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3:10 PM ET, April 10, 2019

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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr walks back claim that law enforcement spied on Trump campaign  —  Attorney General Bill Barr told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday that he believes spying by law enforcement officials on the 2016 Trump campaign “did occur,” before clarifying at the end of the hearing …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress  —  Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness.  —  Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's highly questionable use of Trump's ‘spying’ talking point  —  From almost the moment he was nominated as President Trump's attorney general, the question has been whether William P. Barr would do Trump's bidding.  He was assuming an important post in which Trump had grown frustrated …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia  —  James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, said senior bureau officials — including at least one deemed to be free of anti-Trump bias — discussed the possibility in May 2017 that President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Attorney general says he believes ‘spying did occur’ in campaign probe of Trump associates
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Paula Reid / CBS News:
William Barr believes spying “did occur” on Trump campaign — live updates
Discussion: Law & Crime and The Week
Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe
Wall Street Journal:
Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump's Inner Circle  —  Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence than previously known  —  The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office has gathered …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon  —  President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington.  —  During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
Washington Post:
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis  —  In President Trump's latest blowup over immigration, senior adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak …
Discussion: Politico, Arizona Mirror and Daily Kos
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CNN:
How Stephen Miller tightened his grip over Trump's immigration and border policy
Discussion: Political Wire and WGN-TV
John Burnett / NPR:
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren raises $6 million in first quarter  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $6 million in the first three months of the year, landing her in the middle of the pack of 2020 candidates and highlighting the difficulty ahead competing for money against more prolific fundraisers like Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke.
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren's campaign announces $6 million first-quarter haul as it makes huge hires in early states  —  Warren: I'm tired of a Washington that works for the rich  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised more than $6 million for her presidential bid in the first quarter of 2019 …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:   Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $6 million in first quarter of 2018, trailing several other presidential candidates
New York Times:
Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Democrats aren't saying much about immigration
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The growing signs of a rift between Trump and the Senate GOP
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Vox and CNN
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption.  —  Consider a head scratching set of conclusions.  The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …
Discussion: Raw Story
George Eaton / New Statesman:
Roger Scruton: “Cameron's resignation was the death knell of the Conservative Party”  —  The government adviser and philosopher reflects on Brexit and responds to charges of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.  —  It was in Paris in May 1968, as French workers and students revolted, that Roger Scruton became a conservative.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Smear Of Roger Scruton
Discussion: New Statesman
The Guardian:   Government sacks Roger Scruton after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia
Abby Vesoulis / TIME:
Donald Trump Inadvertently Killed the Pentagon Press Briefing.  Here's How That Hurts the Public  —  Gerard Butler's last action movie was about Navy SEALs rescuing a kidnapped Russian president to prevent World War III.  But the least realistic part may have been when the burly Scottish actor stood …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers  —  On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle.  —  There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …
Luke O'Neil / New York Magazine:
What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News  —  It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush.  —  Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who …
Discussion: NB Blog
Damon Linker / The Week:
There is no left left in Israel  —  Don't be fooled by misleading stories about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disappointing showing in Tuesday's election in Israel.  Even if the centrist Blue and White alliance of former military chief Benny Gantz were to eke out a very narrow victory …
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Washington Post:
In tightly fought election, Netanyahu appears set to clinch fifth term in office
Washington Post:
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out  —  The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.  —  If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Axios
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Steve Mnuchin tried to tell Maxine Waters how to run a congressional hearing.  It did not go well.  —  “Please cancel your meeting and respect our time.”  —  During a hearing on Tuesday, an exasperated Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters …
Discussion: ABC News, Slate, Common Dreams and The Root
CNN:
Tiny bees found in woman's eye, feeding off tears  —  (CNN)Doctors treating a Taiwanese woman for a swollen eye were shocked to find four tiny bees living under her left eyelid.  —  The miniscule insects, known as sweat bees, are 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12-0.16 inches) in length, according to CNN affiliate CTS.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
“Consent condom” requires four hands to open, making powerful statement about consent  —  With consent at the forefront of modern conversations about sex, one company is highlighting its importance in a unique way.  Argentinian company Tulipán has created a “consent condom” …
Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue:
The Awakening of Kim Kardashian West  —  WHEN I ENTER Kim Kardashian West's sprawling family home in Hidden Hills, California, on a warm afternoon in January, the first things I notice are boxes of Huggies sitting just inside the door.  They are reminders, if I need one …
Lawfare:
Memo to the Press: How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report  —  Back in February, writing with Susan Hennessey and Mikhaila Fogel, we laid out “Four Principles for Reading the Mueller Report.”  The report was then still vapor, a document whose preparation was widely hypothesized by most analysts …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Look at the Forest, Not the Trees: What We Do and Don't Know About 2020  —  In this age of constant stimulation and news and information overload, it is harder than ever to get perspective.  I am as guilty as anyone of getting sucked into the vortex of political twitter, only to emerge hours later with little to show for it.
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump has one big advantage heading into 2020. Here's a progressive response to it.
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Katie Galioto / Politico:
Buttigieg attracting praise from an unexpected audience — conservatives
Discussion: Slate
New York Times:
The Border Is Broken. And There's No Plan to Fix It.
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Mitch McConnell Just Brought Scott Pruitt Protégé Patrick Wyrick One Big Step Closer …
Discussion: Raw Story
Science:
Storied Jason science advisory group loses contract with Pentagon
Discussion: Gizmodo
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
$7 Million Trump Building Condo Tied to Scandal-Scarred Foreign Leader
Discussion: Bipartisan Report and Raw Story
Michael Luo / New Yorker:
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 Earlier Items: 
Chris Vance / The Seattle Times:
End Constitutional Catch-22 and impeach President Trump
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
‘Are you serious?’: John Kerry's climate change credentials challenged by GOP lawmaker
Ryan Petty / USA Today:
Parkland victim's father: Traumatized students shouldn't have been flung into politics
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has book coming in the fall
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Gary Cohn says Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security would be ‘political suicide’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Joel Kotkin / Quillette:
The End of Aspiration  —  Since the end of the Second World War …
John Gartner / USA Today:
Trump's cognitive deficits seem worse. We need to know if he has dementia: Psychologist
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Warner Bros. Shut Down Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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