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8:00 AM ET, April 30, 2019

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The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim  —  The mayor was briefly accused of assaulting a young man.  A GOP source says right-wing operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman approached him to make similarly untrue accusations.
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Eliza Relman / Business Insider:   Pete Buttigieg was falsely accused of sexual assault in a stunt concocted by conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Right-wing activists tried to recruit young men to falsely claim they were sexually assaulted by Pete Buttigieg
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden solidifies frontrunner status with post-announcement bump  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden's announcement of a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination earned him an 11-point polling bounce, leaving him head and shoulders above the rest of the Democratic candidates.
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Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Biden, followed by Sanders and Buttigieg, leads among Democrats in N.H. survey
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:   Bernie Sanders draws sharp contrasts between himself and Joe Biden
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Posts 6-Point Bump Among Likely Democratic Voters Amid Campaign Launch
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Political Wire
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Biden, Now the Front-Runner, Gives First Speech as 2020 Candidate
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden gets under Trump's skin
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Submits Resignation Letter  —  Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to President Trump on Monday, ending a tumultuous two years in which he tried to steady a rocky Justice Department and its relationship with the White House.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rod Rosenstein Quits, Thanking the President Who Trolled Him  —  The Deputy Attorney General was a frequent target of Trump's ire.  Rod Rosenstein thanked him for his “courtesy and humor,” anyway.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  Rod Rosenstein is ready to jump.  The deputy attorney general …
Discussion: Politico, Vanity Fair and The Guardian
David Mark / Washington Examiner:   Rod Rosenstein resigning from Justice Department post
New York Times:
Trump Sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to Block Compliance With Subpoenas  —  President Trump, his three eldest children and his private company filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in a bid to prevent the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas.
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite and Axios
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Trumps sue to quash Deutsche Bank, Capital One subpoenas  —  Deutsche Bank has continued to lend money to the president when other banks have refused.  Trump wrote a check to Michael Cohen on his Capital One account.  —  President Donald Trump and several members of his family sued Deutsche Bank …
Cristina Alesci / CNN:
Trump team sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to keep them from turning over financial records to Congress
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One to block House subpoenas
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
Trump's lack of cooperation with Congress intensifies impeachment push in House  —  Frustration among House Democratic investigators is intensifying after President Trump's refusal to cooperate with congressional inquiries, leading some to privately question whether they should try …
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Los Angeles Times
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CNN:
Graham calls Democrats ‘political hacks,’ says Trump should fight their subpoenas ‘like hell’  —  Conway: Trump might block McGahn testimony  —  (CNN)A defiant Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that President Donald Trump should ignore congressional subpoenas demanding the administration turn …
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I hope he has learned his lesson’: Chuck and Nancy's rematch with Trump  —  The last time Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer met with Donald Trump it was an unequivocal disaster, culminating in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.  —  Now, more than four months later …
Discussion: Raw Story and Observer
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Chuck and Nancy head back to the White House
Discussion: AMN - Al-Masdar News
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Drops Syndication Service That Supplied Anti-Semitic Cartoon  —  A ‘Times’ spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively about the paper's decision to stop using syndicated cartoons, including those from the syndicator of the offensive cartoon.  —  Lloyd Grove
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The Times of Israel:
After cartoon uproar, Israel's US envoy calls NY Times a ‘cesspool of hostility’  —  Dermer claims newspaper has become ‘a safe-space for those who hate the Jewish state’; Trump says Times has apologized for cartoon, but hasn't apologized to him for fake news
Mairav Zonszein / Washington Post:
Netanyahu won't condemn the real danger to U.S. Jews: White nationalism
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge  —  President Trump ordered major changes to U.S. asylum policies in a White House memo released Monday night, including measures that would charge fees to those applying for humanitarian refuge in the United States.
Discussion: One America News Network and Axios
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New York Times:
Asylum Seekers Face New Restraints Under Latest Trump Orders
Discussion: Politico
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Trump introduces sweeping changes to asylum in memo
Los Angeles Times:
Authorities disrupt alleged terrorism plot in Southern California  —  A domestic terror plot aimed at “multiple targets” in Southern California was disrupted by federal and local law enforcement agencies, sources told The Times on Monday.  —  A single suspect has been arrested on domestic terrorism charges …
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NBC News:
California man busted in domestic terror plot wanted to kill LAPD officers
Discussion: The Root and Mediaite
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
White House Reviewing Stephen Moore's Writings  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is reviewing past writings by Stephen Moore, the conservative commentator whom President Trump plans to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, amid criticism that many of the opinion columns he penned denigrated women.
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Post
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Stephen Moore wants people to pay more attention to his economic policies. Challenge accepted.
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Raw Story and Splinter
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Breaking: Stacey Abrams won't run for US Senate in Georgia  —  Stacey Abrams said Tuesday that she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2020 but left open the possibility she could launch a presidential campaign.  —  The decision not to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue follows months …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
‘Bizarre, Dangerous, and Insulting’: Baby Nurses Fed Up With Trump's Bogus Abortion Rants  —  They say his talk of executing babies distorts the palliative care they provide gravely sick infants.  —  President Trump's latest rant about babies being executed after birth is riling up neonatal nurses …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Abortion Incitement
New York Times:
Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied …
Popular Information:
Facebook allows the Trump campaign to run false and misleading ads with impunity  —  To stay updated on this story, subscribe to the Popular Information newsletter at popular.info/subscribe.  —  I regret to inform you that Facebook and the Trump campaign are at it again.
BBC:
Indonesia's planning minister announces capital city move  —  Indonesia is moving its capital city away from Jakarta, according to the country's planning minister.  —  Bambang Brodjonegoro said President Joko Widodo had chosen to relocate the capital in “an important decision”.
 
 
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New Bernie Sanders App Democratizes Organizing — and Panics People Unfamiliar With Organizing
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Ocasio-Cortez Doubles Down, Says VA Problems Are a ‘Myth’
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio was a passenger in a car crash; the NYPD covered it up
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Foxconn Tore Up a Small Town to Build a Big Factory—Then Retreated
Discussion: Breitbart
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