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11:50 PM ET, May 29, 2018

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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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Aileen Graef / CNN:
NYT: Mueller probing Trump's request that Sessions rescind his recusal from Russia investigation
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
The Latest: Judge sides with Mueller team in Manafort case
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:   Trey Gowdy: FBI's Use of Informant for Trump Campaign Was Appropriate
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
ABC has canceled ‘Roseanne’ after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rampage.  —  This post has been updated.  —  ABC announced Tuesday that it has canceled “Roseanne” after the show's star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic Twitter rampage Monday.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Watch ABC kick off pitch to advertisers with jokes about Roseanne's offensive tweets  —  Two weeks ago, Roseanne's bigoted, conspiratorial tweets were a laugh riot.  —  On Tuesday, ABC canceled the sitcom Roseanne after the show's titular star tweeted that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett reminder her of an ape.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
Lesson from the Roseanne debacle: Stop hiring hateful nutjobs  —  As the acclaimed poet Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them — the first time.”  —  That wise adage hasn't made its way to television executives, apparently, who can't help hiring …
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
‘Roseanne’ Reruns Pulled From Paramount Network, TV Land, CMT and Laff  —  Viacom is pulling “Roseanne” reruns from its Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT channels, a person with knowledge of the decision told TheWrap on Tuesday. … Additionally, Laff, a digital network that programs reruns …
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Yahoo
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Trumpism Corrupts: Roseanne Edition
Discussion: CNN, New York Times, CNNMoney and Hot Air
John Koblin / New York Times:
Roseanne Barr Incites Fury With Racist Tweet, and Her Show Is Canceled by ABC
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 …
Kansas City Star:
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens resigns, ending political career once aimed at presidency  —  Eric Greitens stormed into the governor's office in January 2017 vowing to clean up a state government he said was corrupt.  —  He resigned Tuesday — effective at 5 p.m. Friday …
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Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
Missouri Gov. Greitens expected to resign today amid sexual misconduct scandal, sources say
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
‘Special master’ in Cohen raid bills $47K for first week's work
Kara Scannell / CNN:   ‘Taxi King’ gets better plea deal after raid on Trump's lawyer
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Grassley: Fusion GPS Founder Gave ‘Extremely Misleading’ Testimony About Trump Work  —  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is accusing Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson of giving “extremely misleading” statements, if not telling “outright lies,” during Senate testimony in 2017.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:   Fight Over Trump Jr.'s Testimony Simmers in the Senate
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?
Discussion: The Big Lead
Meduza.io:
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is shot and killed in Kiev  —  Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was reportedly shot and killed in Kiev on Tuesday, May 29.  According to fellow journalist Ayder Muzhdabaev, he was shot in the back while at home.  A source told the website Obozrevatel.com …
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Associated Press:
Russian journalist shot and killed in Ukrainian capital
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Porn Leads To School Shootings, GOP Congresswoman Says  —  “I think that is a big part” of the spike in such attacks, Rep. Diane Black asserts.  —  WASHINGTON Does anyone know what kind of porn Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) is watching?  —  Whatever it is, the 67-year-old Black …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Plan for Political Survival: Blame Obama for Everything … President Donald Trump spent his long Memorial Day weekend sequestered mostly in the White House.  But instead of holiday tweeting about the “haters and losers”—of which, he once said, “sadly, there are many” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:   Obama Says 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These?
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.
HuffPost:
We Built A Twitter Ratio Bot That Tracks All Your Terrible Tweets  —  No bad tweet left behind.  —  Whatever Twitter was originally intended to be, it certainly wasn't this.  Nazis roam free, celebrities melt down daily, entire news cycles run their course in a matter of minutes …
Washington Post:
Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria  —  CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO — At least 4,645 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its devastation across Puerto Rico last year, according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday, an estimate that far exceeds …
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
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 …
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 …
Robert Frank / CNBC:
Blue-state Democrats have a new cause: Helping millionaires  — Some Democrats in blue states are looking to create loopholes to the federal tax rules on state and local property taxes.  — The so-called SALT provisions say taxpayers can only deduct up to $10,000 in state and local taxes from their federal returns.
Bloomberg:
Inside the Pro-Trump Effort to Keep Black Voters From the Polls  —  Breitbart News landed an election scoop that went viral in August 2016: “Exclusive: ‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters... by Campaigning for Trump.”
Jessica Pressler / The Cut:
Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey's fabulous new life.  The city was full of marks.  —  Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It  —  It started with money, as it so often does in New York.
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Mueller moves toward sentencing for California man in Russia probe
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Josh Nathan-Kazis / Forward:
Jewish Groups Reject Israel Funding For Fear Of Being Branded Foreign Agents
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Free speech doesn't give you the right to attack someone
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Louis Staples / Rolling Stone:
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