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6:30 PM ET, May 15, 2017

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Washington Post:
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador  —  President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials …
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BuzzFeed:
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information To Russians During White House Visit  —  The president discussed classified national security information with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister last week, two US officials confirmed to BuzzFeed News.  —  President Trump revealed highly …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
How Trump gets his fake news  —  White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Donald Trump.  —  Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.
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NBC News:   After Weeks of Missteps, Nervous Trump Aides Hope for a Reboot
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump to light White House blue to support police who face ‘unfair defamation and vilification’
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Root
Rachel Manteuffel / Washington Post:
When President Trump's bodyguard revealed Jim Mattis's private cellphone number  —  This Is Not Normal.  It's a mantra among politics-watchers, an attempt to force ourselves to see clearly through the toxic levels of absurdity caking Washington these days.  The poker-faced way the news …
Nancy Solomon / WNYC News:
GOP Congressman Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer  —  The most powerful congressman in New Jersey, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, wrote a fundraising letter in March to a board member of a local bank, warning him that a member of an activist group opposing the Republican worked at his bank.
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
House Republican writes letter to constituent's employer complaining about her progressive activism
Discussion: Facebook and Balloon Juice
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’  —  Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.  —  She wrote “In Trump We Trust” and proclaimed that she worships him like the “people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader - blind loyalty.”
ACLU:
ACLU Demands Records on Comey Firing  —  NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Justice Department and FBI asking for all records related to President Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House refuses to say if Comey tapes exist … The White House refused to say Monday whether it would comply with congressional requests to produce possible recordings of conversations between President Trump and White House visitors.  —  Facing repeated questions from multiple news outlets …
Discussion: Hot Air, Political Wire and Axios
Matt Schlapp / The Hill:
Good riddance to James Comey, Obama's enabler
The Times of Israel:
Senior member of Trump team said to tell Israelis: Western Wall is not your territory  —  Bitter diplomatic spat over Jews' holiest place of prayer reported during preparation for president's visit; Netanyahu's office said seeking clarification from DC  —  In a bitter diplomatic incident …
Discussion: The Times of Israel and Hot Air
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson “furious” about Tillerson's comments  —  Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — a man who has no trouble getting the President on the phone — is “furious” about comments Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made today on NBC's “Meet the Press,” according to two sources with knowledge of Adelson's reaction.
CNN:
Top US officials warn Trump against moving US embassy to Jerusalem
Discussion: RedState
Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Congressman Says Donald Trump Has Committed An “Impeachable Act”  —  Texas Rep. Al Green made the most explicit call yet to impeach the president on Monday, citing his firing of former FBI director James Comey in the midst of the Russia investigation.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump admits he fired Comey over Russia. Republican voters don't believe him.
Discussion: Politico and RedState
Alex Ward / Vox:
Secret tapes, hearings, and a new FBI director: the Comey news to watch for this week
Discussion: Bloomberg and ThinkProgress
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted After Supreme Court Rejects Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law.  The move left in place a federal appeals court ruling that struck down key parts …
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in NC voter ID case
Discussion: Politico and RedState
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Revive North Carolina Voter-ID Law
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
NATO Frantically Tries to Trump-Proof President's First Visit  —  A ‘freaked out’ NATO braces for Donald Trump's first meeting of the transatlantic alliance.  —  NATO is scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting to avoid taxing President Donald Trump's notoriously short attention span.
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and The Week
John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts: Conway secretly hates Trump  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is secretly disgusted by President Trump and spoke harshly off him off-camera during the campaign, “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said Monday
Discussion: RedState
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Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
'SNL's' Yuuuge Year: 20 Insiders Reveal Alec Baldwin's Future as Trump, “Spicey” Secrets and Lorne Michaels' Election Pep Talk  —  Everyone from Kate McKinnon to Chris Rock gives THR backstage access to a historic season as they reveal how Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Budget Director Says Fat, Lazy Americans Don't Deserve Health Care  —  Many conservatives believe that a large proportion of Americans do not deserve access to medical care because their high medical costs result from poor decisions.  This belief has been floating around right-wing circles for years.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
It's Early, but the GOP Is Already in the Midterm Danger Zone  —  First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  Bannon, Preibus & Spicer on the Chopping Block?
Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
MARVEL CANCELS TA-NEHISI COATES' BLACK PANTHER & THE CREW COMIC AFTER TWO ISSUES  —  Ta-Nehisi Coates, the celebrated public intellectual, faced a setback in his attempt to introduce racial diversity to the world of comic books when Marvel announced that Black Panther & The Crew …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump promises to ‘restore law and order’ for all Americans  —  President Donald Trump on Monday promised to restore law and order in an address honoring fallen police officers outside the U.S. Capitol.  —  “My administration is determined — totally determined — to restore law and order …
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump to light White House blue to honor police
Jason Zengerle / GQ:
Inside Corey Lewandowski's Failed Romp in Trump's Swamp  —  He was a political nobody who helped Donald Trump win the White House.  Then Corey Lewandowski went to Washington, hell-bent on making his fortune and changing the lobbying game forever.  Here's how those grandiose plans blew up …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Trump to unveil $1T infrastructure plan in ‘several weeks’  —  President Trump will unveil a broad sketch of his highly anticipated infrastructure package in the coming weeks, according to his Transportation chief.  —  Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao …
Discussion: Axios and TheStreet
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid.  Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues …
Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:
Why the ‘alt-left’ will succeed where centrists fail  —  The label is meant as a slur to discredit us.  But that won't change the fact that left-wing populists speak to anti-system anger in a way that others don't  —  ould you be a member of a political conspiracy without even knowing it?
Discussion: Vanity Fair
 
 
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Reuters:
France's Macron picks PM from the right, blowing apart old boundaries
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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“Motivated ignorance” is ruining our political discourse
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