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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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Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
No President Is Above the Law  —  When Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report was released on April 18, I sat down and read it.  All 448 pages of it.  I started reading it that afternoon, and I read all through the night and into the next morning.  And when I got to page 448, three things were clear to me.
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Mueller Played by the Rules.  Trump Made New Ones.  —  The special counsel led an investigation that was disciplined, quiet, and by the book — and the president seized the opportunity.  —  WASHINGTON — The president of the United States appears to believe that you don't matter unless you are on television.
Discussion: Press Herald and Orlando Weekly
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Mueller's punt keeps looking worse
Discussion: USA Today and Fox News
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress to Ensure Presidents Can Be Indicted
Discussion: VTDigger
John Wagner / Washington Post:   ‘Everyone dies’: Barr says he's unconcerned about the toll his job is taking on his reputation
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump's latest Mexico tariff gambit is reckless and mindbogglingly stupid  —  Defenders of President Trump's trade wars have tried to argue that his reckless moves are actually part of a cunning strategy to lower tariffs, knock down trade barriers, and usher in true free trade.
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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
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A trade war with Mexico is more serious — and more political — than you might think
Daniel Moritz-Rabson / Newsweek:
U.S. economy slips from first to third place in global competitiveness ranking amid Trump's tariffs
Discussion: CNBC and UPI
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump gambles with the global economy, and his own reelection
Washington Post:
Trump prepares to threaten Mexico with new tariffs in attempt to force migrant crackdown
New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Mexico With Tariffs on All Goods
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 …
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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.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Poorly Conceived”: As the Times Clamps Down on Reporters Going on MSNBC, Is This a Liberal-Media War?  —  The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.”  Dean Baquet “thinks it's a real issue.”
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 …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Maggie Haberman: Trump Was Unsettled by Mueller on TV Because He Hasn't Read the Report  —  Was President Donald Trump particularly vexed as he addressed a press gaggle assembled on the White House lawn on his way to address the Air Force Academy graduation?
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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.”
Discussion: Breitbart
Natalie Moore / WBEZ:
Contract Buying Robbed Black Families In Chicago Of Billions  —  Black families in Chicago lost between $3 billion and $4 billion in wealth because of predatory housing contracts during the 1950s and 1960s, according to a new report released Thursday.  —  The Samuel DuBois Cook Center …
Los Angeles Times:
After dazzling debut, Kamala Harris falls from top of presidential pack … When Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid four months ago, the stars all seemed to align.  —  She drew a crowd of roughly 20,000 to a lavish Oakland rally.  She raised $1.5 million in just 24 hours.
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.
Discussion: Diamond & Silk
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
Discussion: Politico and Liberty Unyielding
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Cory Booker and the Orthodox rabbi were like brothers.  Now they don't speak.  —  OXFORD, England — The Jewish festival of Purim was in full swing: Music was blasting, family and friends were bouncing to the beat, and 6-foot-3 Cory Booker was laughing and dancing while carrying a 5-foot-6 Orthodox rabbi in a clown suit on his back.
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Ocasio-Cortez-Cruz Bill Would Almost Certainly Be Unconstitutional  —  A motley crew in the House and the Senate has resolved to prohibit former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists.  In the bipartisan working group — which was formed ad hoc yesterday, on Twitter …
Joshua Posaner / Politico:
Pompeo hits Berlin for make-up talks with Merkel  —  US secretary of state seeks to improve troubled ties with Germany.  —  BERLIN — It took a long time, but Mike Pompeo finally made it back to Germany.  —  The U.S. secretary of state served as a U.S. Army officer in Berlin in the Cold War …
Discussion: Breitbart
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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 …
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 …
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Jonathan S. Tobin / The Federalist:   In A Divided Congress, Mitch McConnell Is The Secret To Conservatives' Success
Justin Doom / ABC News:
Donald Trump ‘wants us to impeach him,’ Nancy Pelosi tells Jimmy Kimmel  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that President Donald Trump actually wants to be impeached because he believes the Republican-controlled Senate would bail him out.
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 …
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Making Sense of the New American Right  —  Column: Keeping track of the Jacksonians, Reformicons, Paleos, and Post-liberals  —  I like to start my classes on conservative intellectual history by distinguishing between three groups.  There is the Republican Party, with its millions of adherents …
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Exclusive: DHS watchdog finds 900 people at border facility with maximum capacity of 125  —  Washington (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has found “dangerous overcrowding” and unsanitary conditions at an El Paso, Texas, Border Patrol processing facility following …
Kavitha Surana / Tampa Bay Times:
Old Northeast shooting suspect fascinated by mass shootings, stockpiled weapons, police say  —  A St. Petersburg police detective said defendant William Shutt has links to the “alt-right.”  The victims in the shooting are both black.  —  The day after he is accused of firing on two men stopped next …
 
 
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
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