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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Says Times Made Up Source in Report on Korea Summit Meeting  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump falsely accused The New York Times on Saturday of making up a source in an article about North Korea, even though the source was in fact a senior White House official speaking …
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Trump's actions on North Korea have consequences.  Here's a list of them.  —  By Anne Applebaum Columnist May 25 at 7:55 PM Email the author Follow @anneapplebaum  —  It was mocked when it first appeared a few days ago.  But now the White House commemorative coin — the one struck to mark …
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North and South Korean Leaders Meet in Bid to Salvage U.S. Talks
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un, South Korea's Moon Meet Amid Uncertainty Over U.S. Summit
Discussion: Splinter, Politico and The Week
Associated Press:   North and South Korean leaders hold surprise 2nd summit
Los Angeles Times:
How plans for a North Korea summit collapsed: Trump sought a legacy, underestimated the difficulty
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats Go All-Out to Avoid Disaster in California House Races  —  IRVINE, Calif. — National Democrats, confronting mushrooming political chaos across Southern California, are pouring millions of dollars into congressional races to avert a self-inflicted disaster that could undermine their chances at taking control of the House.
Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura / New York Times:
Ireland Votes to End Abortion Ban in Rebuke to Catholic Church  —  DUBLIN — Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world's more restrictive abortion bans, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church.
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Washington Post:
Ireland votes to overturn its abortion ban, ‘culmination of a quiet revolution,’ prime minister says  —  DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish have swept aside one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the developed world in a landslide vote that reflects Ireland's emergence as a socially liberal country …
Reuters:
Ireland ends abortion ban as ‘quiet revolution’ transforms country
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal:
Ireland's Vote to Legalize Abortion Reflects a Nation in Transition
Discussion: twitchy.com
Christina Caron / New York Times:
Woman Fatally Shot by Border Patrol Agent Came to U.S. Seeking Work, Family Says  —  The aunt of the woman shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent last week after crossing the border illegally near Laredo, Tex., has a message for the United States: “Don't treat us like animals.”
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Julieta Martinelli / Nashville Public Radio:
As He Heads Back To Prison, A Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ To The New Life He Hoped To Build … When a Nashville man named Matthew Charles was released from prison early in 2016 after a sentence reduction, he'd spent almost half his life behind bars.  But in a rare move …
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Hot Air:
Mr. President, Commute This Man's Sentence
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Who killed Bobby Kennedy?  His son, RFK Jr., doesn't believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.  —  LOS ANGELES — Just before Christmas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled up to the massive Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center, a California state prison complex in the desert outside San Diego that holds nearly 4,000 inmates.
Discussion: Raw Story
Riley Yates / Morning Call:
Neighbor gets state prison for hate crimes against black family: 'It's been hell,' victim says  —  Of The Morning Call  —  For years, Antonio and Biafra Baker said they lived in fear in their own home, beset by a neighbor in Bethlehem Township who would hurl racial epithets and other vile language at them and their two young sons.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Bowden / The Hill:
Christie blocks release of correspondence with Kushner Companies  —  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is using his personal attorney, formerly his administration's attorney general, to block the release of correspondence between his office and the company formerly managed by White House adviser Jared Kushner
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump calls family separation policy ‘horrible’ in tweet  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday urged voters to pressure Democrats into accepting an immigration deal on his terms, appearing to cite his own administration's “horrible” policy of stepping up the separation of families held at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Stephanie Baumer / KMOV-TV:
Over 200 headstones spray-painted with swastikas at Metro East cemetery  —  “To disrespect the dead like that...I mean, it just ain't right,” said John Lake, who stopped by the cemetery on Saturday morning to see if his family that is buried here was affected by this vandalism.
Discussion: FOX40 and Raw Story
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul  —  In a Silicon Valley park, burrowing owls are dying and disappearing.  Public records and a bit of snooping uncovered a path that led to Google and its feline-loving employees.  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Silicon Valley is booming, and longtime residents are being driven out everywhere.
New York Times:
Trump Versus Law Enforcement: A Confrontation With No Precedent  —  WASHINGTON — At a White House meeting last winter, leaders of the F.B.I. and the Justice Department made an urgent appeal to John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, to side with them against Republicans in Congress …
A.C. Swiger / RedState:
Democrats Always Drag The Conversation Into An Argument About The English Language!  —  So here we are.  Yet another scandal where the Democrats are caught red handed and we end up in a neverending argument over definitions!  —  Gallons of ink are being wasted and the airwaves are polluted …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Elon Musk, the Donald of Silicon Valley  —  He is prone to unhinged Twitter eruptions.  He can't handle criticism.  He scolds the news media for its purported dishonesty and threatens to create a Soviet-like apparatus to keep tabs on it.  He suckers people to fork over cash in exchange for promises he hasn't kept.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Politico and New Republic
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
‘Reparations Happy Hour’ Invites White People to Pay for Drinks  —  In Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Spy Name Games  —  The Obama administration blatantly politicized the government's intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus.  —  'I  —  sn't it a fact that you're a scumbag?  Our contretemps over the nomenclature of government informants has me unable to shake this arresting moment from my memory.
Discussion: Power Line
Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit:
Hillary Clinton Dons Heavy Coat and Scarf in Sweltering 90° Boston Heat  —  What is Hillary Clinton hiding?  —  On Friday, Hillary Clinton stepped out into the sweltering Boston, MA heat in a heavy coat and scarf.  —  Hillary Clinton dons heavy coat and scarf in Boston in sweltering heat
Discussion: twitchy.com, Althouse and NTK Network
 
 
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David Montero / Los Angeles Times:
‘Why am I going to die today?’: The words of first responders to deadly Las Vegas shooting
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Emails show cooperation among EPA, climate-change deniers
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David Brody / CBN News:
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
James Comey Tells Conan O'Brien Trump's ‘SpyGate’ Claim Is Just ‘Made Up’
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
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