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11:55 PM ET, April 21, 2018

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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.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Scott Pruitt Met With Lobbyist Whose Wife Rented Him a $50-a-Night Condo
Discussion: Politico, BloombergQuint and Bloomberg
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:   Lobbyist whose wife rented to Pruitt sought help from EPA for client
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Barbara Bush: Fake Pearls, Real Heart  —  WASHINGTON — Barbara Bush was an expert at throwing shade, even before the term existed.  —  When Congressman Dan Rostenkowski gave the first lady a shampoo for white hair made in his Illinois district, she tried it on her dog Millie.
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Washington Post:
Barbara Bush visited our facility for children with HIV/AIDS.  It was unforgettable.  —  Debbie Tate is president of TERRIFIC, a D.C. nonprofit that provides housing and human services to families in crisis.  Joan McCarley is executive director of TERRIFIC.
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Four Former Presidents Pay Respects as Barbara Bush Is Laid to Rest in Texas
Discussion: CNN, LifeZette and Mother Jones
Andrea Mitchell / NBC News:   Remembering Barbara Bush, a beloved first lady of strength and purpose
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Barbara Bush remembered at funeral as ‘the first lady of the greatest generation’
Discussion: Washington Press and Mediaite
John Bowden / The Hill:
Romney forced into GOP primary for Utah Senate nomination  —  Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney  —  failed to secure the Utah Republican Party's nomination for Senate on Saturday, triggering a June primary.  —  In the final round of voting at the party's convention …
Discussion: Washington Press
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Maeve Reston / CNN:
Mitt Romney fails to secure Utah GOP nomination, will face primary  —  West Valley, Utah (CNN)Mitt Romney did not win the Utah Republican Party's nomination on Saturday, meaning he must compete in a June primary election as he seeks to replace retiring US Sen. Orrin Hatch.
Maeve Reston / CNN:   Mitt Romney says he'll make decision on supporting Trump in 2020 ‘down the road’
Dana Schuster / Page Six:
Ivana Trump thinks Vanessa will ‘have a problem’ finding a new man  —  Ivana Trump doesn't want Donald Trump to run for president again in 2020.  —  “I'll tell you something, I don't think it's necessary,” she told The Post during an interview Wednesday at her Upper East Side townhouse.
Verne J Troyer:
It is with great sadness and incredibly heavy hearts to write that  —  Verne passed away today.  —  Verne was an extremely caring individual.  He wanted to make everyone  —  smile, be happy, and laugh.  Anybody in need, he would help to any  —  extent possible.  Verne hoped he made a positive change with the
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Steve Almasy / CNN:   Verne Troyer, ‘Mini-Me’ in Austin Powers films, dies at 49
New York Times:
As Rod Rosenstein Battles to Protect Mueller, His Tactics Could Cost the Justice Dept.  —  WASHINGTON — He has a reputation as a principled lawyer.  He has worked for both Republican and Democratic attorneys general.  He has a jugular instinct in courtroom battles but a distaste for political ones.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
miamiherald:
Watch this judge brutally berate a woman in a wheelchair.  The woman died.  The judge has quit.  —  A Broward County circuit judge delivered a blistering, arm-waving, face-palming, tongue-lashing to a frail, out-of-breath woman — pushed into court in a wheelchair — who was facing misdemeanor charges following a family feud.
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Warns Trump: Evidence DVD Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ … Daniels, of course, is a renowned porn star who was paid $130,000 by President Donald Trump's longtime attorney/fixer Michael Cohen to stay silent about an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2011 …
Discussion: Breitbart
Douglas MacKinnon / Fox News:
How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?  —  “How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?”  —  That was the deeply dismaying question posed to me by a friend with four young children as we discussed the plight of the Christian faith in America and around the world.
Kaylee Remington / Plain Dealer:
2-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed at Wickliffe hotel, police say  —  WICKLIFFE, Ohio — A 2-year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed by her mother at a hotel Friday night, police say.  —  The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. at a hotel on Euclid Avenue …
Discussion: Raw Story
Litigation & Trial Lawyer Blog:
The Who, What, Where, When, & Why of the DNC Lawsuit  —  Earlier today, the Democratic National Committee filed a massive lawsuit against almost everyone arguably associated with the hack on the DNC's servers, including the Russian Federation, Russia's foreign military intelligence agency …
New York Times:
The Business Deals That Could Imperil Trump  —  Put aside Russian collusion for a moment.  Press pause on possible presidential obstruction of justice.  Forget Stormy Daniels.  The most significant recent development involving the president may be that the special counsel, Robert Mueller …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
A sweeping Democratic lawsuit is just the latest in a string of legal battles trailing Trump  — FBI agents raided the office and residence of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, who is now the subject of an investigation involving potential financial crimes.
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Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
Former Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Is Drawn Into Federal Investigation
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Fearing Chaos, National Democrats Plunge Into Midterm Primary Fights  —  FULLERTON, Calif. — The Democrats' message to Mai Khanh Tran was polite but unsparing.  With half a dozen Democrats running for Congress in her Orange County district, they showed her a discouraging poll and argued …
A Fine Theorem:
The 2018 John Bates Clark: Parag Pathak  —  The most prestigious award a young researcher can receive in economics, the John Bates Clark medal, has been awarded to the incredibly productive Parag Pathak.  His CV is one that could only belong a true rocket of a career: he was a full professor …
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
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.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy? … “This is not normal,” James B. Comey said this week after President Trump threatened him with jail.  —  If I had a nickel for every time somebody said that, I could repay the national debt.  There is so much abnormality from this president that we're numb.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen, once at pinnacle of Trump's world, now poses threat to it  —  When Donald Trump won the presidency, his longtime attorney Michael Cohen seemed in position for a coveted spot in the senior ranks of the White House.  —  At one point, Cohen topped a list of five candidates …
Jane Dalton / The Independent:
Chained, beaten, whipped and exploited like slaves: The hidden horrors meted out to India's temple elephants  —  They are the country's icon - but behind the dazzle of religious festivals, these giants of the wild are painfully abused in Kerala  —  Hunt threatens Facebook and Google with new age-limit laws
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
Comey Says We'd Be Better Off With Hillary as POTUS...Hours After Punting on Exact Same Question From Tapper  —  Former FBI Director James Comey gave two interviews on Thursday and was asked the same question, but gave two very different responses.  —  On Thursday afternoon …
Discussion: Washington Post
Larry O'Connor / Washington Times:
Conservative author Brad Thor announces 2020 challenge to Trump  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  Conservative author and commentator Brad Thor took to Twitter Saturday to announce he would challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020.  —  America is great because it is good.
Discussion: WGN-TV, RedState and The Daily Caller
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
AP Analysis: Kim Jong Un tests Trump with latest nuke offer  —  TOKYO (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has finally broken his silence on what he plans to bring to the table during his summits with the South Korean and U.S. presidents, and it doesn't have a whole lot to do with tossing out his hard-won nuclear arsenal.
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Homework assignment asks students to list positive aspects of slavery  —  (CNN)A Texas charter school is apologizing after a teacher gave an assignment to an eighth grade American History class, asking students to list the positive aspects of slavery.  —  “When I first read it, I thought …
Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Safe space’ for white men offered at SF diversity workshop  —  Paul Mann wants to create a safe space for white men.  —  Mann, a white man who has spent years in the education industry, has begun leading workshops in San Francisco that encourage people in his demographic to explore feelings …
 
 
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Politico:
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