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12:15 PM ET, May 12, 2019

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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Can Wharton Revoke Trump's Economics Degree Now?  —  His ideas are dumb and destructive.  —  Despite all the success enjoyed by 19th Century industrial magnate Joseph Wharton, the 21st Century has not been kind to his family's legacy.  His great-great-great grandson, Josh Rosen …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
White House adviser Larry Kudlow contradicts Trump on who pays tariffs  —  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow admitted to Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday that the Chinese do not directly pay tariffs on goods coming into the U.S., but argued that China will suffer GDP losses as a result of a diminishing export markets.
Financial Times:   China's Liu He denies backtracking on trade agreements with the US
HuffPost:   Trump Trade War Just Raised Taxes On Consumers By Tens Of Billions of Dollars
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
‘The safe choice:’ Biden widens SC lead in 2020 Democratic presidential primary  —  Now that he's formally entered the race, former Vice President Joe Biden widened his lead in South Carolina among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, according to a new poll.
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Nadler squeezed with calls for ‘inherent contempt’  —  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler is in a bind.  —  A growing number of Democratic committee members are pushing Nadler to take more aggressive steps to force President Donald Trump and top administration officials to comply with a host of congressional subpoenas.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Trump and his allies are blocking more than 20 separate Democratic probes in an all-out war with Congress  —  President Trump and his allies are working to block more than 20 separate investigations by Democrats into his actions as president, his personal finances and his administration's policies …
Jamie Raskin / Washington Post:   Congress isn't just a co-equal branch. We're first among equals.
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A reporter declined to reveal his source.  Then police showed up at his front door with guns.  —  Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.  —  About 10 officers from the San Francisco Police Department …
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Vice President Pence to graduates: Be prepared to be ridiculed for being Christian  —  WASHINGTON -The last time Vice President Mike Pence spoke at Liberty University, he used the backdrop of one of the world's largest Christian schools to vouch for candidate Donald Trump's faith credentials during the 2016 campaign.
Discussion: Fox News, Washington Times and IJR
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Buttigieg calls out Democrats for playing ‘identity politics’  —  In a risky speech to the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT rights group, Buttigieg warned of a “crisis of belonging in this country.”  —  LAS VEGAS — Pete Buttigieg sought to diffuse weeks of fraught questions about white privilege …
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘A dream ticket’: Black lawmakers pitch Biden-Harris to beat Trump  —  The Congressional Black Caucus may have found an answer to its Joe Biden dilemma: Vice President Kamala Harris.  —  Some black lawmakers are agonizing over whether to back Biden or two members of the close-knit caucus …
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and Fox News
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
North Carolina Blowback Intensifies on Richard Burr's Rogue Subpoena  —  The intense home state backlash against Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for issuing a rogue subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Trump, Jr. …
Discussion: RedState, Mother Jones and USA Today
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
McConnell tells Trump ‘not to worry’ about Trump Jr. subpoena
Discussion: Breitbart and Power Line
Washington Post:
Applying ‘maximum pressure,’ Trump faces burgeoning crises overseas  —  President Trump ran for office vowing to extricate the United States from entanglements abroad.  But his administration now finds itself juggling three national security crises overseas — with Iran, Venezuela and North Korea …
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New York Times:
Trump Said He Would Tame Rogue Nations. Now They Are Challenging Him.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Politico
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
A D.C. author shamed a Metro worker for eating on the train.  Now her book deal is in jeopardy.  —  The backlash was swift, with many accusing the woman, Natasha Tynes, of trying to get the employee fired.  —  Author Natasha Tynes has ignited a firestorm on social media …
Discussion: Althouse, Raw Story and Slate
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Harvard Drops Harvey Weinstein Lawyer as a Faculty Dean  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard said on Saturday that a law professor who is representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, bowing to months of pressure from students.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Booker hits Warren over proposal to break up tech giants  —  Cory Booker swatted at his Senate colleague and fellow 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren for her calls to break up some of the country's most powerful technology companies — bashing the proposal as not befitting a president and sounding …
DW.COM:
Turkish journalist beaten after TV appearance  —  Yavuz Selim Demirag has been an outspoken critic of President Erdogan.  He was set on by assailants with baseball bats in what journalists say is a sign of shrinking press freedom.  —  A Turkish journalist who criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan …
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia.  Now They Say It Was a Fraud.  —  Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks.  Students found an erratic operation.  —  BECKLEY, W.Va. — On a spring day in 2017 …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Your 5G Phone Won't Hurt You.  But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.  —  RT America, a network known for sowing disinformation, has a new alarm: the coming ‘5G Apocalypse.’  —  The cellphones known as 5G, or fifth generation, represent the vanguard of a wireless era rich in interconnected cars, factories and cities.
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Leaked Letters Reveal Details of NRA Chief's Alleged Spending  —  Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day, $18,300 for car and driver, ad agency says; NRA says board has ‘full confidence’ in him  —  National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre billed the group's ad agency $39,000 …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Documents: NRA Racked Up $24 Million in Legal Bills
Discussion: HillReporter.com, Raw Story and Slate
 
 
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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Channeling maybe-yes, maybe-no Mueller: Speak, Bob, Speak!
Discussion: KTLA
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
John Paul Stevens looks back on nearly a century of life and law, but worries about the future
Discussion: Political Wire
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Polish nationalists protest US over Holocaust claims
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff: Trump's obstruction of Congress “does add weight to impeachment”
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Russia Is Targeting Europe's Elections. So Are Far-Right Copycats.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Paul Waugh / HuffPost UK:
Trump To Be Denied Honour Of Addressing UK Parliament During State Visit In June
Peter Schweizer / New York Post:
The troubling reason why Biden is so soft on China
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
When It Comes to Republican Defectors, Current Crisis Is No Watergate
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Reuters:
Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis
VICE News:
Democrats Are Training to Appear on Fox News: “Everyone Has a Fox News Horror Story”
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump seeks to limit judges' powers on injunctions after legal blows
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Has a Strong Economy to Proclaim. In Wisconsin, It Just Might Work.
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