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3:25 PM ET, April 26, 2019

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Murray Waas / The New York Review of Books:
Mueller Prosecutors: Trump Did Obstruct Justice  —  Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded last year that they had sufficient evidence to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice over the president's alleged pressuring …
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Washington Post:
Rosenstein fires back at critics over Mueller report  —  NEW YORK — Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein hit back hard against politicians and the press Thursday night, and warned that hacking and social media ma­nipu­la­tion are “only the tip of the iceberg” …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Armenian Bar Association's Public Servants Dinner  —  “Peri yerego.”  Good evening.  —  Rick, I am grateful for your friendship and for your 20 years of exceptional service to the Department of Justice …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Rosenstein defends Russia investigation, takes shots at Obama administration
Discussion: Above the Law
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:   Did Trump's Attempts to Obstruct Actually Work?
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox News' Jon Decker Blasts Colleagues Over Charlottesville in Leaked Emails: Like a ‘White Supremacist Chat Room’  —  In leaked internal emails obtained by Mediaite, Fox News Radio correspondent Jon Decker scolded several of his colleagues for their defense of President Donald Trump's …
Scott Jones / FTVLive:
EXCLUSIVE! Fox News Internal Emails Regarding Biden's Announcement
Discussion: Contemptor
Washington Post:
Majority of Americans oppose impeachment, but majority also says Trump lied to public  —  A majority of Americans say they oppose calls for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian interference …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Majority of Americans oppose impeaching Trump, though most say he lied to U.S. public  —  Poll Questions  —  Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?  Do you approve/disapprove strongly or somewhat?  —  Hide Results
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Why Is Joe Biden the Only Democrat Who Wants to Talk About Donald Trump?  —  In the week since the release of the Mueller report, President Trump has gone to war against its findings, raged against advisers who coöperated with the special counsel's investigation, lied about what the report concluded …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Restoration Versus Revolution  —  A couple of weeks ago, I noted that one way to look at the 2020 Democratic primary contest was to think of it as a battle between those candidates who wanted a ‘revolution’ versus those who want to see more of a ‘restoration.’ The leaders of the ‘revolution’ wing …
Discussion: New York Times
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Is Trump trying to get impeached?
NBC News:
If it's Biden v. Bernie, buckle up
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, Politico and Townhall
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says he would beat Biden ‘easily’ in 2020, takes a swipe at former VP's age
Discussion: Politico and Liberty Unyielding
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Biden says he's ‘more cognizant’ of private space after allegations
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Russian Agent Maria Butina Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison: ‘I Destroyed My Own Life’  —  The government says she illegally courted U.S. figures, including conservatives and NRA leaders, on behalf of Moscow.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  Maria Butina, who admitted to conspiring to act …
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Washington Post:
Maria Butina, Russian who conspired to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups, sentenced to 18 months  —  Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina was sentenced to an 18-month prison term Friday in Washington after failing to register as a foreign agent for conspiring …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Women Did Everything Right.  Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’  —  How America's obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.  —  Daniela Jampel and Matthew Schneid met in college at Cornell, and both later earned law degrees.  They both got jobs at big law firms, the kind that reward people …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: For one shining moment, Trump stayed on message  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP at the NRA convention in Indianapolis:  — “Every day of my administration, we are taking power out of Washington, D.C., and returning it to the American people, where it belongs.
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ProPublica:
Saudi Fugitives Accused of Serious Crimes Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way
Discussion: Mirror.co.uk
CNN:   Exclusive: Saudi Arabia said they confessed.  But court filings show some executed men protested their innocence
Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP's Jordan asks White House to let ex-official testify to avoid ‘unnecessary conflict’ on security clearances  —  (CNN)Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, is seeking to resolve a tense dispute between Democrats and the White House as part of the panel's review …
Discussion: Political Wire and KTLA
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BuzzFeed News:
Trump Says Mar-A-Lago Can't Find US Workers To Hire.  New Documents Show Dozens Applied.  —  Trump often says his resorts have no choice but to hire foreign guest workers — there just aren't any Americans to take the jobs.  But government records show nearly 60 US residents applied for those jobs, and only one was hired.
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page From Search Engines  —  The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans.  But they're keeping Google from seeing it. … This week, we reported on how TurboTax uses deceptive design …
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Farm Equipment Sales Dive as Trump Trade War Hits Rural U.S.  —  Opinion  —  Nixon Got Pushed Out by Republicans.  Trump Might, Too.  —  Some party leaders surely know the costs of letting him crush Congress as an institution.  —  April 26, 2019  —  Jonathan Bernstein
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
US economy grows by 3.2% in the first quarter, topping expectations  —  The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in six years.  —  First-quarter GDP expanded by 3.2% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Warren's free-college-and-debt-forgiveness plan may be liberal, but it isn't progressive  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) might want to work on making her free-college-and-debt-forgiveness plan more progressive.  —  That might sound like a weird criticism for a candidate already vying for the left-most lane in the 2020 primary.
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David Brown / Politico:
Trump says U.S. ‘will never ratify’ arms trade treaty  —  President Donald Trump declared Friday his intent to walk away from the 2014 Arms Trade Treaty, a mostly symbolic move but one that drew condemnation from advocates.  —  “This treaty threatened your ... rights. ...
Discussion: Townhall
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
During NRA speech, Trump drops out of another global arms treaty
Discussion: Hot Air and Axios
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they're talking about, study suggests  —  Researchers attempt to measure how often people oversell themselves in society  —  Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends …
Washington Post:
Pentagon set to expand military role along southern border  —  The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military's involvement in President Trump's operation along the southern border.
HuffPost:
Psychiatrists Say Mueller Report Offers More Proof Of Trump's Mental Decline  —  Trying to fire Mueller despite the clear downside shows the president can't rationally process risk, a new study states.  —  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's “reckless” response to the investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
Gary Langer / ABC News:
31% believe Trump is exonerated after Mueller report, 56% oppose impeachment: Poll  —  Donald Trump's approval rating is essentially unchanged at a historically weak 39 percent after the release of the Mueller report, just three in 10 Americans accept the president's claim to have been exonerated …
Dan Margolies / NPR:
Kansas Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Protects Right To Abortion  —  Updated at 11 a.m. ET  —  The Kansas Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion, the state's Supreme Court ruled Friday.  —  The landmark ruling now stands as the law of the land in Kansas with no path for an appeal.
 
 
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Starr report veteran says Trump's crimes are ‘thousandfold’ worse
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Salon
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Inside the EPA's ‘resistance room,’ where Trump was never president and climate change is real
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Lipinski challenger squeezed by DCCC vendor policy
Discussion: The Intercept
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
New Census Data Reinforces Urgency of House GOP's Female Recruitment Push
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Guantanamo Is Becoming a Nursing Home for Its Aging Terror Suspects
 Earlier Items: 
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
George Conway slammed Trump as ‘Deranged Donald,’ and a new nickname was born
Discussion: The Root, IJR, HuffPost and Joe.My.God.
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Corbyn snubs Trump dinner at Buckingham Palace
Discussion: Political Wire
ACLU of Texas:
Court Rules Texas Anti-Boycott Law is Unconstitutional, Protects First Amendment Right to Boycott
David Smiley / Miami Herald:
FBI to meet with Florida governor to discuss election-hacking attempts by Russians
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's top aide is trying to overhaul the West Wing snake pit
Discussion: USA Today
Mike Allen / Axios:
Bob Woodward is considering another book on Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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