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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
It is too bad I have been silenced … It is with a heavy heart, and profound regret for the current state of media in America, that I have dragged my laptop to a Starbucks to pen this column.  But I think it is important that we understand the degree of oppression we are up against.
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
Former Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Is Drawn Into Federal Investigation  —  The Beverly Hills lawyer who represented two women who were paid in 2016 to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald J. Trump has been drawn into the federal investigation focused on Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Tells Bill Maher That Sean Hannity Is Screwed … Bill Maher began the latest edition of his HBO program Real Time with an unfortunate jab at Michael Cohen, Trump's embattled fixer/attorney who's admitted to paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money to silence …
Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels's former lawyer said to be cooperating with federal probe of Michael Cohen  —  Keith Davidson, the former attorney for two women who were paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald Trump, has been contacted by federal authorities investigating Trump attorney Michael Cohen …
Washington Post:
Sessions told White House that Rosenstein's firing could prompt his departure, too  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Sessions warned White House he could quit if Trump fired Rosenstein: report
Discussion: RedState
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
‘Imploding’: Financial troubles.  Lawsuits.  Trailer park brawls.  Has the alt-right peaked? … Eight months after a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in the death of a counterprotester, the loose collection of disaffected young white men known as the alt-right is in disarray.
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
It's becoming clear that Trump won't run in 2020  —  It has been nearly three years since Donald Trump descended his faux-gold escalator to announce an improbable run for president, and Republican politicians seem just as baffled by the reality TV star's future as they were the day he first launched …
Discussion: Althouse
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Associated Press:
Haley's pushback draws fans, rattles White House
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
North Korea Suspends Nuclear, Long-Range Missile Tests and Plans to Close Nuclear Test Site  —  Central Committee makes decisions ahead of meeting between North, South Korean leaders  —  SEOUL—North Korea said it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site.
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea says it will suspend nuclear and missile tests, shut down test site
CBS News:
Hundreds gather to remember Barbara Bush in private service  —  HOUSTON — Some 1,500 guests are expected Saturday at a private funeral for Barbara Bush at the nation's largest Episcopal church.  First lady Melania Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Cliuton …
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Gil Troy / Politico:
What Melania Trump Can Learn From Barbara Bush
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Pressure to Release Comey Memos May Have Backfired on G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — For days, top Republicans in Congress demanded the release of James B. Comey's memos about President Trump, threatening Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, with a subpoena if he failed to share …
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump casts doubt on legality of special counsel Mueller  —  on Friday night renewed doubts about the security of the special counsel's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, by musing in a tweet that the special counsel “was established based on an illegal act.”  —  “James Comey
ABC:
Loyal blue heeler stays with three-year-old lost in bush overnight  —  An old blue heeler named Max remained by the side of a three-year-old girl and led searchers to her after she spent more than 15 hours lost in rugged bushland on Queensland's Southern Downs overnight.
Discussion: Mashable
New York Times:
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match  —  MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an extended family were glued to Facebook.
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt Before the E.P.A.: Fancy Homes, a Shell Company and Friends With Money  —  OKLAHOMA CITY — Early in Scott Pruitt's political career, as a state senator from Tulsa, he attended a gathering at the Oklahoma City home of an influential telecommunications lobbyist who was nearing retirement and about to move away.
NBC News:
GOP faces rural rebellion over Trump trade agenda  —  WASHINGTON — From his dairy farm in southeastern Nebraska, lifelong Republican Ben Steffen believed Donald Trump meant what he said on the campaign trail about ripping up U.S. trade agreements.  —  So Steffen, who produces milk, beef …
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border  —  On Feb. 20, a young woman named Mirian arrived at the Texas border carrying her 18-month-old son.  They had fled their home in Honduras through a cloud of tear gas, she told border agents, and needed protection from the political violence there.
Jill Abramson / The Guardian:
Comey's wish for a leaker's ‘head on a pike’?  Proof he's no better than Trump  —  With Donald Trump, there is sometimes so much material to provoke outrage that you worry something important is bound to be overlooked.  This is the case with the recently released Comey memos …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Responding to James Comey, New York Times's Baquet says key Russia-Trump story was ‘NOT inaccurate’
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mediaite
Kelsey Ables / Columbia Journalism Review:
Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class  —  Mariel Padilla.  Photo by Catherine Mazanek.  —  On Monday afternoon, Mariel Padilla, a master's student at Columbia Journalism School, sat around a table with classmates, listening to Professor Giannina Segnini lead …
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Allison Mack of ‘Smallville’ Is Charged With Sex Trafficking  —  An actress from the television series “Smallville” was charged on Friday with sex trafficking for her involvement in an organization promoting itself as a self-help group for women that forced its members to have sex with its leader, federal prosecutors said.
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Kansas City Star:
Greitens charged with second felony after AG investigation into veterans charity  —  ST. LOUIS  —  Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was charged Friday with felony computer tampering, his second felony charge in two months, after an attorney general's office investigation into the veterans charity he founded.
Discussion: TheBlaze, Joe.My.God., Axios and Daily Kos
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Republican Rick Wilson destroys CNN's Trump booster Jason Miller for defending the president's ‘bullsh*t’  —  Never-Trump Republican Rick Wilson managed to slip a curse word past CNN's censors Friday while blasting former Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller over the so-called “pee tape.”
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Brothers Linked To Assad Gave Thousands To Dennis Kucinich's Ohio Political Machine  —  The former congressman is seeking the Democratic nomination in Ohio's gubernatorial race and recently revealed he accepted $20,000 from a pro-Assad group.  —  WASHINGTON Ahead of a tight primary on May 8 …
CBS News:
Ocala, Florida school shooting: School resource officer praised for quick actions  —  OCALA, Fla. — A Florida school resource officer is being praised for quickly confronting the gunman during a shooting at a high school that injured one student Friday.  The shooting happened Friday morning …
Gazette:
Gov. Hickenlooper on making pot illegal again if tied to crime: 'I'm not ruling it out'  —  Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was against legalizing marijuana, but once the voters spoke, he went along and defended Coloradans' right to use recreational pot.  —  In an interview with CNN …
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
DeVos Education Dept. Begins Dismissing Civil Rights Cases in Name of Efficiency  —  WASHINGTON — The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has begun dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints under a new protocol that allows investigators to disregard cases that are part …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kobach tells national walkout students at gun-rights rally to stay in class  —  TOPEKA  —  If you wanted to see the divide in America today, the gap between the left and the right, the gun-rights advocates, the teens calling for gun control, there was no clearer scene than the one that played …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Rick Hall / USA Today:
I'm a lifelong conservative and I support Robert Mueller's Russia investigation  —  Trump's attack on the Robert Mueller investigation is wrong and fails to put America first.  He doesn't get what made us great: We're a nation of laws.  —  CONNECT  —  I am an Alabamian and a lifelong conservative.
 
 
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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Targeted by Stephon Clark protests, Sacramento DA has fence erected around building
New York Times:
Electric Scooters Are Causing Havoc. This Man Is Shrugging It Off.
Discussion: Althouse and Washingtonian
David Hookstead / smokeroom.com:
Is It Anti-American To Hate Shower Beers?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nature:
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
Discussion: Mother Jones
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Lobbyist whose wife rented to Pruitt lobbied EPA despite denials
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Navy, Marines chiefs say no morale issues with transgender troops
New York Times:
A New Cuba After the Castros? Not Quite
Discussion: Babalú Blog, CNN and The Atlantic
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Emma Briant / The Guardian:
I've seen inside the digital propaganda machine. And it's dark in there
Discussion: New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Macron's Lonely Road: Saving Globalism From Itself
Bill Peters / Investor's Business Daily:
Will Marijuana Industry Overtake Beer As Legalization Spurs Innovation?
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Appeals court: Indiana abortion law signed by Mike Pence unconstitutional
Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Press and Reuters
 

 
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