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10:10 AM ET, May 27, 2019

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Washington Post:
European Parliament elections: Voters deny traditional centrists a majority, boost euroskeptics and Greens  —  BRUSSELS — Europeans dealt a blow to the continent's traditional center-left and center-right politicians in elections for the European Parliament on Sunday, depriving them of a majority …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
European Election Results Show Growing Split Over Union's Future  —  BRUSSELS — Populists and nationalists who want to chip away at the European Union's powers increased their share in Europe's Parliament after four days of continent-wide elections, but it was not the deluge that many traditionalists had feared.
Politico:
Martin Selmayr: Populist wave has been ‘contained’
Tim Ball / Politico:
In pictures: European election highs and lows
Jonathan Miller / Spectator USA:   The European election results are a humiliation for Macron
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
EU in photos: How the results in the world's biggest multi-country election unfolded
Discussion: BBC, Politico and Home Page Rotator
Bloomberg:   Macron Chastened as French Voters Hand Narrow Victory to Le Pen
Christian Oliver / Politico:
Greece's Tsipras calls snap election after EU poll drubbing
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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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump backs Kim Jong Un's attacks on Biden, dismisses North Korea missile tests  —  President Donald Trump said he's not concerned by North Korea's recent missile tests and endorsed brutal dictator Kim Jong Un's attack on fellow American and former Vice President Joe Biden in a press conference in Toyoko Monday.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:   Sarah Sanders: North Korean missile tests aren't ‘bothering’ Trump
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
GOP Armed Services senator breaks with Trump: I find North Korean missile tests ‘very disturbing’
Discussion: New York Post
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sarah Sanders Says Trump and Kim ‘Agree in Their Assessment’ of Biden
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Trump climbs into a sumo ring to present a 60-pound 'President's Cup' in highlight of Japan trip
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Donald Trump defends dictator Kim Jong Un, bashes Joe Biden from Japan
New York Times:
‘Wow, What Is That?’  Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects  —  WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.
Discussion: Splinter and Fox News
Glenn Kirschner / NBC News:
Trump's proposed Memorial Day pardons dishonor veterans — and pervert justice  —  Pardoning war criminals would be the worst way to celebrate a holiday dedicated to those who sacrificed everything so that we can live in a just society.  —  In May, President Donald Trump pardoned former U …
Discussion: The Conversation
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
An Indiana Man Who Vandalized A Synagogue With Nazi Symbols Admitted How Far-Right Figures Radicalized Him  —  An Indiana man who plead guilty to defacing a synagogue with Nazi symbolism detailed to federal agents his road to radicalization, including meeting with members …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Barr mulls declassification, a familiar tune from critics  —  In February 2018, the House Intelligence Committee released the so-called Nunes memo.  In four pages, the document, from the committee's then-chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, revealed much of what the public knows today …
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump's tweets are losing their potency  —  President Trump's tweets don't pack the punch they did at the outset of his presidency.  His Twitter interaction rate — a measure of the impact given how much he tweets and how many people follow him — has tumbled precipitously, according to data from CrowdTangle.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
With the 2020 Democratic Field Set, Candidates Begin the Races Within the Race  —  NEWTON, Iowa — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has built an early lead in the month since he entered the presidential campaign, confidently projecting himself as the Democratic front-runner and the candidate best positioned to defeat President Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Joe Biden's campaign of limited exposure: How long can he keep it up?
Discussion: Axios
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Flynn's case could prompt release of some redacted parts of Mueller report  —  (CNN)Sought-after parts of the Mueller investigation may be made public this week, thanks to a federal judge who's taken an unusual approach in former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn's case.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   Distinguished persons of the week: They can stop Trump
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 …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace forces Lindsey Graham to watch old clips of himself calling for Clinton's impeachment
Discussion: Grabien News
Arthur Allen / Politico:
How the anti-vaccine movement crept into the GOP mainstream  —  ‘Appeals to freedom are like the gateway drug to pseudoscience.’  —  The anti-vaccine movement, which swelled with discredited theories that blamed vaccines for autism and other ills, has morphed and grown into a libertarian political rebellion …
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Why Trump's Stonewalling Legal Strategy Will Keep Failing  —  In the space of three days this week, two federal judges ruled decisively in favor of Congress' right to subpoena President Donald Trump's personal financial and business records.  The speed of the decisions …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Rep. Duncan Hunter Admits Taking Photos of Dead Combatants While in Marines  —  A Navy SEAL charged with a war crime “did one bad thing that I'm guilty of too — taking a picture of the body and saying something stupid,” congressman said  —  Rep. Duncan S. Hunter (R-CA) …
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists  —  Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama.  “There is no serious person out there who would suggest …
 
 
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
A Migrant Family Takes a Greyhound Across America
Discussion: Townhall and ImmigrationProf Blog
Jay Cost / National Review:
The American Revolution's Starving, Barefoot, Heroic Troops
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Muslim Candidates Feel The Effect Of Trump Attacks On Ilhan Omar
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Liberalism Loses  —  An inflexible agenda and a global retreat.
Washington Post:
Trump falls short on infrastructure after promising to build roads, bridges and consensus
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Zach Dorfman / Politico:
The Spy Case That Made Adam Schiff a Russia Hawk
Todd Shepherd / Washington Free Beacon:
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Trump bullies Dems, other foes into cowardice. Without courage, America may be lost
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Red Painter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Jim Acosta: A Senior White House Official Told Me 'The President's Insane'
Daily Mail:
Look who's eyeing up a comeback! …
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Christian rightwingers warn abortion fight could spark US civil war
 

 
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