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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 Donald 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
Nancy Solomon / WNYC News:
GOP Congressman 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.
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.”
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in NC voter ID case  —  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear North Carolina's appeal of a lower court's decision to strike down its voter ID law, effectively killing the law.  —  The court declined to overturn a Fourth Circuit Court …
Discussion: Politico and RedState
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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 …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Revive North Carolina Voter-ID Law
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court leaves in place ruling that struck down N.C.'s voter ID law
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
America's worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
Discussion: 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
Discussion: RedState
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump ‘Doing This For The Money’
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed A Shower After Defending Trump
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump admits he fired Comey over Russia.  Republican voters don't believe him.  —  President Donald Trump has said the real reason he fired James Comey from the FBI was because of the bureau's investigation into links between Trump's 2016 campaign associates and Russia.
Discussion: Politico and RedState
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Alex Ward / Vox:
Secret tapes, hearings, and a new FBI director: the Comey news to watch for this week
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Madness Invites Mutiny
Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
NBC News:
It's Early, but the GOP Is Already in the Midterm Danger Zone  —  First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  Bannon, Preibus & Spicer on the Chopping Block?
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Live Cyber attack latest: Vladimir Putin blames US for hack as thousands more computers hit by ransomware  — Thousands of computers in China and Japan hit by WannaCry virus  — Putin says Russia had ‘nothing to do’ with global ransomware outbreak  — Microsoft attacks US government …
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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
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   Obama: Not bombing Syria ‘required the most political courage’
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson “furious” about Tillerson's comments  —  Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — a man who has no trouble getting the President on the phone — is “furious” about comments Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made today on NBC's “Meet the Press,” according to two sources with knowledge of Adelson's reaction.
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 …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
THE TRUTH about Trump's tapes — POLITICO INVESTIGATION: Stock trades ‘leaves Congress rife with conflicts’ — About that White House shakeup ... — ADRIENNE ELROD's new firm — B'DAY: Rachel Kelly  —  Listen to the Playbook Audio Briefing http://bit.ly/2qIO6jZ ... Subscribe on iTunes http …
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David Brody / CBN.com:
BRODY FILE EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration To Significantly Expand Pro-Life Mexico City Policy
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
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 …
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:
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.
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Global Cyberattack Spreads as Experts Try to Limit Damage
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Inside North Korea's Accelerated Plan to Build a Viable Missile
Anthony Breznican / EW.com:
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Discussion: CNN, The Week and ABC News
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Priming of Mr. Donald Trump
Discussion: Forbes
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘Crisis of public trust’ after Comey firing
Discussion: RedState
Kenneth W. Starr / Wall Street Journal:
Rosenstein's Compelling Case Against Comey
 Earlier Items: 
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Barron Trump to attend private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland this fall
Discussion: DCist
Brian Resnick / Vox:
“Motivated ignorance” is ruining our political discourse
John Fund / National Review:
Why Are Democrats Afraid of the Election Integrity Commission?
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Young Black Democrats, Eager to Lead From the Left, Eye Runs in 2018
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Liberals Are An Inferno Of Flaming Crazy And We Should Pour Gasoline On The Fire
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Women Can Wear Pants on Fox News Now, But Not Much Else Has Changed
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Lawrence O'Donnell's Future At MSNBC Is Unclear