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CNN:
VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employee's door during overseas trip, sources say  —  (CNN)During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Ronny Jackson, Trump's V.A. Nominee, Faces Claims of Overprescription and Hostile Work Environment  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that President Trump's nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department oversaw a hostile work environment …
Associated Press:
Watchdog report points to power struggle involving VA pick  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A watchdog report ordered in 2012 by Dr. Ronny Jackson — President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs — found that he and a rival physician exhibited “unprofessional behaviors” …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Online NewsHour
Associated Press:
The Latest: Watchdog: VA nominee Jackson was unprofessional
Discussion: Splinter, The Daily Caller and Axios
Associated Press:
The Latest: Dem cites allegations of VA nominee being drunk
Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Kos
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Mulvaney's Advice to Bankers: Up Campaign Donations to Diminish Consumer Watchdog  —  WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations …
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications … A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday delivered the toughest blow yet to the Trump administration's efforts to end deportation protections for undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers,” ordering the administration …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
U.S. Must Resume DACA and Accept New Applications, Federal Judge Rules  —  In the biggest setback yet for the Trump administration in its decision to end a program that protects undocumented young adults from deportation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the government must resume accepting new applications.
Discussion: Politico and Splinter
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow … In a fateful private White House dinner early last year, President Donald Trump raised with then-FBI Director James Comey the issue of “the golden showers thing”—a particularly salacious portion …
Chris Butler / Internet Archive Blogs:
Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine  —  Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid, in the Wayback Machine and her claims that some of these posts were “manipulated” by an “unknown, external party”.
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Sessions Declines to Recuse Himself From Probe Into Trump Lawyer  —  Attorney general's recusal from Mueller probe angered Trump  —  Sessions still may step back from some issues involving Cohen  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation …
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Mike Lee / USA Today:   Mueller legislation is unconstitutional: Sen. Mike Lee
Barbara Slavin / Axios:
Macron proposes new, bigger Iran deal to stave off U.S. exit  —  At a joint news conference today, French President Emmanuel Macron said he and President Trump had agreed to work on a “new deal” that includes the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran but incorporates additional measures.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Body politic: Trump puts personal ‘touch’ on diplomacy with Macron
Discussion: Politico
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Playful dominance’: The touchy-feely relationship between Trump and Macron
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Pruitt's Security Chief Moonlighted for Tabloid Publisher That Helped Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The former Secret Service agent who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on assignments for the tabloid news publisher American Media Inc. during …
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Comey Has Brought On Former U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald As One Of His Lawyers  —  This story was updated at 8:40 p.m. with Fitzgerald's and Comey's confirmations of TPM's previously reported information.  —  Fired FBI Director James Comey has retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald …
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Chicago Sun Times:
James Comey says Patrick Fitzgerald has been his lawyer ‘since I was fired’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Comey taps former US attorney as personal lawyer: report
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
NBC News:
After Toronto attack, online misogynists praise suspect as ‘new saint’  —  Online communities of men are celebrating — and committing — acts of violence  —  Before allegedly killing 10 people with a van in Toronto, Alek Minassian appeared to have posted a message on Facebook that linked …
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Hannity's shady real estate deals just came back to bite him in humiliating fashion  —  A quicksand of conflicts of interest has enveloped Fox News entertainer Sean Hannity in the wake of revelations that he hired President Trump's hush money fixer Michael Cohen as his attorney.
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Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
Video shows Port Authority commissioner telling cops: ‘You may shut the f— up!’  —  Full video: Port Authority commissioner confronts police during N.J. traffic stop  —  Flashing her commissioner's gold badge and boasting of her influence during a routine traffic stop involving her daughter …
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
The Daily Beast:
Trump White House Offered to Help Prep Scott Pruitt for Hearings.  EPA Told the White House to ‘Get Lost’ … Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces a make-or-break moment on Thursday, when he's slated for a pair of congressional hearings, but he'll be heading to the Hill without …
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo:
Scooter Libby prosecutor says Trump's pardon was a loyalty message to Cohen  —  One of the prosecutors who brought the case against I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby says  —  President Trump's pardon of the ex-top aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney sends a not-so-subtle message to potential witnesses …
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
The great exodus out of America's blue cities  —  Am I the only one in my spinning class at Equinox in Manhattan who's fed up paying $200 every month for a gym with clean showers, $3,000 in rent every month for an apartment without cockroaches and $8 every morning for a cup of coffee?
Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:
Holding Up a Mirror to the Intellectuals of the Left  —  Tending toward conformity and enforcing political correctness, the left wing is missing out on the contributions of many of its own thinkers.  —  Paul Krugman recently made a splash in a New York Times column by suggesting there are no …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
The New York Times with one hell of a correction about Israel  —  The New York Times may have the correction of the year, and it's only April.  —  The paper published a report this weekend detailing the steady rise of Facebook's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown.
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: My Trump campaign lover wanted to abort baby we conceived when his wife was pregnant and said Kellyanne Conway had ‘shriveled up fun bags’, claims his ex in bitter court case which he calls ‘harassment’  — Former Trump communications director Jason Miller and ex-campaign adviser …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“He Wants to Fight This”: Michael Cohen, Amid Bewildering Stormy Chaos, Is Still Holding Out Hope for Survival  —  According to people close to Cohen, the president's former personal attorney oscillates between moments of dark brooding and optimistic survivalism.
Discussion: Washington Post, Salon and AOL
The Babylon Bee:
Prime Minister Issues Friendly Reminder To UK Parents That The State Owns Their Children  —  LONDON—Upon the news of a high court ordering life support removed from 2-year-old Alfie Evans, English Prime Minister Theresa May issued a brief, friendly reminder to citizens of the U.K …
TMZ.com:
Meek Mill To Be Released from Prison  —  1:23 PM PT — According to the PA Supreme Court's official order, the justices cited the alleged corrupt police officer who served as a “critical witness” in Meek's original gun and drugs case as a crucial point in their decision to order his bail.
Luke Kawa / Bloomberg:
U.S. Investors Just Gave Up on the Bull Market  —  More respondents see stocks lower in 12 months than higher  —  S&P 500 stuck in range since February rout on host of concerns  —  Call it the running of the bears.  —  With equities almost three months removed from the last record …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Inside the Intense, Combative World of Covering the Trump White House  —  On a chilly and gray Monday in D.C. a few weeks ago, President Trump was sitting on the South Lawn among a group of children during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, when CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, shouted a question at him.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Manafort interviewed twice by FBI before joining Trump's 2016 campaign, new documents show  —  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was interviewed by the FBI twice while he was working as a political consultant for a Ukrainian political party — several years before he was named …
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
A Miracle in Liverpool  —  A witness against the culture of death.  —  Alfie Evans was supposed to die.  On Monday evening, doctors at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, England, removed the 23-month-old toddler's respirator following an effective death sentence handed down by Britain's High Court of Justice.
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
The Central American Caravan That Angered Trump Has Reached The US Border  —  The arrival of the group, made up primarily of Central Americans, sets up a confrontation over US asylum laws.  —  Reporting From Mexicali, Mexico  —  A migrant caravan that began its journey through Mexico …
Discussion: New York Times
Asli Aydintasbas / Washington Post:
Turkey is succumbing to collective insanity … Let's start with the question of sanity.  Here is a letter from Turkey's leading civil society leader, Osman Kavala, who spent months in prison for the following reasons: having dinner with a visiting American academic; for organizing the failed coup of 2016 …
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Pompeo planning to switch Australia ambassador nominee to South Korea … During his confirmation hearing to become secretary of state, CIA Director Mike Pompeo promised to fill the role of U.S. ambassador to South Korea quickly.  Now he plans to pull the nomination of President Trump's proposed ambassador …
Discussion: CNN
Jon Murray / Denver Post:
Denver detective says she was told “not to name the mayor” in harassment claim before receiving $75,000 settlement  —  City official disputes characterization of negotiations with Leslie Branch-Wise's attorney  —  The Denver police detective who received suggestive text messages …
Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Cambridge University rejected Facebook study over ‘deceptive’ privacy standards  —  Exclusive: panel told researcher Aleksandr Kogan that Facebook's approach fell ‘far below ethical expectations’  —  A Cambridge University ethics panel rejected research by the academic at the centre …
 
 
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