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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 …
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One America News Network, Washington Examiner and New York Times
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 …
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Rolling Stone, The Federalist and Raw Story
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 …
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Raw Story
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Bill Barr Is Trying Hard to Be President Trump's Roy Cohn
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Washington Post, The Guardian and Washington Monthly
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
William Barr, Trump toady
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Paula Reid / CBS News:
William Barr believes spying “did occur” on Trump campaign — live updates
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Law & Crime and The Week
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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Axios, The Week, Washington Free Beacon and Political Wire
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren becomes latest presidential hopeful to release 2018 tax returns
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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The growing signs of a rift between Trump and the Senate GOP
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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 …
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Politico, Arizona Mirror and Daily Kos
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
GOP senators try to undermine Kushner's immigration plan
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The Hill, Axios, McClatchy Washington Bureau and Big League Politics
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House eyeing former head of anti-immigration group for DHS job
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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 …
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Raw Story
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Smear Of Roger Scruton — The attempt to remove Roger Scruton from an honorary advisory role on the U.K. government's “Building Better, Building Beautiful” commission failed when it was tried last November. But it succeeded today. — “You expect people who spend their lives on Twitter …
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New Statesman
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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 …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Hosts Back Mnuchin in His Testy Exchange With Maxine Waters
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Politico, CNN and Contemptor
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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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Kirstjen Nielsen's Job Prospects Are Probably Pretty Slim
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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 …
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Associated Press, WGN-TV, Media Matters for America and KTLA
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.
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The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions — Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God's wrath.” — The act of public atonement …
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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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Trump is spurring more migration to the U.S. — over the short and long term — Data released by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday reinforce the dramatic increase in the number of migrants coming to the United States from and through Mexico.
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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 …
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Daily Wire, TheBlaze and Axios
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.
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New York Times
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 …
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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
DHS, FBI say election systems in 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 …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
A QAnon Believer Is Running for Congress and Is Currently Unopposed in His Republican Primary — Matthew Lusk says he is not a ‘brainwashed cult member.’ He just has some questions. — Believers in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory are fond of telling each other to “Trust the Plan” …
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Mediaite
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” …
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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