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7:25 PM ET, May 30, 2017

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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Russia investigation expands to include Donald Trump's personal attorney  —  One of President Donald Trump's closest confidants, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, has now become a focus of the expanding Congressional investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 campaign.
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CNN:
Sources: Russians discussed potentially ‘derogatory’ information about Trump and associates during campaign  —  Sources: Russians talked potentially ‘derogatory’ info  —  (CNN)Russian government officials discussed having potentially “derogatory” information about then-presidential candidate Donald …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Investigators Are Right To Be Looking at Michael Cohen
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump personal attorney declines congressional Russia probe request
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump retweets report based on anonymous source after blasting anonymous sources
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Russia investigation now includes Trump's personal attorney
Discussion: RedState, CNBC and Gizmodo
Mike Allen / Axios:
White House communications director resigns — more moves expected  —  Mike Dubke, President Trump's communications director, is leaving the White House — the start of a wave of changes as the West Wing struggles to cope with burgeoning scandals and a stalled agenda.
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
This White House statement on Trump's ‘positive energy’ reads like a parody
Discussion: Raw Story and Slate
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Spicer's ‘middle finger’ to the press
Discussion: Raw Story
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Katrina Pierson: Trump needs White House ‘shake-up’
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Shocking Photo Shoot (PHOTO + VIDEO)  —  Kathy Griffin wants Donald Trump's head ... but she wants it bloody and detached from his body.  —  The comedian posed for the gory shot during a photo session with famed photog Tyler Shields, who's known for edgy, shocking pics.
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Hank Berrien / Daily Wire:
DISGUSTING: Kathy Griffin Holds Up Trump's Bloody, Chopped-Off Head
Dennis Prager / National Review:
Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump  —  Trump is too far from their ideal leader for some conservatives to support him.  —  When people you know well and admire, and who share your values, do something you strongly oppose, you have two options:  —  (1) Cease admiring them or (2) try to understand them and change their minds.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Why Dennis Prager's Analysis of ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives Falls Short  —  I have long been, and remain, a big fan of Dennis Prager.  —  I can't say the same of his most recent column.  —  Since he admires so many Trump critics, he says his aim is to persuade them (us) that we are wrong:
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
U.S. successfully intercepts a long-range missile for the first time  —  The U.S. military on Tuesday successfully intercepted an intercontinental-range missile for the first time, a key test of its missile-defense system amid heightening tensions with North Korea.
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
U.S. intercepts mock warhead in signal to North Korea
Discussion: Politico
New York Post:
Pissed off artist adds statue of urinating dog next to ‘Fearless Girl’  —  Artist Alex Gardega put his own Pissing Pug next to Wall Street's Fearless Girl.  —  Gabriella Bass  —  Gee whiz, artists are so sensitive!  —  City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the Fearless Girl statue …
CNN:
Trump, home all alone  — Instead of celebrating a victory lap after his trip, Trump returns to a raging controversy over Russia, writes Gloria Borger  —  (CNN)It's not that President Trump was excited about his first foreign trip.  He complained to friends beforehand it was going to be too long …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Schmucks Like Us  —  Before you laugh at Tiger Woods . . .  Before you get too distracted mocking Tiger Woods and his problems, ask yourself: Would you pass the Iverson test?  —  I don't think I would.  —  I was for some years professionally obliged to follow the career and life of Allen Iverson …
Discussion: Hot Air and ESPN
Noah Kulwin / VICE News:
Watch: Young Stephen Miller jokes “torture is a celebration of life”  —  It's the unofficial position of VICE News that anyone under 18 is allowed to be an a**hole.  Saying outrageous things to test the limits of authority and social acceptance is as crucial to growing up as bad haircuts and regrettable T-shirt slogans.
Discussion: Mediaite
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William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke's Campus to Trump's West Wing
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
German Lopez / Vox:
A federal appeals court just reached a huge decision for transgender rights.  Seriously, it's big.  —  The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just sided with a transgender student in a landmark decision.  —  A single student's case has turned into a massive legal decision for all transgender Americans.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Joe.My.God.
The Guardian:
Guardian's Ben Jacobs gets new glasses after assault by Montana congressman … Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs replaced his glasses on Tuesday, after they were broken when he was assaulted by Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte.  —  Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News: New York Times boycotted Obama surveillance story.  Fox News: Oops, maybe not.  —  Conservatives last week devoured a story by John Solomon and Sara Carter at Circa with this title, “Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years.”
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Did Barack Obama try to hack the election?  —  The Obama administration's illegal spying may have been worse than Watergate.  —  In 1972, some employees of President Nixon's re-election committee were caught when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant a bug.
Discussion: his vorpal sword
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn to Turn Over Business Records to Senate Intelligence Committee  —  Former national security adviser Mike Flynn will turn over documents from his businesses to the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to a person familiar with the matter, easing the possibility of a protracted legal standoff …
Business Insider:
Democrats are pushing an unlikely source — Jerry Springer — to run for governor in Ohio  —  Influential Ohio Democrats are pushing former Cincinnati mayor and daytime-TV host Jerry Springer to run for Ohio governor in 2018, more than half a dozen Democrats familiar with the race told Business Insider.
CNN:
Tiger Woods found asleep at wheel, arrest report says  —  (CNN)Tiger Woods was found asleep at the wheel the morning of his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, police records show.  —  Jupiter, Florida, police discovered Woods early Monday on the side of the road …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company's self-driving automobile efforts, according to an internal email sent to employees on Tuesday.
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Putin's Defender  —  An American Russia scholar on why he doesn't believe the New York Times, doesn't think the DNC was hacked, and just wants the U.S. and Russia to get along.  —  Stephen F. Cohen has long been one of the leading scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union.
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
Trump to interview John Pistole for FBI director job  —  WASHINGTON - President Trump is expected to interview John Pistole, former No. 2 at the FBI and previous head of the Transportation Security Administration, to take over as FBI director, USA TODAY has learned.
 
 
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
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Discussion: IJR
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Discussion: BostonGlobe.com and IJR
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