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10:15 AM ET, May 14, 2019

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New York Times:
Barr Assigns U.S. Attorney in Connecticut to Review Origins of Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter …
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
AP source: Prosecutor to examine Russia probe origins  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why was FBI so wrong in Trump-Russia wiretap warrant?
New York Times:
White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON — At a meeting of President Trump's top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops …
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Los Angeles Times:   It's John Bolton's world. Trump is just living in it
USA Today:   Trump is edging toward a disastrous war with Iran. Stop the brinksmanship: Murphy & Himes
Steve Bullock / YouTube:
Fair Shot  —  About a hundred years ago, this was “the richest hill on earth.”  —  The men who owned it were called kings.  —  With their money, they bought politicians; attacked unions, exploited workers, and left us all with a toxic reminder of what happens when our democracy is put up for sale.
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Associated Press:   Montana Gov. Bullock joins 2020 Democratic presidential race
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock enters the 2020 race as Democrat from a Trump state
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock jumps into crowded 2020 presidential race
Discussion: ABC News
Washington Post:
Before Trump's purge at DHS, top officials challenged plan for mass family arrests  —  In the weeks before they were ousted last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello challenged a secret White House plan to arrest thousands …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Don't Go Searching for Strategy in Trump's Tariffs  —  His nascent trade war with China is a reminder that some things for the president are always personal.  —  As China and the U.S. dig in for what may become a protracted and possibly very painful trade war, a lot of time is being wasted trying …
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Washington Press
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans surrender to Trump's China tariffs  —  The GOP is starting to give up on thwarting President Donald Trump's trade agenda.  —  Senate Republicans acknowledge that the president's latest tariff increase on Chinese imports are harming farm state economies, their own constituents and some of Trump's most reliable voters.
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Breitbart
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Democrats should be shouting Trump's trade failures from the rooftops  —  Markets crashing, farmers suffering, allies seething, manufacturing workers fretting about their job security.  —  These were all foreseeable consequences of President Trump's trade wars, which escalated in the past week …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Daily Kos
Shahien Nasiripour / Bloomberg:
Trump Tower Is Now One of NYC's Least-Desirable Luxury Buildings  — Most condo owners who sold since 2016 have recorded a loss  — ‘No one wants in that building,’ says one former owner  —  Trump Tower, once the crown jewel in Donald Trump's property empire, now ranks …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and HillReporter.com
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube's Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl  —  “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform.  Its executives only have themselves to blame.  —  What does a 14-year-old girl dressed in a chador have to say on YouTube to amass more than 800,000 followers?
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Rosenstein unloads on Comey, says he broke ‘bright lines that should never be crossed’  —  Rod Rosenstein unloaded on former FBI Director James Comey in remarks to the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) on Monday evening, slamming Comey's turn as a “partisan pundit,” reiterating that he deserved to be fired …
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David Shortell / CNN:   Rosenstein calls Comey a ‘partisan pundit’ in revealing speech
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Graham encourages Donald Trump Jr. to plead the Fifth  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday that President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. should comply with a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena but refuse to answer the panel's questions.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
White House explores new farmer bailout plan as U.S.-China trade war heats up  —  White House officials are scrambling to come up with a new bailout plan to placate furious farmers after President Trump's initial idea of donating unused crops to poor countries came under scrutiny, people briefed on the planning said.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's long trade war
Discussion: Political Wire and Financial Times
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
NRA Legal Bills Raise ‘All Sorts of Red Flags’  —  Ollie North claims the NRA faces unfathomably high legal expenses.  Experts say his concerns are serious.  ‘The IRS would definitely be interested in it,’ one tells The Daily Beast.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  “One hundred thousand dollars a day?
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens says he hopes Trump 'won't do too much damage' to the courts  —  Washington (CNN)John Paul Stevens — an outspoken retired justice — said he hoped President Donald Trump would not damage on the nation's courts “too much” and waved off nascent proposals …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Carliss Chatman / CNN:
What's behind the absurd gamble on women's rights and health
Discussion: Washington Post
Leah Litman / New York Times:   Is Roe in Danger? Liberal Justices Seem to Think So
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
It's clear why Trump likes autocrats.  But why are American conservatives following him?  —  They were not members of the communist party, just sympathizers.  They didn't carry out any murderous policies, just turned the other way when others did.  Known as “fellow travelers,” …
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:   Viktor Orban Is the Authoritarian Creep Trump Wishes He Could Be
Edward Luce / Financial Times:   Trump's Orban boost lands another blow on Europe
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times:
WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones  —  A vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp has allowed attackers to inject commercial Israeli spyware on to phones, the company and a spyware technology dealer said.  —  WhatsApp, which is used by 1.5bn people worldwide …
David Siders / Politico:
‘When Biden announced, everything changed’  —  First came the Cory Booker relaunch.  Then a pivot from Kamala Harris.  Now, Beto O'Rourke is hosting high-dollar fundraisers and courting national TV.  —  It's reset season in the presidential primary campaign.
Discussion: Fox News and Axios
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China is using the Washington swamp against us  —  Lots of countries hire Washington lobbyists and lawyers, even adversaries, but China and its state-directed corporations are stepping up their campaign to buy up parts of the swamp.  In Congress, there's an effort to stop that …
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Thomas Wright / The Atlantic:
Democrats Need to Place China at the Center of Their Foreign Policy
Discussion: The Federalist
Andrew Perez / The Intercept:
Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly's Rural Voter Project Tied To “Medicare For All” Opponents  —  A dark money organization designed to help Democrats win rural votes in 2020 is getting support from anti-Medicare for All forces — and pushing their message with a pair of former Democratic senators.
Discussion: Splinter
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge set to rule on Trump's subpoena challenge  —  President Donald Trump's strategy of outright resistance to House subpoenas will face its first test in federal court on Tuesday, setting up a ruling that could boost Democrats' efforts to investigate the president's business dealings.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Damage That Harvard Has Done  —  Defense attorneys often arouse what John Adams called a “clamor of popular suspicions and prejudices” when representing reviled clients.  Just last week, the attorney Christopher Darden stopped representing a California man charged with killing …
Geoff Ziezulewicz / Navy Times:
The Navy's probe into sky penis  —  It prompted viral guffaws from some and online outrage from others.  —  There are shot glasses commemorating the event and it birthed memes ahead of the annual Army-Navy game.  —  But the inside story of how an EA-18G Growler jet crew drew a penis across …
 
 
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Jim Sciutto / The Atlantic:
Russia Has Americans' Weaknesses All Figured Out
Washington Examiner:
The Green New Deal is about power, not the planet
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Behind The Scenes, Trump Diligently Tries To Slash Social Programs
Aaron E. Carroll / New York Times:
Why Politics Should Be Kept Out of Miscarriages
The Guardian:
Steve Bannon sought alliance with FBI in 2017 White House meeting
Ian Geoghegan / Politico:
Senior Tories warn Theresa May against Brexit deal with Labour
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu / Politico:
Let's put Turkey's EU membership back on track
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Inside Trump 2020: As Dem field sets, campaign takes aim at ‘socialist organism with 22 heads’
Discussion: Vox
Cas Mudde / The Guardian:
Why copying the populist right isn't going to save the left
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris's claim that Medicare-for-all 'doesn't get rid of all insurance'
Discussion: RealClearPolitics and RedState
New York Times:
New Report Shows How a Pro-Iran Group Spread Fake News Online
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump comes out against Equality Act