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4:35 PM ET, May 25, 2018

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Washington Post:
After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump's ‘maximum pressure’  —  SEOUL — President Trump credited his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions and threats with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
President Trump Is a Better Dealbreaker Than Dealmaker  —  His blown-up North Korea summit proves it.  —  At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:   Trump's true talent isn't negotiating. It's marketing.
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
White House gift shop ‘Deal of the Day’: Trump-Kim summit souvenirs
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump suggests June 12 meeting with North Korea may be back on
Discussion: The Atlantic and Politico
New York Times:
At Trump Tower, Michael Cohen and Oligarch Discussed Russian Relations  —  Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer and fixer …
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CNN:
Russian oligarch met with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower during transition
Discussion: Daily Kos
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ex-aides say congressman and wife made them his servants  —  Rep. Tom Garrett and his wife made staffers pick up groceries, clothes — even dog poop, multiple former employees to the freshman Republican told POLITICO.  —  Freshman Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) and his wife turned the congressman's staff …
NBC News:
Ned Price Devin Nunes wants to run an intel operation for the White House — against our intelligence agencies  —  In the intelligence community, we were taught that the most valuable information an officer can collect is both relevant and actionable — relevant to policymakers and actionable …
Discussion: CNN
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Constitutional Crisis
Discussion: neo-neocon
Andrew Egger / Weekly Standard:
Why Is Devin Nunes So Quiet?
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Hot Air and Fox News
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:   The Chilling Effect of Trump's War on the FBI
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile Says It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to Former Trump Aide Corey Lewandowski  —  Company says contract with Turnberry Solutions includes help on pending deal with Sprint  —  WASHINGTON— T-Mobile US Inc. TMUS -.53% is getting advice from Corey Lewandowski, the former campaign manager …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
'We're closed!':  Trump vents his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary  —  President Trump began berating Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in the Oval Office earlier this spring, according to administration officials, griping about her performance and blaming her for a surge in illegal border crossings.
Indianapolis Star:
‘This is surreal,’ parent says of Indiana school shooting  —  Chad Lancaster, who has an eighth-grade daughter and sixth-grade son at the middle school, said he heard from his ex-wife in a phone call.  —  Their daughter, hiding under her desk, called the mother.  She told her to run.
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Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids  —  As more and more American communities grapple with opioid addiction, the human toll of the epidemic has grown in both scope and severity.  And now, scientists at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have found evidence …
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BBC:
Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound
Discussion: BuzzFeed and CBS Sacramento
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Trump says the first lady is ‘doing great.’ She hasn't been seen in public for two weeks.  —  First lady Melania Trump, who spent five nights in the hospital following a kidney procedure, has been out of public view for 15 days running — an unusually long absence even for a first lady who relishes life outside the spotlight.
NBC News:
Black Cube: Inside the shadowy Israeli firm accused of trying to undermine the Iran deal  —  As Rebecca Kahl remembers it, something felt odd about the initial email.  It came in May 2017 from a woman named Adriana Gavrilo, who claimed to work for a London-based private equity firm.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’ … A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment “a colossal waste of resources.”
CNN:
GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati  —  (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in Illinois has said the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job and that singer Beyonce Knowles has ties to the Illuminati.
Bob Norman / WPLG-TV:
Parents call for investigation into Stoneman Douglas assault involving sheriff's son  —  Embattled former Deputy Scot Peterson handled case 4 years ago  —  PARKLAND, Fla. - Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff's …
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam?  —  Until 1968, Walter Cronkite believed what his government told him about the Vietnam War.  He was an old-school journalist, a patriot, a man who came of age covering World War II as a wire-service reporter and then taking …
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests  —  One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
Discussion: RGA and Axios
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
A lot of people heard what Barney Frank said about the new banking law.  Few knew he works for a bank.
Discussion: FAIR, Splinter and Reuters
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Leaked Documents Show Facebook's Post-Charlottesville Reckoning with American Nazis  —  After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism …
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans.  How Did That Happen?  —  Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back  —  DRAPER, Utah—Mike Meru, a 37-year-old orthodontist, made a big investment in his education.
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Harvey Weinstein released on $1M bail after arrest on rape, sexual abuse charges  —  Harvey Weinstein turned himself into police in New York City this morning to face rape and sexual misconduct charges, before being released on $1 million cash bail and fitted with a GPS tracking device.
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Jeff Collins / Orange County Register:
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors  —  U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Administration Tells Congress it Has Deal to Revive ZTE  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has told lawmakers it reached a deal that would keep the Chinese telecom firm ZTE alive, a person familiar with the matter said, a move that could clear the way for continued trade negotiations …
CBS News:
EPA: Pruitt spent $3.5 million on security during first year in office  —  Taxpayers spent about $3.5 million on security for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt during his first year in office, according to records released by the agency Friday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives Tout ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Theory After Armed Men Killed Oklahoma Shooter … Two “good guys with a gun” stopped a potential mass shooter at a restaurant Thursday night in Oklahoma City, providing more fuel for the ongoing gun debate as yet another school shooting occurred Friday morning.
Washington Post:
A son was killed in action and his parents ask why  —  Spec.  Gabriel Conde, a kindergartner on 9/11, was the 2,264th member of the U.S. military to die in the Afghan war  —  BERTHOUD, Colo.— Ten days since Gabe was killed.  Bob and Donna Conde were sitting on a couch in their basement …
Economist:
1 in 3  —  AFTER two years of Republican government, Americans will go to the polls on November 6th to elect a new Congress.  In addition to 35 seats in the Senate, all 435 seats in the lower chamber—the House of Representatives—are up for election.  On current data our statistical model …
Discussion: CNN and CNBC
Monica Castro / KAKE-TV:
Wichita teen arrested for sagging pants at Warren Theatre  —  WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) -  —  A 14-year-old boy says he was arrested at the Warren Theatre in east Wichita because his pants were sagging.  —  Alonzo Taylor Jr says he went to the East Warren 20 with a group of friends when the manager approached him about his pants.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
USA Today:
Keith Olbermann takes an expanded role at ESPN, including a return to ‘SportsCenter’  —  Keith Olbermann's most recent return to ESPN just became more prominent.  —  Olbermann, who has made appearances on various ESPN shows in recent months, will have an increased role on the network as part …
Dana Kennedy / The Daily Beast:
John Travolta's Former Scientology Pals Speak Out: He's 'Got a Dark Side and He's Reckless' … CANNES, France - The gay rumors?  —  Try sitting five inches from John Travolta's wife, in the Carlton Hotel's Grace Kelly suite overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean without being overwhelmed by cognitive dissonance.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Wire
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally, called a criminal: how police targeted a black activist  —  Exclusive: records show police surveilled and tried to charge a citizen journalist attacked at a California rally.  Does it fit a pattern of punishing black protesters?
 
 
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Chemi Shalev / Haaretz:
Analysis The Countless Israeli Connections to Mueller's Probe of Trump and Russia
Caroline Zhang / CREW:
Ivanka Trump's Business Wins Approval for More China Trademarks
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
An Unconvincing Case That Slavery Taints the Second Amendment
Discussion: New York Times
Victoria Guida / Politico:
In veiled message to Trump, Powell warns against meddling on Fed rates
politics.myajc:
Georgia Democrats test a more liberal comeback strategy
Washington Post:
Invitations offer wealthy Chinese access to President Trump at fundraiser
Discussion: The Week
 Earlier Items: 
ClickHole / ResistanceHole:
Heartbreaking: This Guy's Uncle Is Racist But Not Quite Racist Enough For Him To Get Any Viral Content Out Of It
Josh Rubin / Just Security:
No, Making the Iran Deal a Treaty Wouldn't Have Stopped Trump from Withdrawing from It
Jeff Sessions / USA Today:
Free speech on college campuses is making a comeback
Discussion: Instapundit
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
‘Be Very Careful’: Conversation Cited to Link Qatar to Hack of G.O.P. Donor
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Jordan Peterson Does Not Support ‘Equality of Opportunity’
Discussion: Toronto Star
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Are Republicans abetting a demagogue — or something worse?
Ben White / Politico:
Surging gas prices could fuel backlash against Trump
Discussion: Joe.My.God., MSNBC and Washington Post
KHQ-TV:
FIRST ON KHQ: Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud