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8:20 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 …
New York Times:
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information …
Austin Wright / Politico:
Corker chides Trump for reportedly divulging classified info to Russia
Associated Press:
Report: Trump shared secret info about IS with Russians
Discussion: Politico
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  —  Rattled by President Donald Trump's increasing frustration with the staff guidance he's getting and by the administration's unforced errors, White House officials are desperately hoping the president's first foreign trip beginning …
The Daily Beast:
White House Staff ‘Hiding’ As Russia Chaos Engulfs West Wing … White House and administration officials are reeling at reports that President Donald Trump reportedly shared classified information with Russia's top diplomats during an Oval Office meeting last week.
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
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: AOL, The Times of Israel and Hot Air
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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
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.
Discussion: Common Dreams, The Daily Caller and AOL
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House refuses to say if Comey tapes exist
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Matt Schlapp / The Hill:
Good riddance to James Comey, Obama's enabler
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.”
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: Raw Story, Axios and The Week
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
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
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 …
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
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?
Discussion: New York Magazine, AOL and CNBC
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
A Remote Paradise Island Is Now a Plastic Junkyard  —  Henderson Island is about the most remote place you can visit without leaving the planet.  It sits squarely in the middle of the South Pacific, 3,500 miles from New Zealand in one direction and another 3,500 miles from South America in the other.
Discussion: NPR and The Week
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 …
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
Dominic Mancini / The College Fix:
Minority students feel ‘marginalized’ by historic building's ‘imposing, masculine’ paneling  —  Some minority students at the University of Michigan have apparently felt intimidated by the interior wood paneling found throughout the historic Michigan Union building.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Jack Montgomery / Breitbart:
‘Fairy Godmother’ Brings Migrants to Europe on a Flying Carpet in EU-Backed Cartoon  —  A Européens Sans Frontières (Europeans Without Borders) video sponsored by the European Commission depicts the EU as a fairy godmother bringing migrants to Western Europe after ‘racist’ Eastern Europeans refuse to welcome them.
Discussion: Samizdata
Kevin Quealy / New York Times:
If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They're More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy  —  Here are guesses from 1,746 adults:  —  Where is North Korea?  —  Each represents a respondent's guess.  —  Just 36 percent got it right.  Here are the countries they selected:
Bloomberg:
Fyre Festival Was Buried Under Millions in Debt Before It Even Began  —  First ticket holders sued.  Now investors who backed the doomed millennial extravaganza want their money back.  —  , and  —  Shahien Nasiripour  —  In the weeks before the Fyre Festival, organizers borrowed …
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
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Clinton launches new political group: ‘Onward Together’  —  Hillary Clinton is officially back in the political game.  —  Clinton sent a blast email to supporters Monday afternoon asking people to sign up for her next venture, Onward Together.  —  “From the Women's March to airports across …
Tom Ciccotta / Breitbart:
The assistant principal of a Pennsylvania high school has resigned after a video of him berating pro-life student activists went viral.  —  Assistant principal Zach Ruff, who was filmed berating and cursing at 16-year-old pro-life activists, resigned the day after a petition defending Ruff circulated online …
NBER:
Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom  —  NBER Working Paper No. 23408  —  NBER Program(s): CH EEE LS PE … You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery.  —  Access to NBER Papers
Discussion: Axios
Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart:
WATCH: CNN Devotes Two Segments to Trump's ‘Executive Privilege’ for Eating Two Scoops of Ice Cream  —  CNN devoted not one, but two segments on how President Trump got two scoops of ice cream while his dinner guests only got one as the network tried to pass off a “scoop” about the president's eating habits as news.
 
 
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump to light White House blue to support police who face ‘unfair defamation and vilification’
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