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Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:
Adam West, Straight-Faced Star of TV's ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88  —  The actor struggled to find work after the campy superhero series was canceled, but he rebounded with voiceover gigs, including one as the mayor of Quahog on ‘Family Guy.’  —  Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep …
Discussion: RedState, Daily Mail, Mediaite, WTKR-TV and IJR
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Brian Lowry / Variety:
Adam West, TV's ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88  —  Adam West — an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series “Batman” — died Friday night in Los Angeles.  He was 88.  A rep said that he died after a short battle with leukemia.  —  “Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight …
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
OPINION: The damaging case against James Comey  —  The testimony of James Comey proved long on atmospherics and short on ethics.  While many were riveted by Comey's discussion of his discomfort in meetings with President Trump, most seemed to miss the fact that Comey was describing his own conduct in strikingly unethical terms.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Biden encourages 2012 foe Romney to run for the Senate  —  At donor conference, Biden also repeats his criticisms of Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid  —  DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Mitt Romney is getting encouragement to run for Senate in 2018 from an unlikely source: Joe Biden.
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Republican fundraisers can stomach Trump — if only he'd call  —  Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney had barely disembarked from the Silver Lake Express lift when the glad-handing and ribbing began in earnest.  —  “All right, guys, the old man is here,” he whooped to Ron Kaufman, one of his close advisers …
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:   Top Republican trio urges Trump to act on Russia
Nick Timothy / Conservative Home:
Why I have resigned as the Prime Minister's adviser  —  Nick Timothy was co-Chief of Staff to Theresa May.  —  Yesterday, I resigned as the Prime Minister's adviser.  —  Clearly, the general election result was a huge disappointment.  What lay behind the result will no doubt be the subject of detailed analysis for many months.
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Bloomberg:
How May's Sure Thing Became a Political Disaster for the Ages  —  Davis, Hammond said to have persuaded premier to call vote  —  May now a caretaker leader while Tories nurse their wounds  —  It was 5:15 a.m. when an exhausted Theresa May entered the campaign war room at Tory headquarters to face her demoralized party workers.
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Foreign payments to Trump's businesses are legally permitted, argues Justice Department  —  The U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday that President Trump's businesses are legally permitted to accept payments from foreign governments while he is in office, and thus Trump is not in violation …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and Reuters
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Trump Can Accept Payments From Foreign Governments, U.S. Argues
Marilyn Geewax / NPR:   Trump Administration Calls For Lawsuit About His Businesses To Be Dismissed
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
How the Party Decided on Trump  —  In The Party Decides, an influential book about how presidential nominees are selected, political scientists John Zaller, Hans Noel, David Karol, and Marty Cohen argue that despite reforms designed to wrest control of the process from insiders …
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:   The GOP That Failed
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The French Are Spinning American Food  —  Viande Americaine is definitely food, but it isn't American.  And so what?  —  Spring twilight comes late to northern France, and around 9, when we left the Marine Le Pen rally, a hush was settling across the countryside.
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
CNN Host Called Out For Being ‘Obsessed With The Facts’  —  Conservative David Rivkin, former counsel to Donald Rumsfeld, told CNN's Brooke Baldwin that she was getting “obsessed with the facts” over the he said/he said status of Comey and Trump's statements regarding their meetings.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
TRUMP to rollback some of Obama's Cuba policies — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Kellyanne complains about West Wing colleagues — REMEMBERING Zbig Brzezinski — ASHCROFT hired by Qatar — KATY TUR profile - B'DAY: Zeleny  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good Saturday morning.  THE BELMONT STAKES is 6:37 p.m. tonight on NBC.
Discussion: Axios
Gloria Gomez / FOX13news:
Alleged neo-Nazi bomb-maker gets bond  —  Image Gallery  —  ORLANDO (FOX 13) - An Orlando home is where Brandon Russell will be spending all of his time while he awaits trial on explosives charges.  —  Federal Judge Thomas McCoun granted bond for Russell Friday, writing there was no clear …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Rosenberg / New York Post:
Joe Biden's niece dodges jail after $100K credit card scam  —  The wild-child niece of former Veep Joe Biden stole more than $100,000 in a credit card scam — and quietly cut a plea deal in Manhattan court that spares her any jail time, The Post has learned.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer in Russia probe has clients with Kremlin ties  —  The hard-charging New York lawyer President Trump chose to represent him in the Russia investigation has prominent clients with ties to the Kremlin, a striking pick for a president trying to escape the persistent cloud that has trailed his administration.
Jerry Oppenheimer / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Lordy!  James Comey set for $10 million payday as publishers scramble to sign book deal with fired FBI chief for inside story on Hillary, Trump - and his own brush with death by a serial rapist  — Comey's going to have the biggest Washington golden parachute ever …
Discussion: TheBlaze and AOL
Ana Swanson / Washington Post:
Republicans are predicting the beginning of the end of the tea party in Kansas  —  OVERLAND PARK, Kans. - Kansas was at the heart of the tea-party revolution, a red state where, six years ago, a deeply conservative group of Republicans took the state for a hard right turn.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Jeff Stein / Newsweek:
MICHAEL FLYNN, RUSSIA AND A GRAND SCHEME TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE ARAB WORLD  —  SPYTALK MICHAEL FLYNN RUSSIA SAUDI ARABIA  —  By the time Michael Flynn was fired as President Donald Trump's national security adviser in February, he had made a lot of bad decisions.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Senate Democrats try to spark rural comeback in 2018  —  Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) has declared war on almond milk as she prepares to run for reelection in 2018.  —  Though not a cause célèbre driving political talk on cable news, plant-based beverages called milk …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Masquerading as Reporter, Assassin Hunted Putin Foes in Ukraine  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainians have long struggled with fake news from Russia, but last week, they discovered something even more insidious: a fake journalist.  —  The man was tall and dapper.  He wore a dark suit and spoke with a French accent.
Joe Soucheray / Twin Cities:
A grenade, rifles, ammo, electronics ... what were these Minneapolis guys up to?  —  As recently as June 1, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that a Hennepin County judge had issued an emergency protection order for a man who helped Minneapolis police uncover an arsenal of guns and bomb-making devices.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Trump Discovers Article 5 After Disastrous NATO Visit  —  Trump's public performance in Brussels was a disaster.  Behind closed doors, it was even worse.  —  At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO's bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday.
 
 
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Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
Mayor de Blasio's Symbolism, Plastic-Wrapped in Arrogance
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Washington Post:
Trump seems to undercut Tillerson's remarks on Qatar
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
10 months ago, Univision bought Gawker in a fire sale, and it's been messy ever since
Discussion: The Root
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
Britain's Election Disaster
Associated Press:
Anti-Shariah rallies planned across US worry Muslim leaders
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
House, Senate investigators seek Trump tapes, Comey memos
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's theory on Comey defense
Wall Street Journal:
Trump: Willing to Testify Under Oath That He Didn't Ask Comey to Ease Flynn Probe
Discussion: IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Bernie Woodall / Reuters:
Florida governor signs bolstered ‘stand your ground’ law
Discussion: The Hill
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Feds: Trump's Twitter Guru Violated the Law
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Feds Succeed In Delaying Lawsuit Where Key Travel Ban Memo Is At Issue
John Harwood / CNBC:
The GOP still champions Trump, but that might not last
Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Says U.S. Can Cope If Debt Ceiling Not Raised by August
Chris Villani / Boston Herald:
Jeb Bush backs president, but says ‘who cares what I think?’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Drops Reza Aslan Following Anti-Trump Tweets