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CNN:
House Democrat says Mueller, Judiciary Committee reach deal for special counsel to testify on May 15  —  (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reached a tentative agreement to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, according to committee member Rep. David N. Cicilline.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
House Democrat walks back Mueller's “tentative” agreement to testify on May 15  —  After claiming on Fox News Sunday that the House Judiciary Committee and a representative for special counsel Robert Mueller have agreed to a “tentative date” of May 15 for Mueller to testify, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said that was not the case.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Mueller and House Judiciary Committee tentatively agree on May 15 for his testimony on Russia investigation, House Democrat says  —  Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.), a member of the committee, said on Fox News Sunday that the special counsel and the panel had reached a tentative agreement for his testimony.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Fair Play Is No Match for Foul  —  After getting dissed by Barr, will Mueller man up?  —  Sorry, James Comey.  You're wrong again.  —  Donald Trump does not eat “your soul in small bites,” as you wrote in a Times Op-Ed. He devours the entire thing in one big gulp.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael Conway / NBC News:   If William Barr continues to defy subpoenas, Watergate offers House Democrats several options
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Democrat says date for Mueller testimony has been proposed but not yet agreed
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jack Goldsmith / Lawfare:
Thoughts on Barr and the Mueller Report
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Breitbart
Fred Wertheimer / NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi has set House Democrats on a road that may lead to Trump's impeachment
Discussion: Splinter and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Wallace Confronts Pompeo on Trump's Russia Contradiction: Is Putin Propping Up a Dictator or Looking for Something Positive?  —  Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday over President Donald Trump's defense of Russia's involvement in Venezuela.
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Pompeo warns Russia against ‘messing around with Venezuela’
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 5-5-19: Secretary Mike Pompeo and Sen. Bernie Sanders
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Sung-Yoon Lee / New York Times:
Kim Jong-un Shot a Rocket? He Wants to Talk
Discussion: Gizmodo, Mother Jones and Slate
New York Times:
Can a Woman Win?  2020 Candidates Offer an Easy Answer: ‘I Have’  —  CRESTON, Iowa — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York had a request: Before anyone mocked her claim that she was the Democratic presidential candidate best positioned to take on President Trump, at least listen to the evidence.
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Sanders pushes back against Biden's claim he's the ‘most progressive’ candidate in the Democratic field
Discussion: Political Wire, Axios and New York Post
Mark Murray / NBC News:
‘Hung jury’: Public remains divided over Mueller probe in new NBC/WSJ poll  —  Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has been dishonest in the Russia investigation, but it's a mixed bag on impeachment hearings.  —  WASHINGTON — Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Taps Mark Morgan as Head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement  —  Morgan served as Border Patrol chief in final months of Obama Administration  —  President Trump said Sunday that he was appointing Mark Morgan, a former Border Patrol chief under the Obama administration …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump names ex-Obama Border Patrol chief new head of ICE  —  President Trump tweeted on Sunday that Mark Morgan, a career FBI official and the former head of Border Patrol during the last few months of the Obama administration, will become the new director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Daily Mail:
It is clear that the voters delivered their judgment in large part based on what is happening - or not happening - at Westminster  —  The voters expect us to deliver on the result of the referendum and, so far, Parliament has rejected the deal which I have put forward.
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Associated Press:
Let's make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition
Katie Jennings / Politico:
May to Corbyn: 'Let's do a deal' on Brexit
Discussion: Political Wire and The Guardian
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Liberal megadonors plan $100 million swing-state blitz to beat Trump  —  The country's most powerful liberal donor club is reshaping its spending on the 2020 elections, playing down longtime relationships with groups in Washington and instead preparing to pour $100 million into key states to help defeat President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden gives Trump a nickname: ‘Clown’  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Biden on Saturday referred to President Donald Trump as a “clown” after a supporter asked the former vice president whether he would return Trump's insults.  —  Biden, who is on the first swing of his 2020 campaign …
Discussion: Fox News, Bloomberg, Axios and Mediaite
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:   Joe Biden targets Trump, vows to 'restore America's soul' in first SC 2020 campaign stop
Claire Bond Potter / New York Times:
Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.  —  It was pushed by Madison Avenue and preached by self-help gurus.  Then it entered politics.  —  Ms. Potter is a professor of history.  —  If the supposedly unlikable Hillary Clinton didn't break the highest, hardest glass ceiling in 2016 …
Discussion: Althouse
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Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Ticket prices plunge for Bill and Hillary Clinton's speaking tour
The Times of Israel:
Ashdod man seriously injured by Gaza rocket; IDF to continue retaliatory strikes  —  3 Israelis killed, dozens injured as Gaza terrorist groups fire over 600 rockets and mortars at Israel; retaliatory IDF strikes said to kill at least 12 Palestinians  —  The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday's events as they unfold.
Discussion: Townhall, Haaretz and Associated Press
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Spy by Any Name  —  A few questions about the F.B.I.'s don't-call-it-spying on the Trump campaign.  —  Back in the golden age of presidential conduct, before Donald Trump wrecked every norm and smashed every guardrail, someone — either in Lyndon Johnson's White House or in Langley …
Discussion: New York Post, Washington Post and CNN
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump blames Kentucky Derby result on ‘political correctness’  —  President Trump on Sunday blamed the result of the Kentucky Derby on “political correctness,” arguing that the horse that crossed the wire first should not have been disqualified.  —  “The Kentuky Derby decision was not a good one …
David Cohen / Politico:
Klobuchar: Trump not serious about election security  —  Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar said Sunday that President Donald Trump has no incentive to make sure that American elections are secure and uncompromised.  —  “We have ample evidence that he has not been responding …
 
 
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Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
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Security-tech companies once flocked to Myanmar.  One firm's tools were used against two journalists.
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Discussion: Washington Post
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
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