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First on CNN: Comey now believes Trump was trying to influence him, source says — Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey now believes that President Donald Trump was trying to influence his judgment about the Russia probe, a person familiar with his thinking says …
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Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
Jim Comey's father, a NJ Republican, speaks out about Trump — Fired FBI director Jim Comey will testify publicly sometime after Memorial Day, but we won't have to wait that long to hear from his father. — J. Brien Comey is lifelong Republican and a former councilman in Allendale …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump's Berating of Comey for the Consumption of Our Enemies — I admit to being slack-jawed over the New York Times report that President Trump smeared former FBI director James Comey in a conversation with representatives of Russia's murderous, anti-American regime.
Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
White House looking at ethics rule to weaken special investigation: sources — The Trump administration is exploring whether it can use an obscure ethics rule to undermine the special counsel investigation into ties between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia, two people familiar with White House thinking said on Friday.
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CNN:
First on CNN: Russian officials bragged they could use Flynn to influence Trump, sources say — Washington (CNN)Russian officials bragged in conversations during the presidential campaign that they had cultivated a strong relationship with former Trump adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn …
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Wall Street Journal:
Fired FBI Director James Comey to Testify in Public — Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify publicly in Congress, capping a week that may shape President Donald Trump's administration for months, or even years, and prompting White House aides to rethink how they operate in this new political and legal environment.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
West Wing aides brace for big attorney bills
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Mike Kelly / NorthJersey.com:
In hometown of Allendale, James Comey is no ‘nut job,’ but principled career man
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Politicus USA
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
GREAT AGAIN: Unlike Obama, Trump doesn't bow to Saudi king — What a difference an election can make for the respect American leaders have for our country. — There were two very different outcomes when two American presidents greeted the king of Saudi Arabia.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Saudis give Trump a reception fit for a king — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Donald Trump had to travel to someone else's kingdom to get the respect he has always craved. — From his airport greeting by King Salman of Saudi Arabia — a courtesy that was never extended to his predecessor …
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Fox News:
Melania Trump forgoes wearing headscarf in Saudi Arabia trip
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump receives Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor
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New York Times:
Trump Arrives in Saudi Arabia to a Warm Welcome
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Javier E. David / CNBC:
US-Saudi Arabia seal weapons deal worth nearly $110 billion immediately, $350 billion over 10 years
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New York Magazine and RT
New York Times:
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Stifled U.S. Spying — WASHINGTON — The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.
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emptywheel
Why Evolution Is True:
A new academic hoax: a bogus paper on “the conceptual penis” gets published in a “high quality peer-reviewed” social science journal — It's been 21 years since physicist Alan Sokal submitted a bogus paper to a special “Science Wars” issue of the cultural studies journal Social Text.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Roger Ailes: The Man Who Wrecked Conservatism — Friends and colleagues who knew Roger Ailes better than I did attest that he was a nicer and more considerate man than most liberal obituarists will ever give him credit for. They add (and the same obituarists concede) that the creator …
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Wall Street Journal, No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Defeated Pro-Trump Democratic Mayor is Down in the Dumps — Last year, the mayor of a seen-better-days steel town in Western Pennsylvania became the poster child of President Donald Trump's appeal to white working-class Democrats. But he'll soon be out of work after a 26-year-old assistant band director …
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Raw Story
John Steele Gordon / Commentary Magazine:
A SLOW-MOTION COUP D'ÉTAT? — A quote of a quote of a quote. — Let me see if I have this straight. — POLITICS & IDEAS — POLITICS & IDEAS — POLITICS & IDEAS — The Russia investigation converges with the Comey scandal. — On Friday afternoon, two alleged “bombshell” …
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Chicago Boyz and Instapundit
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It — SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora's box. Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to the newspaper or haranguing the neighbors.
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ESPN:
OKC's Enes Kanter detained in Romania — Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter is being detained in Romania after his passport was “canceled” by the Turkish embassy on Saturday morning, he said in a video posted to Twitter. — Kanter, who arrived in Bucharest from Jakarta, Indonesia …
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Charles Ventura / USA Today:
Anderson Cooper ‘genuinely sorry’ for ‘crude’ remark directed at Jeffrey Lord — 15k Shares — CNN host Anderson Cooper apologized for a “crude” remark directed at President Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord during his show on Friday, calling his comment “unprofessional.”
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Hawaii News Now:
Suspect in cockpit threat on Honolulu flight had been detained at LAX — A Turkish man on board a Honolulu-bound flight tried to break into the cockpit Friday before being subdued by passengers and flight crew, who used duct tape, pillows and blankets to make sure he couldn't get out of his seat.
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Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
Military jets scramble to escort Honolulu-bound American Airlines flight after cockpit incident
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The Daily Caller
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Rouhani Wins Re-election in Iran by a Wide Margin — TEHRAN — Riding a large turnout from Iran's urban middle classes, President Hassan Rouhani won re-election in a landslide on Saturday, giving him a mandate to continue his quest to expand personal freedoms and open Iran's ailing economy to global investors.
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