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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt  —  Trump resists calls for Pruitt resignation as White House reviews controversies  —  WASHINGTON—White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that he is convinced Environmental Protection …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
What's Driving Trump's Attacks on Amazon?  It's Personal  —  President's attacks on e-commerce company stem from its CEO Jeff Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post, which Trump says covers him unfairly, say people close to the White House  —  Early in President Donald Trump's term …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Staffers Are Freaking Out Even More Than Usual Right Now  —  Axios editor Mike Allen is a consummate Establishmentarian who has spent his career laboring to win the approval of elites in both parties.  Yesterday, Allen published a column headlined “The case for extreme worry.”
Umair Irfan / Vox:
3 environmental regulations Scott Pruitt has been dismantling amid his scandals
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico and Splinter
USA Today:
Donald Trump needs to fire EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, not promote him
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Vox and Fortune
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs …
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Jenna Lifhits / Weekly Standard:   New Russia Sanctions Are ‘What Obama Should Have Done in 2014’
Bloomberg:
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
Discussion: New York Magazine
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …
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Associated Press:
Trump wants out of Syria, but don't say ‘timeline’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spoken: He wants U.S. troops and civilians out of Syria by the fall.  But don't call it a “timeline.”  —  Wary of charges of hypocrisy for publicly telegraphing military strategy …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes  —  Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust?  —  You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.
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Madeleine Albright / New York Times:
Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late?  —  Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.  —  On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.
Discussion: Shakesville and Hullabaloo
Gordon G. Chang / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Right to Say He's Not Launching a Trade War With China.  He's Doing Something Bigger. … Hours ago, President Trump, acting under the authority of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, instructed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to consider the imposition of tariffs on $100 billion of Chinese goods.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Griswold / Los Angeles Times:
There's no ‘pot of gold’ at the end of a trade war with China
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner  —  President Trump said in a radio interview aired Friday that the U.S. isn't in a trade war because the trade war is “already lost,” and said he “probably won't” attend …
Discussion: Splinter and ThinkProgress
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Michael Sykes / Axios:
Sanders: Trump “absolutely” still believes trade wars are easy to win
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah McCammon / NPR:
‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl  —  As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning  —  The firing of Kevin Williamson from The Atlantic on the day he was set to give an opening Q&A in their offices was sadly unsurprising given the pattern of these types of hires.  It is an incident that will be referred to largely as a …
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:   Kevin Williamson is wrong. Hanging women who have an abortion is not pro-life
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts  —  The good news for Republicans is that President Trump's approval rating has, on balance, ticked up from 38 percent to 40 percent since January as attention has shifted from unpopular GOP proposals on healthcare and taxes to the economy, tariffs and Stormy Daniels.
YouTube:
Republican Trey Gowdy Was Known For Being Hyperpartisan — Until Trump (HBO) … South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man.  He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.
Discussion: NBC News and Political Wire
John Bowden / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump  —  likened her husband's presidency to having “the good parent” at home at a women's leadership conference on Thursday.  —  At the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, Obama appeared to take shots at President Trump
NBC News:
Without data-targeted ads, Facebook would look like a pay service, Sandberg says  —  Users' data are the lifeblood of Facebook, and if they wanted to opt out of all of the platform's data-driven advertising, they would have to pay for it, Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, told NBC News.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Daily Mail:
Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence  —  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Timothy Puko / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Looks to Protect Domestic Car Makers From Foreign Competition  —  Trump administration is examining stricter enforcement of environmental rules on imported vehicles  —  The Trump administration is pursuing ways to protect domestic vehicle manufacturing by forcing imported cars …
Discussion: Axios and Mother Jones
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Anthony Scaramucci on Bannon and back-stabbing in DC  —  It has taken a Herculean effort to pin down Anthony Scaramucci.  Our lunch was originally scheduled for last November.  Then Scaramucci stumbled on an old tweet by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber, which compared the language he used …
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Trump threat of $100 billion tariffs will ‘wake up’ China, Mitt Romney says  —  SANDY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump's proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn't think it would lead to trade war.
Discussion: Townhall, CNBC, Politico and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Rallying Nation  —  In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans are joining protests and getting political  —  Tens of millions of Americans have joined protests and rallies in the past two years, their activism often driven by admiration or outrage toward President Trump …
Discussion: Splinter
 
 
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Priscilla M. Jensen / Weekly Standard:
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
A Recording Of A CNN Boss Admitting The Company Wasn't Paying Any Attention To Gender Pay Has Leaked
Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Wire
New York Times:
Kenya Barris, Creator of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Said to Seek an Exit From ABC
Discussion: theGrio
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Former postman found with 400kg of undelivered mail in Italy
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
If taxes aren't working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks?
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
A key Virginia GOP state senator says he is willing to break ranks and vote to expand Medicaid
Politico:
Kander hires Des Moines Register scribe amid 2020 buzz
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Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland voters to be automatically registered; other bills become law without Gov. Hogan's signature
Discussion: Mother Jones
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
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Discussion: Jezebel
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
‘Chappaquiddick’ is a long-overdue dismantling of the Kennedy myth
Juli Briskman / Washington Post:
Why I'm suing for my right to flip off the president
Discussion: Politico