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3:00 PM ET, May 28, 2018

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Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE  —  BEIJING — China this month awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks across a broad collection of businesses, including books, housewares and cushions.  —  At around the same time, President Trump vowed to find …
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ERIKA KINETZ / Associated Press:
China approves 13 new Ivanka Trump trademarks in 3 months  —  SHANGHAI (AP) — Ivanka Trump's brand continues to win foreign trademarks in China and the Philippines, adding to questions about conflicts of interest at the White House, The Associated Press has found.
Discussion: Axios and The Guardian
New York Times:
Arlington Cemetery, Nearly Full, May Become More Exclusive  —  To preserve space for future war heroes in the country's premier national cemetery, the Army is considering new rules that would turn away many currently eligible veterans.  —  ARLINGTON, Va. — The solemn ritual of a burial …
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump panned for ‘tone-deaf’ Memorial Day tweet  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump honoring veterans on Memorial Day (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump is being criticized for his self-congratulatory tone in a Memorial Day tweet in which he said …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
The Unofficial History of Memorial Day
Discussion: The Root
Maya Oppenheim / The Independent:
Hero climbs up outside of Paris building to save child dangling from balcony  —  Man shown scaling four floors within a few seconds to help a boy hanging in mid-air  —  Lava from Hawaii volcano covers potentially explosive well  —  Bale ready to quit Real, but are United, or anyone, ready to sign him?
Discussion: Washington Press and AOL
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds  —  WASHINGTON — Judges appointed by Republican presidents gave longer sentences to black defendants and shorter ones to women than judges appointed by Democrats, according to a new study that analyzed data on more than half a million defendants.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Leonard Greene / New York Daily News:
NFL should play ‘Negro National Anthem’ to make amends for no-kneeling policy  —  Now that the patriot police have turned what was a peaceful protest about police brutality and social injustice into a flag-waving, jingoistic shame fest, the NFL can make amends with the black players it has insulted …
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Double Down After New York Times Gets Busted Peddling Fake News  —  On the path to the June 12 summit with North Korea, journalists claimed President Donald Trump would not be willing to walk away from the negotiating table because he was too desperate for a win.
Avi Selk / San Francisco Chronicle:
A pilot kidnapped a foreign student and tried to deport him back to China, police say  —  California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week - in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.”
Joel Adams / Telegraph:
Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says  —  A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country's soaring knife crime epidemic.  —  Last week in his valedictory address …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
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Laura Forsyth / Daily Mail:
Judge calls for 10in pointed kitchen knives to be ground down to a rounded end after hearing …
Discussion: IJR and Front Page Magazine
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump is blaming Democrats for separating migrant families at the border.  Here's why this isn't a surprise.  —  President Trump's attempt to blame Democrats for separating migrant families at the border is renewing a political uproar over immigration, an issue that has challenged Trump throughout …
Discussion: Political Wire
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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Here's How the FBI Investigation Into Russia and Trump Campaign Actually Started  —  No story is hotter across America this Memorial Day weekend than what the Federal Bureau of Investigation did—and did not do—in 2016 about Russian connections to Donald J. Trump.
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Reporter accuses Melania Trump's spokeswoman of creating an ‘atmosphere of hate’ after Twitter feud  —  A CNN White House correspondent on Sunday accused First Lady Melania Trump  —  's spokesperson of creating an “atmosphere of hate.”  —  The back-and-forth is the latest public feud between …
JEAN MARBELLA The Baltimore Sun / miamiherald:
Maryland police officer's death ignites a racial firestorm  —  BALTIMORE - It's hard to think of a more volatile mix: Four young black males from Baltimore City, accused in the death of a white female police officer in Baltimore County.  Authorities say three of the teenagers were breaking …
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Last Tradition
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Democrats Are Running a Smart, Populist Campaign  —  Stacey Abrams and Conor Lamb are supposed to represent opposite poles of the Trump-era Democratic Party.  She is the new progressive heroine — the first black woman to win a major-party nomination for governor, who will need a surge of liberal turnout to win Georgia.
NBC News:
Holy Cross valedictorian denied right to speak at graduation  —  Christian Bales, a student at Holy Cross High School, was denied the honor to give his valedictorian speech at Friday's graduation.  The Diocese of Covington found that the speech contained “elements that were political …
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything  —  After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.  —  PRESCOT, England — A walk through this modest town in the northwest …
Discussion: Coffee House
MSNBC:
Sen. Lankford: President not a role model for my kids  —  In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Kasie Hunt on “Kasie DC,” Sen. James Lankford says he wouldn't want his children to speak the way President Trump has in the past.
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Massive flooding in Ellicott City leaves man missing, again destroys businesses  —  It was supposed to be a routine late-Sunday lunch over Mexican food.  But the rainstorm outside morphed into a relentless downpour, fueling what soon became a river that flooded buildings and dislodged parked cars along Main Street in Ellicott City.
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history  —  When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration.  Now, on Memorial Day, he's reaping the wreckage of talks about Iran, and the North Korea process is in limbo.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
John McCain, Honor, and Self-Reflection  —  John McCain is going to die soon.  For almost a year, the senator from Arizona has been living with Stage IV brain cancer.  As a valedictory act of patriotism, morality, and public service, he has gathered his energies to clarify his principles …
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Bruce Bawer: The Tommy Robinson affair  —  Bruce Bawer has been covering the Tommy Robinson affair for our friends at the Gatestone Institute.  Today's column is “UK: You're Not Allowed to Talk about It.  About What?  Don't Ask.”  Please see Bruce's column at the Gatestone site for the relevant links.
Discussion: Gatestone Institute
Politico:
Senators to Trump: It's do-or-die time on DACA  —  A small group of bipartisan senators has been holding back-channel talks in the hopes of reviving a deal.  But it's a tall order.  —  Cory Gardner, the leader of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, delivered an urgent message to President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
 
 
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
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Andrew W. Kahrl / New York Times:
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Andrea Cheng / New York Times:
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Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Butchers ‘living in fear’ as vegan attacks on the rise, says Countryside Alliance
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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
The Evangelical Fight to Win Back California
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Joe.My.God.
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Dem money floods Calif. primaries to avert electoral disaster
Associated Press:
The Latest: Merkel cites eurozone as key to ties with Italy
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Louis Farrakhan: ‘Mr. Trump is destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise’
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Christina Caron / New York Times:
‘OMG This Is Wrong!’ Retired English Teacher Marks Up a White House Letter and Sends It Back
Discussion: CNN and Hit & Run
Steve LeVine / Axios:
Forget about broad-based pay hikes, executives say
Greg P. / twitchy.com:
Jon Favreau, Shaun King, Linda Sarsour and other libs just committed the greatest self-own in the history of Twitter
Discussion: Jacobin and The Daily Caller
Noah Berlatsky / NBC News:
New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism
 

 
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