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9:50 AM ET, May 15, 2018

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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem  —  On Monday, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other leading lights of the Trumpist right gathered in Israel to celebrate the relocation of the American Embassy to Jerusalem, a gesture widely seen as a slap in the face to Palestinians who envision East Jerusalem as their future capital.
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell Led Prayer at Jerusalem Embassy Opening  —  Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell Led Prayer at Embassy  —  Georgia State Reinvents Itself as an Engine of Social Mobility  —  Georgia State was once seen as a night school for white businessmen.
Weekly Standard:
The Gaza ‘Protests’
Discussion: The Times of Israel
New York Times:
Trump's Failure in Jerusalem
Discussion: Just Security
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Waves of Gazans vs. Israeli Tear Gas and Bullets: Deadliest Mayhem in Years
Discussion: HuffPost, Vox and Bloomberg
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nothing says ‘peace’ like 58 dead Palestinians
Discussion: Tablet Magazine, Vox and twitchy.com
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Ivanka Trump Opens U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem During Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Jerusalem Embassy Is a Victory for Trump, and a Complication for Middle East Peace
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Killings in Gaza, New Embassy in Jerusalem, and Peace as Distant as Ever
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kansas City Star:
Case against Greitens is dropped, for now.  Legislative leaders say nothing's changed  —  ST. LOUIS  —  In a stunning development, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Monday dropped her prosecution of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in the face of the defense team's plan to call her as a witness.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump supporters suffer unintended consequences of his policies … THE BIG IDEA: President Trump sometimes seems impervious to the second and third order consequences of his decisions.  —  Several recent developments have highlighted the unintended — though often foreseeable …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Greitens admits using secret texting app with staff but says he didn't violate laws
Discussion: Politico
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project  —  Trump will profit from Indonesian resort project that will get $500 million in Chinese loans in a deal sealed days before before his tweet ordering help for ZTE.  —  WASHINGTON - A mere 72 hours …
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Washington Post:
Trump's ZTE tweet sows confusion before trade talks with China
Robert Maguire / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
$1 million mystery gift to inauguration traced to conservative legal activists  —  WASHINGTON  —  One of the largest contributions to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee in 2016 appears to have been orchestrated by a set of powerful conservative legal activists who have since …
Discussion: Splinter
Axios:
Scoop: Inside Trump's 2020 startup  —  As President Trump's campaign aides quietly launch his reelection campaign, they're eyeing two states as possible pickups for 2020: Minnesota, where Trump came close in 2016 without even trying; and Colorado, where his hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement is a possible selling point.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Axios:   Scoop: Trump's “big data” plan for 2020
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
One year down, and it's still Mueller time  —  The FBI began its Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016.  Special counsel Robert Mueller picked up the probe in May 2017.  This summer the investigation will enter its third year.  —  And we still don't know what's going on.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Strzok-Page Texts and the Origins of the Trump-Russia Investigation
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Not An Onion Story: Blake Farenthold Gets A New Job Lobbying Congress  —  It's only been a month since he quit his House seat amid an ethics committee probe into sexual harassment allegations.  —  WASHINGTON A month after abruptly resigning from Congress in an apparent effort to avoid …
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Blake Farenthold secured $2.14M in federal pork for this port; they just gave him a $160K job
Discussion: Splinter
Corpus Christi Caller-Times:
Embattled ex-congressman Blake Farenthold finds safe harbor at the Port of Port Lavaca
Discussion: Roll Call
John Solomon / The Hill:
Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch  —  has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.  —  But there's one episode even Mueller's former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists …
Politico:
Senate GOP chides Trump over McCain treatment  —  ‘Just out of common decency they should apologize,’ one Republican said of the White House ahead of a Trump lunch with GOP senators.  —  Senate Republicans are openly seething over the White House's treatment of John McCain …
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
The Russians Try to Call Mueller's Bluff, File Request to View Secret Grand Jury Info  —  Attorneys for an alleged component of Russian trolling efforts during the 2016 presidential election are demanding that special counsel Robert Mueller be forced to reveal the grand jury instructions used …
Discussion: Mother Jones, RedState and Raw Story
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Erin Dooley / ABC News:
Exclusive: Former for-profit college executive shaped Education Department policy that could benefit former employers: Documents  —  A senior U.S. Department of Education official hired straight out of the for-profit college sector helped dismantle regulations designed to protect student defrauded …
David Beard / Poynter:
Morning Mediawire: The paper that portrayed rejoicing in Israel  —  Las Vegas paper puts ‘elated’ editorial by owner's wife on page one on deadly day in Israel  —  After Sheldon Adelson's secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal was exposed in December 2015, the billionaire GOP mega-donor promised …
Salena Zito / Townhall:
‘The Great Revolt’  —  America's political experts got it wrong in 2016, not because they took too few polls but because they made the false assumption that American elections are immune to societal change.  —  The experts are, in large part, still getting things wrong …
Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Allies fume over Trump's withdrawal from Iran deal but have few options to respond  —  America's three closest friends in Europe — Britain, France and Germany — are near-bursting with anger and exasperation at the United States.  In a frenzy of meetings and phone calls among them over the past week …
Discussion: MSNBC
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
‘Real’ Americans are a myth.  Don't you dare buy it. … The most offensive and corrosive idea in our politics today is that some Americans are more “real” than others.  Don't you dare buy it.  —  Republicans are cynically peddling this un-American conceit.
RealClearInvestigations:
Two Colleagues Contradict Brennan's Denial of Reliance on Dossier  —  Former CIA Director John Brennan's insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials.
Washington Post:
Michael Avenatti is using Trump tactics to battle Trump, a strategy that comes with risks  —  Ten weeks ago, Michael Avenatti was a California lawyer known for his successes in class-action lawsuits.  Then he sued President Trump on behalf of adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and …
Austin Frakt / New York Times:
Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980  —  The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.  —  The United States devotes a lot more of its economic resources to health care than any other nation …
Nick Haramis / New York Times:
Welcome to the Age of the Twink  —  There's a scene in “Call Me by Your Name” that I can't get out of my head.  (No, not that one.)  It happens near the beginning of Luca Guadagnino's gay odyssey, when Armie Hammer's character, Oliver, sweaty from volleyball, pauses to steal a drink from Elio, played by Timothée Chalamet.
Discussion: Althouse and The Daily Beast
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in blockbuster ‘Superman,’ dies at 69 … Margot Kidder, a raspy-voiced actress who played ace reporter Lois Lane in the “Superman” movie phenomenon but whose career was eclipsed by her struggle with bipolar disorder, died May 13 at her home in Livingston, Mont. She was 69.
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump undergoes kidney surgery at Walter Reed medical center  —  (CNN)First lady Melania Trump underwent kidney surgery Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington, DC, according to a statement from her office.  —  Trump had been experiencing an issue …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat  —  Robert Mueller's job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election.  But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.  —  ONE DAY IN the summer of 1969, a young Marine lieutenant …
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP golden boy mails it in
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg:
Bharara Said to Weigh Independent Race for N.Y. Attorney General
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Murphy v. Saccone: Infamous Pa. Republicans feud before primary
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Primary Preview: What To Watch For In Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Idaho
Discussion: ThinkProgress, ABC News and Politico
Open Society Foundations:
The Open Society Foundations to Close International Operations in Budapest
Discussion: Politico and RT
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
The Media War on Palestinian Agency
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Iran and American Power
Washington Post:
Opinion | The Trump administration's Orwellian Israel messaging
 Earlier Items: 
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Seattle Scales Back Tax in Face of Amazon's Revolt, but Tensions Linger
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Mueller team urges federal judge to reject request for hearing on leaks: report
Discussion: Politico, AOL and CNN
Hollywood Reporter:
Cannes: Spike Lee's ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Draws 10-Minute Ovation
Discussion: The Root, Jezebel and The Guardian
Max Golembo / ABC News:
Widespread severe weather expected from Texas to Virginia
Ilana Novick / Truthdig:
Reporters Cash In White House Access for Lucrative Cable News Deals
Washington Post:
Maverick cleric's election upset could rattle U.S.-Iraq relations
Discussion: Axios, The Week and Power Line