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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Bannon pitches White House on plan to cripple Mueller probe and protect Trump … Stephen K. Bannon, who was ousted as White House chief strategist last summer but has remained in touch with some members of President Trump's circle, is pitching a plan to West Wing aides and congressional allies …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Justice Dept. turns over document that launched Russia probe — A day after Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, threatened the impeachment of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department on Wednesday turned …
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Washington Post:
Trump chooses impulse over strategy as crises mount … In a White House known for chaos, the process of developing the U.S. response to the Syrian government's alleged latest gas attack was proceeding with uncharacteristic deliberation, including several national security briefings for President Trump.
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Deputy national security adviser Nadia Schadlow resigns
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Kelly cedes control to new faces amid latest Trump tumult
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New York Times:
Ryan Found Himself on the Margins as the G.O.P. Moved Right — WASHINGTON — Paul D. Ryan took the helm of the House two and a half years ago, not because he wanted it, but because he was seen as the only lawmaker who could keep Republicans from devouring themselves.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan implodes his party — ahead of schedule … Paul D. Ryan's face has always said more than his words. In the two years since the Republican Party takeover by Donald Trump, it has been a mask of anguish. — So it is no surprise that, come what may for House Republicans in the fall election …
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Paul Ryan / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
‘I feel content that I have done my part; I am ready to move on’
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Paul Ryan's Real Legacy: Donald Trump
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Axios:
Paul Ryan won't run for re-election
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The Ryan Retirement in Seven Points
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Paul Ryan Personifies the Devil's Bargain the GOP Struck With Trump
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
1 in 8 House seats will have no incumbent on Election Day
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
How Paul Ryan Went From Young Gun To Gone
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Ryan Retirement Puts WI-01 at Risk and Throws House GOP Into Deeper Turmoil
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New York Times:
Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records on ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape — The F.B.I. agents who raided the office and hotel of President Trump's lawyer on Monday were seeking all records related to the “Access Hollywood” tape in which Mr. Trump was heard making vulgar comments about women …
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CNN:
FBI sought Trump's communications with his personal lawyer regarding Access Hollywood — (CNN)FBI agents who raided the home, office and hotel of Donald Trump's personal lawyer sought communications that Trump had with attorney Michael Cohen and others regarding the infamous “Access Hollywood” …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
3 things we want to know about Michael Cohen and the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Federal investigators sought Trump's communications with his lawyer about ‘Access Hollywood’ tape
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Alan Dershowitz / Fox News:
Why the FBI raid on Trump's lawyer hurts all of us
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New York Times:
Scott Pruitt's Idea to Update an E.P.A. Keepsake: Less E.P.A., More Pruitt — When Scott Pruitt wanted to refashion the Environmental Protection Agency's “challenge coin” — a type of souvenir medallion with military origins that has become a status symbol among civilians …
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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Here are some of the threats made against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — CBS News has obtained an August 2017 report prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency's office of inspector general that contains a list of 13 threats made against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his family.
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Kansas City Star:
Woman: Sexual encounter with Greitens was not consensual. Lawmakers find her credible — When she tried to leave, sobbing after a non-consensual sexual encounter, she says the man who would be governor physically stopped her. — What happened next, she testified under oath …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Woman testifies that Greitens groped and hit her; governor blasts ‘lies’ and ‘tabloid trash’ — Gov. Eric Greitens spoke at a news conference on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, about a report that was about to come out concerning his affair in 2015. Greitens called the investigation a “witch hunt”.
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Rebecca Berg / CNN:
Report: Woman says Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens coerced her into sexual encounter
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pompeo failed to disclose Chinese business connection — WASHINGTON — CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose last year that he owned a Kansas business that imported oilfield equipment from a company owned by the Chinese government. — That omission, on the questionnaire Pompeo …
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Mike Pompeo Could Go Down If Senate Democrats Decide to Fight
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Erick Erickson / TheResurgent.com:
A Congressman's Profanity Laced Tirade in a Safeway Grocery Store — One of the President's congressional defenders has privately decided he hates Trump and wants to unload. — “If we're going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker,” said the congressman …
Fox News Insider:
Tucker Carlson Assad Bombing Civilians Chemical Gas Attack Response Noah Rothman — Tucker Carlson debated a magazine editor who claimed the host “willfully misled his audience and advanced Russian geopolitical narratives” by cautioning against anti-Assad actions in Syria following the chemical attack on civilians there.
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US ‘still assessing the intelligence’ on alleged Syrian chemical attack, defense secretary says
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Threatens Syria Before Allies Are on Board
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Tim Mak / NPR:
NRA, In New Document, Acknowledges More Than 20 Russian-Linked Contributors — The National Rifle Association has accepted contributions from about 23 Russians, or Americans living in Russia, since 2015, the gun rights group acknowledged to Congress. — The NRA said in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden …
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Cristina Maza / Newsweek:
RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR WITH U.S., INSTRUCTING CITIZENS TO BUY WATER AND GAS MASKS — Claiming that some Americans are preparing for a coming war with Moscow, Russian state-owned television explained to the country's residents how to stock their bunkers with water and basic foodstuffs in case a war breaks out.
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Cindy Adams / Page Six:
Women are lining up to date Rudy Giuliani — The about-to-be-consciously uncoupled Rudy Giuliani is coming off to Upper East Side sex kittens like catnip. They're purring at him. Sidling — if not actually front-ling — in his direction. — It seems power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate panel moves to take up bill protecting Mueller — The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with legislation to limit President Trump — 's ability to fire special counsel Robert Mueller — (R-Iowa) wants to add the bill to the panel's business meeting agenda scheduled for Thursday …
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Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Single mom of five goes viral with inspiring law school graduation photo — Ieshia Champs has wanted to be a lawyer since she was 7 years old. In her teenage years, however, the odds began stacking up against her and it appeared that her dream might be permanently out of reach.
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Zuckerberg Gets More Questions About Diamond & Silk Than Facebook's Role in Myanmar Genocide … When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Capitol Hill this week, he was bound to face a variety of difficult questions ranging from his company's handling of user information to the proliferation of fake news over its pages.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
The privacy question Mark Zuckerberg kept dodging
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Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.:
California Responds to Federal Request for National Guard Personnel — SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today responded to the federal government's request for additional California National Guard personnel with the following letter. The accompanying agreement …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephanopoulos: Comey compared Trump to a ‘mob boss’ … Ex-FBI Director James Comey — compared President Trump — to a “mob boss” in a taped interview with ABC News, according to a promotional video released Wednesday. — “How strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Trump/Rosenstein Russian Nesting Doll of Nonsense — Note that there is an emerging attack from the White House that suggests that Rod Rosenstein must recuse himself because he has a conflict of interest in overseeing the Mueller probe. The conflict is this: Mueller is investigating …
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