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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
NRA Suspends Top Lawyer as Infighting Roils Group — Ousted President Oliver North warned board the NRA could lose its nonprofit status — Steve Hart, the longtime lawyer for the National Rifle Association board, has been suspended from that role, two people with knowledge of the move told The Daily Beast.
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
N.R.A. President to Step Down as New York Attorney General Investigates — INDIANAPOLIS — Oliver L. North announced on Saturday that he would not serve a second term as the National Rifle Association's president, deciding to step down as the organization grappled with a bitter dispute …
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USA Today:
NRA President Oliver North says he won't serve a second term after power struggle — At the NRA convention, President Trump announced his administration is withdrawing America's signature from the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. A global pact designed to regulate the sale of conventional weapons, from guns to battle tanks.
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Matthew Fuhrman / ABC News:
1 dead, 3 injured in shooting at San Diego synagogue during Passover celebration: Police — A woman was fatally shot and three others were injured in a shooting during a Passover celebration at a San Diego synagogue Saturday, officials said. — The shooting happened about 11:30 a.m. local time at the Chabad of Poway synagogue.
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Mario Sevilla / KGTV-TV:
Multiple people gunned down at Poway synagogue, man detained for questioning — (KGTV) — A man has been detained for questioning in connection with a shooting incident at the Chabad of Poway synagogue. — POWAY, Calif. (KGTV) — San Diego County Sheriff's deputies are responding to a shooting …
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Associated Press:
Officials: 4 injured in shooting at California synagogue — POWAY, Calif. (AP) — A shooting at a synagogue outside San Diego where worshippers were celebrating the last day of Passover sent four people to the hospital Saturday, but the extent of their injuries was not clear, officials said.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Gray Race for the White House — “Joe Biden. He understands what's happening today.” — The newspaper ad ran a few weeks before the 1972 Senate election in Delaware, when the upstart 29-year-old was challenging a 63-year-old incumbent. The ad, which appeared in The News Journal …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Stonewalling Pushes House Democrats Towards Impeachment — “Trump's opacity is moving some members into the impeachment camp,” one Democratic lawmaker tells The Daily Beast. “Translation: it's always the cover-up that gets 'em.” — Donald Trump's declaration this week …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House OKs testimony — with limits — from ex-security clearance chief
White House OKs testimony — with limits — from ex-security clearance chief
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
White House Counsel: Official Who Cleared Jared Kushner Agrees to Hill Interview
White House Counsel: Official Who Cleared Jared Kushner Agrees to Hill Interview
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Washington Post:
Hard-line views made Lou Dobbs a Fox powerhouse. Now he's shaping Trump's border policy. — One day in mid-March, President Trump gathered his top economic team at the White House to get its read on the state of the nation's financial health. — But before the Council of Economic Advisers finished …
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New York Times:
The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. — Nationwide, the arrival of white homeowners in places they've long avoided is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone. — RALEIGH, N.C. — In the African-American neighborhoods near downtown Raleigh, the playfully painted doors signal what's coming.
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Guantánamo Bay as Nursing Home: Military Envisions Hospice Care as Terrorism Suspects Age — With no sign that the prison will close, the Pentagon has begun planning for detainees to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Nobody has a dementia diagnosis yet …
Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:
New York Times internationally prints antisemitic cartoon of Trump, Netanyahu — New York Times admits cartoon had antisemitic tropes and says it was an error of judgement to publish. — The New York Times International Edition ran a cartoon of an apparently blind US President Donald Trump wearing …
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Rosalind Adams / BuzzFeed News:
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince's New Company Is Operating In Iraq — HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based security and logistics company founded by Erik Prince is working in the south of Iraq, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. — Prince, a former Navy SEAL and the brother …
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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Were ‘In a Position’ to Alter Florida Voter Rolls, Rubio Confirms — It was the day before the 2016 presidential election, and at the Volusia County elections office, near Florida's Space Coast, workers were so busy that they had fallen behind on their correspondence.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke switches his style and tone as the spotlight dims — As Beto O'Rourke prepared last month to tell the world that he would run for president, Vanity Fair unveiled its April cover featuring the Democrat from El Paso on a dusty road with his pickup truck, his dog and these words: “Man, I'm just born to be in it.”
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
The Raisin Situation — One man wanted to change the raisin industry for the better. He got more than he bargained for. — FRESNO, Calif. — Millennials just weren't eating raisins. So Sun-Maid, the century-old company with the iconic little red raisin boxes, hired someone to convince them that they should.
Jim Trotter / NFL.com:
49ers' Nick Bosa apologizes for controversial social media posts — SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There was a dais, a table, a chair, and a young man with something to say. Aware he was going to have to answer for controversial social media posts he had made over the last six years …
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Washington Post:
YouTube recommended a Russian media site thousands of times for analysis of Mueller's report, a watchdog group says — When the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III came out last week, offering the most authoritative account yet of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election …
Globe and Mail:
Canada's new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture — An analysis of 150,000 chat room messages paints a picture of a group that is actively recruiting new members, buying weapons and trying to influence political parties
Leah Litman / Slate:
A New Obstruction Case Against a Judge Proves William Barr's DOJ Is Now Just an Arm of President Donald Trump — It took Attorney General William Barr only one week from the release of the Mueller report to bring obstruction of justice charges against two governmental officials for interfering in a federal investigation.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Sam Donaldson slams Sarah Sanders: 'She's had a lifetime achievement Oscar for lying' — Former ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson took aim at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday, arguing that she is frequently dishonest with reporters while taking questions from the press.