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New York Times:
Trump Asked Sessions to Retain Control of Russia Inquiry After His Recusal  —  WASHINGTON — By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrived at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two days.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI was right to deploy informant, senior GOP lawmaker says  —  A senior House Republican who was part of a highly classified Justice Department briefing last week said on Tuesday that the FBI acted properly when it deployed an informant to gather information from advisers to President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
On Fox News of all places, Trump's ‘spy’ claim is debunked by Trey Gowdy and even Judge Napolitano  —  President Trump has made it clear he likes what he hears on Fox News.  The network often covers the president favorably, bringing on conservative commentators that push the president's agenda and …
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trey Gowdy: FBI's Use of Informant for Trump Campaign Was Appropriate … Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Tuesday that the FBI's use of an informant for the Trump campaign in 2016 was appropriate, joining top Democrats in disputing President …
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Napolitano on Trump's ‘Spygate’ Claims: “I'd Want To See Evidence Before I Made An Allegation That Outrageous”
Discussion: The Week
Clare Foran / CNN:   Gowdy says FBI ‘did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do’ in Russia investigation
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Choose the truth instead of taking sides in the Trump-Mueller drama
Associated Press:
The Latest: Judge sides with Mueller team in Manafort case
Discussion: Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
How social media crushed Roseanne for her racist tweet  —  Roseanne Barr's reboot at ABC is gone, less than 12 hours after her racist tweet and notwithstanding ratings so strong that she picked up a congratulatory phone call from President Trump.  —  Why it matters: The show's cancellation came …
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Reuters:
Roseanne Barr blames sleep aid Ambien for racist tweet  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. comedian Roseanne Barr said she was tired of “being attacked and belittled” and blamed sleep aid Ambien for her tweet that compared a black former Obama administration official to an ape, a racist remark that sparked a wave of outrage.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:   Lesson from the Roseanne debacle: Stop hiring hateful nutjobs
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
ABC has canceled ‘Roseanne’ after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rampage.
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:   Disney is considerably more repulsive than Roseanne
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
How Roseanne's Bigotry Finally Became A Liability
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
‘Roseanne’ Reruns Pulled From Paramount Network, TV Land, CMT and Laff
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
CIA report says North Korea won't denuclearize, but might open a burger joint  —  WASHINGTON — A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News — a finding that conflicts …
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Associated Press:
Both sides preparing as if US-North Korea summit is a go
Associated Press:
AP sources: US to impose limits on some Chinese visas  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to shorten the length of validity for some visas issued to Chinese citizens, the State Department said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump works to counter alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by Beijing.
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Mueller probing whether Trump pressured Sessions to engage in Russia investigation
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Alexei Koseff / Sacramento Bee:
Independent voters now outnumber Republicans in California
Discussion: Axios and The Week
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump bragged about classified Syria skirmish at fundraiser  —  The White House has tried to avoid discussing a February skirmish between U.S. troops and Russian mercenaries in Syria, but that didn't stop President Donald Trump from bragging about the Pentagon's performance at a recent closed-door fundraiser.
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Cohen Prosecutors to Get Seized Phone Data by Wednesday  —  U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan will get a vast array of data seized from three phones belonging to President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen by Wednesday, according to a filing from a retired judge reviewing materials taken by the FBI.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:   ‘Taxi King’ gets better plea deal after raid on Trump's lawyer
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Sounding Code Red: Electing the Trump Resistance  —  With the primary season winding down and the midterms soon upon us, it's time to point out that this election is not about what you may think it's about.  It is not a choice between the particular basket of policies offered by the candidates …
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Renee DiResta / Wired:
How the Tech Giants Created What Darpa Couldn't  —  “EVERY PURCHASE YOU make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make …
Ben Detrick / The Ringer:
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account  —  A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities.  What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers' decision-maker?
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Keeping Up with the Kushners: With Jared Back on Top, Kim Kardashian Heads to the White House  —  Months of talks between Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian will culminate in an Oval Office meeting with President Trump, in which the reality-TV star will ask him to pardon a 62-year-old great-grandmother serving …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mediaite
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pompeo to Huddle With Anti-Semite's Envoy … Viktor Orban won reelection as Hungary's prime minister last month through a blood-and-soil campaign that married antisemitism with Islamophobia.  Donald Trump's secretary of state is about to reverse years of U.S. policy and receive Orban's chief diplomat at Foggy Bottom.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Exec: Productions From the Obamas Will Not Have a ‘Political Slant’  —  Netflix has inked a multiyear deal with the Obamas for original programming — but the content from the former First Couple will not have any political bias, according to chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘zero tolerance’ at the border is causing child shelters to fill up fast  —  The number of migrant children held in U.S. government custody without their parents has surged 21 percent in the past month, according to the latest figures, an increase driven by the Trump administration's …
Washington Post:
A televangelist wants his followers to pay for a $54 million private jet.  It's his fourth plane.  —  By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. May 29 at 1:17 PM Email the author  —  If Jesus were to descend from heaven and physically set foot on 21st-century Earth, prosperity gospel televangelist Jesse Duplantis told …
Annie Karni / Politico:
White House silence on Melania stokes conspiracy theories  —  The first lady hasn't been seen in public since her release from the hospital after a routine procedure.  —  She's left the White House and moved back to New York City.  —  She's cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Clapper Disinformation Campaign  —  Why does a former intelligence chief make claims he can't back up?  —  James Clapper, President Obama's director of national intelligence, gained a reputation among liberals as a liar for covering up the existence of secret data-collection programs.
 
 
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Black women candidates feel slighted by Democrats
Politico:
GOP sweats Trump's Heitkamp flirtation
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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Staggering DOJ study: 83 percent of prisoners re-arrested within 9 years of release
Discussion: Power Line
Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Lukoil puts Iran plans on hold due to threat of U.S. sanctions
Discussion: Daily Wire
Robert Frank / CNBC:
Blue-state Democrats have a new cause: Helping millionaires
LOLITA C. BALDOR / Associated Press:
Mattis: US will confront China on militarization of islands
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Trump's new midterm strategy: Outrage
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Louis Staples / Rolling Stone:
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