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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
How Trump gets his fake news — White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Trump. — Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump to light White House blue to honor police — President Trump announced Monday that he'll light the White House blue to honor police officers for Monday's Peace Officer Memorial Day. — The president signed a proclamation Monday declaring the day “Peace Officer Memorial Day” and the upcoming week “Police Week.”
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Politico and Washington Free Beacon
Nancy Solomon / WNYC News:
Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer — The most powerful congressman in New Jersey, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, wrote a fundraising letter in March to a board member of a local bank, warning him that a member of an activist group opposing the Republican worked at his bank.
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ThinkProgress, Shareblue, Washington Post, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Vox, NJ 11th For Change, Political Wire, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and Eschaton
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’ — Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. — She wrote “In Trump We Trust” and proclaimed that she worships him like the “people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader - blind loyalty.”
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted After Supreme Court Rejects Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law. The move left in place a federal appeals court ruling that struck down key parts …
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Bloomberg, The Nation, Axios, BillMoyers.com and The Week
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in North Carolina Voting Case; Chief Justice Issues Statement — Today the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Fourth Circuit decision holding that a North Carolina voting law (one I've called the strictest set of voting rules rolled …
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Mother Jones, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't review decision that found N.C. voting law discriminates against African Americans
Supreme Court won't review decision that found N.C. voting law discriminates against African Americans
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Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
America's worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
America's worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
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The Daily Caller
John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts: Conway secretly hates Trump — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is secretly disgusted by President Trump and spoke harshly off him off-camera during the campaign, “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said Monday
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RedState
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump ‘Doing This For The Money’ — Morning Joe dropped a very revealing nugget on Monday's show, with both Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski accusing White House Counsellor Kellyanne Conway of being a fraud.
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed A Shower After Defending Trump
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed A Shower After Defending Trump
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
NATO Frantically Tries to Trump-Proof President's First Visit — A ‘freaked out’ NATO braces for Donald Trump's first meeting of the transatlantic alliance. — NATO is scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting to avoid taxing President Donald Trump's notoriously short attention span.
Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
MARVEL CANCELS TA-NEHISI COATES' BLACK PANTHER & THE CREW COMIC AFTER TWO ISSUES — Ta-Nehisi Coates, the celebrated public intellectual, faced a setback in his attempt to introduce racial diversity to the world of comic books when Marvel announced that Black Panther & The Crew …
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The Daily Caller
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Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week's cyberattack — Early Friday morning the world experienced the year's latest cyberattack. — Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally …
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russia, This Time the Victim of a Cyberattack, Voices Outrage
Russia, This Time the Victim of a Cyberattack, Voices Outrage
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The Week
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Madness Invites Mutiny — When people behave as if they have something to hide, it is often because they do. For me, this is a basic law of human behavior. — That's why President Trump's baffling, outrageous, unfathomable and just plain bizarre behavior last week strengthened …
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Daily Kos, CNN and Common Dreams
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Jason Zengerle / GQ:
Inside Corey Lewandowski's Failed Romp in Trump's Swamp — He was a political nobody who helped Donald Trump win the White House. Then Corey Lewandowski went to Washington, hell-bent on making his fortune and changing the lobbying game forever. Here's how those grandiose plans blew up …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid. Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues …
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Miss USA Winner Angers Liberals With Health Care Answer — Kára McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist, won the crown at the Miss USA pageant on Sunday night while surprising and angering liberals with her interview answers on health care and feminism. — McCullough works …
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NewsBusters, RedState, The Hill, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and Mashable
Kevin Quealy / New York Times:
If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They're More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy — Here are guesses from 1,746 adults: — Where is North Korea? — Each represents a respondent's guess. — Just 36 percent got it right. Here are the countries they selected:
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Forbes, IJR, Washington Post, CNN, The Diplomat, NK News, 38 North, Balloon Juice and Gizmodo
Reuters:
France's Macron picks PM from the right, blowing apart old boundaries — Newly-inaugurated French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a conservative prime minister on Monday in a move to broaden his political appeal and weaken his opponents before legislative elections in June.
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Political Wire and Axios
Denis Dyomkin / Reuters:
Putin blames off-key piano for hesitant musical rendition — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday an impromptu piano rendition he gave on the sidelines of a meeting in Beijing had been hampered by an out of tune instrument. — Putin was captured on camera on Sunday sitting …
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Sputnik International, NPR and The Daily Caller
Medium:
A Conversation with President Obama on Political Courage — By Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President Kennedy and member of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Committee — Last week, President Obama received the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award for his many acts …
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Politico
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Lawrence O'Donnell's Future At MSNBC Is Unclear — As his contract nears its end, a renewal doesn't appear to be on the horizon for “The Last Word” host. — Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's “The Last Word,” has just four weeks left in his contract, and the cable network does not appear to be interested in renewing his deal.
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Barron Trump to attend private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland this fall — Barron Trump, the 11-year-old son of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, will attend the private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., this fall after he moves from New York to Washington with his mother.
Preet Bharara / Washington Post:
Are there still public servants who will say no to the president? — Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until this March. — The most dramatic hearing I helped to arrange as chief counsel …
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
U.S. says Syria cremated thousands of prisoners — The U.S. accused Syria Monday of killing thousands of prisoners and then burning their bodies in a crematorium outside of the capital, according to the AP. The top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Stu Jones, says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘Crisis of public trust’ after Comey firing … Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Monday said the nation has a “crisis of public trust” after President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. — “I think we have a crisis of public trust right now and we need to restore that,” Sasse told “CBS This Morning.”
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RedState
Washington Post:
Mandatory minimum sentences are cruel and ineffective. Sessions wants them back. — As a federal prosecutor and judge, we saw that these policies do not work. … Last week, Attorney General Jeff Session instructed the nation's 2,300 federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges in all but exceptional cases.
Brian Resnick / Vox:
“Motivated ignorance” is ruining our political discourse — Talking with a political opponent is almost as unpleasant as getting a tooth pulled. — If you ever thought, “You couldn't pay me to listen to Sean Hannity / Rachael Maddow / insert any television pundit you violently disagree with here” — you are not alone.