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3:10 PM ET, May 8, 2017

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NBC News:
Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials  —  Former President Obama warned President Donald Trump against hiring Mike Flynn as his national security adviser, three former Obama administration officials tell NBC News.  —  The warning, which has not been previously reported …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Washington Loves General McMaster, But Trump Doesn't  —  The national security adviser has lost sway.  The White House says everything's fine.  —  For the Washington establishment, President Donald Trump's decision to make General H.R. McMaster his national security adviser in February was a masterstroke.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘The president is threatening a witness’: CNN analyst slams Trump's ‘disturbing’ Sally Yates tweets  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  President Donald Trump has drawn a lot of criticism for his decision to lash out at former acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday …
Discussion: IJR and The Root
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Former CIA agent mocks Trump's Sally Yates tweets: ‘The president is a little confused this morning’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  President Donald Trump was up early tweeting Monday, defending his close friend and former national security adviser retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
CNN:
Obama warned Trump about hiring Flynn, sources say
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
The Note: Sally Yates goes under oath on Russia
Discussion: Joe.My.God., RedState and Politico
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:   Obama Warned Trump About Hiring Flynn, Officials Say
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency's regulatory reach …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA dismisses half of key board's scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels  —  Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department are overhauling a slew of outside advisory boards that inform how their agencies assess the science underpinning policies …
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Less Than A Third Of The Public Supports The GOP's New Health Care Bill  —  But Trump voters are considerably more supportive of this bill than the last version.  —  Less than a third of the public favors the new Republican health care bill just passed by the House of Representatives, a HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Republican Principle Is Shed in the Fight on Health Care
Discussion: New York Sun
John McCain / New York Times:
Why We Must Support Human Rights  —  Washington, D.C. — SOME years ago, I heard Natan Sharansky, the human rights icon, recount how he and his fellow refuseniks in the Soviet Union took renewed courage from statements made on their behalf by President Ronald Reagan.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
McCain hammers Tillerson in NYT op-ed
Discussion: Political Wire
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
35 of 37 economists said Trump was wrong.  The other two misread the question.  —  President Trump's administration says his tax cut will pay for itself.  It turns out it's really hard to find an economist who agrees.  —  The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business regularly polls economists on controversial questions.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Keith Olbermann: Trump ‘exerted influence’ on CNN talks  —  Keith Olbermann reveals in a recent New York Times Magazine interview that he was in talks to rejoin MSNBC or CNN, but says “influence” from President Trump is one of the reasons the talks failed.  —  In the Sunday Times Magazine piece titled …
Discussion: RedState
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Greg Howard / New York Times:   Keith Olbermann Was Once Cable News's Liberal Standard-Bearer. Now He's Missing Its Boom Times.
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
A Hidden Hand in the Trump-Russia Drama Owns a Ramen Shop.  No, Seriously. … One of the better-connected, more knowledgeable people on the ties between the Kremlin and Trump Tower—other than the investigators currently working full-time on the topic—is a ramen shop owner named Jeff Jetton.
USA Today:
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are fake populists: Sen. Sherrod Brown  —  True populism unites.  A true populist tells people the truth.  Our president divides with falsehoods.  —  CONNECT  —  Donald Trump is a populist.  So are Marine Le Pen and Steven Bannon.  —  Really?
Hadas Gold / Politico:
George Will joins MSNBC  —  Washington Post columnist George Will has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor.  —  Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, was most recently a contributor at Fox News, though he became a free agent in January when Fox declined to renew his contract.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Party Like It's 1984  —  There have been many bad laws in U.S. history.  Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses.  Some were all of the above.  —  But has there ever been anything like Trumpcare, the health legislation Republicans rammed through the House last week?
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
We Could Have Been Canada  —  Was the American Revolution such a good idea?  —  And what if it was a mistake from the start?  The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices …
Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - Tiffany Trump goes to Washington: First Daughter will attend law school at Georgetown, joining her dad Donald and big sister Ivanka in the nation's capital  — Tiffany Trump will be attending law school at Georgetown University in the fall a spokesperson for the family revealed to DailyMail.com
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
For Fussy Liberals, It's Always Apocalypse Right Now  —  Liberals are upset - they're always upset - that the evil GOP of Hate has condemned America to a return to a marginally more progressive version of the nightmarish hellscape that was our country before Obamacare passed on March 21, 2010.
John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Pepe the Frog’ creator kills off cartoon that became alt-right meme  —  The creator of the “Pepe The Frog” character has laid his popular Internet meme to rest.  —  In a special strip for Free Comic Book Day, artist Matt Furie drew a one-page special edition of his famous comic, “Pepe The Frog,” in a casket at his funeral.
New York Post:
Eric Trump denies report that Russia funded dad's golf courses  —  SEE ALSO  —  Eric Trump on Sunday condemned a report that claimed his father got funding for his golf courses from the Russians.  —  “It's a recollection from some guy three years ago through a third person,” …
Manu Raju / CNN:
In angry letter, Page discloses ‘brief interactions’ with Russian official  — The former Trump campaign adviser attacked the Senate intelligence committee's “bitter” investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page told Senate investigators that he had …
Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
The Billionaire and the Flood: How a Tragedy Transformed the Greenbrier Resort and the Blue-Collar Town that Depended on It  —  One year ago this June, a historic flood lashed West Virginia, killing 23 people and crumpling homes.  It also exposed the complicated relationship between a resort …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Drug lobbyist arrested after drunken fracas  —  A Washington lobbyist for a major drug company was arrested at a Republican political event in Florida late Saturday after he got in an altercation with a man, screaming obscenities and making sexual advances on the person's wife, according to a police report.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Coming soon: The fiscal cliff to end all fiscal cliffs  —  If President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress think they've been under pressure to produce lately, just wait a few months.  —  Over the next several months, Republicans will have to figure out how to cut deals with Democrats …
Boston Herald:
Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-writing a thriller  —  In this combination photo, former President Bill Clinton, left, appears at a political event at Upper Moreland High School in Willow Grove, Pa. on April 12, 2012, and author James Patterson appears at a photo session in New York on Aug. 30, 2016.
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Republican enraged at court order making it easier for people to vote  —  Karen Handel said it should “boil your blood” that registration is temporarily reopened in Georgia's sixth district.  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to reopen voter registration before the June run-off …
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Apple market cap tops $800 billion for the first time  —  Apple's stock continues to hit new highs — and on Monday, investors pushed Apple's total market value to over $800 billion.  —  Apple shares briefly surpassed a price of $153.44 a share, and with Apple's 5.214 billion shares outstanding …
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Most GOP members not holding town halls
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
NBC News:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart:
San Francisco Chronicle Admits: Some Anti-Trump Protesters are Paid
Alex Beam / BostonGlobe.com:
Hey Walmart, Amazon is eating your lunch
CBS Denver:
Students Hit President Trump's Face On Piñata, Teacher Suspended
Discussion: IJR and FOX31 Denver
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
It sure sounds like John Kasich might primary President Trump in 2020
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
That Viral Video of a Girl Calling Donald Trump a Disgrace is Totally Fake
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Backer Mercer Sued By Employee Who Was Fired After Speaking Out
Discussion: Mediaite
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Mississippi's richest county uses police checkpoints to enforce segregation, lawsuit claims
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
Port Authority says nearby construction caused Oculus leak
Bernard L. Fraga / Washington Post:
Why did Trump win? More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump to Announce Slate of Conservative Federal Court Nominees