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11:20 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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New York Times:   As Buttigieg Builds His Campaign, Gay Donors Provide the Foundation
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden solidifies front-runner 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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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
CNN poll: Biden jumps to 24-point lead after 2020 announcement  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden received an 11-point bump among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters after he officially jumped into the 2020 race last week, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Biden, followed by Sanders and Buttigieg, leads among Democrats in N.H. survey
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden says Congress will have ‘no alternative’ but to impeach Trump if he blocks its investigations
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden gets under Trump's skin
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:   Trumps sue to quash Deutsche Bank, Capital One subpoenas
New York Times:
Asylum Seekers Face New Restraints Under Latest Trump Orders  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday ordered new restrictions on asylum seekers at the Mexican border — including application fees and work permit restraints — and directed that cases in the already clogged immigration courts be settled within 180 days.
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The White House:
Presidential Memorandum on Additional Measures to Enhance Border Security and Restore Integrity …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
Washington Post:
Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge
Washington Post:   Poll: Percentage of Democrats who see border ‘crisis’ jumps 17 points since January amid spike in migrant families
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Trump introduces sweeping changes to asylum in memo
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 …
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Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: Chuck and Nancy head back to the White House
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Adam Schiff to make criminal referral for Erik Prince to Justice Department  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told the Washington Post on Tuesday that his committee will make a criminal referral for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince to the Justice Department.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
What was Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale doing in Romania?  —  BRUSSELS — The day before special counsel Robert S. Mueller III submitted his report to the Justice Department last month, Washington was abuzz with what revelations it might contain about contacts between the 2016 Trump campaign and foreign officials.
Discussion: Raw Story
Vanessa Williams / Washington Post:
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will not run for Senate in 2020  —  Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who garnered national attention after narrowly losing her bid for governor last year, announced Tuesday that she will not run for Senate, despite a fierce lobbying effort by party leaders.
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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 …
Scott Smith / Associated Press:
Venezuela's Guaido takes to streets in military uprising  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed soldiers early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for the military …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Rod Rosenstein Embodies the Republican Surrender to Trump  —  The most bizarre passage in Rod Rosenstein's letter to President Trump resigning his post as deputy attorney general is praise for “the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations.”
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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 …
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
Windsor Mann / The Week:
What all of President Trump's ‘jokes’ have in common  —  The day the Mueller report was released, President Trump said he might stay in the Oval Office “at least for 10 or 14 years.”  Trump, fearing “bedlam” over this remark, said it was a “joke,” similar to the one he made last year …
Joe Biden / YouTube:
America: Anything Is Possible … America is an idea.  An idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.  It's a place where ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Discussion: CNN, Politico and CBS News
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Oprah Talks Apple Plans, ‘60 Minutes’ Exit, ‘Leaving Neverland’ Backlash and Mayor Pete “Buttabeep, Buttaboop”  —  What's left for the media empress and icon of inspiration?  In a wide ranging interview, Winfrey explains her streaming strategy (including a possible interview series) …
Discussion: TVNewser
HuffPost:
Poll: 30% Of Conservatives, 15% Of GOP Say They Won't Vote For Trump  —  Republican critics of the president say the numbers spell big trouble for his reelection bid.  —  WASHINGTON ― Nearly a third of self-described conservatives and 1 in 6 Republicans say they will not vote …
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
PBS NewsHour:
How Cory Booker sees himself standing out from the crowded 2020 field  —  Democratic presidential candidate and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said Monday he would continue making criminal justice reform a centerpiece of his campaign, but, in an interview with PBS NewsHour anchor …
Sports Illustrated:
Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab and Burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit  —  Halima Aden joins the rookie class of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2019.  —  We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Halima Aden is the newest member of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit family …
Angelo Codevilla / American Greatness:
Why Are Clapper and Brennan Not in Jail?  —  The clearest of all the laws concerning U.S. intelligence is Section 798, 18 U.S. Code—widely known in the Intelligence Community as “the Comint Statute,” or “the 10 and 10.”  Unlike other laws, this is a “simple liability” law.
 
 
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
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Washington Post:
What today's hyperpartisans could learn from Richard Lugar's life of service
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John Broich / Washington Post:
Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We're now paying the price for their failure.
Discussion: Big League Politics
John Avlon / CNN:
NRA has a huge mess on its hands
Discussion: Vox, The Guardian and Guns & America
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Press Has Learned Nothing
Discussion: American Thinker
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
When G-Men Run Amok
Media Matters for America:
New NRA President Carolyn Meadows chairs the board of directors for the largest Confederate monument in America
Discussion: Townhall
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 Earlier Items: 
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
America Under Attack by White Supremacists Acting Like ISIS
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Rolling Stone
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
She Pulled Her Debut Book When Critics Found It Racist. Now She Plans to Publish.
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
The upside of Trump rallies, the downside of the darkness he invokes
Popular Information:
Facebook allows the Trump campaign to run false and misleading ads with impunity
David Brooks / New York Times:
An Era Defined by Fear
The Editorial Board:
Trump Injures America 10,000 Times
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Stephen Moore wants people to pay more attention to his economic policies. Challenge accepted.
Discussion: CNN, Politico, Raw Story, CNBC and New York Times
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Why Vermont's single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway