close the US-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Grassley warns White House not to oust any more top immigration officials  —  The most senior Senate Republican is warning the White House not to oust another top immigration official, making appeals to the administration against dismissing Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship …
New York Times:
Trump Purge Set to Force Out More Top Homeland Security Officials  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to clear out the senior ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after forcing the resignation of its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, as he accelerated a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Cancel Kirstjen Nielsen  —  Her role in terrorizing children should make her a permanent pariah.  —  On Sunday evening, news broke that Kirstjen Nielsen was leaving her job as head of the Department of Homeland Security.  The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that according …
Miami Herald:
‘She lies to everyone’: Feds say Mar-a-Lago intruder had hidden-camera detector in hotel  —  Trump Tourism: Access for Sale  —  The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful.
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump's DHS purge floors Republicans  —  President Donald Trump's congressional allies are alarmed by his purge at the Department of Homeland Security — urging him not to fire more top officials and warning him how hard it will be to solve twin crises at the border and the federal agencies overseeing immigration policy.
New York Times:
Trump Signals Even Fiercer Immigration Agenda, With a Possible Return of Family Separations  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's purge of the nation's top homeland security officials is a sign that he is preparing to unleash an even fiercer assault on immigration, including a possible return …
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Root and Splinter
New York Times:
More Top Homeland Security Officials Set to Leave in Trump Purge  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to sweep out the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after pushing out its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, accelerating a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Who Is Left to Say No to Trump?  —  Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest one out of the president's spiraling cabinet who expressed his cruelty but wouldn't go as far as he wanted.  —  There's no reason to mourn Kirstjen Nielsen's departure from the Department of Homeland Security.
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico …
NBC News:
Trump has for months been urging administration to reinstate child separation policy
ABC News:
Trump ordered part of border closed, his administration pushed back: Sources
Discussion: American Greatness
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's legacy of cruelty and incompetence is sealed
Los Angeles Times:
Trump aide Stephen Miller ‘going to clean house’ as immigration policy hardens
Discussion: CNN and Shareblue Media
Washington Post:
Trump removes Secret Service director as purge of DHS leadership widens
CNN:
The only constant in Trump's world is chaos
Discussion: Raw Story
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The IRS chief must release Trump's tax returns — and Mnuchin must not stop him  —  Lawrence H. Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University.  He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010.
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Push to Obtain Trump's N.Y. Tax Returns Wins Cuomo's Support  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  For more than two years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has railed against President Trump, attacking his policies on everything from immigration …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's tax return scam has taken yet another turn  —  While the best con is one in which the victim never even realizes they got scammed, that can seldom be guaranteed.  So the con artist needs a final argument to make to their mark if they get confronted, and the one they often use goes as follows: Sure, I conned you.
Discussion: Townhall, Contemptor and NBC News
Fox News:
Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes  —  House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news …
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump's private club had a device used to detect hidden cameras and a large amount of cash in her Palm Beach hotel room …
Discussion: National Review, IJR and Reuters
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Washington Post:
Chinese woman at Mar-a-Lago will remain jailed.  She had more suspicious electronics at her hotel, prosecutors say.
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Are Warning Drug Companies Not To Cooperate With A Congressional Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices.  —  Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters …
Discussion: Raw Story
Roll Call:
Only 15 Mainers gave $200 or more to Susan Collins  —  Maine Sen. Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republican senators in 2020, raised more than $1.1 million in itemized contributions during the first three months of the year.  But less than 1 percent of that money came from her home state.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump's Fed threats meet a firewall: GOP lawmakers  —  GOP lawmakers have given in to President Donald Trump on almost every contentious issue, but they're quietly breaking from him on one front that has drawn the president's repeated ire: the Federal Reserve.
Discussion: The Week
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden support stays solid in early states  —  Sam Lieberman, former chairman of the Nevada Democratic Party, has a framed picture in his office of Joe Biden.  In the photo, taken sometime during Biden's short-lived 2008 presidential campaign, Biden is standing behind Lieberman and kissing his scalp.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Dem senator: Some women coming forward against Biden ‘because they support other candidates’
Discussion: RedState and Breitbart
Fox News:
Felicity Huffman to plead guilty in college admissions scandal: ‘I am ashamed of the pain I have caused’  —  Felicity Huffman has agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions cheating scam that has ensnared wealthy parents, Fox News has learned.  —  On Monday, the 56-year-old actress announced …
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam
Discussion: Law & Crime and Mercury News
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, is running for president  —  He joins a crowded presidential primary, potentially bolstered by his role on the House Intelligence Committee investigating Trump.  —  Avid followers of cable news Trump-Russia coverage are probably at least acquainted …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Private-equity firm Great Hill Partners has agreed to acquire Gizmodo Media Group from Univision Communications Inc., the companies said, ending the Spanish-language broadcaster's foray into English-language digital media.  —  James Spanfeller, the former chief executive of Forbes.com …
Kyle Korver / The Players' Tribune:
Privileged  —  PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES  —  W  —  hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.  —  When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.
CNN:
House Intelligence chair throws cold water on Cohen's bid for help delaying prison term  —  Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff is signaling he has no intention of helping Michael Cohen's quest to delay his upcoming three-year prison sentence after attorneys …
Washington Post:
'I've been battling Nadler for years': Feud between Trump, Democrat rooted in decades-old New York real estate project  —  Assembling a group of House Republicans at the White House to talk trade last month, President Trump suddenly launched into a tirade about the congressman leading …
Discussion: Politico, IJR and Mediaite
New York Times:
Sanctions Deal With Russian Oligarch Included Transfer of Shares to Benefit His Children  —  WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department allowed the influential Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska to satisfy the terms of his divorce by transferring tens of millions of dollars in stock to benefit …
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
A Tale Of Two Suburbs  —  I grew up at the top of a hill on the east bank of a river that burned.13 That determined so much.  —  My maternal grandparents bought the house where I grew up in 1949.  They were the rare Catholics in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland …
Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom  —  On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break.  While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.
Discussion: New York Times
Beth Van Schaack / Just Security:
BREAKING: Sri Lankan Presidential Hopeful Sued in Federal Court for Human Rights Violations  —  Human rights lawyers have sued Sri Lankan presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa in federal court in the Central District of California.  Rajapaksa, who is a joint Sri Lankan-U.S. citizen …
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Chelsea Manning's FBI Files Are Central to Ongoing Criminal Proceedings, Bureau Claims  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is refusing to make public any records it has amassed on whistleblower Chelsea Manning, even though the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst waived her rights under …
 
 
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Matthew Luxmoore / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Russian Prisons Reportedly Suspend Yoga After Claims It Makes Inmates Gay
USA Today:
Trump is wrong to say we're ‘full.’ Across Iowa and rural America, we need immigrants.
Alana Mastrangelo / Breitbart:
High School Student Hospitalized After Vandal Pepper Sprays Venue for TPUSA Event
Brooke Goren / DCCC:
100 DAYS IN: Freshman Dems Making Their Mark in the House
Rania Aniftos / Billboard:
Taylor Swift Donates $113,000 to Tennessee Equality Project to Fight Anti-LGBTQ Bills
Discussion: Deadline
Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
Barack Obama Says Not ‘Everyone Who Is Disturbed by Migration’ Can Be Branded ‘Racist’
Discussion: Louder With Crowder and TheBlaze
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Burke / The Hill:
House Judiciary chair calls on Mueller to testify before committee
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Ex-News Corp VP Quit Over Fox News' ‘Relationship With Facts’ and ‘Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Refugee, Anti-Muslim Rhetoric’
Discussion: CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Stacey Abrams gives a graduate school class on voter suppression
Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times:
The crowd-sourced, social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash and burn
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
NBC News:
Trump administration moves to undercut MLB's deal with Cuba
Discussion: Washington Post, TheBlaze and The Root
Kaitlin Byrd / Dame Magazine:
ELECTION 2020 WE'VE LEARNED NOTHING FROM ELECTION 2016
Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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