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1:05 PM ET, May 29, 2017

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New York Times:
Kushner's Relationship With Trump Tested as Russia Accusations Swirl  —  WASHINGTON — The most successful deal of Jared Kushner's short and consequential career in real estate and politics involves one highly leveraged acquisition: a pair of adjoining offices a few penny-loafer paces from his father-in-law's desk in the White House.
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NBC News:
Kushner Asked to ‘Lay Low’ After Russia-Related Reports, Source Says  —  WASHINGTON — Back on his home turf after an eight-day foreign trip, President Donald Trump is once again facing down controversy — and now it's hitting close to home.  —  Trump was greeted on U.S. soil by new reports involving …
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Grassley calls for investigation into Chinese promotion of Kushner family company deal  —  (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is calling for an investigation into “potentially fraudulent statements and misrepresentations” made by a Chinese company promoting investments …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump's obsession over Russia probe deepens  —  President Donald Trump has been aggressively working the phones since returning this weekend from his foreign trip, talking to friends and outside lawyers as he obsesses over the deepening investigations into his aides and Russia.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The shadow secretary of State  —  While Rex Tillerson fills the official duties of America's top diplomat, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, has a parallel foreign policy role that was on full display during Trump's first foreign trip last week.  —  A White House official told Axios …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Kushner under pressure to take hiatus from White House: report
Discussion: The Right Scoop
ABC:
Vladimir Putin a bigger threat than Islamic State, John McCain says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat to world security than the Islamic State group, US senator John McCain has told the ABC.  —  The Republican also admitted in an exclusive interview with 7.30 …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
McCain: Putin a greater threat than ISIS … (R-Ariz.) said Monday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is a greater threat to the world than ISIS.  —  In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's “7:30,” McCain said Putin is the “premier and most important threat, more so than ISIS.”
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
How Trump Is Torturing Capitol Hill  —  The speaker of the House strode to his lectern on a recent Thursday to confront another totally normal day on Capitol Hill: health care, tax reform, a president under investigation, rumblings of impeachment.  —  “Morning, everybody!”  Paul Ryan chirped.
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
President Trump Turned International Diplomacy Into A Fistfight—And Lost … During his inaugural international trip as the leader of the free world, President Donald Trump learned the problem with first impressions—you only get to make one.  —  After indulging the royals of Saudi Arabia …
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Washington Post:
Following Trump's trip, Merkel says Europe can't rely on ‘others.’ She means the U.S.
Discussion: The Atlantic, France 24 and Hot Air
Nile Gardiner / CNN:
President Trump passes his first test on the world stage
Discussion: Axios, War in Context and New York Post
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Liberals Are Shocked To Find We're Starting To Hate Them Right Back  —  I know it's theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesn't mean that I care.  Our ability to care is a finite resource, and, in the vast scheme of things …
Scott Sutton / WPTV:
Golfer Tiger Woods arrested on DUI charges in Jupiter  —  JUPITER, Fla. - Golfer Tiger Woods was arrested on charges of driving under the influence early Monday morning in Jupiter.  —  More celebrity mugshots  —  Woods, a Jupiter Island resident, was taken into custody at 3 a.m. on Military Trail South of Indian Creek Parkway.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
GOP's Proposed Tax Changes Are No Match for Status Quo  —  Republicans are scouring the tax code, searching for breaks to eliminate so they can offset the deep rate cuts they desire.  But the biggest tax breaks are surviving and the boldest ideas for change are on political life support or already dead.
BBC:
Manchester attacks: MI5 probes bomber ‘warnings’  —  MI5 is to hold an inquiry into the way it dealt with warnings from the public that the Manchester suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was a potential threat.  —  The security service, which was alerted to Abedi's extremist views three times prior …
Elloise Farrow-Smith / ABC:
Great white shark jumps into fisherman's boat, injuring 73yo man  —  A fisherman has lived to tell the tale of how he ended up with a great white shark in the bottom of his boat.  —  Terry Selwood, 73, was fishing offshore at Evans Head on the New South Wales north coast when the shark launched itself into his boat.
New York Times:
The Groundhog Day War in Afghanistan  —  It's hard not to feel a disquieting, even disheartening, sense of déjà vu as the Pentagon presses its request to increase the American forces in Afghanistan.  That is where the United States has spent 16 years fighting the longest war …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Donald Trump: The Gateway Degenerate  —  Last week, when voters in Montana elected Greg Gianforte to fill the state's lone seat in the House of Representatives, even after he was recorded in a physical altercation with a reporter, many Americans — like me — were left to look on in astonished bewilderment.
New York Daily News:
Navy SEAL dead after parachute failure in jump over Hudson River near Liberty State Park  —  A member of the Navy's elite SEAL skydiving team fell to his death Sunday after his parachute failed to open and he plunged into the Hudson River during an aerial exhibition that was part of Fleet Week festivities.
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Pugh to explore removing Confederate monuments in Baltimore  —  Pugh to explore removing Confederate monuments in Baltimore.  (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun)  —  New Orleans recently took down its Confederate monuments.  Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh says she is considering doing the same thing in the city.
Discussion: The Root and NPR
 
 
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