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5:30 PM ET, May 4, 2018

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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:
Rudy's interview and Trump's lies create a crisis  —  Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst and author, most recently, of “American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst”, and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.”  Follow him on Twitter @JeffreyToobin.
NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani insists Trump wasn't aware of Stormy Daniels reimbursement until recently
Associated Press:   The Latest: Giuliani tries to clarify hush money comments
FOX News Radio:   Rudy Giuliani: Michael Avenatti Is A Complete Jerk Who Should Turn In His Law License
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump walks back Giuliani: 'He'll get his facts straight'
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump's relationship with Giuliani gets rocky
NBC News:
Democrats might have a better chance to flip the Senate than you think
Discussion: MSNBC, The Guardian and Daily Kos
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Deutsch: Michael Cohen Told Me Giuliani 'Doesn't Know What He's Talking About'
Discussion: Hot Air, CANNONFIRE and Bloomberg
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation … A federal judge in Virginia on Friday grilled lawyers from the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III about the motivations for bringing a bank and tax fraud case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Shakesville
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CNN:
Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump  —  (CNN)A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Friday in the bank fraud case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, at one point saying he believes that Mueller's motivation …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:   A Judge Questioned What Paul Manafort's Indictment Really Had To Do With Russia
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Questions Mueller's Authority to Prosecute Manafort
Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:
A Cheat Sheet to the Trump Circus
New York Times:
Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller's Investigators  —  WASHINGTON — When the United States sought to punish Russia last month for its election interference and other aggressions, it targeted some of Russia's wealthiest men, imposing sanctions on those viewed …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin  —  Inside the mystery behind the President's surprise invitation to Russia's leader, and his team's struggle to figure out what to do about it.  —  Late on Monday evening, the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, started making calls to European allies.
Discussion: Raw Story
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999  —  More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have until January 2020 to leave the country or face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security …
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Dara Lind / Vox:   Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who've lived in the US for 20 years to get out
Associated Press:
US poised to end Hondurans' special immigration status
Discussion: Politico
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle  —  Vice President Mike Pence's physician has resigned, the latest fallout from the collapse of Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs.  —  Dr. Jennifer Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House …
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Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Connecticut Court Reverses Murder Conviction of Michael Skakel  —  The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a surprising reversal of its own decision less than two years ago, ruled on Friday to vacate the conviction of Michael C. Skakel, who had been found guilty of bludgeoning his neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
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Edmund H. Mahony / Hartford Courant:   Kennedy Cousin Michael Skakel Wins At Connecticut Supreme Court, Conviction Vacated In 1975 Slaying Of Martha Moxley
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Trump Is Fighting A Computer Program That Has Decided To Kill Humans  —  Before Alex Jones headed to court to face his ex-wife today, he told Infowars listeners that President Trump is part of an effort to fight against a sentient computer program that has decided to kill all humans.
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape.  He Became A Progressive Star Anyway.  —  For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them.  —  On April 28, 2008, Sarah Schacht received an email that terrified her.
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Kerry quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft  —  WASHINGTON — John Kerry's bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office …
CNN:
Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records.  Then he doesn't read them.  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was livid.  —  For months, he had been demanding a fully uncensored version of a highly sensitive document from the Justice Department explaining …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
German Lopez / Vox:
How to watch Trump's NRA speech, and what to expect  —  The president is speaking at the NRA's first annual meeting since the Parkland, Florida, shooting.  —  President Donald Trump will soon speak at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Dallas.
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
‘I love fighting battles’ Trump tells NRA after slamming special counsel investigation
Discussion: Breitbart and Associated Press
Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment  —  In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of multiple acts of corruption, some of which preceded his appointment to the federal bench …
New York Times:
Sex Abuse Scandal's Latest Casualty: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature  —  STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's most prestigious accolade for writing, will not be awarded this year, for the first time since 1949, as the fallout from a sexual abuse scandal that has battered …
Washington Post:
Behind Erik Prince's China venture  —  The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders.  But is it against U.S. interests?  —  Beijing's International Security Defense College, which boasts of becoming “the largest private security training school in China …
Discussion: Axios
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state — weeks after Trump savaged Amazon over its policies  — The update comes after President Donald Trump has attacked Amazon over the issue of sales tax collection.  —  The Trump Organization quietly updated …
Discussion: Politico
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Unemployment is below 4% for the first time since 2000  —  The job market hasn't been this good in a very long time.  —  The unemployment rate dropped below 4% in April for the first time since 2000.  The Labor Department reported Friday that it fell to 3.9% — inching closer to territory not seen in half a century.
Discussion: Grabien News and twitchy.com
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Cardiff Garcia / NPR:
Worker Shortage Hurts California's Agriculture Industry
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
It's time to normalize Karl Marx
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
The Daily Beast:
Senate Banking Chair Mike Crapo Set Up Campaign Shop in Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist Pad
Discussion: Politico
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
1 Year After Obamacare Repeal Vote, GOP Has Largely Dropped The Cause
Jane Kim:
No Filter  —  It's oppo dump time.  —  If you aren't familiar …
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
Wichita Eagle:
County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell indicted on bank, wire fraud and money laundering
Discussion: Raw Story
William Anderson / Weekly Standard:
Alfie Evans and the Reality of Evil
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
LaGuardia Airport's security robot is giving women the creeps
Discussion: Breitbart and Gothamist
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump is manufacturing an immigration crisis. Here's why that helps him.
Sharon Lerner / The Intercept:
How Scott Pruitt Helped Arkansas Poultry Giants Pollute One of Oklahoma's Prettiest Rivers
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Man Arrested for Illegal Guns Belongs to Neo-Nazi Group That Wants ‘Ethnostate Rape Gangs’
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Never mind the Nobel talk. Trump has a different mission on North Korea.
Discussion: HuffPost and Axios
The Daily Beast:
Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
They Voted for Obama, Then Went for Trump. Can Democrats Win Them Back?
 

 
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Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times:
Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are

Wall Street Journal:
Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named
 
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