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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book says  —  A new book from Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff says special counsel Robert Mueller drew up a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to shelve it …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Of Course Trump Hates Maggie Haberman.  Why Does the Left?  —  Last weekend, New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman wrote about the dilemma faced by former communications director Hope Hicks.  Facing a subpoena to testify to the House, she wrote, Hicks must choose between ignoring …
Kate Smith / CBS News:
Missouri's last abortion clinic says it may lose its license this week  —  St. Louis, Missouri — The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri says it expects to be shut down this week, effectively ending legal abortion in the state.  —  In a statement to be released later Tuesday …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Japan Rolled Out the Red Carpet.  Trump Veered Off Into Personal Fixations.  —  TOKYO — It was just after 6 a.m. on the final day of a state visit to Japan designed to flatter and entertain him, and President Trump was in his comfort space: Twitter.  —  Hours earlier, he had been the honored guest …
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Christopher Donato / ABC News:
Biden campaign: Trump's ‘comments are beneath the dignity of the office’
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden campaign slams Trump for criticizing former vice president on foreign soil
Discussion: IJR and Washington Press
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.
Kevin M. Kruse / USA Today:
Democrats need to get past impeachment jitters.  It's not 1998 and Trump is no Clinton.  —  If Democrats think Trump committed impeachable acts, launch the process and stop assuming it will be a political loser.  That misreads history.  —  CONNECT  —  As House Democrats consider impeaching …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:   Disaster aid bill again blocked in House by GOP conservative
Fox News:
House expected to try again on disaster bill stalled by lone GOP rep
Discussion: IJR
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg scorches Clarence Thomas in abortion ruling footnotes  —  Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas took shots at one another in dueling footnotes to a ruling on a pair of Indiana abortion laws.  —  The court declined to take up a ban on so-called …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
What do you do with a problem like Al Franken?  —  Storm clouds blotted out the afternoon sun, turning the day into night.  On Capitol Hill, in downtown restaurants and Metro cars, phones blared an emergency alert in unison: Seek shelter.  Avoid windows.  Office workers crowded …
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Netflix says it will rethink its investment in Georgia if ‘heartbeat’ abortion law goes into effect  —  KEY POINTS  — After Georgia earlier this month passed a law to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, some in the entertainment industry are speaking out.
Discussion: National Review
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Variety:
Netflix the Only Hollywood Studio to Speak Out in Attack Against Abortion Rights (EXCLUSIVE)
Ashley Rodriguez / Business Insider:
Netflix says it would rethink its ‘entire investment in Georgia’ if an anti-abortion law is adopted
Discussion: 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 …
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.
Discussion: Politico, Axios and The Daily Caller
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez featured among America's ‘enemies of freedom’ in baseball team's Memorial Day video  —  Among the “enemies of freedom” portrayed in a Memorial Day tribute video at a minor league baseball game: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former Cuban president Fidel Castro and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
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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: Splinter, New Republic and RedState
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke Apologizes to Campaign Staff for Being a ‘Giant Asshole’  —  In a revealing exclusive clip from the HBO doc ‘Running With Beto,’ which premieres May 28, the Texas Senate candidate apologizes to his staffers for his domineering behavior.  —  05.28.195:17 AM ET
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.
Discussion: Washington Post and Shakesville
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
British ex-spy will not talk to U.S. prosecutor examining Trump probe origins: source  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr …
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.
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Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:   Trump's Campaign Manager Has a Plan to Punish Twitter
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP candidate expects Roy Moore to announce Senate bid in June  —  Roy Moore hasn't jumped into the 2020 Alabama Senate contest yet, but one potential GOP rival is already welcoming him into the race.  —  Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), who launched his Senate campaign in February …
Washington Post:
Amash accuses Barr of deliberately misrepresenting Mueller's report to protect Trump  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Rep. Justin Amash, the sole congressional Republican to call for President Trump's impeachment, took aim at Attorney General William P. Barr on Tuesday, saying that he had deliberately …
Elizabeth Van Brocklin / The Trace:
Washington State Debuts Unique Tool to Reduce Gun Suicides  —  Fredrick Vars remembers the moment when the idea for voluntary gun control came to him.  It was the fall of 2013 and he was attending a talk by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan at the University of Alabama, where he works as a law professor.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
It's the middle of the night.  Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?  —  Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.”  Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.  —  It's 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing?
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 training his attacks on the president's potential 2020 campaign rivals.  Giuliani plans to meet with the president …
The Local:
French Senate says Notre-Dame must be restored exactly how it was  —  french Senators have stipulated that Notre-Dame cathedral must be restored exactly how it was before the devastating fire that tore through the Paris landmark.  —  On Monday evening, the French Senate approved …
CNN:
How Joe Biden worked with and praised a longtime opponent of civil rights  —  (CNN)In August 1985, 42-year-old Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was preparing for his first presidential bid.  Courting southern support, Biden traveled to Mississippi to honor the 84th birthday of Democratic Sen. John Stennis …
Discussion: Breitbart
Bloomberg Law:
Mulvaney Tightens Grip on Labor Chief After Trump Allies Grumble  —  President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, has seized power over the Labor Department's rulemaking process out of frustration with the pace of deregulation under Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta …
Discussion: Political Wire and Law & Crime
 
 
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Veterans running for the Democratic nomination call Trump a draft dodger as he travels overseas
Brad Lander / BuzzFeed News:
Being A Man Helped My Career At Every Step. That's Why I'm Endorsing Elizabeth Warren.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders backs 2 policies to dramatically shift corporate power to U.S. workers
Peter Caterina / FOX News Radio:
Senator Lindsey Graham: I Don't Feel Like I Need To Defend Myself Against A Cable Talk Show Host On MSNBC
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and IJR
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Junior Offender  —  How did the Harvard-bound Kyle Kashuv …
Colin Mixson / Brooklyn Paper: Full:
Park nope: Park Slope residents create petition to protest planned family shelters
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
HuffPost:
Barack Obama, Harry Reid And The Secret History Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal
 Earlier Items: 
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
How Nancy Pelosi's Tactics Affirm the Trumpian Style of Politics
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Tony Horwitz, Prize-Winning Journalist and Author, Dies at 60
Discussion: NPR and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Associated Press:
Sanders 2020 looks like Sanders 2016, challenges and all
Discussion: Politico
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's narrative is nonsense. So why is the media buying it?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael Wear / The Atlantic:
The Abortion Debate Is No Longer About Policy
Discussion: National Review