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8:00 AM ET, May 2, 2018

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Washington Post:
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team  —  In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Trump's lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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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: CNN, Politico, The Duran, IJR and CNBC
CNN:
Trump's legal team prepares for showdown with Mueller  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing for a legal showdown with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources familiar with their thinking.  —  Trump's legal team is bracing for the dramatic possibility …
Discussion: Raw Story
Annie Karni / Politico:
The real reason Mueller hasn't called Ivanka Trump  —  She was in Bedminster, New Jersey, with President Donald Trump the rainy May 2017 weekend when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey.  —  She was a passenger on the plane flying home from the G-20 conference in Germany the next month …
William Saletan / Slate:
Believe James Comey  —  I watched all of James Comey's interviews.  He's telling the truth.  —  According to the New York Times, special counsel Robert Mueller has four dozen questions he wants to ask President Donald Trump about the Russia investigation.
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Western Journal and CNN
Bloomberg:
Trump Lawyers Said to Lack Security Clearance Amid Mueller Talks  —  Possibility of a grand jury subpoena raised by Mueller's team  —  President's lawyers have listed 40 questions Mueller may pose  —  Donald Trump's current team of lawyers lacks the security clearances needed …
Washington Post:
Under oath or not, Trump owes the country answers  —  IT IS unclear who leaked a list of questions that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wants to ask President Trump.  One possibility is that someone is seeking to ensure that, whatever happens to Mr. Mueller's investigation, the president is forced to confront them.
Discussion: New York Times, Breitbart and Lawfare
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Attorney: Mueller team floated possible subpoena for Trump
Discussion: WTOP
CNN:
Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter  —  (CNN)When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump's health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient.  —  It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein.
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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 …
CNN:   White House poised for more chaos over Veterans Affairs pick
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 …
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Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
Nancy Pelosi says she intends to remain in leadership role  —  Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she's not going anywhere.  —  Despite grumblings from some Democrats and dismal approval ratings, the House minority leader aims to keep an iron grip on her leadership role, saying in an interview Tuesday …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Let the blue wave continue’: Democrats notch 4th Florida bellwether win  —  MIAMI — Strike ... four.  —  In the fourth and final Florida bellwether election since 2016, the Democratic candidate beat the Republican in a contested race, providing the best evidence yet that the GOP …
Cheri Jacobus / USA Today:   Never Trump Republican's midterm plea to Democrats: Reach out to people like me
USA Today:
In midterm elections, Republicans are running against ... Hillary Clinton. Still.
Discussion: Axios and The Week
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump might be right — the GOP's House majority is not all but doomed
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Ben Shapiro / Townhall:
Oh, Say Kanye Sees  —  It's easy to dismiss Kanye West.  —  It's easy to dismiss him because he's nutty.  This is a fellow who tweets about antique fish tanks and fur pillows.  This is the guy who calls himself Yeezus (after Jesus) and suggested that then-President George W. Bush didn't care …
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TMZ.com:
Kanye West — Stirs Up TMZ Newsroom Over Trump, Slavery, Free Thought
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William Cummings / USA Today:
Ex-Trump official Carl Higbie defends racist remarks that led to his resignation
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Iran Deal Is a Lie  —  “The sanctions lifting will only occur as Iran takes the steps agreed, including addressing possible military dimensions.”  —  That was State Department spokesman John Kirby in June 2015, speaking just as negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal were wrapping up.
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.
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.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
White supremacist is guilty in Charlottesville parking garage beating of black man … CHARLOTTESVILLE — One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year's “Unite the Right” rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and Jezebel
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric.
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation With Mueller Investigation  —  KIEV, Ukraine — In the United States, Paul J. Manafort is facing prosecution on charges of money laundering and financial fraud stemming from his decade of work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
Discussion: Home Page Rotator
BBC:
Holocaust row: Abbas accused of anti-Semitism  —  Remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas about the Holocaust have been condemned as anti-Semitic by Israeli politicians and rights activists.  —  Mr Abbas told a meeting in the West Bank the Nazi mass murder of European Jews was the result …
Discussion: The Guardian
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The Times of Israel:
Abbas says Jews' behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust
Discussion: Informed Comment
Washington Post:
Before U.S. diplomats, Pompeo pledges to ‘listen and learn’  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on the first day in his new job, announced Tuesday that he is lifting a hiring freeze on family members of employees posted overseas.  —  The decision to end the freeze, which slashed their numbers …
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 …
Julia Halperin / artnet News:
‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists  —  The museum is selling seven works to build a “war chest” that will fund acquisitions designed to make its holdings less white and less male.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Party Is Exposing Its Own Policy-Making Screw-Ups … Two major Republican figures have now undercut tax reform—the party's signature legislative achievement of the Trump era.  —  But the truth former health and human services secretary Tom Price and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) …
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Women Said to Accuse Times Editor Who Resigned of Inappropriate Behavior  —  Wendell Jamieson, the metro editor whose resignation was announced by The New York Times on Monday after an internal investigation, was accused of inappropriate behavior by at least three female employees …
Karen Weintraub / New York Times:
Humpback Whale Baby Boom Near Antarctica  —  In a rare piece of good news for whales, humpbacks who live and breed in the southern oceans near Antarctica appear to be making a comeback, with females in recent years having a high pregnancy rate and giving birth to more calves.
 
 
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WJLA-TV:
3 white men arrested in connection with the murder and dismemberment of 2 young black men
Discussion: Raw Story
Ginger Hervey / Politico:
Jacob Rees-Mogg denies MPs issued ‘ultimatum’ to Theresa May over customs partnership
Ben Evansky / Fox News:
Haley ‘taking names’: Report reveals which nations have America's back at UN - and which ones don't
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Founder of pro-Brexit thinktank has link with Russian intelligence, says MP
Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
Are NBC and CNN Paying Off Top Spies Who Leaked Info With On-Air Jobs?
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
Michael Caputo slams Senate intel panel in interview
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump asks court to dismiss emoluments lawsuit against him
Discussion: Axios
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
White House ignores executive order requiring count of civilian casualties in counterterrorism strikes
Discussion: Axios
Kyle Smith / National Review:
How Much Does Hillary Clinton Drink?
Esquire:
The Passion of Jordan Peterson
Discussion: Samizdata
Caleb Howe / Daily Wire:
The Truth About RedState's Layoffs, From A Non-Liar
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare