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12:15 PM ET, May 15, 2017

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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 Trump.  —  Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.
Nancy Solomon / WNYC News:
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.
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.”
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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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump ‘Doing This For The Money’  —  Morning Joe dropped a very revealing nugget on Monday's show, with both Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski accusing White House Counsellor Kellyanne Conway of being a fraud.
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed A Shower After Defending Trump
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court leaves in place ruling that struck down N.C.'s voter ID law
Discussion: Washington Post
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
America's worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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Gizmodo:
Marvel's Cancelling Black Panther & The Crew, One of Its Most Important Comics Right Now
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week's cyberattack  —  Early Friday morning the world experienced the year's latest cyberattack.  —  Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally …
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russia, This Time the Victim of a Cyberattack, Voices Outrage
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 and The Week
Reuters:
France's Macron picks PM from the right, blowing apart old boundaries  —  Newly-inaugurated French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a conservative prime minister on Monday in a move to broaden his political appeal and weaken his opponents before legislative elections in June.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty, receive health care after prison release  —  WASHINGTON — Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier and convicted national security secret leaker, will remain an active-duty, unpaid soldier, eligible for health care and other benefits …
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Cyra Master / The Hill:
Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty after prison release
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion: Politico
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Barron Trump to attend private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland this fall  —  Barron Trump, the 11-year-old son of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, will attend the private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., this fall after he moves from New York to Washington with his mother.
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Miss USA Winner Angers Liberals With Health Care Answer  —  Kára McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist, won the crown at the Miss USA pageant on Sunday night while surprising and angering liberals with her interview answers on health care and feminism.  —  McCullough works …
Preet Bharara / Washington Post:
Are there still public servants who will say no to the president?  —  Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until this March.  —  The most dramatic hearing I helped to arrange as chief counsel …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Denis Dyomkin / Reuters:
Putin blames off-key piano for hesitant musical rendition  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday an impromptu piano rendition he gave on the sidelines of a meeting in Beijing had been hampered by an out of tune instrument.  —  Putin was captured on camera on Sunday sitting …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Lawrence O'Donnell's Future At MSNBC Is Unclear  —  As his contract nears its end, a renewal doesn't appear to be on the horizon for “The Last Word” host.  —  Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's “The Last Word,” has just four weeks left in his contract, and the cable network does not appear to be interested in renewing his deal.
Discussion: The Week, Mediaite and Daily Kos
Brian Resnick / Vox:
“Motivated ignorance” is ruining our political discourse  —  Talking with a political opponent is almost as unpleasant as getting a tooth pulled.  —  If you ever thought, “You couldn't pay me to listen to Sean Hannity / Rachael Maddow / insert any television pundit you violently disagree with here” — you are not alone.
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:
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Women Can Wear Pants on Fox News Now, But Not Much Else Has Changed  —  When Rupert Murdoch left his office on a recent Monday afternoon, the 86-year-old mogul was ambushed by a BBC reporter seeking comment on the ongoing scandals at Fox News.  “Nothing's happening at Fox News, nothing,” Murdoch declared.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘Crisis of public trust’ after Comey firing … Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Monday said the nation has a “crisis of public trust” after President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.  —  “I think we have a crisis of public trust right now and we need to restore that,” Sasse told “CBS This Morning.”
Discussion: RedState
Brad Lendon / CNN:
North Korea says missile could carry large nuclear warhead  —  (CNN)North Korea says the missile it tested Sunday is capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead, state media said Monday.  —  The country's leader, Kim Jong Un, supervised the launch of the Hwasong-12 missile that reached …
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John Fund / National Review:
Why Are Democrats Afraid of the Election Integrity Commission?  —  They know that the voter rolls are breeding grounds for potential fraud.  —  Last Thursday, President Trump announced the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate voter irregularities and fraud as well as charges of voter suppression in America.
 
 
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Kenneth W. Starr / Wall Street Journal:
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
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National Journal:
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Discussion: Politicus USA
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