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7:10 PM ET, April 10, 2019

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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Pelosi: 'I don't trust Barr; I trust Mueller'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she doesn't trust Attorney General William Barr and suggested his statements alleging President Donald Trump's campaign was spied on undermine Barr's independence as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
William Barr Sends Troubling Signals Ahead of Mueller Report Release  —  THE MUELLER REPORT has been sitting in the Justice Department for nearly two weeks.  Attorney general William Barr told Congress Wednesday he's hoping the public will finally get a look at the 300-plus page document sometime within …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr walks back claim that law enforcement spied on Trump campaign  —  Attorney General Bill Barr told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday that he believes spying by law enforcement officials on the 2016 Trump campaign “did occur,” before clarifying at the end of the hearing …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption.  —  Consider a head scratching set of conclusions.  The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Bill Barr Is Trying Hard to Be President Trump's Roy Cohn  —  It's not that bad.  Yet.  —  LISTEN TO ARTICLE  —  5:57  —  SHARE THIS ARTICLE  —  Share  —  Tweet  —  Post  —  Email  —  The attorney general of the United States is, we now know, quite sure of himself.  —  Exhibit A: Spying
John Solomon / The Hill:
The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Getting Exactly the Attorney General He Wants
Discussion: Raw Story, Law & Crime and Politico
Washington Post:
National Enquirer expected to be sold imminently as parent company faces pressure  —  American Media Inc. is actively seeking to sell off the National Enquirer, according to three people familiar with the process who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Hush Money Probe ‘Gathered Evidence From Hope Hicks’ and Others Close to President
Sarah Grossbart / E! Online:
Broken Friendships, Family Fights and Prison Sentence Anguish: How Lori Loughlin Is Coping With Her New Normal  —  Whatever happened to the woman who once declared her family wasn't interesting enough for prime time TV?  —  “We've been asked to do a reality show a couple times,” …
Washington Post:
Treasury denies Democrats' request to hand over Trump's tax returns by the end of Wednesday, says it will confer with Justice  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied House Democrats' demand to release six years of President Trump's tax returns, saying the department could not complete …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Hosts Back Mnuchin in His Testy Exchange With Maxine Waters
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Contemptor
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon  —  President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington.  —  During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions  —  Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God's wrath.”  —  The act of public atonement …
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Is This the Dumbest Moment in Congressional History?  —  A Kentucky congressman's impossibly daft line of questioning left John Kerry flabbergasted  —  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) may have studied robotics at MIT, but he is now responsible for one of the most asinine moments in congressional history.
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Mike Pence, facing criticism from 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg over his record on gay rights, says South Bend mayor ‘knows better’  — Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg “knows better” days after the South Bend, Indiana …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg, Gay and Christian, Challenges Religious Right on Its Own Turf
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016  —  Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued in March says Russian hacking efforts were wide-ranging.  —  A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation …
New York Times:
Retiring as a Judge, Trump's Sister Ends Court Inquiry Into Her Role in Tax Dodges  —  President Trump's older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, has retired as a federal appellate judge, ending an investigation into whether she violated judicial conduct rules by participating in fraudulent tax schemes with her siblings.
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Netanyahu win would complicate prognosis for peace plan, analysts say  —  The apparent victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in Israeli elections clouds prospects for the Trump administration's yet-to-be-released peace plan and could further undermine bipartisan support for Israel in Congress, according to analysts.
Discussion: Political Wire and Haaretz
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Noa Landau / Haaretz:
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House eyeing former head of anti-immigration group for DHS job  —  The White House is considering nominating the former head of an anti-immigration group to lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to a White House official and three people briefed on the deliberations …
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Smear Of Roger Scruton  —  The attempt to remove Roger Scruton from an honorary advisory role on the U.K. government's “Building Better, Building Beautiful” commission failed when it was tried last November.  But it succeeded today.  —  “You expect people who spend their lives on Twitter …
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The Guardian:
Government sacks Roger Scruton after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia
Discussion: New Statesman and The Sun
CNN:
Tiny bees found in woman's eye, feeding off tears  —  (CNN)Doctors treating a Taiwanese woman for a swollen eye were shocked to find four tiny bees living under her left eyelid.  —  The miniscule insects, known as sweat bees, are 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12-0.16 inches) in length, according to CNN affiliate CTS.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, the administration is silent on whether the president's own company is being scrutinized  —  President Trump has shown he is willing to take dramatic steps to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States, but his administration has been silent …
Lawfare:
Memo to the Press: How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report  —  Back in February, writing with Susan Hennessey and Mikhaila Fogel, we laid out “Four Principles for Reading the Mueller Report.”  The report was then still vapor, a document whose preparation was widely hypothesized by most analysts …
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
The confidential oil plan that could cost Trump reelection  —  The Trump administration is considering auctioning off Florida's coastal waters for oil and gas drilling — and Republicans are warning it could cost the president dearly in Florida in the 2020 election.
Washington Post:
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out  —  The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.  —  If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …
Discussion: CNN, TheBlaze, Daily Wire and Axios
Trisha Thadani / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF supervisors reject housing complex that would cast shadow on SoMa park  —  The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously rejected a 63-unit apartment complex, including 15 below-market-rate units, because it would cast an evening shadow on a South of Market park.
Washington Post:
European leaders offer a long Brexit delay, avoiding chaotic exit on Friday  —  BREAKING NEWS: Although British Prime Minister Theresa May had asked for an extension until the end of June, E.U. leaders are tired of emergency Brexit summits and skeptical of what she can accomplish in less than three months.
Discussion: The Guardian and Political Wire
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
“Consent condom” requires four hands to open, making powerful statement about consent  —  With consent at the forefront of modern conversations about sex, one company is highlighting its importance in a unique way.  Argentinian company Tulipán has created a “consent condom” …
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole  —  Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.  —  Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had captured an image of the unobservable: a black hole …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
A QAnon Believer Is Running for Congress and Is Currently Unopposed in His Republican Primary  —  Matthew Lusk says he is not a ‘brainwashed cult member.’ He just has some questions.  —  Believers in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory are fond of telling each other to “Trust the Plan” …
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers  —  On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle.  —  There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …
 
 
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Pentagon Pulls Funding for Team of Academics Who Work on the Most Difficult Scientific Problems
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CNN:
Supreme Court may get to decide fate of Obamacare before 2020 election
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Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Morton Klein and the Future of American Zionism
Sludge:
Reps Questioning Megabank CEOs Own Stock in Their Companies
Discussion: National Law Journal and NPR
Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
No, experts don't consider marijuana a gateway drug. …
CNN:
Bernie Sanders unveils more ambitious new Medicare for All plan
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Daily Mail:
Starr (pictured in 1998) admitted he ‘did not want to inflict further pain’ …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Barr Confirms Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump Spy Operation
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