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The Guardian:
Revealed: Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange  —  Exclusive: Files show at least $5m went on activities including spying on guests at London embassy  —  Ecuador bankrolled a multimillion-dollar spy operation to protect and support Julian Assange in its central London embassy …
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The Guardian:   How Julian Assange became an unwelcome guest in Ecuador's embassy
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cohen ‘asked Qatari investor for millions of dollars’ which he said he would ‘pass to Trump family members’ at Trump Tower meeting - and Qatar's foreign minister was there too … - Donald Trump's personal attorney is facing new claims that he asked for millions in cash …
Discussion: Slate
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Qatari investor confirms he attended Trump Tower meetings in 2016  —  Washington (CNN)A Qatari investor referenced in a series of tweets from Michael Avenatti this week confirmed to CNN through a spokesperson on Tuesday that he did attend meetings at Trump Tower in December 2016.
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:   Stormy Daniels' crowdfunding raises transparency questions
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China gave Trump a list of crazy demands, and he caved to one of them … After top Trump officials went to Beijing last month, the Chinese government wrote up a document with a list of economic and trade demands that ranged from the reasonable to the ridiculous.
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John Harwood / CNBC:   President Trump shrinks from another fight with China
New York Times:
Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the F.B.I. are investigating Cambridge Analytica, the now-defunct political data firm, and have sought to question former employees and banks that handled its business …
Steve Cortes / Washington Examiner:
Trump's winning streak rivals one of the greatest streaks in sports  —  John Wooden, perhaps the best basketball coach of all-time, once led his UCLA Bruins to 88 straight wins over three seasons in the early 1970s, still an NCAA men's record.  That streak, plus 10 national championships …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Yonhap News Agency:
(LEAD) N. Korea cancels high-level talks with S. Korea over military drill … North Korea said Wednesday it is canceling high-level talks with South Korea planned for later in the day due to ongoing military exercises between the South and the United States.
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea threatens to cancel summit with Trump over military drills
Dave Lawler / Axios:
North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit
Discussion: RedState, Politico, The Week and Mediaite
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
The Newest Star Of The Trump Movement Ran A Trump-Bashing Publication — Less Than Two Years Ago  —  A rising star on the right, Owens was CEO of a site that compared Trump to Hitler and speculated that he has a small penis.  —  Even by the whiplash-inducing standards of Trumpworld, Candace Owens' rise has been fast.
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:
Trump administration preparing to shelter migrant children on military bases  —  The Trump administration is making preparations to warehouse migrant children on military bases, according to Defense Department communications, the latest sign the government is moving forward with plans to split up families who cross the border illegally.
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools … The U.S. government has identified a suspect in the leak last year of a large portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal, the cyber tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas, according to interviews and public documents.
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New York Times:
Suspect Identified in C.I.A. Leak Was Charged, but Not for the Breach
Discussion: Politico and Axios
New York Times:
Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 87  —  Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattans moneyed status-seekers in works like …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Is Going To Limit The Visibility Of Tweets From People Behaving Badly  —  Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up.  —  On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change to the way its conversations will work, evaluating not just the content of individual tweets …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter Will Start Hiding Tweets That “Detract From the Conversation”
Discussion: The Verge, Gizmodo, NewsBusters and Twitter
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Democrats can't win the ‘respect’ of Trump voters … In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is “respect.”  If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people …
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:   The End of Trump Won't Be the End of Trumpism
Eric Geller / Politico:
White House eliminates top cyber adviser post  —  The Trump administration has eliminated the White House's top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during the Obama presidency to harmonize the government's overall approach to cybersecurity policy and digital warfare.
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
'That's not what we do': Republicans balk at confronting Trump over McCain smear  —  For six days straight, Republican senators had publicly rallied to the defense of their longtime colleague battling cancer, Sen. John McCain, who was the target of a crass joke by a White House aide calling him irrelevant because “he's dying anyway.”
Discussion: Political Wire and NPR
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Washington Post:
Metro will stay open later for Caps-Lightning Games 3 and 4 — thanks partly to ... Qatar? … Metro announced early Monday morning that it will extend service by one hour Tuesday night to accommodate fans attending Game 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs' Eastern Conference finals between the Capitals and Tampa Bay Lightning.
Washington Post:
Key Democrat backs Haspel for CIA director after she says interrogation program should not have been started  —  Gina Haspel appears to have secured enough votes to be confirmed as the country's next CIA director after stating in a letter to a top Democrat that the agency never …
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CNN:
Haspel says CIA should not have conducted interrogation program
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Disgraced former congressman Blake Farenthold won't repay $84K sexual harassment settlement  —  Former Rep. Blake Farenthold, the disgraced Texas Republican who resigned last month in the aftermath of a sexual harassment settlement, has secured his next paid gig - as a government lobbyist.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The truth is about to catch up to Trump.  He has Giuliani to thank for it. … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Today is the deadline for President Trump to file his financial disclosure form for 2017.  That fact may seem trivially bureaucratic, but lurking at its core is a dilemma for Trump …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal judge rejects Manafort's bid to dismiss Mueller indictment  —  A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, to get an indictment against him dismissed by claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment was flawed.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:   A Judge Just Denied Paul Manafort's Motion To Dismiss The Indictment Against Him In DC
Kendall Breitman / NBC News:
Trump-voting crab town left shell-shocked by his visa changes  —  HOOPERS ISLAND, Md. — This community voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.  But now his immigration changes are killing its livelihood — legendary crabs that are a mainstay of the local economy and a regional delicacy.
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
Trump's lawyer falsely claimed in 2017 interview that Trump Organization had no recent activity in Russia  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, claimed in a January 2017 interview that the Trump Organization had no recent relationship with Russia …
Halimah Abdullah / ABC News:
LIVE: Key test for ‘pink wave’ power in Tuesday's primaries  —  Tuesday night's primaries will feature redrawn district maps, a spate of retirements, a surging “pink wave” of candidates seeking to make history, and colorful political storylines aplenty.  —  All of these narratives will converge …
Discussion: Politico
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New York Times:
Pennsylvania Primary Election Results
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
For Meghan Markle's American Family, a Relentless U.K. Glare  —  It is notoriously hard to escape your background in Britain, no matter how successful you are or how much your life has diverged from that of your relatives.  And so the British tabloids have for some months been treating …
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Conservatives Freak Out at Miami Cheesecake Factory Over MAGA Hat Incident … A brave, free-speech MAGA warrior is under attack, America.  Eugenior Joseph, a Miami native and former Westwood Christian School basketball star, says he walked into the Cheesecake Factory at Dadeland Mall …
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Steve Schmidt: Trump Has “Blood On His Hands” For Jerusalem Embassy, Trying To Stave Off Midterm Loss  —  Republican strategist and campaign veteran Steve Schmidt, who two days before the 2016 U.S. presidential election told then-candidate Donald Trump to prepare a concession speech …
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Publix is supporting Adam Putnam's run for governor like no politician before  —  No other Florida candidate comes close to the type of monetary help Putnam is getting from Florida's largest private employer.  —  The Florida supermarket giant Publix has given more money to Adam Putnam's gubernatorial bid …
Discussion: The Capitolist and Splinter
Nina Siegal / New York Times:
Researchers Uncover Two Hidden Pages in Anne Frank's Diary  —  AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank tried to cover up two pages of writing in her diary that contained dirty jokes and a description of what she referred to as “sexual matters,” pasting brown paper over the pages in her red-and-white plaid notebook.
Discussion: Jezebel
Tony Briscoe / Chicago Tribune:
Federal lawsuit accuses Obama center organizers of pulling an ‘institutional bait and switch’  —  The design for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park was unveiled May 3, 2017.  —  A federal lawsuit filed by a Chicago nonprofit in an attempt to block the Obama Presidential Center …
Colin Paterson / BBC:
Why Keith Richards had to get rid of Donald Trump  —  Rolling Stones star Keith Richards says he can't be bothered to get angry any more - but the last time he did was nearly 30 years ago with Donald Trump.  —  “He [Trump] was the promoter for us in Atlantic City [during 1989's Steel Wheels Tour],” he told the BBC.
Discussion: Yahoo, CNN, Breitbart, Page Six and IJR
Stephen Hobbs / Sun-Sentinel:
Parkland school cop Scot Peterson gets $8,702 a month in pension  —  Broward Sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson resigned after public criticism from Sheriff Scott Israel for not confronting the Florida school gunman on Feb. 14.  —  South Florida Sun Sentinel  —  Privacy Policy
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Wire
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
USC let a gynecologist continue treating students despite years of misconduct allegations
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Settles Workplace Claims from Nearly 20 Individuals
The Onion:
IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child
Discussion: NewsBusters
Libby Watson / Splinter:
The Hill Ran an Anti-Iran Deal Op-Ed by a Paid Agent of Saudi Arabia Without Disclosing It
Discussion: Reuters
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AP to offer election voter survey to replace exit polls
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Bill O'Reilly in talks to return to cable news
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP golden boy mails it in
Discussion: Splinter
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat
Discussion: Politico