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11:00 PM ET, May 6, 2018

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CNN:
Giuliani: I'm ‘focused on the law more than the facts right now’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he is still getting up to speed on the facts of the President's legal situation, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details at hand.
Discussion: Fox News, Political Wire and Mediaite
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Reuters:
Giuliani suggests it's possible Michael Cohen paid off other women to stay silent about alleged affairs with Trump  — President Donald Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, didn't rule out the possibility that Michael Cohen paid other women during the 2016 campaign to stay quiet about alleged affairs with his client.
Politico:
Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency  —  The president has raised the spectre of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control.  —  Rudy Giuliani's revelation Sunday that he expects President Donald …
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani won't rule out that president could take the Fifth Amendment in Russia probe
YouTube:
Michael Cohen Wiretap Cold Open - SNL
Discussion: The Week, Vox and Politico
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Giuliani: It is possible Michael Cohen paid off other women for Trump
Discussion: HuffPost and NBC News
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Stormy Daniels attorney: Giuliani interview an ‘unmitigated disaster’
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open
Discussion: Refinery29 and Balloon Juice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Stunning Developments on Trump/Private Black Ops Oppo Targeting Obama Staffers  —  We have a pretty stunning development about aides to Donald Trump apparently (though they deny it) hiring the same Israeli dirty ops/private intel firm that Harvey Weinstein used to cover up his history to mount …
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials  —  In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal.  Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser …
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Israeli spy firm Black Cube denies Trump aides hired it to discredit ex-Obama officials
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program  —  Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role …
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Washington Post:
Inside Melania Trump's complicated White House life: Separate schedules, different priorities … Donald and Melania Trump's remarkably separate daily routines begin with him getting up around 5:30 a.m., watching cable news shows and tweeting.  —  The first lady wakes in her own bedroom a bit later …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Scott Pruitt's “miserable” bunker  —  President Trump is unhappy about a report in The Atlantic which says a member of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's press team has been shopping negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple outlets.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
George Conway, Spouse of Top Trump Counselor, Takes White House to Task on Twitter.  —  WASHINGTON — In legal circles, George T. Conway III is perhaps best known as the lawyer who argued a securities case before the Supreme Court and won with an 8-to- vote, or for his behind-the-scenes work …
Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million  —  Even by the dizzying standards of New York City philanthropy, a recent $6.24 million donation to the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side was a whopper — the largest single gift from an individual to the social service group in its 125-year history.
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Republicans fear a Roy Moore redux in West Virginia  —  Republicans in D.C. are panicking over Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary.  —  The problem: Don Blankenship, a coal baron who's spent time in prison, is running a demagogic campaign in which he's repeatedly invoked the Chinese heritage …
Discussion: The Root, Political Wire and Politico
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
Don Blankenship won't rule out third party bid in West Virginia senate race
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Might Have to Go Dark for Midterm Election  —  Though there is no legal deadline, Justice Department guidelines say prosecutors should avoid the appearance of trying to sway elections  —  WASHINGTON—The clock is ticking for special counsel Robert Mueller.
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Nikki Haley says she won't defend Trump's ‘communication style’  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley  —  said on Sunday that she won't defend President Trump  —  's “communication style.”  —  “First of all, he has his communication style,” Haley told CBS's “Sunday Morning.”
Discussion: Washington Press
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CBS News:
Nikki Haley on Trump, “confusion,” and speaking her mind
Discussion: RedState and New Century Times
Wall Street Journal:
House Democrats Plan to Release 3,000 Russian-Linked Facebook Ads  —  Lawmakers on House Intelligence Committee could release trove of ads as soon as this week  —  Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are preparing to release 3,000 Russia-linked Facebook ads, according to people familiar …
Joel Schectman / Reuters:
Republican House Armed Service chair warns Trump against leaving Iran deal  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leader of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee said President Trump should not walk away from the Iran nuclear deal.  —  President Donald Trump is facing a May 12 deadline …
Discussion: The Week
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Boris Johnson / New York Times:
Don't Scuttle the Iran Nuclear Deal
Discussion: Daily Kos, Eclectablog and Mother Jones
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The Man Who Bought New York  —  Money hasn't made Stephen Schwarzman universally beloved.  Who cares?  —  Last May, a familiar routine took place on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  —  Katy Perry ascended the red carpet at the annual Costume Institute gala looking like the bride …
Christopher Carbone / Fox News:
Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is going to push Congress to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress.  —  The Californian Republican's committee has been looking into allegations …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Media Can Have Ideological Diversity Without Conservatives  —  Donald Trump's election exposed the irrelevance of conservative intellectuals — and thereby, the incoherence of many a liberal publication's mission statement.  —  During the 2016 primaries, the right-wing intelligentsia mobilized in opposition to Trump.
 
 
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Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
How Buzzfeed's ‘Data-Monster’ Leveraged User Data To Fuel Super PACs, Target Voters
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Looking beyond one-party rule in California
Discussion: American Greatness
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Admiral Cuomo prepares for war
Discussion: New York Post
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
An Urgent Debate for California Republicans: How to Get Back in the Game
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Tony Saavedra / Orange County Register:
Video shows off-duty officer pulling gun on man mistakenly suspected of stealing Mentos
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Yes, It's Bad. Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging.
Douglas Busvine / Reuters:
UK watchdog orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over American's personal data
Discussion: Axios
Steve Hartman / CBS News:
4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless
Discussion: Hullabaloo, IJR and theGrio
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
North Korea says US ruining mood of detente ahead of summit
Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
Saving America from itself: Trump is a symptom, not the disease
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
This Is The Toughest Gun Law In America
Discussion: National Review and twitchy.com
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump's coming war on Mueller: ANALYSIS
Greg B. Smith / New York Daily News:
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Brent Staples / New York Times:
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say the TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump's 2020 ban attempt

 
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