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Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Redskins Cheerleaders Describe Topless Photo Shoots and an Uneasy Night Out  —  When the Washington Redskins took their cheerleading squad to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot, the first cause for concern among the cheerleaders came when Redskins officials collected …
New York Times:
Trump to Add Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Emmet Flood to Replace Ty Cobb  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Lawyer Likely to Cut Him Off From Mueller Interview: Source … President Donald Trump's legal team became significantly more cohesive on Wednesday with the addition of Emmet Flood, a veteran white collar defense attorney.  It also became more aggressive, which could prove tricky for Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Giuliani says decision on Trump-Mueller interview ‘several weeks away’
Discussion: NY State of Politics
Washington Post:
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump threatens to use presidential powers on DOJ  —  President Trump in a Wednesday tweet called out the Justice Department for refusing to hand over un-redacted documents related to the Hillary Clinton email probe to Congress.  —  The big picture: The Justice Department has become …
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New York Times:
Trump Assails Justice Dept., Siding With House Conservatives in Dispute  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump plunged on Wednesday into the simmering dispute between conservative House Republicans and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, siding with the lawmakers and attacking his own Justice Department.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Reminder: GOP Target Rod Rosenstein Is A Lifelong Republican Trump Appointed
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy  —  Company had lost multiple clients in recent months  —  Cambridge Analytica , a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, is shutting down following the disclosure of its misuse of Facebook data.
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Cambridge Analytica and Scl Elections Commence Insolvency Proceedings and Release Results …
Financial Times:   Cambridge Analytica shuts down and blames ‘media siege’
NBC News:
Cambridge Analytica to close down after Facebook data scandal
Discussion: The Guardian
The Guardian:   Cambridge Analytica closing after Facebook data harvesting scandal
New York Times:
Cambridge Analytica to File for Bankruptcy After Misuse of Facebook Data
Discussion: TheBlaze
Daily Mail:
‘God damn you to hell!’:  Former Trump campaign consultant explodes at Democratic Senate aides after he loses his house to legal fees in ‘witch hunt’ congressional Russia probe  — Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says he has spent $125,000 on lawyers to comply with the demands of the Senate Intelligence Committee
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Michael Caputo says 'it's clear' Mueller investigators focused on Russia collusion  —  (CNN)After being interviewed by special counsel investigators on Wednesday, former aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign Michael Caputo told CNN that Robert Mueller's team is “focused on Russia collusion.”
Discussion: Power Line and IJR
Daily Mail:
TRUMP AIDE MICHAEL CAPUTO'S SHOCKING STATEMENT TO THE SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE  —  Caputo, a former Trump campaign adviser, delivered this statement to the committee on Tuesday, May 1, 2018:
Ali Dukakis / ABC News:   Former Trump campaign aide meets with Mueller's special counsel in Russia probe
Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
North Korea set to release US prisoners at summit  —  North Korea has released the three Americans detained in the country's labour camps in a display of goodwill ahead of the looming summit between its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, campaigners say.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Thinking the Unthinkable: What If Trump Succeeds?  —  Let us assume for the moment that Donald Trump is an “idiot” and a “f—  ing moron” who hasn't got a clue about the substance of legislation.  (These judgments, if multiple news reports are accurate, come from the president's current chief of staff …
Tom Nichols / USA Today:   Hold the irrational exuberance on North Korea. Kim is already winning.
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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Did Trump Bribe Ukraine to Stop Cooperating With Mueller?
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Summer Zervos, Trump Accuser, Subpoenas ‘The Apprentice’ Recordings  —  Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who accused President Trump of sexual assault, is seeking records to prove that he defamed her by calling her a liar.  —  A lawyer for Ms. Zervos …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's fixers revolt  —  Longtime associates whose job was to clean up messes are suddenly in the spotlight making things worse for the president.  —  Looking the part has always mattered to President Donald Trump.  —  The president's preference for people who look like they came from …
Discussion: The Root and Mediaite
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's medical deceptions should be a scandal … “Trump disseminated false medical records to fool the public about his health.”  That is a headline you have never seen, though you should have.  —  If you've gotten tired of hearing how something President Trump did would have been a major …
Discussion: CNN, ThinkProgress and ABC News
Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Memo: Pruitt landlord's husband sought EPA work for client  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client, according to a newly released EPA memo.
Discussion: MSNBC and Talking Points Memo
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Lobbyist connected to Pruitt's Capitol Hill townhouse stay did contact EPA, despite denials
Discussion: Politico
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Redistribution of Sex  —  One lesson to be drawn from recent Western history might be this: Sometimes the extremists and radicals and weirdos see the world more clearly than the respectable and moderate and sane.  All kinds of phenomena, starting as far back as the Iraq War and the crisis …
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Pamela Anderson: Pal Julian Assange ‘hated because of the Clinton monopoly on the media’  —  Former Playboy centerfold and “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson has claimed that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is “misunderstood” and even “hated” because of what she has termed “the Clinton monopoly on the media.”
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Playmate to Politico: How Pamela Anderson Became an International Woman of Mystery
Discussion: Mediaite
Jon Ward / Yahoo:
West Virginia Senate candidate distorts reality in campaign ad  —  WASHINGTON — A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia is running an ad showing his primary opponent shaking hands with Hillary Clinton — something that never happened.  The ad uses a manipulated version …
Louise Moon / South China Morning Post:
Chinese dress at US prom wins support in China after internet backlash  —  After criticism of student Keziah Daum's Twitter post showing her wearing the traditional qipao, Chinese commenters call it cultural appreciation, not appropriation  —  An American teenager has received support …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Black Gun Owner Will Give Birth in Prison After Trying to Protect 2-Year-Old Daughter from Assailant  —  Siwatu-Salama Ra is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror as an angry assailant—a neighbor with whom Ra had a dispute—deliberately crashed her vehicle into Ra's car while Ra's two-year-old daughter was playing inside.
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Washington Post:
America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated  —  The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044.  But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.  —  Black  —  White  —  Hispanic  —  Asian/Pacific Islander  —  Native American Multi-race and other
Joshua Holland / The Nation:
YES, DONALD TRUMP IS MAKING WHITE PEOPLE MORE HATEFUL  —  A new study finds empirical evidence of the “Trump Effect.”  —  Has Donald Trump's relentless demagoguery of Mexicans, Muslims and African Americans made Americans more hateful?  Or did Trump capitalize on a white backlash …
Discussion: Althouse
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Democrats Risk Disaster in California's Top Two Primaries  —  Republicans badly need a few lucky breaks to hold their House majority in November.  So far in 2018, it's been the opposite story — from an unfriendly new Pennsylvania map to Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement and bleak special election results.
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Reuters:
Trump has all but decided to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has all but decided to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord by May 12 but exactly how he will do so remains unclear, two White House officials and a source familiar …
Discussion: Political Wire
YouTube:
Hillary Clinton: Being A Capitalist Probably Hurt Me Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists … At the Shared Value Leadership Summit, Hillary Clinton says that being a capitalist hurt her during the 2016 Democratic primaries because so many Democrats now identify themselves as socialists.
Mario Parker / Bloomberg:
China Seen Jolting Soybean Market by Shunning U.S. Supplies  — China is ‘very deliberately not buying anything from the U.S.’  — Bunge CEO Schroder says Canada, Brazil picking up sales  —  The world's biggest oilseed processor just confirmed one of the soybean market's biggest fears …
Discussion: Mother Jones, CNBC and Axios
Fox News:
Police release body cam footage from Las Vegas Massacre  —  Las Vegas police have finally released partial footage from police body cameras that showed officers nearing the hotel room where gunman Stephen Paddock unleashed a hail of gunfire on concert-goers last October.
Discussion: CBS New York, The Daily Caller and AOL
 
 
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NBC News:
Over 50 caravan migrants seeking asylum allowed into U.S., organizers say
Discussion: NBC News and Front Page Magazine
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Large New York Money Manager AllianceBernstein Is Moving to Nashville
Discussion: Power Line
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republican lawmakers must decide: Can Trump snub a subpoena?
Alex Burness / Daily Camera:
Boulder City Council calls for ‘full editorial independence’ at Daily Camera
Senator Dick Durbin / U.S. Senator Dick Durbin …:
Durbin Raises Questions About Possible Collusion Between U.S. & Texas Attorneys General In Termination Of DACA
Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Michelle Obama says she's America's ‘forever first lady’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Online NewsHour:
James Comey loves Beyonce, says he doesn't watch ‘The Americans’
Discussion: Splinter and The FADER
 Earlier Items: 
New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Melania Trump's parents arrive for hearing on U.S. citizenship in lower Manhattan
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Elected on G.O.P. Line, a Democrat Sits Alone
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's peculiar sense of morality
Discussion: Indianapolis Star, TheBlaze and Vox
Lauren Yapalater / BuzzFeed:
Help Us Solve This BuzzFeed Office-Wide Debate About What “IMHO” Stands For
Discussion: The Atlantic
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Vanity Fair's Hilariously Bad Account of the ‘Red-Pilling’ of Kanye West
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Santorum: Obama's lies ‘more important’ than Trump's
 

 
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