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1:30 AM ET, May 12, 2019

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Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Leaked Letters Reveal Details of NRA Chief's Alleged Spending  —  Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day, $18,300 for car and driver, ad agency says; NRA says board has ‘full confidence’ in him  —  National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre billed the group's ad agency $39,000 …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Documents: NRA Racked Up $24 Million in Legal Bills  —  The NRA has racked up huge legal bills over the last year that threaten to debilitate the organization, according to documents posted anonymously online that appear to be written by the group's ex-president Oliver North.
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump and his allies are blocking more than 20 separate Democratic probes in an all-out war with Congress  —  President Trump and his allies are working to block more than 20 separate investigations by Democrats into his actions as president, his personal finances and his administration's policies …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump seeks to limit judges' powers on injunctions after legal blows  —  President Trump is looking to stop lower courts from being able to issue wide-ranging injunctions in a move that could dramatically limit the authority of judges.  —  The plan comes as groups opposed to Trump have been able …
Jamie Raskin / Washington Post:   Congress isn't just a co-equal branch. We're first among equals.
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Harvard Drops Harvey Weinstein Lawyer as a Faculty Dean  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard said on Saturday that a law professor who is representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, bowing to months of pressure from students.
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
A group raised over $20 million to ‘build the wall.’ Now its supporters want answers.  —  A December fundraising campaign brought in more than $20 million over the course of a few weeks, its thousands of donors united by a common goal: the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, oft-promised by President Trump.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Michael Oren Doesn't Want To Talk About Israel  —  Michael Oren, born Michael Bornstein in New York in 1955, emigrated to Israel forty years ago and served in the Israeli Defense Forces.  After returning to the U.S. to receive a Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies from Princeton …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Killing the Pax Americana  —  Trump's trade war is about more than economics.  —  O.K., they weren't supposed to start the trade war until I got back from vacation.  And I really have too many kilometers to cover and hills to climb to weigh in on a regular basis or at great length.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Resurfaced video shows Joe Biden pushing border fence, calling for employers who hired ‘illegals’ to be punished  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden, while a senator in 2006, advocated for a southern border wall and punishment for employers who hired illegal immigrants.
Discussion: Townhall, IJR and CNN
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Beto O'Rourke is polling worse than ever
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Axios
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Sanders to join Ocasio-Cortez at rally as climate fight heats up
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
McConnell tells Trump ‘not to worry’ about Trump Jr. subpoena  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday urged President Donald Trump “not to worry” after the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Discussion: Breitbart, Power Line and The Hill
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Nick Clegg / New York Times:
Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer  —  Dismantling our company won't fix what's wrong with social media.  —  Mr. Clegg is Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications.  —  When does a company become too big or too successful to exist?
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country  —  KERMIT, W. Va. — It was a startling spectacle in the heart of Trump country: At least a dozen supporters of the president — some wearing MAGA stickers — nodding their heads, at times even clapping, for liberal firebrand Elizabeth Warren.
Discussion: The Guardian
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A reporter declined to reveal his source.  Then police showed up at his front door with guns.  —  Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.  —  About 10 officers from the San Francisco Police Department …
Reuters:
Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis  —  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Saturday he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with Pentagon officials to “cooperate” on a solution to the South American country's political crisis.
Washington Post:
Trump's interest in stirring Ukraine investigations sows confusion in Kiev  —  MOSCOW — As President Trump and his inner circle appear increasingly focused on Ukraine as a potential tripwire for Joe Biden and Democrats, officials about to take power in Kiev are pushing their own message: Leave us out of it.
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Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:   Rudy Giuliani's adventures abroad: How the former mayor is helping Trump anywhere he can
CNN:
Washington is flirting with a debt crisis.  No one has a plan to stop it  —  President Trump: 'It's time to stop this nonsense'  —  Washington (CNN)The US government is hurtling toward a potential financial crisis, and no one in Washington seems to know how to stop it.
VICE News:
Democrats Are Training to Appear on Fox News: “Everyone Has a Fox News Horror Story”  —  WASHINGTON — Former Hillary Clinton aide Jess McIntosh doesn't go on Fox News Channel anymore.  —  “They have an agenda,” she said.  “I stopped doing it a few months ago ... I didn't want to be a part of it.”
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Has a Strong Economy to Proclaim.  In Wisconsin, It Just Might Work.  —  COLFAX, Wis. — President Trump came to Wisconsin late last month to boast about the state's unemployment rate, which has been at or near 3 percent for more than a year.  “It's never been this low before.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: The Mexican father of alleged Colorado school shooter Alec McKinney, 16, was jailed for domestic violence and deported TWICE, with his son posting how he missed him just days before the atrocity  — Jose Evis Quintana, 33, was jailed for 15 months for domestic violence …
 
 
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Chuck Grassley:
Johnson, Grassley Seek State Department Documents Connected to Meeting with Christopher Steele …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Vice President Pence to graduates: Be prepared to be ridiculed for being Christian
Mark Hemingway / Wall Street Journal:
How Virginia's Top Democrats Survived a Storm of Scandal
Kathleen Joyce / Fox News:
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Trump is not ‘in the same class’ as Obama, Bush, ahead of state visit to Britain
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon will shift an additional $1.5 billion to help fund Trump's border wall
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Thirty-four GOP members buck Trump on disaster bill
Shahid Buttar / Latest - Truthout:
Democrats Against Impeachment Invite Autocracy and a Loss in 2020
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Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Liz Cheney confronts a dilemma and the GOP wonders: How high can she go?
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
They worked for Obama. They're not supporting Biden — yet.
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
For Harris, memories of a warrior mother guide her campaign
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's increasing embrace of Trump's Russia conspiracy theory
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Lobbyists Working to Undermine Medicare For All Host Congressional Staff at Luxury Resort
Discussion: Common Dreams
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Inside Syria's Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Politics is front and center for Russiagate probe — and the farce has reached new heights
Discussion: Power Line
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

 
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