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Pat Leahy / The Irish Times:
Irish Times exit poll projects Ireland has voted by landslide to repeal Eighth Amendment  —  Exit poll result suggests huge majority of younger people voted Yes  —  Updated:  —  Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the constitution so that abortion can be legalised …
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The Daily Beast:   Ireland Votes in Landslide to Repeal Abortion Ban: Exit Poll
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 …
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
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
White House gift shop ‘Deal of the Day’: Trump-Kim summit souvenirs
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Trump takes aim at federal bureaucracy with new executive orders altering civil service protections  —  President Trump issued three executive orders Friday aimed at overhauling the federal bureaucracy by making it easier to fire poor performers, sharply curtailing the amount of time federal employees …
Discussion: Politico
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers  —  President Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders making it easier to fire federal government workers and rolling back the prerogatives of unions that represent them.  —  Andrew Bremberg, the head of the White House Domestic Policy Council …
Discussion: Axios
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ex-aides say congressman made them his servants  —  Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett and his wife turned the congressman's staff into personal servants, multiple former employees to the freshman Republican told POLITICO — assigning them tasks from grocery shopping to fetching the congressman's clothes …
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:
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  —  The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight.  —  Democrats and their media allies are again shouting “constitutional crisis,” this time claiming President Trump has waded too far into the Russia investigation.
Discussion: neo-neocon
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Source: Trump administration has cut deal with China's ZTE  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has told Congress that it's reached a deal that would allow Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. to stay in business, a source familiar with the talks who spoke on condition …
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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.
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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 …
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
3 False Claims From Trump's Naval Academy Speech  —  In a commencement speech on Friday, President Trump told Annapolis graduates that the military had received “no money” before him and that troops had just received their first pay raise in 10 years.  —  WHAT WAS SAID … THE FACTS  —  False.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump is wrong about military pay, ships
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
New York Times:
Arrested on Rape Charges, Weinstein Posts $1 Million Bail  —  In a mirror image of his days presiding over Hollywood red carpets, the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was led in handcuffs past a gantlet of photographers on Friday as he appeared in court to face charges that he had raped …
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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
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 …
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Here's Facebook's Internal Policy on Pepe the Frog
Discussion: The Verge
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.
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
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
Pruitt spent $3.5M on security in his first year
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Patrick Macmillan / Fresno Bee:
In this writer's opinion, Rep. Devin Nunes should resign  —  Devin Nunes should resign.  President Trump's chief errand boy should leave his post as Representative of California 22.  Our history demonstrates several instances of the renegade politics Nunes espouses.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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.
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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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Time to stop chasing Trump's lies down the rabbit hole  —  You may have noticed that today's news is not dominated by the blockbuster revelations of what members of Congress learned yesterday when they met with Justice Department officials to review information about the FBI's counterintelligence investigation …
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: CNBC and CNN
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.”
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.
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.
miamiherald:
Publix halts political contributions ahead of Parkland students' ‘die-in’ protest  —  Supermarket giant Publix said Friday it has halted all corporate political contributions.  The company made the announcement moments before a planned “die-in” protest organized by David Hogg, a vocal Parkland school shooting survivor.
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump huddles with Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens
Bryan Schott / utahpolicy.com:
Poll: Romney leads Kennedy by big margin in U.S. Senate primary race
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
As bullet train costs rise, only 31% of California voters want to keep paying for it
Discussion: Breitbart
Chemi Shalev / Haaretz:
Analysis The Countless Israeli Connections to Mueller's Probe of Trump and Russia
Monica Castro / KAKE-TV:
Wichita teen arrested for sagging pants at Warren Theatre
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
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
Washington Post:
Invitations offer wealthy Chinese access to President Trump at fundraiser
Discussion: The Week
ClickHole / ResistanceHole:
Heartbreaking: This Guy's Uncle Is Racist But Not Quite Racist Enough For Him To Get Any Viral Content Out Of It
USA Today:
Keith Olbermann takes an expanded role at ESPN, including a return to ‘SportsCenter’
Dana Kennedy / The Daily Beast:
John Travolta's Former Scientology Pals Speak Out: He's 'Got a Dark Side and He's Reckless'
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Wire
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Jordan Peterson Does Not Support ‘Equality of Opportunity’
Discussion: Toronto Star
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests
Discussion: RGA and Axios