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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen — The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.
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Mueller Investigating Ukrainian's $150,000 Payment for a Trump Appearance — WASHINGTON — The special counsel is investigating a payment made to President Trump's foundation by a Ukrainian steel magnate for a talk during the campaign, according to three people briefed on the matter …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations … Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, according to three people with knowledge of the case.
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The Daily Beast:
Feds Are Treating Michael Cohen Like a Mob Lawyer, Trump Allies Say … Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are treating Michael Cohen like he's a lawyer for the mob. That's how seasoned white collar defense attorneys describe the raid on Cohen's office, home, and hotel room conducted on April.
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'A bomb on Trump's front porch': FBI's Cohen raids hit home for the president … President Trump has howled in all caps for nearly a year as the Justice Department has delved deeper and deeper into his orbit. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III indicted his former campaign chairman.
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Searched and Seized: F.B.I. Agents Raid Michael Cohen's New York Hotel — Law-enforcement agents spent several hours at the Loews Regency hotel on Monday morning, as they executed a search warrant against the president's personal lawyer. Cohen's attorney said they were referred by Robert Mueller.
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Ken White / Reason:
Feds Raid Office of Trump Lawyer Who Paid Off Stormy Daniels. This Is a Big Deal. — The search of Michael Cohen's office, explained. — The very big news of the day: FBI agents raided the law office of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's lawyer who was involved in payment of $130,000 …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stormy Daniels lawyer predicts Cohen will ‘fold like a cheap deck of cards’ … Stormy Daniels's lawyer predicted President Trump — 's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, would “fold like a cheap deck of cards” after the FBI raided Cohen's office and home on Monday.
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Wall Street Journal:
FBI Raids Trump Lawyer's Office — Investigators seize communications between President Donald Trump and longtime lawyer Michael Cohen — Federal investigators on Monday searched the office of President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, seizing communications between the lawyer …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside the West Wing with Trump enraged
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Top Trump economic adviser looking for the exits
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Ken White / Popehat:
The Search of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen's Office: What We Can Infer Immediately
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Bloomberg:
Trump Assails FBI Raid on His Lawyer's Office as ‘Disgraceful’
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Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
Mueller is investigating a $150,000 payment a pro-Russian oligarch made to the Trump Foundation during the campaign
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump slams FBI for raid of his personal attorney's office
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Mueller looking into $150K payment Ukrainian magnate made for Trump appearance: report
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Trump slams FBI raid on lawyer's office, calls Mueller probe ‘an attack on our country’
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Goes on Marathon Rant Questioning Whether Assad Is Behind Attack in Syria — Tucker Carlson embarked on a nearly 10-minute diatribe to kick off his Monday night show, railing against those condemning the Bashar al-Assad regime for its alleged chlorine attack on a town in Syria.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
After Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria, Trump Weighs Retaliation
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Sinclair commentator resigns after crude tweet about Parkland survivor David Hogg … A conservative commentator at a Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned television station in St. Louis has resigned after a statement he made threatening to sexually assault David Hogg drew harsh criticism and sparked the beginnings of an advertiser boycott.
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Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Been Accused Of Helping The Vietnamese Government Crack Down On Dissent — The open letter from human rights activists and independent media groups in Vietnam criticizing Mark Zuckerberg comes ahead of his Congressional hearings and amid a rising tide of global criticism over Facebook's content moderation policies.
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David McCabe / Axios:
Capitol Hill's early reviews for Mark Zuckerberg
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
A Second Paul Manafort Associate Has Turned on Him … Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has trouble in his own house. According to court documents, one of Manafort's former employees led an FBI agent to a storage locker filled with paperwork on Manafort's businesses and finances.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake — For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Take that down’: Howard Kurtz surprised after graphic pops up showing Fox News is least trusted network — Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz on Sunday implored his producer to take down a graphic that showed his own network was the least trusted of the big three cable networks.
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Chuck Schumer / Associated Press:
Fox News Host: Graphic Posted at Wrong Point of Show
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate leadership shakeup looms for Republicans — Sen. John Thune passed on a run for the No. 2 GOP leadership job in 2012. He's unlikely to do so again this fall. — With Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) term-limited out, the South Dakota senator has all but locked …
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Juan Zamorano / Associated Press:
Trump family hotel business asked Panama president for help — PANAMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers representing U.S. President Donald Trump's family hotel business appealed to Panama's president for help days before an emergency arbitrator declined to reinstate the Trump management team to a luxury waterfront hotel.
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Associated Press:
China's president promises to cut auto import tariff — BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping has promised to cut China's auto import tariffs and ease restrictions on foreign ownership in its auto industry amid an escalating tariff spat with Washington. — In a speech Tuesday at a business conference …
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
An Internal Email Contradicts Scott Pruitt's Account of Controversial Raises — An email that suggests Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally signed off on a controversial pay raise for a favored aide last month is roiling the agency.
David Wroe / Sydney Morning Herald:
China eyes Vanuatu military base in plan with global ramifications — China has approached Vanuatu about building a permanent military presence in the South Pacific in a globally significant move that could see the rising superpower sail warships on Australia's doorstep.
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Oli Coleman / Page Six:
CBS execs are freaking out over looming Charlie Rose exposé — CBS has been using NDAs to try and suppress potential sources for an upcoming exposé about Charlie Rose's sexual misconduct. And top network execs who worked on Rose's shows are panicking that they'll be accused …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun-Times:
Tammy Duckworth gives birth to girl: First senator to have baby while in office — WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., on Monday gave birth to a daughter, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, becoming the first sitting senator to have a baby while in office. — Duckworth, who turned 50 on March 12 …
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Russia has figured out how to jam U.S. drones in Syria, officials say — WASHINGTON — The Russian military has been jamming some U.S. military drones operating in the skies over Syria, seriously affecting American military operations, according to four U.S. officials.
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