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8:30 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 …
Discussion: Daily Mail and Mediaite
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump considers major changes amid escalating Russia crisis  —  President Trump and his advisers, seeking to contain the escalating Russia crisis that threatens to consume his presidency, are considering a retooling of his senior staff and the creation of a “war room” within the White House …
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 …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Russia scandal casts uncertainty over Kushner's future role  —  Once the untouchable son-in-law in a White House where top aides jockey for the president's ear, Jared Kushner has now been cast in a new role: reassuring people that he's not going to resign, while colleagues question whether he can survive politically.
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Washington Post
NBC News:
Kushner Met With Russian Banker Who Is Putin Crony, Spy School Grad  —  The Russian banker Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with in December is viewed by U.S. intelligence as a “Putin crony” and a graduate of a “finishing school” for spies who was often tasked with sensitive financial operations by Putin …
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 …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Ex-CIA Director: CIA would consider Kushner actions ‘espionage’
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘Game-changer’: MSNBC panelists explain magnitude of ‘devastating’ Kushner revelations
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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.
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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 …
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 …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump tells confidants U.S. will quit Paris climate deal  —  President Trump has privately told multiple people, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, according to three sources with direct knowledge.
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure To Reach Consensus On Climate Change
Discussion: Axios
Bloomberg:   Trump Goes His Own Way as G-7 Cobbles Together an Awkward Truce
Al Jazeera English:
G7 summit ends deadlocked on climate change
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Axios and Political Wire
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 …
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
WTTG-TV:
Criminal charges against March 4 Trump counter-protesters in Minnesota  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) - Prosecutors are filing criminal charges against eight counter-protesters who disrupted the “March 4 Trump” rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on March 4.  Among those charged is Linwood Kaine …
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Shuns Press Conference, Celebrates Successful Foreign Trip with American Troops  —  President Donald Trump ignored the custom of holding a press conference to conclude his trip abroad, choosing, instead, to celebrate his successful trip with a speech to the troops.
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
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
With all that farmland, why are Venezuelans starving?  —  With all of the unrest, riots and murders in Venezuela these days, it's easy to overlook one very basic question about the abysmal conditions its citizens are enduring.  Venezuela has some of the richest farmland in the western hemisphere …
Discussion: Instapundit
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 …
Eli Rosenberg / New York Times:
A Muslim-American Activist's Speech Raises Ire Even Before It's Delivered  —  Linda Sarsour, one of the most prominent Muslim-American activists in New York, says the messages have been arriving by the hour recently.  —  “Your time is coming.”  —  “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”
Discussion: Geller Report
Tony Lee / Breitbart:
Biden Implies Trump Legitimized ‘Hate Speech,’ Rails Against ‘Forces of Populism’  —  On Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden railed against the “disorienting” and “disheartening” “forces of populism” at home and abroad and implied that Donald Trump legitimized “hate speech” during the 2016 presidential election.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Suit against Hillary Clinton over Benghazi deaths and emails is dismissed
Discussion: Politicus USA and Hullabaloo
Courier-Journal:
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Discussion: New York Times, Politico and NPR
Dr. Susan Berry / Breitbart:
Former Navy SEAL to Katy Perry: ‘Hold One of Your Concerts in Syria and See How That Goes’
Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
'I'm a pioneer': Hamptons woman running for office defends using n-bomb
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Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
New $80M Anti-Trump Network Spearheaded by Soros-Funded Org With Former ACORN Employees
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump complained of trouble setting up golf courses in EU during Brussels visit: report
Discussion: The Guardian and Mother Jones
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Trump cancels Iowa rally
Nicola Harley / Telegraph:
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Discussion: RT and Business Insider
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Inside Alabama's Strange Senate race
Discussion: Political Wire
George Melloan / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Faces the Fury of a Scorned Ruling Class
Discussion: Instapundit
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
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