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10:50 AM ET, May 16, 2018

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New York Times:
Tantalizing Testimony From a Top Trump Aide Sets Off a Search for Proof  —  WASHINGTON — The White House official had a startling assertion: He thought he had received an email in the first half of 2016 alerting the Trump campaign that Russia had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Politico
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Washington Post:
Thousands of pages of Congressional testimony shed light on 2016 Trump Tower meeting  —  A music promoter who promised Donald Trump Jr. over email that a Russian lawyer would provide dirt about Hillary Clinton in June 2016 made the offer because he had been assured the Moscow attorney was …
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Balloon Juice
Glenn Simpson / United States Senate Committee …:
Materials from Inquiry into Circumstances Surrounding Trump Tower Meeting  —  As a part of its oversight of the Justice Department's enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and federal investigations into potential improper influence during the 2016 presidential election …
Associated Press:
Trump Jr: Can't recall discussing Russia probe with father  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he couldn't remember whether he had discussed the Russia investigation with his father, according to transcripts released Wednesday of his interview with the panel.
Discussion: Bustle and Mediaite
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cohen ‘asked Qatari investor for millions of dollars’ which he said he would ‘pass to Trump family members’ at Trump Tower meeting - and Qatar's foreign minister was there too … - Donald Trump's personal attorney is facing new claims that he asked for millions in cash …
Discussion: Washington Press
Glenn Simpson / United States Senate Committee …:
Materials from Inquiry into Circumstances Surrounding Trump Tower Meeting  —  As a part of its oversight of the Justice Department's enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and federal investigations into potential improper influence during the 2016 presidential election …
Philip Ewing / NPR:
Senate Committee Releases 2,500 Pages About 2016 Trump Tower Meeting
Discussion: CNBC
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
The #Resistance Had A Very Good Night  —  The Democratic Party woke up this morning with a clear signal from Tuesday's primary elections: The #Resistance means business.  The more progressive candidate won in Democratic primaries around the country.  The question, however …
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Politico:
Top takeaways from a wild primary night  —  Women candidates won big, but moderate Democrats took it on the chin.  —  One thing was clear after the latest round of primaries on Tuesday: Democrats will be spending the next four months fighting among themselves along the familiar battle lines of ideology and identity.
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Pennsylvania Primary Election Results  —  Tuesday's primaries are the first test of Pennsylvania's new districts, drawn in response to a court order that deemed the old map unconstitutional for its gerrymandering in favor of Republicans.  The new map is more favorable to Democrats …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Pennsylvania Primaries Deliver Strong Wins for Democratic Women
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Idaho Primary Election Results
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Kos
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The far left is winning the Democratic civil war … THE BIG IDEA: Tuesday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Democratic moderates.  —  The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Qatari investor confirms he attended Trump Tower meetings in 2016
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
Why Is a Qatari Diplomat Refusing to Confirm Video Footage of Him Attending His Trump Tower Meeting?
Discussion: New York Magazine
James Hill / ABC News:
Michael Avenatti casts himself as anti-Trump avenger
Discussion: Politico
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
Michael Cohen's Meetings With Michael Flynn and a Qatari Diplomat Might Be the Key to Unlocking the Steele Dossier
Discussion: Washington Press and The Week
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Just How Fragile Is Trump's North Korea Diplomacy?  —  These days, the eeriest thing about the demilitarized zone in Korea, the world's most fortified border, is the silence.  From a South Korean mountaintop, you can peer through a powerful telescope across the no man's land of the D.M.Z. …
Discussion: Althouse and NK News
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Yonhap News Agency:
(LEAD) N. Korea cancels high-level talks with S. Korea over military drill
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Just about everything is odd about Trump's support of Chinese firm ZTE
Wall Street Journal:
Novartis Top Lawyer Departs Over Cohen Payments  —  Felix Ehrat was a co-signatory of the agreement to hire Trump's personal lawyer for $100,000 a month  —  ZURICH—A top executive at Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG NVS -1.12% is stepping down as the global fallout widens from the recent disclosure …
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John Miller / Reuters:
Top Novartis lawyer exits over Trump attorney deal error
Discussion: IJR, The Week, STAT and Axios
Washington Post:   Novartis executive retiring over drugmaker's payments to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump team ready to ‘pressure’ Mueller at probe's one-year mark  —  In an interview, Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, even cited James Comey's mid-2016 exoneration of Hillary Clinton as a model for the Russia special counsel.  —  President Donald Trump's attorney has an unlikely new role model …
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Matt Ford / New Republic:   Robert Mueller's Most Important Accomplishment
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Trump to Use Mueller One-Year Mark to Blast Probe, Giuliani Says
Discussion: National Review, HuffPost and Hot Air
Matthew Stewart / The Atlantic:
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy  —  1.  —  The Aristocracy is Dead ...  For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America's fading aristocracies.  Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, my family would take up residence …
New York Times:
Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the F.B.I. are investigating Cambridge Analytica, the now-defunct political data firm, and have sought to question former employees and banks that handled its business …
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Democrats are about to have to pay up  —  Before the ink was dry on our new tax bill, outraged blue states were screaming about the cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes.  Their governments were also frantically seeking ways around it, and small wonder.
Discussion: The Mahablog and CNBC
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Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Putting ‘White House’ on the resume is less of a boost  —  WASHINGTON — Listing a White House gig on your resume used to be considered a sparkling credential, reflecting a stint at the apex of the country's political power.  —  But as with so many other things about Donald Trump's …
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New York Times:
Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire of the Vanities,’ Dies  —  Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan's moneyed status-seekers in works like …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Tom Wolfe captured and caricatured New York City better than anyone
Discussion: Instapundit
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
The Newest Star Of The Trump Movement Ran A Trump-Bashing Publication — Less Than Two Years Ago  —  A rising star on the right, Owens was CEO of a site that compared Trump to Hitler and speculated that he has a small penis.  —  Even by the whiplash-inducing standards of Trumpworld, Candace Owens' rise has been fast.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Root
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“Pence Is Not Stupid”: As Trump Sinks, G.O.P. Insiders See a Shadow Campaign Taking Shape  —  Could Pence's ambition make him the president's next mortal enemy?  Or will his well-oiled political operation allay Trump's concerns—at least for now?  —  “There is no shadow campaign,” …
Stephen Hobbs / Sun-Sentinel:
Parkland school cop Scot Peterson gets $8,702 a month in pension  —  Broward Sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson resigned after public criticism from Sheriff Scott Israel for not confronting the Florida school gunman on Feb. 14.  —  South Florida Sun Sentinel  —  Privacy Policy
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Gay Alabama lawmaker suggests governor is lesbian; Ivey calls it ‘disgusting lie’  —  Patricia Todd, Alabama's only openly gay state legislator, posted comments on social media Tuesday night suggesting that Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is gay.  —  Todd, who is not seeking re-election to office this year …
Discussion: Towleroad, Joe.My.God. and PinkNews
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The rise of the pro-Trump media machine  —  Pro-Trump media is spreading across the U.S., disseminating Trumpian rhetoric about fake news and mainstream media bias through every medium.  —  The big picture, from Rodney Benson, chair of NYU's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication …
Ernest Owens / Pushback:
Malcolm Kenyatta Makes History With State House Primary Victory  —  The LGBTQ community advocate has now become the first openly gay candidate of color ever to win a state House primary in Pennsylvania.  —  This election night, LGBTQ community leader and former Democratic National Convention …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kendra Pierre-Louis / New York Times:
The World Wants Air-Conditioning.  That Could Warm the World.  —  More than crickets and fireflies, more than baseball and cookouts, perhaps nothing signals the arrival of summer in the United States like the soft familiar whir of air-conditioning.  —  But there is growing concern …
Discussion: Althouse
Maher Chmaytelli / Reuters:
Iran's Soleimani holds talks about future Iraqi cabinet  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani is holding talks with politicians in Baghdad to promote the formation of a new Iraqi cabinet which would have Iran's approval, two people familiar with the political process underway in Iraq said on Wednesday.
 
 
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
No-whites-allowed ‘Day of Absence’ lives on despite last year's uproar at Evergreen State College
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
How Trump's ZTE deal could undercut his foreign policy
Associated Press:
Following U.S. lead, Guatemala moves embassy to Jerusalem
Discussion: Daily Wire
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Flip a Pennsylvania Seat, Making 41 Since Trump's Inauguration
Discussion: The Week
Associated Press:
CIA nominee wins Senate panel backing, confirmation expected
Discussion: Politico
San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump's pointless Mideast provocation
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Discussion: The Week
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