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5:15 PM ET, May 30, 2017

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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 …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump retweets report based on anonymous source after blasting anonymous sources
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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump personal attorney declines congressional Russia probe request
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Russia investigation now includes Trump's personal attorney
Discussion: RedState 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  —  White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks issued a statement about President Trump on Monday that is so disconnected from reality that it reads like a parody — like something “Saturday Night Live” cooked up to mimic propaganda.
Discussion: Raw Story and Slate
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Dubke resigns as White House communications director
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Katrina Pierson: Trump needs White House ‘shake-up’
Discussion: 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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Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Bloody Shock Photo
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Resurgent
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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:
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
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 Week
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
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Tamir Rice's killer fired from Cleveland police
Discussion: Portland Mercury
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
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.
Ted Cruz / CNN:
Trump should withdraw from Paris climate pact  — Ted Cruz: President Trump should fulfill his campaign promise and withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change  — The treaty drives up energy prices, devastates our industrial base and bolsters our rivals, writes Cruz
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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 …
Kara Fox / CNN:
Gay son of Indian immigrant likely to be Ireland's next leader  —  (CNN)He was 22 when he entered Irish politics.  At 27, he was elected to parliament.  At 36, he publicly came out as gay.  And now, at 38, Leo Varadkar, the son of an Indian immigrant father and an Irish mother …
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.
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.
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
NSA leakers begin sign-ups for monthly leak subscription service  —  A group of suspected National Security Agency (NSA) leakers known as the ShadowBrokers on Tuesday announced more details of their monthly subscription service to provide remaining documents from their NSA cache.
 
 
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Kristen Gelineau / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's actions have unsettled Americans, McCain says
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. Has Started Sending Weapons to Syrian Kurds, Officials Say
Discussion: Axios
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Discussion: USA Today
Cathy Buyck / Politico:
DHS: No European laptop ban for now
Discussion: The Week and Lawfare
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and the fight to find the antidote to Trumpism
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Melania Trump's ‘revenge’ on designers who won't dress her
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Debt fight blindsides Congress
Wall Street Journal:
The Fourth Circuit Joins the ‘Resistance’
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