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11:35 AM ET, May 8, 2018

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New Yorker:
Four Women Accuse New York's Attorney General of Physical Abuse  —  Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct.  Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.  —  Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position.
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New York Times:
Eric Schneiderman, New York Attorney General, Quits After Assault Claims  —  Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general who rose to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration, abruptly resigned on Monday night hours after The New Yorker reported that four women had accused him of physically assaulting them.
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Ex: Schneiderman called me his ‘brown slave,’ would slap me until I called him ‘Master’  —  State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called his Sri Lankan girlfriend his “brown slave” and wanted her to refer to him as “Master,” the woman says.  —  Harvard-educated activist writer Tanya Selvaratnam told …
New York Times:
Him, Too  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board …
Discussion: National Review, Breitbart and CNN
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
As headlines swirl, Trump grows frustrated with Giuliani  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani's frequently off-message media blitz, in which he has muddied the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and made claims …
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
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CBS News:
Mueller rejects Trump request to answer questions in writing  —  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now on President Trump's legal team, told CBS News correspondent Paula Reid Monday afternoon that special counsel Robert Mueller's office has rejected proposals to allow Mr. Trump …
CNN:
Trump not sold on Giuliani defense  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been flustered by the onslaught of negative coverage generated by his new personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who has exacerbated his political troubles in recent days with a series of unscripted interviews …
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Aim to Decide by May 17 Whether President Testifies in Mueller Probe
New York Times:
Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web  —  An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation.  Should we be listening?  —  By Bari WeissPhotographs by Damon Winter  —  Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard …
Paul Campos / New York Magazine:
Here's a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model  —  On May 2, Rudy Giuliani revealed that the Trump administration has been lying for months about the fact that Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he fronted …
New York Times:
Opponents of Iran Deal Hired Investigators to Dig Up Dirt on Obama Aide  —  WASHINGTON — For years, opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran have accused Benjamin J. Rhodes, a top national security aide to President Barack Obama, of scheming to sell the diplomatic agreement on false pretenses to the American people.
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New York Times:
Trump Is Expected to Leave Iran Deal, Allies Say  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday that he is withdrawing the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, European diplomats said after concluding that they had failed to convince him that reneging on America's commitment …
Weekly Standard:
John Kerry, Busybody
Discussion: RT, CNN and IJR
Sen. Marco Rubio / Fox News:
Senator Marco Rubio: President Trump should nix the Iran nuclear deal
Discussion: Daily Wire
New York Times:
White House Aides Are Urging President Trump to Fire Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. Chief  —  WASHINGTON — Senior White House staff members are encouraging President Trump to fire Scott Pruitt, his embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief, according to two top administration officials.
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Politico:
Pruitt fast-tracked California cleanup after Hugh Hewitt brokered meeting  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt placed a polluted California area on his personal priority list of Superfund sites targeted for “immediate and intense” action after conservative radio and television host Hugh Hewitt brokered …
Kate Conger / Special Projects Desk:
Univision Is A Fucking Mess  —  Kate Conger, David Uberti, and Laura Wagner  —  This is the story of how corporate raiding, complacency, excess, and incompetence are gutting a media company that matters to tens of millions of people.  It's not a novel story, and perhaps not even scandalous …
Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
US military wives threatened by Russian hackers posing as IS  —  PARIS (AP) — Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone from hackers threatening to slaughter her family.  —  “Dear Angela!” the Facebook message read.
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Democratic Meddling In West Virginia And 4 Other Things To Watch This Election Day  —  North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio all have high-profile primary fights.  —  It's not surprising that the spotlight is on Don Blankenship's campaign for the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
7 things to watch in Tuesday's primaries
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The West Virginia primary shows Trump's election was no aberration
Discussion: National Review, Vox, ABC News and Daily Kos
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Meyers: Trump Wanted Me To Apologize On-Air for Making Fun of Him  —  Four years after the ‘Late Night’ host torched Trump at the WHCD, he says Michael Cohen was sent to negotiate Trump's appearance on his show—with one big demand. … NEW YORK—It wasn't all porn star hush money …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week and Raw Story
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Pelosi's message to Dems who criticize her while campaigning: ‘Just win, baby’  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she is unbothered by Democrats campaigning in swing districts by pledging not to support her for speaker.  —  Her message to such candidates …
Discussion: Townhall
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Nancy Pelosi acknowledges the Democrats who oppose her as Speaker
Discussion: Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Hannity Goes On a Tear Against Sessions: ‘Are You Part of the Swamp?’  —  Sean Hannity tonight went off on Attorney General Jeff Sessions over Justice Department “stonewalling.”  —  Republican frustrations with the DOJ have reached a boiling point, with plans to impeach Rod Rosenstein …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Bloomberg
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Aric Jenkins / TIME:   Jeff Sessions: Parents and Children Illegally Crossing the Border Will Be Separated
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Two Rod Rosensteins  —  Limiting Congress but letting the special counsel do pretty much what he pleases.  —  In federal court last Friday, Robert Mueller's prosecutors claimed it was no big deal if they didn't abide by the Justice Department's own regulations in their prosecution of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Federal judge rightly rebukes Mueller for questionable tactics
Discussion: Politico and JONATHAN TURLEY
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Leaders of Turning Point USA bail on college kids to hang out with Kanye West  —  Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, the influential conservative student group with more than 350 chapters on college and high school campuses nationally, canceled a speaking engagement hosted …
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Defector: WikiLeaks ‘Will Lie to Your Face’ … Last February leaked messages from a private WikiLeaks chat group offered an unfiltered glimpse of Julian Assange, complete with misogyny, anti-Semitism, and a clear, early preference for a GOP election victory.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
April was best month in history for U.S. budget, according to CBO figures  —  The federal government took in a record tax haul in April en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy left Americans with more money in their paychecks — and this more to pay to Uncle Sam.
Discussion: Daily Wire
 
 
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