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3:50 PM ET, May 27, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump Returns to Crisis Over Kushner as White House Tries to Contain It  —  President Trump headed home on Saturday to confront a growing political and legal threat, as his top aides tried to contain the fallout from reports that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a focus of investigations …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump family members met with GOP leaders to discuss strategy  —  Amid mounting questions at the White House about Russia, three prominent members of President Trump's family — his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and Eric's wife, Lara — have ramped up their engagement …
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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Jared's Jam has White House on edge  —  The hottest topic among top White House officials is the FBI's interest in Jared Kushner, the closest adviser and son-in-law of the President.  The Washington Post report that Kushner discussed “a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team …
Discussion: Political Wire and ABC News
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Ex-CIA Director: CIA would consider Kushner actions ‘espionage’  —  Former acting CIA director John McLaughlan on Friday responded to reports that President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner discussed setting up a secret communications line between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump adviser: ‘I would not be concerned’ about a Russia back channel, irrespective of Kushner  —  TAORMINA, Italy — President Trump's National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Saturday he “would not be concerned” about having a back-channel communications system with Russia …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
‘This is off the map’: Former intelligence officials say the reported Kushner-Russia plan …
Discussion: RedState
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
McMaster ‘not concerned’ following Kushner reports
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   ‘Game-changer’: MSNBC panelists explain magnitude of ‘devastating’ Kushner revelations
New York Times:
Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Worried Should Jared Kushner Be?
Jim Ryan / Oregonian:
2 killed in stabbing on MAX train in Northeast Portland as man directs slurs at Muslim women, police say  —  Gallery: Deadly MAX stabbing, May 26, 2017  —  Update, 3:30 a.m., May 27: Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on suspicion of aggravated murder …
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Doug Brown / Portland Mercury:
Suspect in Portland Hate Crime Murders is a Known White Supremacist  —  Jeremy Christian, now accused of hate crime murders, at the right-wing “March for Free Speech” on April 29  —  The man accused of the brutal hate crime slayings of two people at the Hollywood Transit Center on Friday afternoon is a known local white supremacist.
Corey Pein / Willamette Week:
I know because I interviewed him last month.  —  I shook the alleged killer's filthy hand 28 days ago.  Mine feels tainted now, as though I somehow sanctioned his reported act, though I was only trying to get some information out of him.  —  He had just marched through Montavilla Park chanting …
Discussion: Washington Post and American Power
Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:
The attack occurred in the Hollywood District. …
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Two Killed in Portland After Trying to Stop Anti-Muslim Rant, Police Say
Discussion: Fusion
KATU-TV:   PPB: Suspect hurled insults at Muslim women, slashed throats of men who tried to stop him
Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
As Trump's Problems Mount, Breitbart's Numbers Are Cratering  —  A media business based on attack has been much less successful when forced to defend.  —  With its former chairman Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist and plans for an ambitious international expansion …
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure To Reach Consensus On Climate Change  —  In the end it was not mean to be.  As discussed on Friday, during Trump's first G-7 summit, world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron …
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Al Jazeera English:
G7 summit ends deadlocked on climate change
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Bloomberg:   Trump Goes His Own Way as G-7 Cobbles Together an Awkward Truce
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Leaders issue G7 declaration with U.S. a holdout on climate change
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Week
Tom Kington Taormina / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Out of step: G7 leaders take a stroll, Trump takes a golf cart  —  The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Business Insider
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
When Al Franken body-slammed a demonstrator  —  When I wrote about Fightin' Greg Gianforte's assault (as it seems to me) on a reporter, I believed that Al Franken had a history of physical aggression against folks who annoyed him.  However, the only incident I recalled (and only vaguely) …
Discussion: CBS News and Washington Post
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
How Team Obama tried to hack the election  —  MORE FROM: … New revelations have surfaced that the Obama administration abused intelligence during the election by launching a massive domestic-spy campaign that included snooping on Trump officials.  —  The irony is mind-boggling …
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump cancels Iowa rally  —  President Donald Trump has canceled a rally in Iowa next week, citing “an unforeseen change” in the president's schedule.  —  “Due to an unforeseen change in President Trump's schedule, we will need to unfortunately postpone the previously scheduled rally …
The Intercept:
LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL COUNTERTERRORISM TACTICS USED AT STANDING ROCK TO “DEFEAT PIPELINE INSURGENCIES”  —  A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures …
Discussion: Common Dreams and Raw Story
 
 
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