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8:55 PM ET, May 27, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” …
Discussion: Raw Story and Vanity Fair
New York Times:
Trump and Abe's ‘Unshakable Bond’ Shows Some Cracks in Tokyo  —  TOKYO — Standing at side-by-side lecterns inside the gilded Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo, President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan sought to show the world the strength of what Mr. Abe called their “unshakable bond.”
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump finds himself increasingly alone on North Korea  —  President Donald Trump is isolating himself from allies and even his own advisers on North Korea, eager to insist that his denuclearization efforts will be successful going into a 2020 re-election bid.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Ian Bremmer defends and then deletes false Trump statement about North Korea
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Time Magazine Columnist's Trump Quote Went Viral — Then He Admitted He Made It Up
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:   Sarah Sanders: North Korean missile tests aren't ‘bothering’ Trump
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Trump's Formidable 2020 Tailwind  —  The economy and incumbency drive presidential election outcomes.  —  Mr. Rattner served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.  —  The economy invariably ranks among the top issues on the minds of voters in presidential elections.
Discussion: Slate
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Axios:
3 forecast modelers predict Trump will win in 2020  —  Steven Rattner, “car czar” and counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration, cites three different modelers in his N.Y. Times commentary, “Trump's Formidable 2020 Tailwind.”  —  The big picture: Trump wins all three modelers.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The press must do better  —  The New York Times gives prominent placement on its home page to list all of President Trump's juvenile nicknames for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including the racist Native American slur directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
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Regina Zilbermints / The Hill:
Liz Cheney: Statements by agents investigating Trump ‘could well be treason’
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Bernie Sanders Advisor Tweets Gif of Jeremy Corbyn Dancing on Margaret Thatcher's Grave  —  A senior political advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) tweeted a gif Sunday of United Kingdom Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn dancing on the grave of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Discussion: Mediaite
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William James / Reuters:   UK ever more polarized as Brexit Party storms to EU vote win
Politico:
Martin Selmayr: Populist wave has been ‘contained’
CNN:
Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote  —  New York (CNN Business)Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg will not attend a hearing in Ottawa later this week, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament, Facebook confirmed on Monday.
Discussion: UPI
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Trump HUD Official: 'I Honestly Don't Care' If I'm Breaking Federal Law  —  Lynne Patton said she may have violated the Hatch Act, then called anyone mad about it a “liberal snowflake.”  —  Lynne Patton, a regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Embraces Right-Wing One America News Network to Make Fox News Jealous  —  The network praises the president, courts him in public, and has even tried to hire his former aides.  It's finally getting his attention.  —  One evening last week, Neil McCabe, a Breitbart veteran who now works …
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Fox News' Chris Wallace challenges Lindsey Graham on his 1998 claim that ignoring subpoenas is impeachable  —  Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday forced Senator Lindsey Graham to watch a 1998 clip of himself talking about the dangers of ignoring subpoenas from Congress during an era …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:   Chris Wallace Nails Lindsey Graham With Clip of His Own Words from 1999 About Ignoring Subpoenas
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Trump's ban on Chinese telecom giant Huawei could cut off rural Americans' cell service  —  “These rural areas are going to not get served, and it puzzles me why these senators ... don't see the problem here,” a tech advocate said.  —  The Trump administration's ban on goods produced …
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Trump: ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ hasn't ‘apologized’ for involvement in 1994 crime law  —  President Trump late Monday criticized former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner among Democrats seeking to unseat in 2020, for his support of a controversial 1994 crime bill, saying he hasn't “apologized” for supporting it.
CNN:
Artist takes $20 bill design into his own hands with Harriet Tubman decorative stamp  —  (CNN)Supporters of an Obama-era plan to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill were disappointed last week by news that the Treasury Department has delayed the bill's redesign.
Alex Moe / NBC News:
House investigations of Trump and his administration: The full list  —  The president says it's “harassment.”  Democrats say they're playing catch-up after two years with virtually no oversight from Republicans.  —  WASHINGTON — He's making investigations great again — at least in number.
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
A hefty donation to Trump's inaugural comes under scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Real estate mogul Franklin Haney contributed $1 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and all he's got to show for the money is the glare of a federal investigation.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’  —  Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life.  Now that job is gone.  What does that mean for his politics?  —  LORDSTOWN, Ohio — In the weeks since he lost his job at the car plant, Rick Marsh has blasted Pink Floyd while cleaning the house.
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP vows to quickly quash any impeachment charges
Washington Post:
China wages relentless crackdowns on its Muslims.  But Saudi Arabia stays quiet as it bolsters ties with Beijing.
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Donald Trump set to commandeer July 4 festivities in nation's capital
Discussion: Raw Story
David Montanaro / Fox News:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says House ‘moving towards’ consensus for Trump impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Asians as Beneficiaries of White Privilege
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Female Veterans, and a Memorial to Them, Struggle to Honor Women Who Served
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Jamal Greene / Slate:
Trump's Judge Whisperer Promised to Take Our Laws Back to the 1930s
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
The Old Scourge of Anti-Semitism Rises Anew in Europe
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Arthur Allen / Politico:
How the anti-vaccine movement crept into the GOP mainstream
Discussion: Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Flynn's case could prompt release of some redacted parts of Mueller report
Discussion: Raw Story and Liberty Unyielding
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Barr mulls declassification, a familiar tune from critics
Glenn Kirschner / NBC News:
Trump's proposed Memorial Day pardons dishonor veterans — and pervert justice
Discussion: The Conversation
New York Times:
With the 2020 Democratic Field Set, Candidates Begin the Races Within the Race
 

 
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