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9:10 AM ET, May 28, 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” …
Wall Street Journal:
Transportation Secretary Still Owns Stock She Pledged to Divest  —  Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has retained shares in a construction-materials company more than a year after the date she promised to relinquish them, federal disclosure forms show.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP vows to quickly quash any impeachment charges  —  GOP senators say that if the House passes articles of impeachment against President Trump they will quickly quash them in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has broad authority to set the parameters of a trial.
Discussion: RedState, Fox News and Raw Story
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Texas secretary of state resigns after leading botched voter purge that questioned the citizenship of almost 100,000 people  —  Texas's acting secretary of state David Whitley (R) resigned Monday just months after leading the botched voter purge of nearly 100,000 suspected noncitizens …
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Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
David Whitley resigns as end-of-session deadline nears  —  Shortly before the Senate's closing gavel ended his term as Texas secretary of state, David Whitley delivered his letter of resignation, “effective immediately,” to Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday afternoon.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Ex-defense secretary Jim Mattis has book coming this summer  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has a book coming out this summer, but he warns that it will not be a “tell-all” about President Donald Trump.  —  “Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead” will be published July 16, Random House announced Tuesday.
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Mediaite
New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Gains Ground in 2020 Field, One Plan at a Time  —  NEWTON, Iowa — To the crowd of Iowans gathered in a school gym on Saturday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a request: They should pose a question to the other presidential candidates who come to Iowa seeking their vote.
Daniel Moritz-Rabson / Newsweek:
Trump HUD official Lynne Patton says she doesn't care if she broke the law  —  A Regional Housing and Urban Development official wrote on Wednesday that she did not care if she had broken a federal law intended to stop government officials from acting in a partisan manner.
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Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
Trump HUD Appointee: 'I Honestly Don't Care' About Violating Federal Hatch Act
Discussion: ThinkProgress, HuffPost and The Root
CNN:
A private group says it's started building its own border wall using millions donated in GoFundMe campaign  —  Sunland Park, New Mexico (CNN)A group that raised millions of dollars in a GoFundMe campaign says it has broken ground on a project to build its own stretch of border wall on private property.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘My Rudy’: Trump's lawyer wants to be the campaign's No. 1 hatchet man  —  Get ready for more Rudy.  —  Done sparring with Robert Mueller, Donald Trump's personal attorney is now training his attacks on the president's reelection rivals.  Giuliani plans to meet with the president …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
European Greens surge as voters abandon old parties over climate  —  BRUSSELS — European Green parties on Monday were cheering E.U. elections that vaulted them into a kingmaking position of power, as voters abandoned traditional political parties in favor of climate-focused activists in a green wave that swept several countries.
Discussion: PJ Media Home
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Bernie's Pro-Sandinista Past Is a Problem, and His Response Is Not Good  —  A week ago, the New York Times reported on Bernie Sanders's 1980s-vintage foreign-policy stands, which at times crossed over from mere opposition to American policy to outright support for communist governments.
Discussion: New Republic and RedState
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
A Nazi sympathizer pleaded guilty to defacing a synagogue.  His lawyer says conservatives helped radicalize him.  —  After Nolan Brewer pleaded guilty to charges in connection with painting swastikas on an Indiana synagogue's property and setting the yard ablaze, his attorney argued …
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Joe Biden is the front-runner by every measure — except enthusiasm  —  He's dominating in the polls, his fundraising is going gangbusters and he's showing broad support from key political players in the early presidential states.  —  So where are the big energetic crowds, the lines around the block to get into Joe Biden's events?
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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
AOC returning to her bartending roots to advocate for raising minimum wage for restaurant employees and other tipped workers  —  ALBANY — AOC will be waiting tables once again.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is returning to her restaurant roots this week to show support for the federal Raise …
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: The Week and UPI
New York Times:
‘They Came to Kill.’ Almost 5 Die Daily at Hands of Rio Police.  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the first four months of the year — the highest number …
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.
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Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Trump's Formidable 2020 Tailwind
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and Slate
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Amid censorship fears, Trump campaign ‘checking out’ alternative social network  —  Parler is like Twitter, but for Trump fans.  —  They've been banned from Facebook, purged from Twitter and blocked from Instagram.  Some of them have been barred from setting foot on the continent of Australia.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Leah C. Stokes / Washington Post:
Alabama state legislators are wrong about their voters' opinions on abortion.  —  Why would politicians pass abortion bans opposed by their voters?  —  Alabama's law banning abortions even in the case of rape and incest has attracted big headlines.  But the state is not alone in trying to all but eliminate abortion rights.
Discussion: Mother Jones
 
 
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Merkel warns against rising ‘specters of the past’ in Germany
Discussion: CNN and One America News Network
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Bill Barr's Declassification Kerfuffle
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's narrative is nonsense. So why is the media buying it?
Michael Wear / The Atlantic:
The Abortion Debate Is No Longer About Policy
Discussion: The Guardian
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Robert L. Bernstein, Publisher and Champion of Dissent, Dies at 96
Evan Simko-Bednarski / CNN:
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Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
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Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Donald Trump set to commandeer July 4 festivities in nation's capital
Discussion: Raw Story
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Asians as Beneficiaries of White Privilege
Discussion: Don Surber and New York Post