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New York Times:
Retiring as a Judge, Trump's Sister Ends Court Inquiry Into Her Role in Tax Dodges — President Trump's older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, has retired as a federal appellate judge, ending an investigation into whether she violated judicial conduct rules by participating in fraudulent tax schemes with her siblings.
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump's sister retires from the federal judiciary to avoid ethics investigation into her taxes — On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Maryanne Trump Barry, President Donald Trump's older sister, is retiring as a federal judge. — Trump Barry, who sits on the Court of Appeals …
Wall Street Journal:
Former Obama White House Counsel Expects to Be Indicted — Legal heavyweight Greg Craig anticipates charge of making false statements to Justice Department unit checking into activities of foreign agents. Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be indicted in the coming days …
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Washington Post:
Gregory Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, expects to be charged in relation to Ukrainian work with Manafort, his lawyers say — The expected indictment — which his attorneys called “a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion” — stems from work Craig did with GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort …
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Washington Times and Raw Story
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Ex-Obama Counsel Expects to Be Charged Soon in Mueller-Related Case — WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Gregory B. Craig, a White House counsel in the Obama administration, expect him to be indicted in the coming days on charges related to his work for the Russia-aligned government of Ukraine.
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Politico, Slate, Splinter and The Daily Caller
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Adam Schiff just issued a stark warning about William Barr — As you've heard, on Wednesday morning, Attorney General William P. Barr made the remarkable claim that the Trump campaign might have been the target of “spying” by law enforcement during the 2016 campaign.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Pelosi: 'I don't trust Barr; I trust Mueller' — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she doesn't trust Attorney General William Barr and suggested his statements alleging President Donald Trump's campaign was spied on undermine Barr's independence as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Axios, CNN, Washington Press, The Week, Daily Kos, Politico, Vanity Fair, twitchy.com and Washington Post
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Barr is right, spying on Trump campaign did occur — Democrats and some in the media expressed shock and outrage when Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday that “spying did occur” on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. — Barr “must retract his statement immediately …
New York Times:
Barr Asserts Intelligence Agencies Spied on the Trump Campaign
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Power Line, Rolling Stone, Lawfare and Liberty Unyielding
CNN:
Barr says spying on Trump campaign ‘did occur,’ but provides no evidence
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
William Barr, Trump toady
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Washington Post:
National Enquirer expected to be sold imminently as parent company faces pressure — American Media Inc. is actively seeking to sell off the National Enquirer, according to three people familiar with the process who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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PR Newswire, Bloomberg, KTLA, Press Herald, Splinter, The Moderate Voice, The Week, The Wrap, Raw Story, Mediaite and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
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Bloomberg:
Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa — Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening.
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RedState, CNBC, Fox News, New York Post, The Verge, The Sun, Gizmodo and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
CNN:
Sources: Suspect taken into custody in connection with fires at three black churches in Louisiana — (CNN)A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with fires at three historically black Louisiana churches in 10 days, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation …
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Sarah Grossbart / E! Online:
Broken Friendships, Family Fights and Prison Sentence Anguish: How Lori Loughlin Is Coping With Her New Normal — Whatever happened to the woman who once declared her family wasn't interesting enough for prime time TV? — “We've been asked to do a reality show a couple times,” …
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Page Six and Vanity Fair
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg, Gay and Christian, Challenges Religious Right on Their Own Turf — WASHINGTON — As a religious gay man who believes his party has ceded discussion of religion and spirituality to Republicans, Pete Buttigieg, a Democratic candidate for president, is talking about God and sexuality …
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New Republic, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic and The Federalist
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Buttigieg Versus Pence: Another ‘Feud’ That Isn't
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The Daily Caller, IJR and Mediaite
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Netanyahu win would complicate prognosis for peace plan, analysts say — The apparent victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in Israeli elections clouds prospects for the Trump administration's yet-to-be-released peace plan and could further undermine bipartisan support for Israel in Congress, according to analysts.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Israel's Lesson for the Democrats in 2020
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Is Arrested in London — LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who released reams of secret documents that embarrassed the United States government, was arrested by the British police on Thursday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London …
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Mynewsdesk, NBC News, The Verge and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point — For years, there have been warnings that America's immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now. … SAN YSIDRO, Calif. — It was never like this before. — The migrants come now in the middle of the night or in the bright light of day.
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Front Page Magazine and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Treasury denies Democrats' request to hand over Trump's tax returns by the end of Wednesday, says it will confer with Justice — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied House Democrats' demand to release six years of President Trump's tax returns, saying the department could not complete …
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Treasury misses congressional deadline for turning over Trump's tax returns
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Axios, One America News Network, Breitbart and ABC News
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Is This the Dumbest Moment in Congressional History? — A Kentucky congressman's impossibly daft line of questioning left John Kerry flabbergasted — Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) may have studied robotics at MIT, but he is now responsible for one of the most asinine moments in congressional history.
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Splinter and The Mahablog
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016 — Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued in March says Russian hacking efforts were wide-ranging. — A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation …
Mediaite:
Kirsten Gillibrand's CNN Town Hall Pulls in Rock Bottom Ratings — CNN has hosted a series of 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates for town halls. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Senator Corey Booker, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar have all participated.
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Big League Politics, Front Page Magazine and RedState
Shane Croucher / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Jr. Praises Candace Owens for Defending Her Hitler Comments After Ted Lieu Airs Clip in Congress — Donald Trump Jr. has praised right-wing activist Candace Owens for her appearance on Capitol Hill, during which she defended her comments about nationalism and Adolf Hitler.
Ali Soufan / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago is a counterintelligence nightmare — Ali Soufan, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, is a private security consultant and the author of “Anatomy of Terror.” — Imagine that the White House, instead of a fortress, were an opulent country club.
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Trump Posted A Video With Music From A Batman Movie. Warner Bros. Had It Taken Down — On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted out a video. He gave no explanation of what it was or where it came from — just an exhortation to “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” — The video was odd …
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Shareblue Media, Breitbart, The Root, Trending Home and Vanity Fair
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
GOP eyes ‘Medicare for All’ vote to highlight Democratic splits — Senate Republicans, eager to exploit Democrats' divisions on health care, want to put their legislative rivals on the spot by bringing Sen. Bernie Sanders' “Medicare for All” bill to the floor for a vote.
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Washington Post
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Wired:
Facebook Is Changing News Feed (Again) to Stop Fake News — FACEBOOK IS TRYING to redefine authoritativeness on the internet as part of its efforts to fight the spread of misinformation and abuse on its platforms. — On Wednesday, the company rolled out a slew of announcements that aim …
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Josie Duffy Rice / New Yorker:
Jussie Smollett and the Impulse to Punish — On April 1st, several hundred people gathered outside the Cook County Administration Building, in downtown Chicago, for a protest organized by the local Fraternal Order of Police. The protesters, mostly male and almost all of them white …
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