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11:35 AM ET, May 28, 2019

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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book claims  —  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 …
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.
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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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.
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: Shakesville
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
We just got the first Supreme Court abortion opinion of the Kavanaugh era  —  In 2016, while serving as the governor of Indiana, Vice President Mike Pence signed an anti-abortion law that appears designed to troll liberals and give late night fodder to Fox News.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket  —  The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to a compromise on a restrictive Indiana abortion law that keeps the issue off its docket for now.  —  The court said a part of the law dealing with disposal of the “remains” of an abortion could go into effect.
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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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:   Missouri Set To Become First State Since Roe v. Wade With No Abortion Clinic
Leah C. Stokes / Washington Post:
Alabama state legislators are wrong about their voters' opinions on abortion.
Discussion: Axios and Mother Jones
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 …
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” …
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
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
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.
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 …
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
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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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.
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 …
Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Equality body launches investigation of Labour antisemitism claims  —  Equality and Human Rights Commission to carry out formal inquiry into party  —  Labour has been placed under formal investigation by the equalities watchdog over whether the party has unlawfully discriminated against …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Look over here!  Democratic candidates struggle for recognition in outsize field  —  Some contenders are having a tough time busting out.  Experts say that's what happens when there are too many choices.  —  WASHINGTON — Outside the handful of best-known candidates …
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Joe Biden is the front-runner by every measure — except big crowds  —  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?
Discussion: NBC News and Eschaton
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Ukrainian President Reinstates Saakashvili's Citizenship  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has reinstated the Ukrainian citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who served as governor of Ukraine's Odesa region in 2015-16.  —  In a decree signed and posted …
Associated Press:
Sanders 2020 looks like Sanders 2016, challenges and all  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be different this time.  —  But three months into his second presidential campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is struggling with some of the same challenges that sank his last bid …
Discussion: Politico
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
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
Washington Post:
There's nothing progressive about strangling charter schools  —  THE MOST enduring — and unforgivable — civil rights offense in our country today is the consigning of so many poor, often minority children to failing schools.  Among the more promising efforts to deal with this urgent issue …
 
 
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Najmeh Bozorgmehr / Financial Times:
Iranians adjust to living under Trump's sanctions
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke Apologizes to Campaign Staff for Being a ‘Giant Asshole’
The Local:
French Senate says Notre-Dame must be restored exactly how it was
Discussion: Conservative Review
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
In opposing Harriet Tubman, Trump has messed with the wrong woman
Elly Lonon / Washington Post:
I had an abortion. It's none of your business why.
Renee Wilde / NPR:
‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
Judith Mischke / Politico:
Merkel warns against rising ‘specters of the past’ in Germany
Discussion: CNN and One America News Network
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Bill Barr's Declassification Kerfuffle
Discussion: Just Security and Slate
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: The Guardian
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Robert L. Bernstein, Publisher and Champion of Dissent, Dies at 96
New York Times:
‘They Came to Kill.’ Almost 5 Die Daily at Hands of Rio Police.
CNN:
Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote
Discussion: The Week and UPI