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10:35 PM ET, April 8, 2019

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CNN:
Trump is removing US Secret Service director  —  (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.  —  President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been pushing to reinstate broader family separation policies and sought to close the US-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas …
New York Times:
Trump Purge Set to Force Out More Top Homeland Security Officials  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to replace the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after forcing the resignation of its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, as he accelerated a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Grassley warns White House not to oust any more top immigration officials  —  The most senior Senate Republican is warning the White House not to oust another top immigration official, making appeals to the administration against dismissing Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Miami Herald:
‘She lies to everyone’: Feds say Mar-a-Lago intruder had hidden-camera detector in hotel  —  Trump Tourism: Access for Sale  —  The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Cancel Kirstjen Nielsen  —  Her role in terrorizing children should make her a permanent pariah.  —  On Sunday evening, news broke that Kirstjen Nielsen was leaving her job as head of the Department of Homeland Security.  The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that according …
NBC News:
Trump has for months been urging administration to reinstate child separation policy  —  A senior administration official said they believe Trump is convinced that family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum seekers.  —  President Donald Trump has for months urged …
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump's DHS purge floors Republicans  —  President Donald Trump's congressional allies are alarmed by his purge at the Department of Homeland Security — urging him not to fire more top officials and warning him how hard it will be to solve twin crises at the border and the federal agencies overseeing immigration policy.
New York Times:
More Top Homeland Security Officials Set to Leave in Trump Purge  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to sweep out the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after pushing out its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, accelerating a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Who Is Left to Say No to Trump?  —  Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest one out of the president's spiraling cabinet who expressed his cruelty but wouldn't go as far as he wanted.  —  There's no reason to mourn Kirstjen Nielsen's departure from the Department of Homeland Security.
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico …
Discussion: CNN, Splinter and New York Post
CNBC:
Randolph Alles is out as Trump's Secret Service chief
Los Angeles Times:
Trump aide Stephen Miller ‘going to clean house’ as immigration policy hardens
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Another Day, Another ‘Acting’ Cabinet Secretary as Trump Skirts Senate
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
White House Seeks Tighter Grip on Immigration Policy
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Political Wire
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's ignominious end
CNN:
The only constant in Trump's world is chaos
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:   Federal judge blocks Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Push to Obtain Trump's N.Y. Tax Returns Wins Cuomo's Support  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  For more than two years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has railed against President Trump, attacking his policies on everything from immigration …
Discussion: Political Wire, VICE News and Vox
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's tax return scam has taken yet another turn  —  While the best con is one in which the victim never even realizes they got scammed, that can seldom be guaranteed.  So the con artist needs a final argument to make to their mark if they get confronted, and the one they often use goes as follows: Sure, I conned you.
Discussion: Fox News, NBC News and Contemptor
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The IRS chief must release Trump's tax returns — and Mnuchin must not stop him  —  Lawrence H. Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University.  He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010.
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress and Shareblue Media
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
To Get Trump's Tax Returns, N.Y. Democrats Try a New Strategy
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump's private club had a device used to detect hidden cameras and a large amount of cash in her Palm Beach hotel room …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Woman accused of illegal entry to Mar-a-Lago had numerous electronic devices, thousands in cash  —  Trump not worried about Mar-a-Lago security breach  —  West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)Yujing Zhang, the woman who allegedly breached security at President Donald Trump's private Florida club …
Washington Post:
Chinese woman at Mar-a-Lago will remain jailed.  She had more suspicious electronics at her hotel, prosecutors say.
Discussion: The Guardian and Daily Wire
Kyle Korver / The Players' Tribune:
Privileged  —  PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES  —  W  —  hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.  —  When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Are Warning Drug Companies Not To Cooperate With A Congressional Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices.  —  Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
'I've been battling Nadler for years': Feud between Trump, Democrat rooted in decades-old New York real estate project  —  Assembling a group of House Republicans at the White House to talk trade last month, President Trump suddenly launched into a tirade about the congressman leading …
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Fox News:
Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes  —  House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news …
Eric Levenson / CNN:
Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam  —  (CNN)Thirteen wealthy parents, including actress Felicity Huffman, and one coach will plead guilty to using bribery and other forms of fraud as part of the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors in Boston said on Monday.
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Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom  —  On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break.  While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.
Discussion: New York Times
CNN:
House Intelligence chairman rejects Cohen bid for help delaying prison term  —  Trump vs. Michael Cohen: Who's telling the truth?  —  Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has rejected Michael Cohen's request for help in an effort to delay and reduce Cohen's …
Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says  —  For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW.  Until now.  —  Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS …
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
A Tale Of Two Suburbs  —  I grew up at the top of a hill on the east bank of a river that burned.13 That determined so much.  —  My maternal grandparents bought the house where I grew up in 1949.  They were the rare Catholics in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland …
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy's story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later  —  It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Fla. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old …
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, is running for president  —  He joins a crowded presidential primary, potentially bolstered by his role on the House Intelligence Committee investigating Trump.  —  Avid followers of cable news Trump-Russia coverage are probably at least acquainted …
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump's Fed threats meet a firewall: GOP lawmakers  —  GOP lawmakers have given in to President Donald Trump on almost every contentious issue, but they're quietly breaking from him on one front that has drawn the president's repeated ire: the Federal Reserve.
NBC News:
Trump administration moves to undercut MLB's deal with Cuba  —  The administration is moving to reverse an Obama-era ruling that allowed Cuban baseball players to sign with major league teams in the U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to undercut a landmark agreement …
Discussion: Washington Post, TheBlaze and The Root
 
 
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