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11:55 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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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Palestinians in Gaza Are Dying for a Photo-Op  —  And the media are complicit  —  “We are excited to storm and get inside,” a 23-year-old Gazan named Mohammed Mansoura, told the Washington Post yesterday.  “When asked what he would do inside Israel,” the newspaper reported, “he said, ‘Whatever is possible, to kill, throw stones.’”
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nothing says ‘peace’ like 58 dead Palestinians
Discussion: New York Times, AOL and Vox
New York Times:
Trump's Failure in Jerusalem
Discussion: Just Security
Weekly Standard:
The Gaza ‘Protests’
Discussion: The Times of Israel
New York Times:
Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 87  —  Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattans moneyed status-seekers in works like …
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Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ and Best-selling Creator of New Journalism, Dies at 88  —  The author's scalding humor and creative language introduced expressions such as ‘Radical Chic’ into the lexicon  —  Tom Wolfe, the best-selling alchemist of fiction and nonfiction who wrote …
Bill Morris / The Daily Beast:
Tom Wolfe Exchanges Trademark White Suit for Angel's Wings
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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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China gave Trump a list of crazy demands, and he caved to one of them … After top Trump officials went to Beijing last month, the Chinese government wrote up a document with a list of economic and trade demands that ranged from the reasonable to the ridiculous.
Jeff Spross / The Week:
Trump's ZTE puzzler
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 …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   One year down, and it's still Mueller time
Washington Post:
One year of Robert Mueller
Discussion: Hot Air, CNN and Raw Story
CNN:
Haspel says CIA should not have conducted interrogation program  —  (CNN)Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next CIA director, says in a new letter that the CIA should not have conducted then-President George W. Bush's interrogation and detention program where waterboarding …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, MSNBC and NBC News
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:   Gina Haspel Said Only One Detainee's Torture Was Taped. She's Wrong.
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
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
The Ivy League School That Won't Talk About Its Most Famous Graduate  —  For 176 years, William Henry Harrison was the only president the University of Pennsylvania had any kind of claim on, and even then it was kind of a stretch.  As a student, Harrison did a brief stint at Penn, but he didn't stay long enough to get a degree.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
In leaky West Wing, not even a phone ban can stop embarrassing disclosures  —  Washington (CNN)The dustup over a White House aide's crass remark about Sen. John McCain's health has once again inflamed the White House's frustration with staffers who reveal the inner workings of the West Wing to reporters outside the building.
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Democrats propose a moratorium on new immigration prisons  —  As the Trump administration tries to incarcerate more undocumented immigrants facing deportation, two Democrats are trying to get Congress to stop that momentum.  —  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Rule Would Keep More Undocumented Kids Apart From Their Relatives
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
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP golden boy mails it in  —  Republicans worry that Josh Hawley, the party's top Senate recruit, is squandering his opportunity to beat vulnerable Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.  —  FENTON, Mo. — As GOP Rep. Ann Wagner prepared to introduce candidates in a Republican Senate debate here Friday …
Discussion: Splinter
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
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.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Bill O'Reilly in talks to return to cable news  —  Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six.  —  A year after O'Reilly's abrupt exit from Fox News, where he was the top-rated host in cable news …
Christopher Vourlias / Variety:
Spike Lee Slams Trump as ‘Motherf-ker’ After ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Cannes Premiere  —  Spike Lee delivered a blistering attack against Donald Trump on Tuesday, refusing to mention the president by name while saying he'd shirked his moral duty to speak out in the aftermath of last year's deadly riots in Charlottesville.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
When Gavin Newsom issued marriage licenses in San Francisco, his party was furious.  Now, it's a campaign ad … It was an iconic image: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, longtime partners and lesbian activists, embracing after being wed in San Francisco City Hall.
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Cheesecake Factory Employees Attack Black Man For Wearing MAGA Hat, Witnesses Say  —  On Mother's Day, employees at a Cheesecake Factory in Miami, Florida, verbally attacked and made threatening gestures toward a black man who dined with his girlfriend's family simply because he was wearing a …
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and TheBlaze
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg:
Bharara Weighs Independent Bid for New York Attorney General  — He has the name recognition, resume and money to make the race  — Former prosecutor plays coy about run and says ‘Stay Tuned’  —  When a New York jury convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges last week …
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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.
NBC News:
In Florida Senate race, Dems face down a daunting price tag  —  WASHINGTON — Across the 2018 Senate landscape, the vulnerable red-state Senate Democrats are either outspending their GOP challengers over the TV and radio airwaves, or they're keeping the disparity as close as possible.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
Philanthropist David Rubenstein reflects on the power of giving money away
David Wright / CNN:
Progressive group targets GOP tax law in new Nevada ad campaign
Discussion: IJR
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Morning Joe panel says Mueller should probe Trump and Kushner's shady dealings with China and Qatar
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Congressman says it is un-American to acknowledge that racism exists
Discussion: Splinter and Fox News Insider
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Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Allies fume over Trump's withdrawal from Iran deal but have few options to respond
Discussion: MSNBC and Raw Story
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Murphy vs. Saccone: Infamous Pa. Republicans feud before primary
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
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Discussion: Politico
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Nick Haramis / New York Times:
Welcome to the Age of the Twink
Discussion: Althouse and The Daily Beast