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12:40 AM ET, April 10, 2019

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement  —  Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel's office about the potential release of President Trump's tax returns …
Daniel Hemel / Slate:
How Democrats in Congress Could Easily—and Quickly—Get Their Hands on Trump's Taxes  —  Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confidently declared this weekend that congressional Democrats will “never” see President Donald Trump's tax returns.  House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal …
Haaretz:
Israel Election 2019: Gantz and Netanyahu Tied; No Clear Path to Premiership for Either — Exit Polls  —  Netanyahu's party places 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling sites ■ Gantz helps injured motorcyclist ■ 6.3 million people eligible to vote
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Gantz declares victory over Netanyahu in Israel  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on Israel's election (all times local):  —  The leader of Israel's Blue and White party has declared victory in parliamentary elections, despite mixed results in exit polls.  —  Addressing a raucous crowd of supporters.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Times of Israel:   Netanyahu lauds ‘incredible victory’ as results show clear win
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:   In dramatic shift, Netanyahu's Likud leading in latest exit polls
New York Times:
Israel Elections Live Updates: Exit Polls Show Dead Heat, a Setback for Netanyahu
Discussion: Power Line and The Week
Washington Post:
Netanyahu and his chief rival both claim victory in squeaker of Israeli election
Discussion: NBC News
Associated Press:
Israeli exit polls show Netanyahu edging ahead of rival
Discussion: The Week
The Times of Israel:
Likud holds narrow lead over Blue and White as two-thirds of votes counted
Discussion: Jerusalem Post and Breitbart
Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe  — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias  — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report  —  Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …
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Fox News:
Barr assembles ‘team’ to look into counterintelligence investigation on Trump campaign in 2016, official says  —  Attorney General Bill Barr has assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, an administration official briefed …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Comey memos contained far more sensitive info than previously known, FBI filing reveals  —  Trump vows to release full and unredacted FISA warrants, related documents used by FBI to probe his campaign  —  Former FBI Director James Comey included a slew of sensitive and classified information …
Discussion: RedState
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration  —  President Donald Trump's choice of Stephen Miller to lead on immigration sets up a potential policy clash with one of the most influential people in the White House, the president's son-in-law.
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NBC News:
Trump admin wants to make asylum harder by putting border agents in charge  —  The White House wants to make it harder for migrants to get asylum by putting border agents in charge of interviews.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is working on plans to make it harder for immigrants at the border …
Washington Post:
Twelve days of chaos: Inside the Trump White House's growing panic to contain the border crisis
Washington Post:
Trump denies plan to separate migrant families, blames Obama for ‘cages’
Discussion: Shakesville and Raw Story
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Ex-FBI Official Says He Received Steele Dossier From Reporter  —  Former FBI general counsel James Baker told Congress in 2018 about his interactions with a liberal reporter who was “anxious” to provide the bureau with a copy of the infamous and unverified Steele dossier.
Discussion: The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Newly released testimony: Former top FBI lawyer says agency concerned Trump obstructed justice
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain's Fed nomination  —  Herman Cain is in deep trouble.  And he hasn't yet even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve.  —  Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult …
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The Daily Caller:   Stephen Moore Isn't Qualified To Sit On The Federal Reserve
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Former CBS News Reporter Lara Logan Joining Sinclair  —  The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist, who left the network last year, will be a special correspondent for the conservative media giant.  —  In late February, former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan outlined her conditions …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump  —  Kirstjen Nielsen's image makeover has already begun—but it may be a hard sell.  —  Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation …
J. Arthur Bloom / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Detailing Google's ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results  —  Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company's official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Dump Trump Debate  —  Audience members gasped in horror at some of the arguments put forth as Kris Kobach and Liz Peek faced off against Bret Stephens and Jeff Flake in a public debate over what to do with the President.  —  Robert Rosenkranz, a financier and a philanthropist, believes in civility.
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
Pentagon awards nearly $1 billion to build Trump's border wall  —  Washington (CNN)The Defense Department announced Tuesday that it had awarded $976 million in contracts to build President Donald Trump's much-sought-after border wall with a completion date for these projects of October 2020.
Discussion: Splinter, The Daily Beast and WREG-TV
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy  —  President Trump repeated a false claim to reporters Tuesday, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated from their parents at the southern border.
Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Why two former Beto O'Rourke staffers now say they're with Bernie Sanders  —  Their journey reveals a major fault line for O'Rourke as he transitions from a statewide campaign in which occasional votes with the Republicans can be an asset to a new national playing field where some see those moves as political apostasy.
BuzzFeed News:
Warner Bros. Is Filing A Copyright Claim Over Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 re-election campaign.  In less than three hours it had already amassed over 1 million views, but it might not be up much longer.
Jonathan Broder / Newsweek:
How Ilhan Omar Is Changing the Conversation About Israel—and Upending the 2020 Campaign  —  In late March, some 18,000 people crowded into a grand ballroom the size of a commercial airline hangar in downtown Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee …
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit  —  California Representative Devin Nunes is being mocked on Twitter after filing a $150 million lawsuit over a May 2018 story featuring the headline: “A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes …
Vicki Divoll / New York Times:
Subpoena Isn't the Only Way to Get the Mueller Report  —  By law, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees should already have certain investigative materials relating to Russian election meddling.  —  PAUL KRUGMAN  —  Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?  —  The tax cut fizzled; send in the clowns!
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:
What Happened When Pete Buttigieg Tore Down Houses In Black And Latino South Bend  —  “Everyone wants to find a villain,” a South Bend politician said of the Mayor Pete Buttigieg's housing program.  “This is just how economic development happens.”  —  Reporting From  —  South Bend, Indiana
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
When local newspapers shrink, fewer people bother to run for mayor  —  “In a well-functioning system, citizens need to be actively engaged in their government and aware of decisions made by their elected representatives.  Newspapers are a means of citizen engagement, and this study provides evidence of the importance of this link.”
 
 
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Candace Owens Nukes the Democrats [Updated]
Discussion: The Hill and Vanity Fair
Margaret Blanchard / The Peabody Awards:
Spotlight on the Best Storytelling of 2018
Ann Schmidt / Fox News:
How did Bernie Sanders make his money? A look at his wealth and assets
Discussion: Washington Post
U.S. Department of Justice:
St. Louis Woman Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Attack Planned Parenthood Facility and Staff
Discussion: Law & Crime
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
What Barr Told Congress About the Mueller Report
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and LAW.com
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
German Woman Goes on Trial in Death of 5-Year-Old Girl Held as ISIS Slave
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump calls Egypt's Sissi a ‘great president’ as U.S. plays down human rights concerns
Ruth Graham / Slate:
The White House Is Hosting a Screening of the Gory Anti-Abortion Film Gosnell
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
It Wasn't ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Young Trump judge faces charges of conflict of interest and corporate favoritism
Steve Vladeck / Slate:
Trump Is Abusing His Authority to Name “Acting Secretaries.” Here's How Congress Can Stop Him.
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 ‘wellness’ habits: From no food all weekend to ice baths
Discussion: Quartz and The Daily Caller
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. Thank TurboTax.
 

 
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