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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Howard Schultz to Step Down as Starbucks Executive Chairman  —  SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the outspoken executive chairman of Starbucks, will leave the company at the end of the month, bringing to an end the tenure of a socially conscious entrepreneur who turned a local Seattle coffee chain …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Howard Schultz, architect of modern Starbucks, to step down as executive chair and from the board  — Howard Schultz is stepping down from his role as executive chairman of Starbucks, effective June 26.  — Myron E. Ullman, former chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney was named chair …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Mueller has waited long enough.  It's subpoena time.  —  What should the special counsel do next?  I'd suggest it's subpoena time.  —  Robert S. Mueller III has proved himself a remarkably patient prosecutor.  His negotiations with President Trump's lawyers have stretched on for at least six months …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  This morning, President Trump declared on Twitter that he has “the absolute right to PARDON myself.”  Trump also said he wouldn't need to do this, because he didn't do anything wrong …
CNN:
Trump's executive privilege argument is a loser  —  Andrew Wright is a law professor who previously served as associate counsel to President Barack Obama in the White House and as staff director of a congressional oversight subcommittee.  Follow him on Twitter (@AndyMcCanse).
Discussion: Washington Post
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Rudy Giuliani: Here's what Trump's talking about when he floats pardoning himself and lashing out at Mueller
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out lower court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion  —  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court's decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
Washington Post:
Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress  —  In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.
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New York Times:
Aide Sought a New Apartment for Scott Pruitt, as Well as an ‘Old Mattress’ From Trump Hotel  —  WASHINGTON — A senior Environmental Protection Agency official acted essentially as the personal assistant to the administrator, Scott Pruitt, helping him hunt for an apartment …
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump.  Then reveals it was Obama  —  Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling  —  Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:   A Kentucky crowd cheered a valedictorian for quoting Trump. Then he told them it was Obama.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Why Melania Trump's vanishing act matters  —  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has all but vanished.  —  She hasn't been seen with President Donald Trump at a public event since May 10, four days before she underwent surgery for a kidney problem.  She won't be at her husband's side …
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
White House releases more details on North Korea summit
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Told Kim Kardashian She and Kanye West Are Helping Him With Black Voters  — Met with reality TV star on pardon plea for 63-year-old woman  — Credits her husband Kanye West with rise in black support  —  President Donald Trump welcomed Kim Kardashian to the White House last week to discuss prison reform.
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Jeff Weiss / Washington Post:   Kanye West's ‘Ye’ is the unedited ramblings of the world's oldest adolescent
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era  —  Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign.  “I think I did the right thing.  I defended the Constitution,” he said.  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that …
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Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:
The great remove  —  How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers  —  To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy.  Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13.
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Meg Dalton / Columbia Journalism Review:   When the math doesn't work
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos' Wife: Trump Aide Was ‘Absolutely Not’ Involved In Russian Collusion  —  George Papadopoulos' wife, Simona Mangiante, said her husband was not involved in collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and that he pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant  —  On the evidence of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's CNN interview over the weekend, the likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant and a threat to the constitutional order.  —  Confronted with a simple …
Discussion: CNN
CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’  —  Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed Allowed Key Defense in Russian's Defamation Suit Over Trump Dossier  —  A Florida judge rejects a Russian entrepreneur who argued that the Trump dossier publication wasn't protected as a fair report of official government action.  —  In its continuing fight against a Russian tech entrepreneur …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Did Putin Help Trump Come Up With His Cover Story?  (Pretty Likely)  —  One of the many revelations from that “leaked” letter from the White House to the Mueller team is that the White House is now stating as a fact what it had long denied or at least seriously downplayed: that the President personally …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents  —  THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents.
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
It's Now Against The Law In California To Shower And Do Laundry On The Same Day  —  Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,  —  Governor Jerry Brown is retiring but not before he passes a few draconian laws as parting gifts for California.  Two bills were signed into law …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Pentagon investigates White House doctor Ronny Jackson  —  The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating President Donald Trump's former personal physician, who was accused of unprofessional behavior while being considered to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Discussion: ABC News
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
CD01 Incumbent Popular, But Race is Close  —  Democratic enthusiasm makes race competitive  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's newly drawn 1st congressional district is shaping up to be a close contest, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Why Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer  —  Ignoring a robocall doesn't keep some scammers from making money from caller-ID services  —  Caller ID is feeding one of the very problems it was developed to stop: junk calls.  —  Illegitimate robocallers, or outfits that flood American landlines …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today  —  Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.
Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
The Flaw in Trump's Obstruction-of-Justice Defense  —  President Trump's lawyers, in a letter released over the weekend, staked out bold the ground that the president can't commit obstruction of justice in his interactions with the federal law-enforcement apparatus—neither by firing investigators nor …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Ben White / Politico:
Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump  —  COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Woody Allen Says He Should Be ‘Poster Boy for the #MeToo Movement’  —  “I've worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one... have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all,” says the filmmaker  —  Woody Allen says he should be the “poster boy” for the #MeToo movement given …
Michael Mcgough / Sacramento Bee:
Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows.  The reason why is no surprise  —  The idea of a Bay Area “exodus” is no joke, and appears to be growing more vivid and real with each year.  —  A poll released Sunday by a local advocacy group showed that 46 percent of Bay Area residents surveyed …
Discussion: Sean Hannity
Kassy Dillon / Daily Wire:
WATCH: VA Senate Candidate Corey Stewart Calls Anti-Semite Paul Nehlen ‘Hero’  —  A video has recently surfaced of Corey Stewart, the perceived front-runner of the Virginia Republican nomination for Senate, calling known anti-Semite Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes.”
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Raw Story
 
 
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
4 states could expand Medicaid this year. That's a big deal.
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Democratic Party is flying blind on economics
Discussion: New Republic
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Venezuela charges Pompeo with leading coup d'etat
Discussion: Breitbart
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
Vienna calling Putin
Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
Apple: We're Going to Pick the News Stories You Read
Rebecca Ritzel / Washingtonian:
Rudy Giuliani Takes in “Camelot” in DC, Gets a Shoulder Rub During “Lusty Month of May”
Discussion: Splinter
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
‘Fighting for our lives.’ Orange County Dems nervous ahead of Tuesday primary
 Earlier Items: 
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin says he'd support a move by Trump to commute Blagojevich's sentence
Discussion: Political Wire
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
House generic ballot a toss-up: poll
Discussion: Power Line, Axios, NTK Network and Splinter
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
WOKE? Maxine Waters plays to empty seats as only 10 millennials show up to campaign event
Discussion: Sean Hannity and Daily Wire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' political network will spend millions to oppose Trump's tariffs …
Jared Keller / Task & Purpose:
The Civil War's Latest Casualty: This Reenactor Who Shot Himself With A Minie Ball
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform
Discussion: Raw Story
Ronald Radosh / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Author Says CIA Has Plan to Kill the President
Discussion: National Review
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot  —  Consider the following alternate reality.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics