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5:20 AM ET, May 28, 2018

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Stunning Oval Office leak: Aides fight in front of Trump — about leaks  —  Shortly after word leaked that Kelly Sadler had taken a nasty shot at John McCain, President Trump convened a meeting in the Oval Office for a tiny group of communications staffers, according to sources familiar with the gathering.
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Rudy Giuliani admits ‘Spygate’ is Trump PR tactic against Robert Mueller  —  Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that his repeated imputations of a supposed scandal at the heart of the Robert Mueller investigation - which Donald Trump calls “Spygate” - amounted to a tactic …
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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Jeff Flake: GOP needs to stand up to Trump more forcefully
Discussion: Splinter, CNN, The Week and Washington Times
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump: Lives have been ‘devastated and destroyed’ by Russia probe
Discussion: Breitbart, Joe.My.God. and The Hill
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Flake won't rule out White House run against Trump
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
Baltimore Sun:
Ellicott City awash in flood waters as heavy rain drenches the Baltimore region  —  Ellicott City was devastated by a massive storm on the Sunday before Memorial Day, just two years after a flash flood forced the historic city in Howard County to rebuild much of its Main Street.
Discussion: Breitbart
Greg P. / twitchy.com:
Jon Favreau, Shaun King, Linda Sarsour and other libs just committed the greatest self-own in the history of Twitter  —  Shot...  Ex-Obama staffer Jon Favreau, in a now-deleted tweet, linked to an AZCentral.com article title, “First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility” and said …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Louis Lucero II / New York Times:
F.B.I.'s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware  —  Hoping to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, the F.B.I. has made an urgent request to anybody with one of the devices: Turn it off, and then turn it back on.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Avenatti says Trump ‘participated’ in Cohen schemes: Their swamp ‘makes everglades look like a backyard plastic pool’  —  Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels, revealed on Sunday that evidence will show that President Donald Trump participated in his personal attorney's business …
Steve LeVine / Axios:
Forget about broad-based pay hikes, executives say  —  Very few Americans have enjoyed steadily rising pay beyond inflation over the last couple of decades, a shift from prior years in which the working and middle classes enjoyed broad-based wage gains as the economy expanded.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Noah Berlatsky / NBC News:
Noah Berlatsky The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism  —  Since the founding of the United States, politicians and pundits have warned that partisanship is a danger to democracy.  George Washington, in his Farewell Address …
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
‘No evidence’ FBI spied on Trump campaign, Republican says, contrary to president's claims  —  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he sees “no evidence” to support President Trump's claims that the FBI used an informant to gather information on his campaign, but that instead the federal probe was focused on …
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:   Rubio defends FBI on Trump probe
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Trump's insisting his campaign was spied on is ‘part of the propaganda machine’: Top Democrat
Discussion: Politico
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Louis Farrakhan: ‘Mr. Trump is destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise’  —  Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, appears to have changed his opinion of Donald Trump since two years ago, when he warned black Americans: “If Donald Trump becomes president, he will take America into the abyss of hell.”
Politico:
Poland offers US up to $2B for permanent military base  —  Poland wants a permanent U.S. military presence — and is willing to pony up as much as $2 billion to get it, according to a defense ministry proposal obtained by Polish news portal Onet.  —  The Polish offer reflects a long-standing desire …
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Christina Caron / New York Times:
‘OMG This Is Wrong!’  Retired English Teacher Marks Up a White House Letter and Sends It Back  —  The notes were sprawled across a letter bearing President Trump's signature.  —  In the top left corner: “Have y'all tried grammar & style check?”  —  At the top right: “Federal is capitalized only when used as part of a proper noun.”
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Alexander Downer Describes Barroom Meeting With Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos  —  In a little-noticed interview in April, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer spoke publicly for the first time about his barroom conversation with President Donald Trump's campaign adviser that would serve …
Laura Forsyth / Daily Mail:
Judge calls for 10in pointed kitchen knives to be ground down to a rounded end after hearing three serious stabbing cases in last three months  — Ideas come from Judge Nic Madge, who jailed Jordon Worth, 22, for inflicting a catalogue of injuries on her boyfriend including stabbing him
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
A One-Eyed Québécois ‘Rambo’ Captures Imaginations in Canada  —  MONTREAL — It is a plot worthy of Hollywood: A courageous, one-eyed soldier single-handedly liberates a Dutch city during World War II, tricking a German officer into believing the city is surrounded.
 
 
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Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
‘Throw the bums out’ of Congress to protect Russia probe, top Democrat says
N. R. Kleinfield / New York Times:
40 Years of Chronicling the Unnoticed
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fired up by Trump, dozens of Obama alums launch bids for office
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
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HuffPost:
Almost Half Of Republicans Believe Millions Voted Illegally In The 2016 Election
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Elon Musk's Crusade for Media Accountability Lasted Three Whole Days Before He Recommended …
Nicole Chavez / CNN:
She came to the US for a better life. Moments after arrival, she was killed
Rick Wilson / New York Daily News:
Trump's land of delusion: Disregard the sycophants; the wheels are coming off, if they were ever on