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12:40 PM ET, May 9, 2018

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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The Porn Star's Lawyer Maps the Trump Money Trail  —  Michael Cohen's clients included a firm linked to a Russian oligarch and a South Korean aerospace company.  —  There may be any number of reasons why a management firm linked to a powerful Russian oligarch favored by the Kremlin paid …
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New York Times:
Firm Tied to Russian Oligarch Made Payments to Michael Cohen  —  A shell company that Michael D. Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch and several corporations with business …
CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller's team questions Russian oligarch about payments to Cohen  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company's US affiliate made to President Donald Trump's personal attorney …
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Special Counsel's Office Has Been Looking Into Payments To Michael Cohen's Company Since Last Year  —  Cohen's company was also used to pay off Stormy Daniels.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  One of the world's largest pharmaceutical corporations acknowledged Wednesday morning …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire
Noah Shachtman / The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen Took Cash From Russian Oligarch After Election  —  The Daily Beast can confirm that Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company controlled by Putin-aligned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
Victor Reklaitis / MarketWatch:
Drugmaker Novartis ties payments made to Trump's lawyer to former CEO
Discussion: Reuters and Joe.My.God.
John Fritze / USA Today:
Swiss drug maker Novartis was questioned over ties to Trump attorney
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Paid Trump Lawyer for ‘Insights’ on Administration
Discussion: The Week
Scott Bland / Politico:
Top takeaways from the first big primary of 2018  —  Republicans can exhale now.  —  Convicted coal magnate Don Blankenship's surprise third-place finish in Tuesday's West Virginia GOP Senate primary sidestepped yet another debacle for the party after consecutive meltdowns in special elections in Alabama and Pennsylvania.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's Rightward Pull on the GOP Primaries  —  The results of Tuesday's primary elections simultaneously bolstered the Republican Party mainstream and demonstrated how much ground it has yielded to Donald Trump, particularly on the volatile issue of immigration.
G. Elliott Morris / The Crosstab:
Democrats Scored a Big, Unexpected Win in the May 8 Primaries  —  For the first time in 2018, an incumbent U.S. House Representative has been ousted by a primary challenger.  Republican U.S. House Rep. from North Carolina's 9th Congressional District Robert Pittenger lost his primary bid …
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Splinter
New York Times:
West Virginia Primary Election Results
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Hours into his new job, Trump's ambassador to Germany offends his hosts … BERLIN — For the past year, German officials have been urging their U.S. counterparts to send a new ambassador to Berlin.  But after finally receiving one, many may be having second thoughts.
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg and The Local
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Washington Post:
Why Trump torpedoed Obama's Iran deal
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Europeans scramble to save Iran nuclear deal but face new concerns over U.S. sanctions
Politico:
Trump ‘unleashes general rage’ in scrapping Iran deal
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Courageous Trump Call on a Lousy Iran Deal
Peter Baker / New York Times:
No Longer Held Back by His Advisers, Trump Puts His Imprint on Foreign Policy  —  WASHINGTON — The relative caution that constrained President Trump for much of his first year in office has been cast aside, and an emboldened commander in chief is finally reshaping foreign policy to reflect the …
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Washington Post:
North Korea releases 3 American prisoners in apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between Trump and Kim
Thomas Wright / Politico:
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Are Headed for a Clash
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Pompeo Offers Olive Branch to North Korea During Visit to Free Americans
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Daily Beast refuses to budge on its Gina Haspel story … When Gina Haspel appears on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee in her confirmation hearing for CIA director, she'll likely field a question or two about her time overseeing a “black site” prison in Thailand in 2002.
Eli Okun / Politico:
Key moments: Haspel defends her moral compass at tense hearing
Discussion: ABC News and Splinter
Washington Post:
Risk to intelligence source who aided Russia investigation at center of latest showdown between Nunes and Justice Dept.  —  Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an urgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes …
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
FX Lands New York Times TV Series ‘The Weekly’  —  Hulu will stream episodes of the half-hour series, based on the Michael Barbaro-hosted podcast ‘The Daily,’ the day after their linear premiere.  —  FX has landed The New York Times' television news series, The Weekly.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
With ‘The Weekly,’ The New York Times Gets Serious About TV
Discussion: Scripting News and Splinter
Politico:
Shouting match erupts on House floor over chaplain  —  Two lawmakers on Tuesday evening erupted into a shouting match on the House floor over Speaker Paul Ryan's firing — and then reinstatement — of the House chaplain, reigniting a contentious religious fight the Wisconsin Republican hoped would fade.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican
Katie Jane Fernelius / News, Indy Week:
A Duke University VP Walked Into the Campus Joe Van Gogh, Heard a Rap Song, Demanded That the Employees Be Fired  —  On Monday, two employees of Duke University's Joe Van Gogh location had their contracts terminated after vice president for student affairs Larry Moneta and executive director …
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced  —  Critics of the left aren't oppressed and they don't believe in “rational debate.”  —  Irony can be a difficult concept to grasp, but some hypothetical examples can illustrate it clearly.  It would be ironic, for instance, if people who claimed …
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship … The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America, ending a century-old tradition deeply ingrained in the religious life of Mormon boys.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Big Donors Form New Alliance to Seize House From Republicans  —  Major Democratic donors in New York have discreetly formed a new political alliance to raise roughly $10 million that would be injected into as many as two dozen key House battlegrounds in an effort to wrest control of Congress from Republicans.
Britton O'Daly / Yale Daily News:
Black student reported to YPD for napping in dormitory common room  —  Yale Police officers on Monday evening interrogated a black graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola GRD '19, for more than 15 minutes, after a white graduate student reported Siyonbola to the police for sleeping in the HGS common room.
Discussion: Raw Story
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
NYC lunch spots are killing off the chopped salad  —  That staple of New York City lunch hour, the chopped salad, has been, well, chopped.  —  Just Salad, with 20 Manhattan locations, is the latest chain to do away with chopped-on-demand greens.  You'll just have to chew.
Discussion: Eater NY
Ladders:
Ronan Farrow to Loyola Marymount's Class of 2018: ‘Trust that inner voice’  —  “I wish I could tell you I was confident.  That I was sure of myself.  That I didn't care,” Farrow said of reporting the hardest story of his life.  “But the real version was that I was heartbroken and scared …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet  —  For years, Ev Williams was saddled with doubts.  —  As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams transformed the way millions of people publish and consume information online.
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
Rachel Crooks, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her, wins uncontested Ohio House primary … Rachel Crooks, one of at least 19 women who have publicly accused President Trump of sexual assault, won an uncontested primary Tuesday for a seat in the Ohio state House of Representatives, her campaign manager confirmed.
Charles J. Sykes / Weekly Standard:
When Everything Is Possible and Nothing Is True  —  Hannah Arendt proves indispensable in understanding the Trump era.  —  One of my favorite stories about Winston Churchill goes like this. … Unfortunately, the story is what we would now call fake news.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Is This How Avenatti Found Out?  —  TPM Reader TH thinks he knows where Michael Avenatti got his amazingly specific details.  And it sounds right to me ...  I have no idea who leaked this or whether it was a leak per se.  But this is extraordinarily detailed information.  It all seems accurate.
 
 
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James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD investigating disappearance of Iron Man suit used in Marvel's ‘Avengers’ films
YouTube:
Senate Dems File Petition to Force Vote on Net Neutrality
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Trump to get millions from sale of New York housing complex
Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg:
The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers
Nina Agrawal / Los Angeles Times:
Santa Clarita joins other cities in opposing California's ‘sanctuary’ law
Discussion: KTLA
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
How Two Persian Gulf Nations Turned The US Media Into Their Battleground
Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
On the Road With Rose McGowan: An Actress Turned Activist Leaves the “Hollywood Bubble” Behind
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Jeffrey Young / HuffPost:
The Uninsured Rate Is Worsening After Years Of Obamacare's Gains
Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
Congress Overturns Obama-Era Auto-Loan Rule
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Primary results confirm 2018 is a terrible year to be a House Republican
Discussion: Vox and MSNBC
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former CIA Case Officer Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Espionage and Retention of National Defense Information
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
I went back to the man who hit me. Why?