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CNN:
Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House  —  White House still won't apologize for McCain joke  —  (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration …
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Politico:
Inside Trump's snub of the Philadelphia Eagles  —  The botched event is the latest example of the White House mentality of Trump against the world.  —  The Philadelphia Eagles have treated the White House very unfairly.  —  That's how the bungled celebration for the underdog Super Bowl champions …
Tom Schad / USA Today:
Fox News apologizes after Eagles' Zach Ertz blasts national anthem ‘propaganda’  —  Hours after Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz and defensive lineman Chris Long criticized Fox News for showing footage of Eagles players praying before games — during a segment about protests during …
New York Times:   Kelly Sadler, Aide Who Mocked McCain, Leaves White House
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump aide who derided McCain over Haspel opposition is gone from the White House
Discussion: Splinter
Politico:
Kelly Sadler, who joked about McCain's health, has left White House
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A  —  Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his executive scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chairman and president of the fast food company Chick-fil-A …
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Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Calls Pruitt ‘as Swampy as You Get’  —  Republican Senator Joni Ernst blasted allegations of ethical misconduct by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, calling him “about as swampy as you get.”  —  Pruitt's tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency is under intensifying scrutiny …
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence  —  Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom firm, special access to social data
Discussion: Breitbart
Tina Moore / New York Post:
Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore for Trump-Kim summit  —  NBA star turned Kim Jong Un soulmate Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore during President Trump's summit with the North Korean dictator next week, The Post has learned.  —  “The Worm” will arrive in the country a day before the June 12 sitdown …
TMZ.com:
Designer Kate Spade Dead at 55, Suicide by Hanging  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  Iconic fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday morning in her NYC apartment ... TMZ has learned.  —  Law enforcement sources confirm a housekeeper found Kate's body at 10:20 AM ET in her Park Avenue home.
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:   Kate Spade's aesthetic was the happy answer to fashion snobbery
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Hugh Hewitt to Jeff Sessions: Why Is It Necessary To Separate Parents From Children When Detained At Border?  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions tells syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt why parents and children are separated when they are detained or arrested at the border.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Treasury Secretary urged Trump to exempt Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs: Sources  —  At a White House trade meeting on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged President Donald Trump to exempt Canada from steep steel and aluminum tariffs, two senior administration officials …
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Mexico Hits U.S. With Tariffs, Escalating Global Trade Tensions
Discussion: The Texas Observer
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:   Corker to Introduce Bill to Limit Trump's Trade Powers
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Trump must sit for deposition in Zervos defamation case: judge  —  President Trump must sit for a seven-hour deposition by Jan. 31, 2019, in a defamation case brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.  —  Trump's attorney Marc Kasowitz …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Washington Post:
Mueller was investigating Trump adviser as unregistered agent of Israel, his wife says  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last summer threatened to charge George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser to President Trump, with acting as an unregistered agent of Israel, Papadopoulos's wife said Tuesday.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Another Trump Campaign Aide Was Invited To Cambridge Event Where ‘Spygate’ Started
Jeff Tavss / WPLG-TV:
Family of Stoneman Douglas student advocate David Hogg ‘swatted’ at home  —  Hogg was not home at time of incident  —  CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was “swatted” Tuesday morning, causing police to respond to their Parkland home.
Washington Post:
Trump fixates on pardons, could soon give reprieve to 63-year-old woman after meeting with Kim Kardashian  —  President Trump is privately telling aides that he is strongly considering pardoning Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman serving a life sentence, after meeting with Kim Kardashian …
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
McCabe seeks immunity for testimony in congressional hearing over FBI handling of Clinton email probe  —  Justice IG submits criminal referral on McCabe  —  (CNN)Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has requested the Senate Judiciary Committee provide him with immunity from prosecution …
Discussion: Breitbart and Mediaite
Politico:
McConnell cancels most of August recess  —  The chamber will still be off for one week.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced on Tuesday that he has canceled three weeks of the chamber's month-long August recess due to “historic obstruction” by Democrats.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McConnell cancels most of Senate's August recess, forcing campaign-schedule scramble
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
More Legal Trouble for Paul Manafort—and Donald Trump  —  Coincidences do happen, but this seems to be an unlikely one.  On Sunday morning, seemingly apropos of nothing, Donald Trump posted a message on Twitter that stated the following: “As only one of two people left who could become President …
Hui Min Neo / France 24:
Calls grow in Germany for expulsion of disputed US envoy  —  Leading German politicianson Tuesday called for the US ambassador to be expelled, after the staunch ally of Donald Trump was accused of meddling in domestic politics and aggravating already tense ties.
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Yahoo:
Calls grow in Germany for expulsion of disputed US envoy
Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats.  Twitter Suspended Him.  —  When Twitter outsources policing its platform to victims of harassment, it empowers brigades of trolls and extremists.  —  Last week HuffPost reporter Luke O'Brien published a story identifying the woman behind @AmyMek …
Pew Research Center:
Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue, more among Republicans  —  If you feel like there is too much news and you can't keep up, you are not alone.  A sizable portion of Americans are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of news there is, though the sentiment is more common on the right side …
Summer Concepcion / Associated Press:
DeVos: ‘We Are Actually Studying School Safety’ By Not Considering Role Of Guns  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday said the federal commission on school safety set up after a Florida high school shooting won't be looking at the role of guns in school violence.
Becky Peterson / Business Insider:
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi insists that leaders say they ‘have the D’ in meetings—and bewildered employees aren't sure if he gets the other meaning  — In a memo obtained by Business Insider, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi encouraged employees to say that they “have the D” when they have the authority to make decisions in meetings.
Discussion: Mashable, Gizmodo and New York Magazine
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims  —  As it wrestled with accusations about a fake cyberattack last spring, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) purposely misled several news organizations, choosing to feed journalists false information …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Is Getting Away With the Biggest Scandal in American History  —  The other evening I was on a cable news show to cover the latest Russia news of the day—and I had an epiphany.  —  We were talking about a recent scoop from Michael Isikoff, the co-author of my latest book, Russian Roulette.
Washington Post:
In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims.  —  Chris Buckley walks out to his porch, where the doormat once greeted customers at a Subway, and looks up and down the empty street.  —  “I admit it, I'm nervous,” he says, lighting a cigarette with heavily tattooed hands.
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Enlightenment's Dark Side  —  The Enlightenment is having a renaissance, of sorts.  A handful of centrist and conservative writers have reclaimed the 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement as a response to nationalism and ethnic prejudice on the right and relativism and “identity politics” on the left.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Sidelines Effort to Appoint Justice Department No. 3  —  Early potential candidates said they weren't interested in the position, which would oversee the Mueller probe if Rod Rosenstein were to depart  —  The Trump administration has put its search for the Justice Department's …
New York Times:
Putin Moves to Capitalize on Europe's Fury With Trump  —  BRUSSELS — Russian President Vladimir V. Putin arrived in Austria on Tuesday sensing an opportunity almost unimaginable just months ago: to overhaul frosty relations with a European Union infuriated by President Trump on a host of issues …
Scott Waldman / Scientific American:
Judge Orders EPA to Produce Science behind Pruitt's Warming Claims  —  The EPA head has suggested humans are not the main cause of climate change  —  EPA must produce the opposing body of science Administrator Scott Pruitt has relied upon to claim that humans are not the primary drivers of global warming, a federal judge has ruled.
Associated Press:
Trustees report warns Medicare finances worsening  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare will run out of money sooner than expected, and Social Security's financial problems can't be ignored either, the government said Tuesday in a sobering checkup on programs vital to the middle class.
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season  —  This year, the last week in May marked the beginning of grifter season: the wind changed, the pressure dropped, and the scent of scamming was suddenly everywhere in the air.  Anna Delvey, the young woman with messy hair and a vague European accent …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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