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Vince Lattanzio / NBC 10 Philadelphia:
Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks Mid-Flight; Plane Lands Safely in Philadelphia  —  Southwest Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Philly  —  A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely in Philadelphia Tuesday after the jet violently depressurized when a piece …
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NBC News:
Southwest Airlines plane makes emergency landing at Philadelphia airport after engine damage
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Sean Hannity's Ties to Two More Trump-Connected Lawyers  —  Sean Hannity has had no shortage of lawyers.  In court on Monday, his name was disclosed as the third “mystery client” of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.  Though Hannity says he was never actually Cohen's client …
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court strikes down part of immigration law as too vague  —  The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.  —  The court's 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Neil Gorsuch voted with the liberal justices, but his opinion should chill you to the bone  —  Broadly speaking, there are two different approaches to the law on the Supreme Court's right flank.  —  Justice Samuel Alito is the consummate partisan.  Unlike his other conservative colleagues …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Handful of House Republicans mobilize to protect Mueller  —  A small band of House Republicans has suddenly backed a bill to prevent President Donald Trump from unilaterally firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller — giving some bipartisan life to a measure that has largely been shunned by GOP leaders.
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Defending Trump in Russia probe? It's hardly a dream job
Discussion: Daily Kos
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
McConnell Opposes Trump's Attempt to Cancel Some 2018 Spending
Discussion: Political Wire
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Privilege is real.  But being a white man shouldn't disqualify me. … I am the child of privilege — or so I am being told.  I am white, I am male.  Put them together and you would think I've been sitting on a trust fund — unearned, unappreciated and unjustified.
Discussion: Jezebel, Daily Kos and Shakesville
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Richard Cohen's privilege, explained  —  The Washington Post columnist and alleged sexual harasser is bitter about having lost a job to a woman more than 40 years ago.  —  Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wants you to know that he believes in better treatment for women, African Americans …
Discussion: Mediaite
Paul Waldman / The Week:
Americans don't pay enough taxes  —  As you filed your taxes this year, you might have spent some time grumbling.  Why does it have to be so complicated?  Am I paying too much?  Couldn't the system be more fair?  —  But it's at this time of year when you ought to consider that as an American …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
President Trump isn't going to file his taxes to the IRS on time
Donald Trump / USA Today:
America's economy is back and roaring and its people are winning
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, IJR and Daily Wire
Starbucks Newsroom:
Starbucks to Close All Stores Nationwide for Racial-Bias Education on May 29  —  Training will occur at all Starbucks company-owned stores and will apply to nearly 175,000 U.S. partners (employees)  —  Curriculum to be designed by nationally recognized experts and will be available for other companies to use
Sara Ganim / CNN:
Ryan Zinke refers to himself as a geologist.  That's a job he's never held.  —  Washington (CNN)Defending his decision to shrink the Bears Ears national monument to lawmakers last week, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke fell back one of his favorite credentials.  —  “I'm a geologist,” he said.
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels' Penthouse Reveal: Plans to Donate $130K to Planned Parenthood in Trump and Cohen's Names … In addition to her 60 Minutes sit-down with Anderson Cooper and appearance on The View this morning, Stormy Daniels will grace the cover of Penthouse magazine.
Discussion: Washington Times
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Here's Why Congressman Blake Farenthold Resigned So Abruptly  —  He was about to get some bad news.  —  WASHINGTON It's been a mystery why former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) abruptly resigned earlier this month.  —  But HuffPost has new details on what happened.
Discussion: CNN, Political Wire and Splinter
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump campaign paid Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller's lawyers, records show  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid more than $66,000 to the law firm that represents Keith Schiller, his former longtime bodyguard, newly filed campaign records show.  —  Schiller, who left a White House job …
CBS News:
Who is Kimba Wood, the judge presiding over the Michael Cohen case?  —  Kimba Wood, the judge currently presiding over the Michael Cohen case, is one of the foremost jurists in the country.  —  She also briefly trained as a Playboy bunny, nearly became President Bill Clinton's attorney general …
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Jim Newell / Slate:
Please Stop Predicting the End of Trump's Presidency
Jeff Mordock / Washington Times:   Judge in Michael Cohen's case officiated George Soros' wedding
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump letting Haley take heat despite signing off on sanctions  —  President Donald Trump gave approval last week for rolling out airstrikes in Syria as well as new sanctions on Russia, according to three senior administration officials — but U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley …
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CNN:
Top WH aide says Haley got ‘ahead of the curve’ with sanctions announcement
Washington Post:
IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline  —  The Internal Revenue Service's electronic system that allows Americans to submit their tax returns online has partly failed Tuesday, complicating filing for the millions of taxpayers attempting to meet the government's midnight deadline.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The GOP ‘Has Become the Caricature the Left Always Said It Was’  —  Hours after Paul Ryan announced his retirement last week, President Donald Trump tweeted a photo of the House speaker and the rest of the GOP congressional leadership at dinner together at the White House.
New York Times:
San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Sailors arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century used two giant redwood trees perched on a hill to help guide their ships into the bay.  The redwoods were felled for their lumber at around the time of the gold rush …
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:   Clean up San Francisco's streets, tourist industry pleads
Neda Ulaby / NPR:
NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air  —  Every weekday for more than three decades, his baritone steadied our mornings.  Even in moments of chaos and crisis, Carl Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news.  But behind that hid a lively sense of humor …
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump's trade rep spends $1M on new furniture, blames Obama  —  WASHINGTON - President Trump's Trade Representative is spending nearly $1 million on new furniture — and blaming the Obama Administration.  —  US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent more than $917,000 to furnish …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Marco Rubio, Darling of G.O.P. Establishment, Hires a Thorn in Its Side  —  WASHINGTON — As chief executive of the influential conservative think tank Heritage Action for America, Michael Needham waged years of unforgiving political warfare against the Republican Party establishment …
Discussion: The Resurgent and National Review
Laura Bassett / HuffPost:
Anti-Abortion Leader Emerges As White Nationalist  —  The Dallas Morning News and anti-abortion groups are distancing themselves from Kristen Hatten.  —  Anti-abortion groups are distancing themselves from a prominent writer, activist and thought leader in the movement who has leaned …
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Pruitt upgraded to a larger, customized SUV with bullet-resistant seat covers … Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt upgraded his official car last year to a costlier, larger vehicle with bullet-resistant covers over bucket seats, according to federal records and interviews …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Good Grief.  Cohen's World Gets Mobbier The Closer I Look  —  In today's podcast, we look into the background of Michael Cohen.  TPM first reported last year that Cohen was actually a childhood friend of Felix Sater, whose father was himself a reputed capo in the Mogilevich organized crime syndicate …
Discussion: Associated Press
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Sandy Hook Parents Hit Alex Jones With Defamation Lawsuits  —  Suits against the Infowars host keep piling up.  —  Alex Jones has spent years claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School where a shooter killed 20 small children and six adults was faked.
 
 
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas / The Guardian:
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Koch Network pushes Trump and Congress for a Dreamers deal
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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
This PSA About Fake News From Barack Obama Is Not What It Appears
Discussion: CNBC and IJR
Brandon Morse / RedState:
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The Daily Beast:
For the Right Price, You Can Buy Glenn Beck's Private Jet
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Donald Trump, if he could only make it up
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