Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:10 PM ET, June 17, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Malcolm Gay / BostonGlobe.com:
Knives are out for theaters that bear the name ‘Shakespeare’  —  The messages started pouring in earlier this week.  —  “Your play depicting the murder of our President is nothing but pure hatred,” read one of the tamer ones.  —  “[H]ope you all who did this play about Trump are the first do …
Discussion: Death and Taxes and Raw Story
RELATED:
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Protesters Crash Trump Assassination ‘Julius Caesar’ Play (VIDEO)
New York Times:
Judge in Bill Cosby Case Declares a Mistrial  —  • The judge presiding over the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial declared a mistrial Saturday after jurors reported being hopelessly deadlocked.  —  • The exhausted jurors had been deliberating since Monday, sometimes for as much as 12 hours a day.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, Althouse and USA Today
RELATED:
Fox News Insider:
Bill Cosby's Spox: Tell Gloria Allred to ‘Go Back to Law School’  —  After the indecent assault case against Bill Cosby was declared a mistrial, the comedian's spokesman took aim a high-profile lawyer representing several of his other accusers.  —  Outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown …
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:   Despite Mistrial in Criminal Case, Civil Lawsuits Await Cosby
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Trump's Business Ties in Persian Gulf Raise Questions About His Allegiances  —  LONDON — President Trump has done business with royals from Saudi Arabia for at least 20 years, since he sold the Plaza Hotel to a partnership formed by a Saudi prince.  Mr. Trump has earned millions of dollars …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Senate Democrats weigh blockade to protest GOP health care plan  —  Don't know what's in the Senate health care bill?  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)Senate Democrats are weighing whether to bring the chamber's business to a halt next week in an effort to voice their objections to the GOP health care push …
Christopher Brennan / New York Daily News:
Philando Castile's uncle calls on Trump to bring federal charges against Jeronimo Yanez  —  The family of Philando Castile is calling for President Trump to lead the federal government and intervene after a Minnesota jury acquitted the cop who shot and killed their loved one.
Discussion: Shareblue
RELATED:
Philip Galanes / New York Times:
Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie  —  Twenty years before Kellyanne Conway seized the news cycle with “alternative facts” about President Trump's inaugural crowd size, Al Franken (now, Senator Al Franken) began a satirical cottage industry to expose the seemingly loose grasp …
Discussion: Raw Story and Death and Taxes
Mike Allen / Axios:
Pence parlor game: who would he pick for Veep?  —  One of the parlor games Republicans are playing in the shadows of the Russia investigation is this: Who would President Pence pick as his vice president?  —  Quick refresher: If a president leaves offices for any reason …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA
John Bowden / The Hill:
Gingrich: Somebody probably going to jail over Russia investigation  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) told Fox News on Friday that “somebody” will likely go to jail following the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling, but said it won't be President Trump.  —  “They're going to get somebody.
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Los Angeles Times:
Carrie Fisher died of sleep apnea and ‘drug use’ was also a factor, L.A. coroner says  —  Carrie Fisher, right, who died Dec. 27, presents the Life Achievement Award to her mother, Debbie Reynolds, at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2015.
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Alexandria Gunman Carried List With Names of 3 Republican Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON — The gunman who targeted Republican congressmen this week at a baseball field in suburban Washington was carrying a list with the names of at least three lawmakers, and had pictures of the ballpark stored on his cellphone …
Colleen Shalby / Los Angeles Times:
Newt Gingrich says a president ‘cannot obstruct justice.’ That's not what he said in 1998  —  In a recent interview at the National Press Club in Washington, Newt Gingrich appeared to contradict his past statements about obstruction of justice.  —  While discussing the ongoing Russia …
Discussion: The Hill
Bloomberg:
Trump Reveals Flat Revenue at Controversial Washington Hotel  —  Discloses at least $528.9 million in total revenue and income  —  Hotel lost $1.2 million in first weeks, lawmakers say  —  President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure indicates that his Washington, D.C. …
Discussion: Raw Story
RELATED:
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Financial Disclosures Show Millions In Increased Income From Mar-A-Lago
Robby Soave / New York Times:
Michelle Carter Didn't Kill With a Text  —  Can malicious speech constitute violence?  No. But Friday's shocking court decision — which found Michelle Carter guilty of sending lethal text messages — is bound to confuse the issue.  —  Judge Lawrence Moniz, of Bristol County Juvenile Court …
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Why Trump Attacked His Own Deputy Attorney General  —  Nearly everyone who knows him seems to agree that Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General and the official overseeing the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia, has a reputation for integrity.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House plans to push House GOP for friendlier Russia sanctions deal  —  The White House plans to work with House Republicans on administration-friendly changes to the Senate's overwhelmingly bipartisan bill that slaps new sanctions on Russia and curbs President Donald Trump's power …
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Education is scaling back investigations into civil rights violations at the nation's public schools and universities, easing off mandates imposed by the Obama administration that the new leadership says have bogged down the agency.
Discussion: AOL, Fusion, NPR, Axios and Los Angeles Times
RELATED:
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate civil rights enforcement under Trump
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:10 PM ET, June 17, 2017.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Emily Kopp / Kaiser Health News:
Exclusive: White House Task Force Echoes Pharma Proposals
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Hill and Politico
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rubio's friendship with Trump blossoms even as he helps investigate the president's associates
Max Boot / Yahoo:
Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President
Discussion: Raw Story
Abdul Matin / Reuters:
U.S. soldiers wounded in apparent shooting at Afghan base: official
Discussion: The Guardian and The Week
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Everyone said Old Europe was dying. Sure doesn't look like it now.
Discussion: Financial Times
 Earlier Items: 
Daily Kos:
LEADING OFF  —  Pennsylvania: A group of Pennsylvania voters …
Discussion: Associated Press
CNN:
Money stolen by Russian mob linked to man sanctioned for supporting Syria's chemical weapons program
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Jason Kander Won by Losing
Discussion: Political Wire
Elana Schor / Politico:
'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me'
Discussion: CBS News
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
WATCH: Karen Handel Cites Her Faith to Tell Mom of LGBTQ Child She's Against Gay People Adopting, Having Families
Discussion: Raw Story and WSB-TV