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10:00 AM ET, May 23, 2018

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New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Business Partner Agrees to Cooperate as Part of Plea Deal  —  A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure …
New York Times:
Georgia Primary Election Results  —  With Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, unable to run because of term limits, a large field of candidates is running to replace him.  Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle will advance with Georgia's secretary of state, Brian Kemp, to a July 24 runoff.  —  Read more
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:   GOP Candidate Who Pointed Gun At Teenager Advances To Georgia Governor Primary Runoff
New York Times:
Texas Primary Runoff Election Results
Discussion: Axios and HuffPost
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Stacey Abrams wins Georgia ‘Battle of the Staceys’ in bid to become first black female governor in U.S.
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and BuzzFeed
New Yorker:
Philip Roth, the Seminal American Novelist, Has Died  —  Philip Roth, the seminal American novelist whose book “American Pastoral” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1998, has died, at the age of eighty-five.  His great subjects, as Claudia Roth Pierpont wrote in this magazine, in 2006 …
Discussion: NPR
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Charles McGrath / New York Times:
Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85  —  Mr. Roth won almost all the major literary awards and published an exceptional sequence of historical novels in his 60s, an age when many writers are winding down.  —  By CHARLES McGRATH  —  Comments
Associated Press:
Trump seethes over Russia probe, calls for end to ‘SPYGATE’  —  President Donald Trump escalated his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation Wednesday, saying the FBI has been caught in a “MAJOR spy scandal” over their use of a secret informant to determine whether some of Trump's campaign aides …
Discussion: Politico
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:   White House Bars Democrats From Meeting on Russia Investigation Records
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Did Rosenstein and Wray play Trump?
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani's New Stance On Russian Collusion: So What?  It's Not Illegal.  —  “It was sort of like a gift,” Giuliani said of the Clinton campaign material stolen by Russia.  “And you're not involved in the illegality of getting it.”  —  WASHINGTON His client insists there was “NO COLLUSION” …
Discussion: MSNBC, Wall Street Journal and Mediaite
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Christopher Dickey / Washington Post:
Former intelligence chief's argument that Putin did indeed sway the 2016 vote  —  Christopher Dickey, the Paris-based world news editor of the Daily Beast, is the author, most recently, of “Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South.”
CNN:
A GOP congressman's lonely quest defending Julian Assange
Discussion: Raw Story
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Stefan Halper is just another middleman  —  By David Ignatius Opinion writer May 22 at 7:21 PM Email the author Follow @ignatiuspost  —  In the bizarre double helix that is the Russia investigation, one of the recurring themes is the role of would-be influencers.
Discussion: Breitbart and Townhall
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The new AG itching to take on Trump  —  New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has jurisdiction over 20 Trump properties and is ready to step into Eric Schneiderman's void.  —  The man aspiring to be the new face of the resistance is a practicing Sikh who likes to call attention to his turban …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Sources: FBI Agents Want Congress To Issue Them Subpoenas So They Can Reveal The Bureau's Dirt  — Sources tell The Daily Caller several FBI agents want congressional subpoenas to testify about the agency's problems.  — The sources claim there is a demand within the agency to prosecute former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Discussion: Townhall
Christal Hayes / USA Today:
‘Stormy Daniels Day’: West Hollywood to award porn star a key to the city  —  After months of denials, President Donald Trump has acknowledged paying off porn star Stormy Daniels.  Trump's story about the $130,000 payment — what he knew about it and when — has evolved over time.  (May 4) AP
Discussion: Breitbart and CBS Los Angeles
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John Bowden / The Hill:
West Hollywood to present Stormy Daniels with Key to the City
Paul Campos / New York Magazine:
Hey, Look: More Evidence That Broidy May Have Been Covering for Trump in That Playmate Affair  —  was a big day for David Dennison.  Dennison — as Donald Trump was called in his hush-money agreement with Stormy Daniels — was taking a break from the golfing trips that had dominated his weekends for that entire fall.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“That Psychopath Is Going Down”: Inside Trumpworld, a Bizarre Counter-Narrative Takes Hold  —  People in Trump's orbit have become convinced that anti-Trump forces in the F.B.I. entrapped his advisers using informants to plant evidence about Russian collusion—and that former C.I.A. director John Brennan is somehow behind the plot.
Discussion: The Week and Sputnik International
Lexington Herald-Leader:
Teacher narrowly upsets Kentucky House GOP leader.  A sign of things to come?  —  As upset teachers across Kentucky Tuesday tried to flex their political muscle, Rockcastle County High School math teacher R. Travis Brenda narrowly defeated House Majority Floor Leader Jonathan Shell …
Discussion: HuffPost, Splinter, Axios and Political Wire
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Prominent donor threatens GOP over DACA  —  CHICAGO — An influential, multi-millionaire GOP donor is threatening to choke off campaign resources to Republican congressmen who haven't engaged in the latest immigration battle in Congress.  —  Former Exelon chairman John Rowe …
Discussion: New York Magazine
David Siders / Politico:
How one obscure Republican might save the House GOP majority  —  There's a reason Donald Trump tweeted his support for John Cox in the California governor's race.  —  LOS ANGELES — When President Donald Trump threw his endorsement Friday to John Cox, a little-known businessman running …
Discussion: FITSNews
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
Deep in the Desert, Iran Quietly Advances Missile Technology  —  When an explosion nearly razed Iran's long-range missile research facility in 2011 — and killed the military scientist who ran it — many Western intelligence analysts viewed it as devastating to Tehran's technological ambitions.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump reelection bid begins in a hole  —  Just 36 percent say they would vote to reelect the president in 2020, compared with 44 percent who would pick the Democrat.  —  The 2020 presidential election is still two and a half years away, but President Donald Trump's path to a second term …
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Axios
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump demands housecleaning on White House communications team  —  Chief of staff John Kelly has signed off on a plan to dismiss mid-level and junior aides in an effort to limit leaks.  —  President Donald Trump has demanded changes to his communications team - long seen …
New York Times:
How the Mueller Investigation Could Play Out for Trump  —  If Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finds evidence that Mr. Trump broke the law, he will have decisions to make about how to proceed.  We explain them.
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
State Department warns U.S. citizens in China after employee suffers possible sonic attack  —  BEIJING — The U.S. State Department is warning U.S. citizens in China that a government employee reported unusual “sensations of sound and pressure” and was later diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury …
Ali Breland / The Hill:
Pro-ISIS propaganda finds fertile ground on Google Plus platform  —  Scores of pro-ISIS accounts and communities have found a home on Google Plus despite being purged from other social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, according to a review by The Hill.
CNN:
Trump's lawyers seek to narrow scope of special counsel interview  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's legal team is trying to narrow the scope of the President's potential interview with special counsel Robert Mueller to questions on Russia-related matters that occurred before Trump's election, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Casting Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly is brilliant.  But showing Roger Ailes's malignancy is crucial.  —  Most Americans probably don't know his name, but we sure do live in his world.  —  Roger Ailes — who died a year ago this week — co-created Fox News and fostered the presidency of Donald Trump.
Discussion: Breitbart, AOL and LifeZette
Alec MacGillis / ProPublica:
Forced To Choose Between A Job — And A Community  —  As the largest employer in Adams County, Ohio closes its coal-fired power plants there, politicians and companies have thrown up their hands.  Families know that finding work means leaving the place they know.
Politico:
The rise of Tish James  —  A month ago, Tish James was seen as a mayoral candidate in waiting.  Now she is on the verge of winning the Democratic state committee's nomination for attorney general — a position that would automatically put her in the conversation for governor whenever Andrew Cuomo either moves …
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Law firm of Stormy Daniels' attorney hit with $10-million judgment  —  The law firm of Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti was hit with a $10-million judgment Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after he broke his promise to pay $2 million to a former colleague.
Dallas Morning News:
Lupe Valdez becomes first Latina to win major-party nomination for Texas governor  —  Updated at 10:40 p.m. with Lupe Valdez reaction  —  AUSTIN — Lupe Valdez defeated Andrew White in Tuesday's Democratic runoff for governor, making political history in a couple of ways.
Discussion: Off the Kuff
 
 
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Ned Ryun / The Hill:
The mainstream media — the lap dogs of the deep state and propaganda arm of the left
ProPublica:
An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response
Amnesty International:
Saudi Arabia: More activists arrested in continuing crackdown
Discussion: Washington Post
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Mueller has no room for mistakes
Arizona Republic:
Great America PAC backs Trump
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
Betsy DeVos doesn't know the mission of her own civil rights office
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Pompeo Calls For Russian Troop Pullout From Georgia
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Admits Talk Of Second Government ‘Informant’ …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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Jared Gilmour / Raleigh News & Observer:
Walmart shoppers witnessed a harrowing kidnapping — or so they thought, Va. cops say
Discussion: Daily Wire and WTVR-TV
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Trump signs security clearance reform bill — but may not comply with it
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ryan losing grip on House GOP conference as midterms approach
Washington Post:
Ahead of planning meeting in Singapore, Trump suggests N. Korea summit could fall through
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
‘Shame on you, Jared Kushner’: Harvard alumni tear apart classmate in 15th reunion notes
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite