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CNN:
Barr's appearance at House hearing still up in the air because of dispute with Democrats — (CNN)Attorney General William Barr has warned Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee he won't show up to this week's highly anticipated hearing if they stick to the format the chairman has proposed …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Bill Barr Doubles Down on the Coverup — Attorney General Bill Barr has dramatically escalated his Mueller Report coverup and effort to effectively end independent oversight of his Department by Congress. According to this report, he is refusing to show up to testify this week …
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Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
Attorney general may withdraw from Mueller report hearing over terms of his testimony, House Democrats say — Democrats and the Justice Department are in a standoff over the terms of Attorney General William P. Barr's planned testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week …
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Splinter
Maya Parthasarathy / Politico:
Graham: 'I don't care' what happened between Trump and McGahn
Graham: 'I don't care' what happened between Trump and McGahn
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New York Post and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Congress returns to confront impeachment, infrastructure and much more
Congress returns to confront impeachment, infrastructure and much more
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Political Wire and Daily Wire
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Barr spars with Nadler, threatens to skip testimony after dispute over hearing format
Barr spars with Nadler, threatens to skip testimony after dispute over hearing format
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RedState and One America News Network
CBS News:
Sunday: Graham, Richmond, Parscale, Zarif
Sunday: Graham, Richmond, Parscale, Zarif
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The Hill, twitchy.com, Washington Times and IJR
Gabriela Resto-Montero / Vox:
Joe Biden wins some early Congressional support, but former colleagues see challenges ahead
Joe Biden wins some early Congressional support, but former colleagues see challenges ahead
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Washington Post, Breitbart and Axios
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Repeats a False Claim That Doctors ‘Execute’ Newborns — The president has made “executing babies” part of his refrain on abortion, but the evidence does not back him up. — WHAT TRUMP SAID … President Trump revived on Saturday night what is fast becoming a standard, and inaccurate …
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ThinkProgress, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Breitbart
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump: After Birth, Baby is “Wrapped in a Blanket” and Mother, Doctor “Decide Whether to Execute the Baby” — President Donald Trump skipped the White House Correspondents' dinner Saturday night and instead held a raucous rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he hit several familiar themes.
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Townhall, Mother Jones and Hullabaloo
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Even Away From Correspondents' Dinner, Trump Makes Sure to Have His Say
Even Away From Correspondents' Dinner, Trump Makes Sure to Have His Say
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Associated Press and Axios
Washington Post:
Richard Lugar, six-term senator and leading voice on foreign policy, dies at 87 — Richard G. Lugar, a six-term Indiana senator who became one of the foremost voices on U.S. foreign policy — championing efforts to end apartheid in South Africa, oust Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos …
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David Cohen / Politico:
Richard Lugar, longtime GOP Senate stalwart, dies at 87 — Richard Lugar, the longest-serving U.S. senator in the history of Indiana and an ardent foe of nuclear proliferation, has died. He was 87. — The Lugar Center reported he “died peacefully on Sunday April 28 at 1:44 am …
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Axios
The Lugar Center:
Passing of Former Senator Richard G. Lugar
Passing of Former Senator Richard G. Lugar
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NPR and Outside the Beltway
Robert Evans / bellingcat:
Ignore The Poway Synagogue Shooter's Manifesto: Pay Attention To 8chan's /pol/ Board — On April 27, 2019, at around 11:30 a.m. local time, a young man with a semi-automatic rifle walked into the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in Poway, California. He opened fire, killing one worshipper and wounding three others.
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KGTV-TV
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Mass Shootings Have Become a Sickening Meme — Online messages from suspects in shootings at a California synagogue and a New Zealand mosque were similar. — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. — Hours before the shooting on Saturday at the Chabad of Poway synagogue outside San Diego …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Despicable Cartoon in The Times — The paper of record needs to reflect deeply on how it came to publish anti-Semitic propaganda. — As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
The 2020 election isn't going to be close — The 2020 election isn't going to be close. — The first-quarter gross domestic product growth rate of 3.2 percent sets up the first reality that will be noted in November 2020 because it telegraphs where the economy will be then: not in recession.
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Hullabaloo
Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
Trump Calls Ex-FBI Officials ‘Scum,’ Takes Credit For ‘Sick’ Immigrant Plan At Rally — The president ranted for nearly 90 minutes in Wisconsin on the same night as the White House Correspondents' Dinner. — President Donald Trump disparaged former FBI and Justice Department officials …
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Rolling Stone and POLITICUSUSA
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Sally Yates: If Trump weren't president, he would be indicted on obstruction — Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said on “Meet the Press” Sunday that if Trump were not president, he would likely be indicted for obstructing justice in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Breitbart
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Sally Yates: Trump would be indicted on obstruction of justice if he were not president
Sally Yates: Trump would be indicted on obstruction of justice if he were not president
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Washington Press
The Daily Beast:
If Trump Weren't President, He Would Already Be Charged — The Mueller Report contains a case against the president as strong as many we saw working as federal prosecutors. — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report is 448 pages long, full of shocking conduct and detail …
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Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden and Obama's ‘Odd Couple’ Relationship Aged Into Family Ties — Four years ago, Barack Obama gently discouraged him from running for president, but Joseph R. Biden Jr. is back and presenting himself as Mr. Obama's natural heir. — WASHINGTON — Barack Obama did not think Joseph R. Biden Jr …
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Hot Air, The Root, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Beth Baumann / Townhall:
WATCH: Bartiromo's Interview With Border Patrol Agents Was Interrupted... By Illegal Aliens Crossing The Border — Fox News' Maria Bartiromo conducted a special episode of “Sunday Morning Features” at the United States-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. During her interview …
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RedState
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Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:
Border Patrol is now releasing migrant families directly in Tucson
Border Patrol is now releasing migrant families directly in Tucson
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RealClearPolitics, Townhall and Big League Politics
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Joe Biden On Anita Hill In 1998: ‘She Was Lying’ — It's true that Joe Biden did his best to help Anita Hill, including concealing witnesses who would have been a disaster under examination. But even he admitted to his colleague that Hill was lying. — Former vice president Joe Biden repeatedly …
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YouTube
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's $2 trillion spending dream — At last month's St. Patrick's Day lunch in the Capitol, President Trump told Richard Neal, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House's tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, that he wants to spend close to $2 trillion on infrastructure …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
House Democrats Feel Little Pressure From Voters to Impeach Trump — IRVINE, Calif. — The hundred-odd students who gathered on the hilltop campus of Concordia University here on a sunny Thursday morning had a lot of questions for Representative Katie Porter on abortion, immigration, voting rights and the 2020 primary races.
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Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Bolton confirms U.S. signed document to pay North Korea for Otto Warmbier — National security adviser John Bolton confirmed on “Fox News Sunday” that a Trump administration official signed a document pledging to pay North Korea a $2 million hospital bill to release Otto Warmbier, but that no money was ultimately transferred.
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Fox News, Balloon Juice, One America News Network, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart and New York Post