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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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Washington Post:
White House lawyer Ty Cobb is exiting and will be replaced by Clinton impeachment attorney Emmet Flood  —  White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who served as the administration's point person in dealing with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, is stepping down and is expected to be replaced …
Washington Post:
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
White House's lead Russia lawyer Ty Cobb to step down
Discussion: The Root
Doug Sosnik / Washington Post:   President Trump is sowing the seeds of his own demise
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?  —  Donald Trump's habitual dishonesty is a trait well understood by the entire mainstream news media, and even many members of the conservative media.  But it is not fully understood.  Trump manages to lie in ways that hardened cynics never anticipated.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Lacks Security Clearances Needed for Mueller Negotiations  —  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 …
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Vox
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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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Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo:
Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down  —  On Wednesday, Cambridge Analytica employees learned that its parent company, the SCL Group, was shuttering the business, with American-based workers directed to return their keycards immediately, according to documentation reviewed by Gizmodo.
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 …
Marco Rubio / National Review:
Two Cheers for Corporate Tax Cuts  —  On the whole, the tax cut bill helps workers.  It's just not massive tax cuts to multinational corporations that do it.  —  Overall, the Republican tax-cut bill has been good for Americans.  That is why I voted for it.
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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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Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Redskins Cheerleaders Describe a Trip to Costa Rica That Crossed a Line  —  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 their passports upon arrival …
New York Times:
Onetime Lobbyist for Foreign Governments Helped Plan a Pruitt Trip to Australia  —  WASHINGTON — A Washington consultant and onetime lobbyist for foreign governments played a central role in attempting to set up a trip to Australia by Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency …
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Two Top Aides to Scott Pruitt Quit the E.P.A. Unexpectedly
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 …
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David Byler / Weekly Standard:
Coal Country Conflict
Discussion: CNN
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Vanity Fair's Hilariously Bad Account of the ‘Red-Pilling’ of Kanye West  —  Reporting on the Right with no understanding of the Right.  —  I believe it was in 2003 when I coined the term “conservatives in the mist” for a certain style of reporting.  A play on “Gorillas in the Mist,” …
Discussion: New York Daily News and alicublog
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Lauren Yapalater / BuzzFeed:
Help Us Solve This BuzzFeed Office-Wide Debate About What “IMHO” Stands For  —  HELLO there!  Us folks at BuzzFeed are always trying to get to the bottom of serious issues.  Today, whilst discussing things like the current political climate, how we can solve the issues facing health care in America …
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Playmate to Politico: How Pamela Anderson Became an International Woman of Mystery  —  The former ‘Baywatch’ star opens up about her relationship with Julian Assange ("We talk about the Bible"), attending Donald Trump's birthday party (for a $500 fee), her activism, ex Kid Rock …
Discussion: Mediaite
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.
Suffolk University:
Suffolk University NH Presidential Primary Poll Shows Non-Candidate Warren Leading Dems  —  Even though Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has declared that she is not running for president in 2020, her shadow looms over the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary …
Discussion: CBS Boston
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James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
New poll shows Elizabeth Warren leading the N.H. Democratic primary field
Discussion: Axios
courthousenews.com:
US Pushes for Deference Regarding Americans on Kill List  —  WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge sparred Tuesday with the Justice Department as its attorney insisted that U.S. citizens cannot question their apparent designation on a government kill list.  —  Two journalists …
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Washington Post:
In ‘kill list’ case, judge questions government's unilateral authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
Bill D'Agostino / NewsBusters:
One A Day: CNN Hosts Porn Star's Lawyer Michael Avenatti 59 Times in Less Than Two Months  —  CNN has exhibited a fetish for the Stormy Daniels story, particularly for her Trump-smacking lawyer, Michael Avenatti.  In less than two months (from March 7 to April 30), Avenatti has been a guest …
Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan Warns of Subpoenas, Gridlock With Democratic Majority  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan warned that Democratic gains in November's congressional elections could make it impossible to get anything accomplished and expose President Donald Trump's administration to more aggressive oversight.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg's New Paywall Will Charge Users $35 a Month  —  The paywall, which allows visitors to read 10 articles a month for free, includes a $39.99 option that comes with a subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek and access to events  —  For more than a decade, Bloomberg has allowed readers …
 
 
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
House lawmakers formally nominate Trump for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's peculiar sense of morality
Discussion: Vox, The Week and ThinkProgress
Reuters:
Clean Energy Sector Swings Republican With U.S. Campaign Donations
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Spike Lee Unleashes ‘BlacKkKlansman’: Race, Trump and Being “Robbed” of Cannes' Palme d'Or
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Tom Price walks back remarks on mandate repeal
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dan Primack / Axios:
Optimism rules at this year's Milken conference
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Senate candidate promised to vote against GOP more than 20% of the time. She rarely ever did.
Brian Kahn / Earther:
Pakistan May Have Just Set a World Heat Record
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Common Dreams