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Graham Kates / CBS News:
John Kelly joins board of company operating largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children  —  In April, protesters outside the nation's largest facility for unaccompanied migrant children noticed a familiar face enter the massive, fenced site in Homestead, Florida: former White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Trump, Putin discussed Mueller report and agreed no collusion, White House says  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders spoke by phone for an hour on Friday.  —  President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday and both agreed …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Says He Discussed the ‘Russian Hoax’ in Phone Call With Putin  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that he discussed the “Russian Hoax” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in their first conversation since the release of the special counsel's report, which found that …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:   Trump and Putin Discuss Venezuela, Mueller Report
TASS:   Putin, Trump discuss nuclear disarmament, Venezuela, Mueller report during phone call
Associated Press:   Trump discusses ‘Russian Hoax’ in long call with Putin
Max Boot / Washington Post:
This nation is at the mercy of a criminal administration  —  Imagine that you live in a town that has been taken over by gangsters.  The mayor is a crook and so are the district attorney and police chief.  You can't fight city hall.  But at least you know you can turn for help to the state or federal government.
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Adam Schiff / USA Today:
William Barr lied to Congress about the Mueller report.  He should resign  —  Barr is the 2nd most dangerous man in the US.  By his logic, the Saturday Night Massacre was fine and Trump can end the 14 probes Mueller handed off.  —  CONNECT  —  The attorney general of the United States misled …
House Judiciary Dems / House Committee …:   House Judiciary Chairman Sends DOJ Detailed Counter Offer for Mueller Report Redactions and Underlying Evidence
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's 2 strangest defenses of Trump haven't gotten enough attention
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
2 Dems push D.C., Virginia bar associations to investigate Barr
Discussion: Washington Press
Anna Sanders / New York Daily News:
De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week: sources  —  Mayor de Blasio is expected to announce he's running for president next week, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans.  —  The 2020 announcement could come as early as de Blasio's birthday on Wednesday, when he'll turn 58, said one source.
Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal court ruled Friday that Ohio's congressional map is unconstitutional and ordered a new one be drawn for the 2020 elections.  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Axios
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ohio congressional map tossed out for partisan gerrymandering
Discussion: Washington Post
Gabe Rosenberg / NPR:   Federal Court Throws Out Ohio's Congressional Map
Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Remarkably unremarkable: Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls as the first major openly gay candidate for president  —  SOMERVILLE — It was both a remarkable and entirely unremarkable sight: Pete Buttigieg's husband shaking hands with voters who had lined up outside the Somerville Theatre to hear …
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
O'Rourke holds double-digit lead on Trump in head-to-head matchup: CNN poll
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Pete Buttigieg Is Exposing Tensions In The LGBTQ Movement
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Erik Prince Set Up Intel Training for Project Veritas, James O'Keefe: Report  —  Blackwater founder Erik Prince arranged for political activist James O'Keefe's conservative group Project Veritas to receive more than one round of “training in intelligence and elicitation techniques,” The Intercept reports.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Joe.My.God.
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Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union  —  Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.  —  The just-married socialist mayor …
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Why Joe Biden Might Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump  —  If you've been reading the liberal media and Left Twitter the past couple of months, you'd be certain of one thing: Joe Biden is hopelessly out of touch — too old, too white, too male, too handsy, too racist, too misogynist, too unwoke …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Barbara Allen / Poynter:
Letter from the Editor  —  Dear readers:  —  On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and researchers around the country.  Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“Teach Schmidt a Lesson”: Did the Department of Justice Give the Mueller Letter to the Post to Screw the Times?  —  The Times's Michael Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti thought they had a scoop—until it turned up in their biggest competitor.  And D.O.J. contacts told Times reporters it had been done to punish them.
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Floridians Gave Ex-Felons the Right to Vote.  Lawmakers Just Put a Big Obstacle in Their Way.  —  NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — In November, Florida voters approved a groundbreaking ballot measure that would restore voting rights for up to 1.5 million people with felony convictions.
Discussion: Miami Herald and Politico
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P.R. Lockhart / Vox:
Florida Legislature approves bill requiring former felons to pay fines and fees before voting
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs surge in April, unemployment rate falls to the lowest since 1969  —  KEY POINTS  —  US added 263,000 jobs in April, vs 190,000 expected  —  The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Watergate had the Nixon tapes.  Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes.  —  The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
William Barr Made A Major Disclosure In His Senate Hearing That Hardly Anyone Noticed  — Attorney General William Barr revealed during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer was an FBI source for information about George Papadopoulos.
Justin Caruso / Breitbart:
James Woods Banned from Twitter Amid Silicon Valley's Conservative Blacklisting Campaign  —  James Woods, one of the few conservative stars in Hollywood, has been locked out of his Twitter account for over a week now for “abusive behavior,” once again demonstrating the double standard …
Asha Rangappa / TIME:
What Happens Next with the Mueller Report?  The Answer May Lie in the Footnotes  —  If there's one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it's to pay attention to the footnotes.  In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there.
Joshua Goodman / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: US missed chance to woo Venezuela generals  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence …
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Winfree Under Consideration for Federal Reserve  —  The former domestic policy aide in the Trump White House now oversees economic policy at The Heritage Foundation  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's next nominee to the Federal Reserve board may be one of his former domestic policy aides …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Vanesa Vallejo / PanAm Post:
Venezuela: thugs loyal to Maduro decapitate opposition members ISIS style
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New York Times:
A Mueller Investigator Moves On (but Stays Mum)
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Mother of Otto Warmbier calls U.S. diplomacy with North Korea a ‘charade’
Discussion: Raw Story
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Trump Approval Remains High for Him, at 46%
Discussion: National Review
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Dan Rather, Still Fighting The former CBS News anchor opens up about Les Moonves, the state …
Discussion: Raw Story
emptywheel:
Did Rod Rosenstein Pressure Mueller to Enter the Plea Deal with Paul Manafort?
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats ask NRA execs, PR firm for documents related to alleged self-dealing
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