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12:45 PM ET, May 31, 2017

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal  —  President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision.  Details on how the withdrawal will be executed are being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump expected to withdraw from Paris climate deal  —  President Donald Trump is planning to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement, a White House official said Wednesday morning — only to have Trump himself revive the suspense less than an hour later.
New York Times:
Trump Expected to Pull U.S. From Paris Climate Accord  —  President Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, three officials with knowledge of the decision said, making good on a campaign pledge but severely weakening the landmark 2015 climate change accord …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's White House bake-off for chief of staff  —  As a long-expected shake-up begins in the West Wing, President Trump has been asking key Republicans for their opinions about two possible replacements as White House chief of staff: Gary Cohn, a moderate voice who's his current economic adviser …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Wall Street Journal:
The White House Mess
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Louis Nelson / Politico:   Lewandowski: Trump needs staff who have a ‘preexisting relationship’ with him
The Hill:
Trump faces shrinking talent pool for new hires
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Russia probe scares off potential appointees
Discussion: The Week
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘covfefe’ heard around the world
Discussion: Fox News and Talking Points Memo
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Support for Trump impeachment rises  —  An increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don't think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires.  —  Forty-three percent of voters want Congress …
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Voters Show Growing Appetite for Trump Impeachment
Discussion: Politicus USA and IJR
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘COVFEFE’: Trump's late-night tweet goes viral …
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
The New York Times Is Eliminating The Public Editor Role  —  The accountability position was created in the wake of a 2003 plagiarism scandal.  —  The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor, an accountability role the paper created in 2003 in the wake …
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
New York Times Will Offer Employee Buyouts and Eliminate Public Editor Role  —  The New York Times offered buyouts to its newsroom employees on Wednesday, aiming to reduce layers of editing and requiring more of the editors who remain.  —  In a memo to the newsroom, Dean Baquet …
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll- May 2017: The AHCA's Proposed Changes to Health Care  —  Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Liz Hamel, Elise Sugarman, and Mollyann Brodie  —  KEY FINDINGS:  — With Congress currently discussing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan that would repeal …
Brian Klaas / USA Today:
Donald Trump's business ties explain a lot of his dictator worship  —  As Donald Trump praises Rodrigo Duterte's death squads in the Philippines, Trump Tower Manila is going up.  —  President Trump makes more money when he embraces regimes that violate human rights.
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Priya Anand / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Internal Documents Show UberPool Was A Cash-Burning Machine  —  In late 2015, UberPool was losing its home market of San Francisco to Lyft Line.  Here's what Uber did to win it back, according to internal company documents.  —  In summer 2015, about a year after Uber launched …
Discussion: Eschaton
Bret Weinstein / Wall Street Journal:
The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next  —  Whites were asked to leave for a ‘Day of Absence.’ I objected.  Then 50 yelling students crashed my class.
Discussion: Power Line
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's aides are starting to rival their boss when it comes to praising him  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  To most observers, President Trump's first overseas trip was either a moderate success that was at times overshadowed by viral GIFs …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Leaked regulation: Trump plans to roll back Obamacare birth control mandate  —  The administration is mulling broad exemptions from the health law requirement.  —  The Trump administration is apparently preparing to overhaul Obamacare's birth control mandate, purportedly allowing any employer …
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server With No Password  —  Sensitive files tied to a US military project were leaked by a multi-billion dollar firm once described as the world's most profitable spy operation, Gizmodo has confirmed.
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
Page Six:
Scott Pelley out of ‘CBS Evening News’ … Scott Pelley is out at “CBS Evening News,” Page Six has exclusively learned.  —  Sources tell us that 'Poison Pelley's' office was being cleared out on Tuesday while the anchor was away on an assignment for the network's news magazine “60 Minutes.”
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP taps anti-Clinton strategy to damage Elizabeth Warren early  —  BOSTON  —  Republicans are getting a jump on Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign.  —  The Massachusetts Democrat is preparing to run for re-election to the Senate in 2018 and hasn't said yet whether she'll …
Discussion: Shakesville and The Week
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
What's a ‘Covfefe’?  Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation  —  WASHINGTON — And on the 132nd day, just after midnight, President Trump had at last delivered the nation to something approaching unity — in bewilderment, if nothing else.  —  The state of our union was ... covfefe.
Wall Street Journal:
America First Doesn't Mean America Alone  —  We are asking a lot of our allies and partners.  But in return the U.S. will once again be a true friend.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Instapundit
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Republicans look to fulfill Trump's vow on 'Kate's Law'  —  Republicans are going on the offensive with “Kate's Law,” seeking to fulfill one of President Trump's most high-profile promises while putting Democrats on defense over illegal immigration.  —  During the presidential campaign …
Discussion: Hot Air
Richard Sisk / Military.com:
US Successfully Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target in Pacific  —  The Defense Department on Tuesday improved a spotty record by destroying a mock intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific with a new hit-to-kill vehicle meant to protect the homeland against the growing threat from North Korea.
Bloomberg:
Touting Ties to Trump Is the Only Thing That Unites the Feuding Kushners  —  David Kocieniewski, Wenxin Fan and David M. Levitt  —  Heads of the Kushner families' two sides dubbed Cain and Abel  —  Told to stop, Murray Kushner's company blamed others  —  Charles and Murray Kushner …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Roger Ailes' last wish: Out-foxing Fox  —  Before Roger Ailes' death on May 18, he expressed a final wish to some of his few remaining confidants: to get back in the game, with a conservative network that would position itself to the right of Fox News, as his baby became more moderate under the next generation of Murdoch leadership.
Discussion: Business Insider
 
 
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Associated Press:
Franken: ‘Everything Points’ to Collusion Between Trump, Russia
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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Trump could make everyone happy by raising this tax
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Report: 5,500 Noncitizens Discovered on Virginia Voter Rolls
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Huma Abedin has invited Anthony Weiner back home
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