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1:45 AM ET, May 14, 2017

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House ‘systems failed’ with Comey firing, but Trump pushed the buttons  —  In deciding to abruptly fire FBI Director James B. Comey, President Trump characteristically let himself be guided by his own instincts — fueled by his creeping anger and sense of victimhood about a probe …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Trump denies he asked Comey for loyalty, threatens to cancel press briefings  —  Donald Trump is denying recent reports that he asked for former FBI Director James Comey's loyalty a few days after he was sworn in as president.  —  Sources told ABC News that Trump posed the question to Comey …
Discussion: Axios
John Podesta / Washington Post:
Trump's top aides must go
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Cutout of Sean Spicer in the bushes becomes Internet meme
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gingrich urges Trump: ‘Close down the press room’
Discussion: RedState
Alexandra Berzon / Wall Street Journal:
Former Employees of Donald Trump Say They Saw Him Tape Conversations  —  Three former employees say they saw Mr. Trump tape phone calls in Trump Tower before he was president  —  A tweet from President Donald Trump on Friday suggesting that he might have taped phone conversations …
Washington Post:
THE PAINFUL TRUTH ABOUT TEETH … SALISBURY, Md. — Two hours before sunrise, Dee Matello joined the line outside the Wicomico Civic Center, where hundreds of people in hoodies, heavy coats and wool blankets braced against a bitter wind.  —  Inside, reclining dental chairs were arrayed in neat rows across the arena's vast floor.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Comey's 9-year-old neighbor baked him cookies after he was fired: report  —  Former FBI Director James Comey's nine-year-old neighbor reportedly baked and hand delivered chocolate chip cookies to him after he was fired by President Trump this week.  —  A reporter for NPR recounted a text she received from the little girl's mom.
Discussion: RedState, Mashable and twitchy.com
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Rebekah Lowin / Food & Wine:   James Comey's 9-Year-Old Neighbor Baked Him Chocolate Chip Cookies
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
A Top Trump Official Just Flunked The Jimmy Kimmel Test  —  It's fine to pay for sick kids, Mulvaney says, but diabetics are another story.  —  You've heard of the undeserving poor?  Get ready for the undeserving sick.  —  A top Trump administration official defended the American Health Care Act …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Axios and Politicus USA
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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:   Woman attempts to drive GOP congressman off road over health-care vote, police say
New York Times:   The Health Care Bill's Insults to Women
Jose Pagliery / CNN:
Russian money-laundering details remain in the dark as US settles fraud case  —  US officials feared for Russian witness  —  New York (CNN)A major US investigation into Russian money laundering has come to an abrupt end.  —  The case aimed to expose how Russian mobsters allegedly stole $230 million …
The Guardian:
‘Accidental hero’ halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over  —  Expert who stopped spread of attack by activating software's ‘kill switch’ says criminals will ‘change the code and start again’  —  The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack …
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Why working class Americans voted with their middle finger  —  MORE FROM: … 'We're voting with our middle finger," a Trump supporter in South Carolina told a reporter last fall.  No doubt.  —  Many a liberal observer saw the Trump vote as a rageful taunt aimed at racial and sexual minorities.
Discussion: Instapundit
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump at Liberty University Bashes ‘Critics’ in First Commencement Address  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. — President Donald Trump wasn't in Washington, but the politics the nation's capital embodies wasn't far from his mind after a week of uproar engulfing his administration.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Reuters
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Comey Debacle  —  Rather than rationalizing and enabling the president's behavior, conservatives need to convince Trump that he's his own worst enemy.  —  EDITOR'S NOTE:  —  The following is Jonah Goldberg's weekly “news"letter, the G-File.  Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:
Ann Coulter Tweet About Alleged Illegal Immigrant Rape Flagged as ‘Hate Speech’ by Twitter  —  Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter had a tweet linking to a recent article flagged as “hate speech” by Twitter.  —  Ann Coulter posted a link to a recent article on her website titled “To Say, ‘Stop Raping Me!’
Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
Jason Chaffetz Has Been Telling House Republicans He Will Join Fox News  —  When House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz announced in April that he would not seek reelection, speculation reigned—did the powerful Utah Republican have his eyes on another office?
Discussion: Mediaite, Axios and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Malware, described in leaked NSA documents, cripples computers worldwide  —  Hackers unleashed an attack that disabled computers in dozens of nations Friday using a software flaw that once was part of the National Security Agency's surveillance tool kit.  —  The resulting wave …
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:
Comey's firing is a gift to the FBI
Masha Gessen / NYR Daily:
The Autocrat's Language  —  Donald Trump has an instinct for doing violence to language.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Has Sparked the Biggest Political Crisis Since Watergate
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Pope Francis previews meeting with Trump
Rob Spahr / New Jersey Online:
WATCH: Christie blasts protestors of drug-treatment center near school
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Court Rules Kentucky Print Shop Has Right to Avoid Making Gay Pride T-shirts
Discussion: Vox Popoli
New York Times:
The Election Is Over, but Trump Can't Seem to Get Past It
Discussion: CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Kay Lazar / BostonGlobe.com:
Rights groups say Malden school's hair extension ban is unfair
Discussion: Associated Press
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Trump stokes fears of how he'd handle real crisis
Discussion: Daily Kos, Viking Pundit and CNN
Mike Allen / Axios:
Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right
Discussion: Shareblue and Raw Story
Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet:
Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary …
Discussion: Raw Story and Liberal Values
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer

 
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