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Emily Tillett / CBS News:
Attorney General William Barr on caring about his reputation: “Everyone dies”  —  Looking back on his lengthy career as a top Department of Justice official, Attorney General William Barr doesn't seem fazed by critics questioning his relationship with President Trump and alleging he's …
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CBS News:
Barr says Justice Department and Mueller sparred over “legal analysis” in Russia report  —  In an exclusive interview with “CBS This Morning,” Attorney General William Barr said Robert Mueller and the Justice Department disagreed over the “legal analysis” in the special counsel's report …
CBS News:
William Barr interview: Read the full transcript  —  In an exclusive interview with “CBS This Morning,” Attorney General William Barr said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice …
Washington Post:
Trump prepares to threaten Mexico with new tariffs in attempt to force migrant crackdown  —  President Trump is preparing to threaten Mexico with new tariffs as part of an attempt to force the country to crack down on a surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States …
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Washington Post:
Trump's tariff threat to Mexico may upend trade deal, undermine the economy  —  President Trump's surprise announcement of an escalating series of new tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico is likely to upend hopes for early congressional action on his proposed North American trade deal …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Trump's Mexico tariff surprise  —  As Trump announcements go, his planned tariffs on Mexican goods appeared more orchestrated than most with a tweet, a presidential statement from the press office and a background call with reporters.  —  But behind the scenes, it was an administration-wide scramble.
Daniel Moritz-Rabson / Newsweek:
U.S. economy slips from first to third place in global competitiveness ranking amid Trump's tariffs  —  The United States lost its spot as the world's most competitive economy amid an ongoing trade war with China, according to an annual ranking from the IMD World Competitiveness Center.
Discussion: CNBC and UPI
New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Mexico With Tariffs on All Goods
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump gambles with the global economy, and his own reelection
Discussion: Mother Jones and Associated Press
Joyce Lee / Reuters:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un carrying out purge after Hanoi summit collapse: Chosun Ilbo  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February …
Discussion: Townhall, Power Line and TheBlaze
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Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg:
North Korea Executed Envoy Over Trump-Kim Summit, Chosun Reports  —  North Korea executed its former top nuclear envoy with the U.S. along with four other foreign ministry officials in March after a failed summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump in Vietnam, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported.
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:   North Korea Executes Its Special Envoy to U.S., Officials Involved in Trump-Kim Summit: Report
CNBC:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un reportedly executes officials after failed Hanoi summit with US
Discussion: NB Blog
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korean Daily Says That Kim Jong-un Executed and Purged Top Nuclear Negotiators
Discussion: Splinter
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress to Ensure Presidents Can Be Indicted  —  For many Democrats, the aftermathh of the Mueller report raised one central question: Would Robert S. Mueller III have charged President Trump with a crime if Justice Department policy had not prevented him from doing so?
Discussion: VTDigger
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
No President Is Above the Law
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Colby Hall / Mediaite:   Maggie Haberman: Trump Was Unsettled by Mueller on TV Because He Hasn't Read the Report
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Now Wants Mueller to Testify Before Congress in Hopes of a Grilling
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
The Daily Beast:
Team Obama Tells Iran: Don't Escalate, Don't Take Trump's Bait  —  As tensions with Iran heat up, former Obama administration officials have quietly urged government officials there to keep their cool.  —  As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf …
Washington Post:
McCain warship incident raises questions about a changing military culture under Trump  —  A dust-up over who directed and knew about White House efforts to obscure the USS John S. McCain ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan has raised new questions about whether the military's culture …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Patrick Shanahan asserts military's independence from politics after USS John McCain incident
New York Times:   Trump Says He Didn't Know About Efforts to Hide the U.S.S. McCain
John F. Harris / Politico:
5 Ways Trump Has Remade the Democratic Party  —  For years, a growing stripe of Democrats has argued that what their party needs is a leader willing to shatter old assumptions, a radical disrupter.  —  Well, Democrats already have found their transformational figure for the 2020 campaign.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics.  Seven historians told The Post he's wrong.  —  In the opinion he wrote on the Supreme Court's recent decision about two abortion laws, Justice Clarence Thomas reached back into history.  —  Thomas argued that the door for abortion rights …
James Politi / Financial Times:
Fed candidate slams bank's ‘Soviet’ power over markets  —  Judy Shelton, a senior US official who is being vetted for a job on the board of the Federal Reserve, has attacked the central bank for wielding undemocratic, Soviet-style powers over markets and suggested it should not even be in the business of setting interest rates.
Discussion: Political Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Inside Romney's Trump strategy  —  When asked about Republicans' criticism of his occasional anti-Trump stances, Mitt Romney doesn't miss a beat: “I have to show you something.”  —  He grabs his iPad and pulls up an article: “Romney: why the Republican pros distrust him.”
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Long at the Fringe, Gun Issues Loom Large for Democratic Candidates  —  WASHINGTON — For the first time in two decades, Democratic presidential candidates are engaged in a politically fraught debate on gun-control policy as campaigns and advocacy groups assess the nation's evolving views …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump and Bibi's Bad Week  —  They're both at war with those who would investigate them.  But are they winning or losing?  —  We knew that this particular Presidential meltdown was coming.  By the time President Trump ranted to the media on Thursday morning, shouting over the noise …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mueller destroyed one of Trump's biggest lies.  Trump just helped him do it.  —  President Trump just admitted that Russia helped elect him president.  “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.  It was a crime that didn't exist,” Trump rage-tweeted, adding that this again shows …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand's Failure to Launch  —  HAMPTON, New Hampshire—Kirsten Gillibrand is only asking for a dollar.  —  It's not that she couldn't use more money.  In the first quarter of 2019, the junior senator from New York raised just $3 million for her presidential campaign …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?  —  PHILADELPHIA — Moments after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrapped up his appearance at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Representative Dwight Evans stepped out of his district office …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Nikki Haley begins experiment in political life after Trump  —  Of the many senior officials to leave the Trump administration over the past two years, few have exited on better terms than former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.  Before her departure last December …
Discussion: MLive.com and Raw Story
Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump approves Turkish offer for joint S-400 study group  —  In call with Turkish president, Trump agrees to body to find ways to cohabit Ankara's purchase of F-35s and Russian missile system  —  US President Donald Trump has accepted an offer to form a joint technical study group …
Standpoint:
The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King  —  Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘laughed’ as a forcible rape took place  —  David J. Garrow Features … Newly-released documents reveal the full extent of the FBI's surveillance …
Sabrina Barr / The Independent:
MERYL STREEP SAYS SHE DOESN'T AGREE WITH THE TERM ‘TOXIC MASCULINITY’ … Meryl Streep has expressed her opposition to the term “toxic masculinity”, stating her view that use of the expression can be harmful for boys.  —  The actor made her comments while taking part in a Q …
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Hollywood Takes on the Red States - What's at Stake in Abortion Showdown  —  Hollywood threw down the gauntlet on Thursday in lining up and threatening to pull their business out of states that have adopted severe anti-abortion laws.  —  Billions of dollars in production are at stake.
David French / National Review:
What Sohrab Ahmari Gets Wrong  —  There is no political “emergency” that justifies abandoning classical liberalism, and no temporal emergency could ever justify rejecting the eternal truth.  —  Yesterday, New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari published a lengthy essay with the rather eye-catching title, “Against David French-ism.”
 
 
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