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Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'd Meet With North Korea's Kim If Situation's Right  —  ‘I would be honored to do it’ under the right circumstances  —  North Korea has become Trump's top foreign policy challenge  —  President Donald Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid heightened tensions …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Trump: ‘You make a mistake here, there is nothing to work out’ … Hours shy of his 100th day in power, President Trump strides into the Oval Office.  The energy in the world's most famous room changes instantly and perceptibly as he sits down.  —  It's a little after 3 in the afternoon.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Why was there the Civil War?’  —  President Trump during an interview that airs Monday questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.  —  “I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn't have had the Civil War.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's totally bizarre claim about avoiding the Civil War  —  Why couldn't we all just get along?  —  That's what President Trump wants to know about the Civil War.  In an interview with the Washington Examiner's Salena Zito, our president-historian posits that the war might not have happened …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why did Trump win?  New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer.  —  As the Democratic Party rebuilds itself for the 2018 and 2020 elections, Democratic strategists have been preoccupied with a pressing question: Why did so many voters who backed Barack Obama in 2012 switch …
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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost  —  WASHINGTON  —  A select group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last year's presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost.  Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party they're right.
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
The Cost of Barack Obama's Speech
Discussion: The Guardian and American Prospect
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump on Obama surveillance claims: 'I don't stand by anything'  —  President Donald Trump said his allegation that he was illegally surveilled by former President Barack Obama has “been proven very strongly” and that that surveillance has negated the relatively warm relationship …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Abruptly Ends CBS Interview After Wiretap Question  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump cut short an interview with the host of “Face the Nation” on CBS after being asked about his unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped his campaign, saying he was entitled to his own “opinions.”
Discussion: Washington Post and Joe.My.God.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump angrily walks away from interview after reporter presses for Obama wiretapping evidence
Discussion: The Root
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump unwinding Michelle Obama's school lunch program rules
Discussion: ABC News
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He's Considering Moves to Break Up Wall Street Banks  —  President says in interview he is weighing revival of 1933 law  —  Top administration officials back return of Glass-Steagall Act  —  President Donald Trump said he is actively considering breaking up giant Wall Street banks …
Bloomberg:
Trump Defends Invite to Philippines' Duterte Amid Drug War Toll  —  Country is important ‘strategically and militarily’: Trump  —  Trump invited Duterte to White House during weekend call  —  U.S. President Donald Trump underscored his eagerness to meet with Philippines President Rodrigo …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Philippines' Duterte on Trump's White House invitation: 'I'm tied up'
Media Matters for America:
The NY Times Sold Subscriptions On Opposing “Alternative Facts.”  Then It Published Bret Stephens.  —  The New York Times finds itself mired in controversy after newly-minted op-ed columnist Bret Stephens devoted his first piece to preaching a “teach the controversy” approach to climate change.
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David Roberts / Vox:
The New York Times should not have hired climate change bullshitter Bret Stephens
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
How Trump Could Get Fired … Hours after Donald Trump's Inauguration, a post appeared on the official White House petitions page, demanding that he release his tax returns.  In only a few days, it gathered more signatures than any previous White House petition.
Discussion: BizPac Review and rubber hose
Bloomberg:
Trump Wants Health-Care Bill to Protect Pre-Existing Conditions  —  President says it will be ‘every bit as good’ as Obamacare  —  GOP leaders mulling vote on health bill later this week  —  President Donald Trump said Monday the Republican health-care bill being negotiated in Congress ultimately …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Axios
Bill Lambrecht / MySanAntonio.com:
Castro won't seek Senate seat  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro has decided not to seek the Democratic nomination next year to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, according to Democratic sources, clearing the way for a likely Senate contest next year between Cruz and U.S Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Gay-Conversion Therapy Ban Survives as Supreme Court Rejects Appeal  —  The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a California law that bans licensed therapists from working with children to change their sexual orientation from gay to straight, rejecting an appeal that said the measure violates religious rights.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Open to Raising Gas Tax and Negotiating Tax Overhaul Plan  —  Truckers back higher gas levy for highways, Trump says  —  President calls his tax plan starting point in interview  —  President Donald Trump said he's willing to raise the U.S. gas tax to fund infrastructure development …
Washington Post:
A black teen was shot and killed by police near Dallas.  His death has just been ruled a homicide.  —  A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed by police in a Dallas suburb was shot in the head by a rifle, Dallas County Medical Examiner's office said.  —  The medical examiner's office said Monday …
Discussion: NBC News
The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on the Establishment of the American Technology Council  —  ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans summit with tech titans
Tegna / WFAA-TV:
Raw, unedited rescue: ‘Dear Jesus, please let this baby breathe’  —  TEXAS TORNADO: When Good Samaritans arrived, an infant and a 2-year old were nearly dead.  These strangers saved their lives yesterday, near Myrtle Springs.  Video: Tom Mitchell … What a rescue — one that's tough to watch.
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
I write on the internet.  I'm sorry.  —  Try to pinpoint the last time you took a purposeless walk through the late spring breeze, when there was no itch in your hand to reach for a mobile device, and you felt like the wind and sky around you had nothing to disclose to you other than the vast …
Discussion: Althouse
Thomas Hunt / Daily Express:
Macron PLUMMETS in the polls as Marine Le Pen enjoys boost a WEEK AWAY from election vote  —  EMMANUEL Macron's lead over Marine Le Pen has taken a heavy hit as France prepares to vote in the final round of the election on Sunday.  —  Recent moves by Ms Le Pen to appeal to a wider audience seem …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Althouse
Bloomberg:
Congress Reaches Spending Deal That Jettisons Trump Priorities  —  Bipartisan deal would keep government open through Sept. 30  —  Republicans and Democrats negotiated hundreds of policy items  —  U.S. House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative bipartisan deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill …
NBC News:
Deal on Government Funding Reached, Averting Shutdown  —  A deal has been reached on a $1 trillion-plus bill to fund the government for the final five months of this fiscal year, an agreement that is likely to avert a government shutdown.  —  Congressional negotiators had been working through …
Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Trump Just Picked a Contraception Skeptic to Head Federal Family Planning Efforts  —  After appointing the former president of a powerful anti-abortion group to head public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Trump administration plans to bring another anti-abortion advocate …
Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Rewire
 
 
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CBS San Francisco:
May Day Rallies Across Bay Area; 4 Arrested At Alameda Protest
Discussion: Berkeleyside
Oliver Willis / Shareblue:
Pence's longtime aide is orchestrating White House obstruction of Russia investigation
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Trump's Tax Cuts May Be More Damaging Than Reagan's
Ilya Somin / Washington Post:
Victims of Communism Day 2017
Discussion: Moonbattery and New York Times
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
What's in the spending agreement? We read it so you don't have to.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kristina Webb / Palm Beach Post:
NEW: Trump plans weekend at Bedminster golf club, FAA notice indicates
Bloomberg:
FCC Net Neutrality Case Rehearing Rejected by Appeals Court
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Reunited with news, and it feels so good.  —  Friends …
Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Michael Moore to Take Aim at Trump, on Broadway
Oren Cass / National Review:
Climate-Change Activists Are the Real Science Deniers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
On the Power of Being Awful  —  The 100-day reviews are in, and they're terrible.
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
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