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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Proposes Executive Orders on Gun Control — Senator Kamala Harris of California, the former prosecutor who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Monday committed to a host of executive actions to implement gun control measures that have long failed to pass in Congress.
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JustOneMinute
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Washington Post:
Sen. Kamala Harris says she supports impeaching Trump — Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on Monday called for the House to impeach President Trump, becoming the latest 2020 presidential contender to do so after the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Kyung Lah / CNN:
Kamala Harris promises swift executive action if Congress doesn't pass gun control legislation
Kamala Harris promises swift executive action if Congress doesn't pass gun control legislation
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump approval sinks 5 points after Mueller report, tying all-time low — President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped 5 points, equaling his presidency's low-water mark, since last week's release of the special counsel report into the 2016 election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
What you missed in the Mueller report — Robert Mueller keeps on giving. — Dozens of overlooked nuggets are buried deep inside the special counsel's 448-page report that raise yet more intriguing questions about Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and shed new light on charges Mueller considered …
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Political Wire, CNBC and Consortiumnews.com
Evan McMullin / NBC News:
Trump welcomed the Russian attack and obstructed resulting investigations, an impeachable offense
Trump welcomed the Russian attack and obstructed resulting investigations, an impeachable offense
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Raw Story
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a ‘Useful Idiot’
Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a ‘Useful Idiot’
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CNN and New York Times
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mueller's findings: Too stupid to conspire. Too incompetent to obstruct. — I learned the hard way that predictions are perilous in the current age: I literally ate a column asserting that Republicans would never nominate Donald Trump for president. — So please forgive this victory lap …
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Raw Story and Rolling Stone
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump's Monday night retweeting blitz — President Donald Trump undertook a retweeting blitz on Monday night, surfacing 24 posts in about 30 minutes that went back as far as a year and covered topics from the Mueller report to Easter festivities at the White House.
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Fox News, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Constraints on presidency being redefined in Trump era, report fallout shows
Constraints on presidency being redefined in Trump era, report fallout shows
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Raw Story, Mercury News, What The Fuck …, Politico and Mediaite
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Puts Off Formal Rebuttal to Mueller as He Defends Trump
Giuliani Puts Off Formal Rebuttal to Mueller as He Defends Trump
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Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Sri Lanka Was Warned of Possible Attacks. Why Didn't It Stop Them? — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle of the night that one suspect would visit his wife. — In the days leading …
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Politico, Washington Post, American Greatness, The Takeaway, Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone, NPR, CNN, Media Matters for America, IJR and Outside the Beltway
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Washington Post:
Christianity under attack? Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West.
Christianity under attack? Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West.
Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attacks
Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attacks
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The Atlantic
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Sri Lanka Shut Down Social Media. My First Thought Was ‘Good.’
Sri Lanka Shut Down Social Media. My First Thought Was ‘Good.’
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The Verge, Front Page Magazine, American Greatness, Washington Post and Reason, more at Mediagazer »
Philly.com:
Joe Biden campaign launch back in flux, potentially delayed — WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's plans are in flux again. — If the former vice president does launch his presidential campaign this week, it won't involve a trip to Charlottesville, Va., and plans for potential public events …
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Political Wire
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David Siders / Politico:
Biden, Beto falter in new progressive straw poll — Bernie Sanders has solidified his front-runner standing among members of the progressive political action committee Democracy for America, while Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke have both fallen back sharply, according to the group's latest straw poll.
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Political Wire and Axios
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CNN:
White House tells official not to comply with Democratic subpoena over security clearances — (CNN)The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview …
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Political Wire and The Week
BBC:
Donald Trump's state visit to the UK set for 3 June — US President Donald Trump will make a three-day state visit to the UK from 3 to 5 June, Buckingham Palace has announced. — The president and First Lady Melania Trump will be a guest of the Queen and attend a ceremony in Portsmouth to mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
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Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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Zia Weise / Politico:
Donald Trump set for UK state visit in June
Donald Trump set for UK state visit in June
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CNN, Washington Post and The Guardian
Washington Post:
The Supreme Court must see through the obvious sabotage behind Trump's census question — THE SUPREME COURT will hear arguments Tuesday about who counts, quite literally, in the eyes of the federal government. How many representatives the various states get in Congress for the decade beginning in 2020 …
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Joe Lockhart / New York Times:
There's a Bigger Prize Than Impeachment — Keeping Trump in office will destroy the Republican Party. — Mr. Lockhart served as White House press secretary from 1998 to 2000. — In the fall of 1998, Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff, traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with the speaker of the House.
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Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Stranger
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Facebook's new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act — ‘Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission,’ says Sheryl Sandberg — Jennifer Newstead, a Trump appointee who served in the Justice Department under President Bush …
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Fortune and Facebook, more at Techmeme »
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Sayanti Chakraborty / Reuters:
Facebook hires State Department lawyer as general counsel
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Klobuchar has ‘please clap’ moment, says CNN's Chris Cuomo ‘creeping’ over shoulder during town hall — 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., saw a couple of viral moments during a televised town hall on Monday night. — The first: what critics and analysts have called her “please clap” moment.
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Breitbart
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Trump says New York Times will have to ‘get down on their knees’, ‘beg for forgiveness’ over their coverage — President Trump said in an early Tuesday morning tweet that the New York Times will have to “get down on their knees” and “beg for forgiveness” over coverage of his presidency.
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Politico and Washington Post
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
What to do about Sarah Sanders? White House reporters have a few ideas. — Reporters have long approached White House press secretary Sarah Sanders with a trust-but-verify attitude, knowing full well that Sanders is tasked with spinning some of the more unspinnable statements made by her boss, President Trump.
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RedState and PJ Media Home
Liam Dillon / Los Angeles Times:
California housing bill targeting wealthy cities could rezone nearly all of Palo Alto … Few California communities have as many trappings of the good life as Palo Alto. The Silicon Valley suburb is home to two of the state's highest-earning neighborhoods, top-performing public schools …
Tonya Riley / Mother Jones:
What Andrew Yang's Universal Basic Income Would Actually Look Like — April 15, the day tax returns are due to the IRS, is always an easy moment for politicians to grandstand about their plans to change how the government collects money. And on this year's Tax Day last Monday …
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The Hill