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9:05 AM ET, May 20, 2019

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David Enrich / New York Times:
Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner …
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
A whistleblower just revealed Deutsche Bank covered up 2016 Kushner money transfers with Russia  —  A whistleblower has revealed that the brass of the only major bank willing to do business with President Trump covered up credible suspicious activity reports (SARs) about him and Jared Kushner.
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: The Trump impeachment slow burn  —  Good morning and welcome back!  Tips, comments, recipes?  Reach out and sign up.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  The Investigations  —  ARE WE THERE YET?:  An unlikely lawmaker added over the weekend to the drumbeat gathering for impeaching President Trump.
Discussion: The Week, The Guardian and CNBC
Associated Press:
Harris wants to fine companies that pay men more than women  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is unveiling a pay inequity proposal that aims to close the gender pay gap by holding corporations accountable when men are paid more than women.
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CNN:
Harris unveils plan to fine companies that don't achieve pay equity  —  (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled her plan to close the wage gap by fining companies that fail to ensure they are paying men and women equally.  —  The plan seeks to change …
Discussion: Axios
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris wants to punish companies that don't pay women equally
Discussion: Washington Post
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Buttigieg takes on Trump, pitches four new tax hikes in Fox News Town Hall  —  Insurgent Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg acknowledged at the Fox News town hall in Claremont, New Hampshire Sunday evening that he needs to do more to appeal to “black and brown” voters …
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Jeff Parrott South Bend / South Bend Tribune:
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg out of town for nearly half the days in recent months
Discussion: American Greatness
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Trump: Fox News ‘wasting airtime on Mayor Pete’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bo Emerson / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
JUST IN: Morehouse commencement speaker to pay off Class of 2019's student loans  —  Billionaire Robert F. Smith, who received an honorary doctorate at Morehouse College's Sunday morning graduation exercises, had already announced a $1.5 million gift to the school.
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Emily S. Rueb / New York Times:
Morehouse Graduates' Student Loans to Be Paid Off by Billionaire
Discussion: NPR and Forbes
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
There's No Boom in Youngstown, but Blue-Collar Workers Are Sticking With Trump  —  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — In May 2016, David Betras, a Democratic Party leader in the heart of industrial northeast Ohio, sent a memo warning Hillary Clinton's campaign that it was on the verge of losing Ohio …
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Trump says war will mean ‘official end of Iran,’ warns ‘never threaten the United States again’  —  President Trump fired a social media broadside at the Iranian regime Sunday afternoon, vowing that war between Washington and Tehran would result in “the official end of Iran” before warning, “[n]ever threaten the United States again!”
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Mueller changed everything  —  From now on, the Trump-Russia affair, the investigation that dominated the first years of Donald Trump's presidency, will be divided into two parts: before and after the release of the Mueller report.  Before the special counsel's findings were made public last month …
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Ryan Goodman / New York Times:   How Trump's Stonewalling Puts Our Democracy at Risk
Ben White / Politico:
Dark clouds hang over Trump's trade war  —  President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to soften the economic blow of his trade battle with China, doling out billions of dollars in farmer bailouts and telling Americans that the Chinese are paying the tariffs he's slapped on U.S. importers.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
China trade war: Trump defends tariffs impact, goes after Biden
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
GOP throws up impeachment shield around Trump  —  (CNN)Republicans are moving fast to squelch Justin Amash's rebellion against Donald Trump before his conclusion that the President “engaged in impeachable conduct” — the first by a GOP lawmaker — can gather momentum.
Discussion: theGrio and New York Times
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump scrambles to reverse Rust Belt slide  —  Donald Trump's aides and allies are moving aggressively to shore up his support in three Rust Belt states that propelled him to the presidency — but where his own polling shows him in trouble heading into 2020.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump and the Four-Letter Presidency  —  WASHINGTON — In modern times, presidents have rarely been church mice afraid of a little salty language.  But President Trump has grown increasingly willing in recent months to say in public what most of his predecessors tried to keep behind closed doors.
Axios:
Democrats' next oversight move: The power of the purse  —  House Democrats are considering a new idea to pressure the Trump administration to comply with their subpoenas.  The idea is to use the appropriations process as leverage and threaten to withhold funding until they get the documents and testimony they've requested.
Discussion: Raw Story
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Starting Line/Change Research Poll: Biden, Sanders Locked In Iowa Tie  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are locked in a tie in Iowa atop the large field of Democrats running for the presidential nomination.  An Iowa Starting Line/Change Research Poll of 615 likely Democratic caucus-goers …
Discussion: NPR and Fox News
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
He Did It, Not Me!  —  There is something Kafkaesque about the current round of investigating possible FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, and National Security Council wrongdoing during the 2016 election, Trump transition, and early presidency.
CNN:
First on CNN: White House to focus on investment in Middle East as part of peace proposal  —  (CNN)The White House announced Sunday afternoon the first part of its Middle East peace proposal, what officials are calling an economic “workshop” to encourage investing capital in the West Bank …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump administration to release part of its Middle East peace plan in June
 
 
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Shay Khatiri / The Bulwark:
Pardoning War Criminals Isn't Just Wrong. It Hurts the Military and American Interests.
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A. Could Make Thousands of Pollution Deaths Vanish by Changing Its Math
Discussion: CNN
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump wants to use his 2020 campaign kickoff to sow division in the huge Democratic field
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Democrats were said to be furious and hungry for change. Then Biden jumped in.
Discussion: Politico
Kelly Scott / al.com:
It's time to hear Alabama's women
Discussion: WHNT-TV
National Review:
Australia's Voters Reject Leftist Ideas
Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
Hundreds protest Alabama abortion ban: ‘My body, my choice!’
Discussion: al.com and Axios
New York Times:
The President and His Power to Pardon
 Earlier Items: 
Axios:
Emails show ICE nominee lashed out after losing Border Patrol job
Discussion: Mercury News and Raw Story
Al Jazeera Media Network:
Al Jazeera takes disciplinary action and suspends two of its journalists over violation of its editorial guidelines
Angela Moon / Reuters:
Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
Notes on the Great Realignment
Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Marcy Wheeler: Trump Tried To Shut Down The Russia Investigation
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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