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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin  —  Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Senate Intelligence Committee requests Trump campaign documents  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked President Trump's political organization to gather and produce all documents, emails and phone records …
Reuters:   Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy - sources
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pushing Big White House Changes as Russia Crisis Grows  —  President Trump is actively discussing major changes, including a shakeup of his senior team, after spending much of his free time during his overseas trip weighing the Russia investigation and the political crisis it poses for him.
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Inside Hillary Clinton's Surreal Post-Election Life  —  The surreal post-election life of the woman who would have been president.  —  When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past.
CNN:
Sources: Comey acted on Russian intelligence he knew was fake  —  Washington (CNN)Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake — created by Russian intelligence — but he feared that if it became public …
New York Times:
Russian Once Tied to Trump Aide Seeks Immunity to Testify Before Congress  —  Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to President Trump's former campaign manager, has offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Republicans Broke American Politics, and Media Elites Are Blind to It  —  Greg Gianforte's victory, after assaulting an America reporter, should horrify anyone who cares about the strength of our political institutions.  —  Republican Greg Gianforte defeated Democrat Rob Quist …
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Mona Charen / National Review:   Stop Making Excuses for Greg Gianforte's Assaulting a Reporter
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:   The Lesser Part of Valor
Valerie Jones / Rigzone:
Former House Speaker Boehner: Trump ‘Still Learning How to be President’  —  John Boehner delivers a fierce keynote in which he shares his view on Trump's presidency, whether or not he'd consider running for president and of course, Russia.  —  Regina Mayor, KPMG's global sector head …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
John Boehner unloads on Trump: A ‘complete disaster’
Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and IJR
Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Overcome by Coughing Fit During Commencement Speech, Needs Water  —  A familiar problem from the campaign trail hit Hillary Clinton while she spoke at Wellesley College's commencement on Friday, when she began coughing and needed some water and a throat lozenge.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Hot Air and twitchy.com
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton launches new campaign against Trump
Discussion: Vox and ABC News
Peter Holley / Washington Post:   Hillary Clinton's remarkably aggressive anti-Trump speech, annotated
Tegna / KING-TV:
Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests  —  A faculty member at the Evergreen State College had been told he's not safe on campus.  He's been called a racist during two days of protest at the college in Olympia. … As a biology professor for 15 years at Olympia's …
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New York Post:
De Blasio employee arrested for child pornography … A leading young Democrat and de Blasio administration employee has a secret taste for sickening kiddie porn that involves baby girls as young as 6 months old, court papers revealed Friday.  —  Jacob Schwartz, 29, was busted for allegedly keeping …
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say  —  The FBI is investigating an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization, summoning President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, for an emergency session with the bureau's cybersecurity agents and representatives of the CIA, officials tell ABC News.
Rose-Ann Aragon / Click2Houston.com:
Mom furious after teacher names daughter ‘most likely to become a terrorist’  —  CHANNELVIEW - “Most likely to be a terrorist.”  Those are the words one seventh-grader at Lance Cpl. Anthony Aguirre Junior High School brought home from her teacher.  —  It was an award given to 13-year-old Lizeth Villanueva by her teacher.
Discussion: CNN, IJR, Refinery29, RT, KXAN-TV, NPR, POPSUGAR Moms and vice
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Wall Street Journal:
Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’  —  A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely populated counties have replaced large cities as America's most troubled areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that's accelerating.
The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Attack in Egypt  —  Terrorists are engaged in a war against civilization, and it is up to all who value life to confront and defeat this evil.  This merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls.
Discussion: Daily Mail, RT and IJR
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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Exclusive: NSA Chief Admits Donald Trump Colluded With Russia  —  When will Admiral Rogers say publicly what he told his agency's workforce?  —  President Donald Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey continues to reverberate in the KremlinGate scandal, which threatens to consume the Trump administration.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DHS chief: If you knew what I knew about terror, you'd ‘never leave the house’  —  Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would “never leave the house” if they knew the truth.  —  “I was telling [Fox host] Steve …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon's back  —  The escalating crisis surrounding the Russia investigation (with reports last night on FBI interest in Jared Kushner) looks like good news for somebody in the White House: Steve Bannon.  —  Nine sources in the West Wing and within Trump's close orbit said the Russia situation is Bannon's shot at redemption.
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Reuters:
In shakeup, Trump to set up ‘war room’ to repel attacks over Russia probe
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On travel ban, judges reach ‘Trump only’ decision  —  There's a glaring political divide in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stop President Trump's revised executive order limiting entry into the U.S. for some people from a few terror-plagued Muslim-majority nations.
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
The reason behind Macron's firm handshake with Trump, revealed: He was warned!  —  Emmanuel Macron was warned!  —  To be more specific, the newly elected president of France was told to be prepared for the sometimes awkward and always aggressive handshakes of President Trump.
Circa:
FISA court transcript  —  In his final congressional testimony before he was fired by President Trump this month, then-FBI Director James Comey unequivocally told lawmakers his agency used sensitive espionage data gathered about Americans without a warrant only when it was “lawfully collected, carefully overseen and checked.”
James Kirchick / Tablet Magazine:
Yale Cements Its Line in the Academic Sand by Awarding the Student ‘Truthtellers’ Who Bullied Faculty  —  Yale's Nakanishi Prize is awarded every spring to “two graduating seniors who, while maintaining high academic achievement, have provided exemplary leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic relations at Yale College.”
Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
Exclusive: Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department - sources  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years.
Associated Press:
Judge to consider contempt against antiabortion group leader after release of Planned Parenthood videos  —  David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, in a 2015 file photo.  (Washington Post / Getty Images)  —  A federal judge said Thursday that he would consider holding …
Andreas Rinke / Reuters:
Merkel pushes back against renewed Trump criticism of surplus  —  Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed back on Friday against renewed criticism of Germany's trade surplus from U.S. President Donald Trump, who told EU officials Germany was “very bad” on trade and suggested it was selling too many cars in the United States.
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner (Exclusive)  —  In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart:
Thousands of people have dropped off the food stamp rolls in Georgia as a result of the state implementing work requirements for food stamp recipients.  —  More than half of the 11,779 people enrolled for food stamps in 21 counties, an estimated 7,251 people, have dropped out of the food stamp program …
 
 
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
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Mara H. Gottfried / Twin Cities:
Charges filed against Tim Kaine's son, others who crashed MN Capitol Trump rally
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Translating Mark Zuckerberg's Speech to the Graduates
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Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Governor jokes about shooting reporters after signing gun bill
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