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12:25 PM ET, May 19, 2018

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New York Times:
F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Friday, without evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016 campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.”
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Washington Post:
Secret FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisers during campaign  —  A retired American professor in 2016 began working as a secret informant for the FBI as it investigated Russia's interference in the U.S. presidential campaign, and he contacted three Trump advisers …
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Cambridge Professor Spied On Trump Campaign Advisers  —  A top-secret CIA and FBI source who spied on two Trump campaign advisers and initiated contact with a third was all but outed Friday night.  —  The New York Times and The Washington Post provided a detailed description of the source …
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
The FBI didn't use an informant to go after Trump.  They used one to protect him.  —  What the president doesn't get about counterintelligence.  —  President Trump and his allies are outraged at reports that the FBI used an “informant” to spy on Trump's 2016 campaign.
Washington Post:
The GOP's campaign against the FBI makes the nation less safe  —  IN THEIR paranoid partisan war on the Justice Department's Russia probe, President Trump's allies have been pushing for the dangerous disclosure of national security information, including information about a top-secret FBI and CIA informant.
Discussion: NPR and New Republic
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Trump Tweets
Discussion: Associated Press
Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Warner: Identifying FBI source to undermine Russia probe could be a crime
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:   Talk of unproven FBI ‘plant’ in Trump campaign circulates among Republicans
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
White House Keeps Details of Melania Trump's Health Under Wraps  —  WASHINGTON — This week, the first lady, Melania Trump, underwent a procedure for what the White House called a benign kidney condition.  Four days into her recovery for the procedure, which experts say typically …
Discussion: CNN, CNBC, Raw Story and AOL
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
BBC throws royal shade at Trump after wedding crowd dwarfs inauguration  —  Well played, BBC.  Well played.  —  As well-wishers gathered outside Windsor Castle Saturday morning to celebrate the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, BBC took a moment to throw some royal shade at Trump.
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Melania Trump returns to the White House after hospital treatment  —  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump returned to the White House on Saturday morning following hospital treatment for a kidney condition.  —  “She is resting comfortably and remains in high spirits.
Discussion: ABC News
Houston Chronicle:
Details emerge about victims, survivors of Santa Fe shooting  —  Rome Shubert was sitting in his first-period art class shortly before 7:30 a.m. Friday when another student barged in and threw something on the desks behind him.  Rome heard three loud pops and dropped to the ground, flipping his desk in front of him to shield himself.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting … In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter's name …
Washington Post:   Alleged school killer Dimitrios Pagourtzis had a fondness for trench coats and a growing darkness
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members
CBS News:
Royal wedding: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle marry at Windsor Castle — live updates  —  It's the most anticipated wedding of the year: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tie the knot today at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.  —  Harry and his brother and Best Man Prince William greeted cheering fans …
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Associated Press:   Prince Harry marries American bride Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle
Martin Belam / The Guardian:
Stars line up to attend royal wedding  —  Royal wedding watchers treated to a parade of A-list celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic  —  In a wedding that has broken royal tradition in many ways, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have also surprised with some of the choices for their guest list.
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
White, straight and Christian: Dallas County politician admits rewarding kids for marrying within race  —  Vickers “Vic” Cunningham, a former criminal district judge now in a runoff to be the sole Republican Dallas County commissioner, acknowledged Friday that in 2010 he set up a living trust …
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Dallas Morning News:   We withdraw Vickers Cunningham recommendation in GOP runoff for Dallas County Commissioners Court Precinct 2
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
In Politicized Justice, Desperate Times Call for Disparate Measures  —  FBI director Comey and the Obama Justice Department applied a double standard in their handling of the Clinton-email and Trump-Russia investigations.  —  We wuz robbed.  That's the theme Democrats and their media allies …
Discussion: Instapundit
Alissa de Carbonnel / Reuters:
Europe reassures Iran of commitment to nuclear deal without U.S  —  TEHRAN (Reuters) - The European Union's energy chief sought to reassure Iran on Saturday that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to exit the accord and reimpose sanctions.
Discussion: Politico
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Fred Lucas / The Daily Signal:   Pompeo to Unveil New Iran Strategy in Heritage Foundation Speech
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
House GOP limping to Election Day as farm bill implodes  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT — “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry and delight Windsor crowds,” by The Telegraph's Danny Boyle: “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been proclaimed husband and wife …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress  —  Senate Republicans want President Trump  —  to stop taking jabs at Congress over its inability to get things done.  —  Trump loves to tout results and bash lawmakers when they do not move fast enough on his priorities.
Axios:
Shocking details emerge from China's re-education camps for Muslims  —  Researchers and reporters have been slowly uncovering the massive scale of political re-education camps housing members of the Muslim minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China.
Discussion: Instapundit
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct  —  Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don't be evil.”  But that's over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees.  The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May …
Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
Texas Democrats look to single-payer in congressional races  —  Democrats hoping to wrest congressional seats away from diehard repeal-and-replace Republicans are campaigning on an unlikely issue for Texas — single-payer health care.  —  Across the country, many Democrats are trying to minimize internal battles on health care.
Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
The Real Risk of Trump's Dehumanization of Immigrants  —  “You wouldn't believe how bad these people are.  These aren't people—these are animals.”  —  That was President Trump earlier this week, when according to The New York Times he “lashed out at undocumented immigrants” during a meeting on so-called sanctuary cities.
Discussion: Breitbart, Vox and The Week
The Daily Beast:
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Texas Shooting Suspect, Posted Neo-Nazi Imagery Online … Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the suspected gunman who opened fire at a Texas high school on Friday morning, apparently posted photos of neo-Nazi iconography online, according to social media accounts flagged by classmates and reviewed by The Daily Beast.
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New York Post:
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Justin Wilfon / WSB-TV:
Police: 2 people shot, 1 dead near high school graduation
Discussion: ABC News
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