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Anna R. Schecter / NBC News:
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files  —  In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice …
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Associated Press:
White House defends seizure of Trump's medical records  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump's former bodyguard did nothing out of the ordinary when he took possession of the president's medical records in what Trump's former doctor says felt like a “raid.”
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:   White House ignores executive order requiring count of civilian casualties in counterterrorism strikes
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends  —  THE BEGINNING OF May marks the longest period of public silence from special counsel Robert Mueller's team since his first charges last October—more than two months without any new plea deals, fresh indictments, or publicly “flipped” witnesses.
Discussion: Raw Story, CNBC and IJR
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump  —  Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller  —  , said Tuesday he believes President Trump  —  leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:   Rosenstein: Justice Department won't be extorted by Congress
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction
New York Times:
The Questions Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Obstruction, and What They Mean
Dick Morris / The Western Journal:
Trump Ratings Up, Dem Chances Down  —  Things are looking better for President Donald Trump and the Republican chances of holding the House and gaining in the Senate.  —  It's a trend you'll never see in the mainstream media, but it's happening nonetheless.
Discussion: Reuters
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump might be right — the GOP's House majority is not all but doomed  —  (CNN)Political prognosticators usually shake their head at President Donald Trump's electoral analyses.  He doesn't tout all poll numbers, for example, and instead relies upon the rosiest figures from Rasmussen Reports.
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time  —  You hear it all the time: The 2018 Senate map is bad, even “brutal,” for Democrats.  Of the 35 seats on the ballot this cycle, 26 are held by senators who caucus with the Democrats, and just nine are held by Republicans.
Washington Post:
Lobbyist helped broker Scott Pruitt's $100,000 trip to Morocco  —  MARRAKESH, Morocco — A controversial trip to Morocco by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last December was partly arranged by a longtime friend and lobbyist, who accompanied Pruitt and his entourage …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
NBC staffers felt pressured to sign letter defending Brokaw  —  Female staffers at NBC News are complaining they felt under huge pressure to sign the “women's letter” defending Tom Brokaw against sexual harassment allegations.  —  After former colleague Linda Vester claimed he …
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Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of a Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice  —  The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies  —  A few years before he started working for Donald Trump …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House panel expected to interview EPA chief Scott Pruitt's former head of security in conduct probe  —  The House Oversight Committee is expected to interview Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's former head of security Wednesday, the latest indication …
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Haaretz:
U.S. Officials: Israeli F-15s Struck Syrian Base Storing Iranian Anti-aircraft Missiles  —  More details soon...  Zen Subscribe now  —  Israeli F-15 fighter jets struck a military base near Hama on Sunday after Iran had transferred a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles there, three U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
Discussion: NBC News
Caleb Howe / Daily Wire:
The Truth About RedState's Layoffs, From A Non-Liar  —  I really didn't feel like defending RedState this week, all things considered, but I've been put in that position by flatly inaccurate information that was spread through a conservative email newsletter.  —  In that newsletter, The Transom, Ben Domenech called me a liar.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare … President Trump's former top health official on Tuesday said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot, giving legal marijuana a new ally  —  WASHINGTON  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime opponent of legalizing recreational marijuana, now says the federal government should not interfere in California's legal marijuana market.
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Was In Moscow Just Weeks Before Court Documents Were Unsealed  —  Joseph Mifsud's trip to Moscow coincided with an official visit by the king of Saudi Arabia.  —  Reporting From  —  London  —  Joseph Mifsud, the enigmatic Maltese professor …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Apple will buy back up to $100 billion worth of shares  — Apple reported earnings on Tuesday for the fiscal second quarter, which has traditionally been the quarter when Apple announces capital return programs like share buybacks and dividends.  —  Apple on Tuesday announced a plan …
Kyle Smith / National Review:
How Much Does Hillary Clinton Drink?  —  Amy Chozick probably knows, but she isn't telling.  —  When the author of a book on the Hillary Clinton campaigns admits to breaking down in tears as Clinton's defeat registered, you have to read between the lines to guess just how flawed Clinton is.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats
Discussion: Sean Hannity and twitchy.com
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
The Guy Who Threw His Shoes At George W. Bush Is Running For President Of Iraq  —  This guy, Muntazar al-Zaidi, is running for president of Iraq, and if you're not excited about that, you may not be used to seeing him from the front. … Here's the vantage point most people will recognize him from …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Carl Higbie, who works at pro-Trump group, says racist comments were ‘statistical observation,’ ‘out of context’  —  (CNN)Carl Higbie, a top staffer at an advocacy group closely aligned with President Donald Trump, said on a radio show that past racist comments he made had been taken …
Discussion: Splinter
Esquire:
The Passion of Jordan Peterson  —  BY WESLEY YANG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE STANGEL  —  “WHAT  —  AM  —  I EXACTLY?  Here in a guest cottage at the summit of a high hill in northern California, the tenth stop on a three-continent tour to promote his new book,  —  12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,
Discussion: Samizdata
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
US starts processing asylum seekers slammed by Trump  —  TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space.  But the migrants who crossed Mexico in a caravan may face a long legal path.
Discussion: National Review, CNN and Reuters
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon  —  Digital First Media's financials — revealed here — show how the company has ridden its deep cuts to nearly $160 million in profits and the highest margins in the business.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
We must rally around Joy Reid … Joy Reid deserves everyone's support.  The most destructive and insidious hacker in journalistic history is on the loose, ready to snatch another career.  —  Reid, who hosts “AM Joy” on MSNBC, is somehow hanging onto hers.
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds  —  The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported on Tuesday.  Since 2004, at least nine such diseases …
David French / National Review:
How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul  —  Keziah Daum and the insidiousness of the online cultural-appropriation police  —  I'm going to tell you perhaps the dumbest story you've ever heard — a story that is stupid with a heaping helping of malice on the side.
Nicole Carr / WSB-TV:
Woman at center of sorority sex scandal ‘not a pimp,’ attorney says  —  ATLANTA - The attorney for an ex-administrator at the center of a university sexual misconduct investigation and a state criminal investigation told Channel 2 Action News that his client is not a pimp …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CIA Official Says Some Torture Videotapes May Still Exist … Some videotapes recording the torture of a CIA detainee may have survived the 2005 destruction facilitated by Donald Trump's nominee to run the agency.  That's according to an ex-CIA analyst who reviewed massive amounts …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Michael Cohen Hit With New Taxi Taxes, Owes New York $282,000  —  Michael Cohen, already under pressure from a federal criminal investigation into his business and financial dealings, has been hit this month with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies.
The Harvard Crimson:
Breaking: Harvard Will Bargain With Grad Union  —  Harvard will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate student union, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview Tuesday.  —  The University's move to bargain marks the final and full validation of the organizing effort …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates  —  Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is a felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, hiding $900,000 from tax authorities and making false statements under oath.  To hear him tell it …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A.  —  On Law Day, we celebrate our Nation's heritage of liberty, justice, and equality under the law.  This heritage is embodied most powerfully in our Constitution, the longest surviving document of its kind.
Discussion: HuffPost
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
'I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes': Trying to figure out what matters in today's news cycle … Benjamin Wittes, a legal commentator with a large Twitter following, was on an airplane last month when the FBI raided the office of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.
 
 
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Rachel Mullen / RedState:
Questionable Women For Trump PAC Claims “Unhinged” Is Sexist Word Two Hours After Trump Tweets It
Discussion: Mediaite
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Victims of Communism Day 2018
The Times of Israel:
Abbas says Jews' behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust
Discussion: Informed Comment
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
California, 17 other states sue Trump administration to defend Obama-era climate rules for vehicles
Discussion: The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress
Nicola Stow / The Sun:
BIBLE BELTER Ancient lost city of King David is uncovered near Jerusalem and expert says it proves the Bible is accurate
Discussion: The Stream and The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Two Men Sentenced for Serial Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Using Grindr
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Klein / HuffPost:
Nation's Top Teachers Confront Betsy DeVos In Private Meeting
Discussion: Common Dreams and Raw Story
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Maxine Waters Tells Kanye To Shut Up: He ‘Talks Out of Turn ... Should Maybe Not Have So Much To Say’
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Uncovering Koch Role in Faculty Hires
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke wants to debate Ted Cruz 6 times, including twice in Spanish
Discussion: The Week
Page Six:
New Weinstein suit alleges he raped, threatened producer
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Is This Artichoke Kosher? Rome Defends a Classic Jewish Dish