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11:10 PM ET, May 20, 2017

Top Items:

CNN:

Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security — Controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who this week announced he will be joining Donald Trump's administration as assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Mediaite, FOX6Now.com, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Miranda Green / CNN:

Comey's father: Trump was ‘scared to death’ of FBI director — Washington (CNN)The father of former FBI Director James Comey says his son was fired because President Donald Trump was “scared to death of him.” — In a phone interview with CNN on Saturday, J. Brien Comey called his son's firing last week “a Trump deal.”

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, New York Times, Axios and Conservative News Today

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.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Daily Kos, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Daily Mail and AOL

Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
Jim Comey's father, a NJ Republican, speaks out about Trump

Discussion: Raw Story, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Hill, AOL, Politicus USA, Breitbart, New York Times, Power Line and Washington Monthly

Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Comey's father rips Trump: 'He's nuts'

Discussion: RedState

Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Knows Just How Bad the Russia Investigation Can Get

Discussion: Raw Story, CNN, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Vox, Washington Monthly, AOL, Mediaite, Mother Jones, Hot Air and The Times of Israel

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump's Berating of Comey for the Consumption of Our Enemies

Discussion: Power Line, Breitbart, neo-neocon, Lawfare, Outside the Beltway, CNN, RedState, Conservative News Today, Infowars and The Guardian

Alexi McCammond / Axios:

Conservative media coverage gap on Trump, Obama bows — When Trump received The Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud Medal at the Royal Court Palace in Saudi Arabia, he bowed ever so slightly to the Saudi leader presenting it to him. — In 2009, when Obama greeted the Saudi King with a bow …

Discussion: Mediaite and Hullabaloo

Fox News:
Trump shakes hands with Saudi leader, doesn't bow as Obama appeared to do

Discussion: Slate, Associated Press, AOL and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Associated Press:
Melania Trump skips headscarf as she arrives in Saudi Arabia

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Conservative News Today

Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump receives Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor

Discussion: Politico, The Week and Mother Jones

Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
GREAT AGAIN: Unlike Obama, Trump doesn't bow to Saudi king

Discussion: The Hill, twitchy.com, Washington Post, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Conservative News Today, RT, Mediaite and ABC News

Annie Karni / Politico:
Saudis give Trump a reception fit for a king

Discussion: ABC News, IJR, Washington Post, The Mahablog, Associated Press, Axios and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

patribotics:

EXCLUSIVE: Judiciary Committee Considering Articles of Impeachment — Multiple sources close to the intelligence, justice and law enforcement communities say that the House Judiciary Committee is considering Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States.

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Mediaite and American Power

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

House Inquiry Turns Attention to Trump Campaign Worker With Russia Ties — Michael Caputo, who served as a communications adviser to the Trump campaign, has been asked by the House committee investigating Russian election meddling to submit to a voluntary interview and to provide any documents …

Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: The Verge, Mashable, AOL, Althouse and Political Wire

Paulina Firozi / The Hill:

Twitter co-founder: ‘Very bad’ if Twitter helped make Trump president — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the role Twitter may have played in electing President Trump. — In an interview published Saturday in The New York Times, Williams discussed the president's March claim …

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com and twitchy.com

Erick Erickson / Washington Post:

Here comes the GOP bloodbath — Erick Erickson is editor of the Resurgent. — Republicans like to point out how disastrous President Barack Obama's tenure was for the Democratic Party. During his presidency, Democrats reached new lows in state legislative, gubernatorial and congressional seats.

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.

Discussion: The Guardian, Infowars, The Daily Caller, Axios and emptywheel

Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:

Black voters say they're already losing under Trump — Conversations with Virginian voters help explain that dreadful 12-per-cent approval rating with a community he pledged to make a priority. — PETERSBURG, VA.—A struggling post-industrial town. A Christian factory worker praying “constantly” for Donald Trump.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

James Delingpole / Breitbart:

‘Penises Cause Climate Change’; Progressives Fooled by Peer-Reviewed Hoax Study — Gender studies is a fake academic industry populated by charlatans, deranged activists and gullible idiots. — Now, a pair of enterprising hoaxers has proved it scientifically by persuading an academic journal …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Why Evolution Is True and Watts Up With That?

Skeptic:
The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies

Discussion: acsh.org, Ketan Joshi, Why Evolution Is True, Althouse, Power Line, The College Fix, Maggie's Farm and National Review

Damian Carrington / Wired:

The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault Flooded. Thanks, Global Warming — It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle …

Discussion: Vox, Washington Post, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, France 24, Engadget, Mashable and The Verge

Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:

GOP talks of narrowing ‘blue-slip’ rule for judges — GOP senators are talking about changing an obscure Senate tradition to make it more difficult for Democrats to block certain judges from advancing to a confirmation hearing. — The change to the “blue-slip rule” would involve preventing …

Discussion: Political Wire

CBS News:

“Clock boy” discrimination lawsuit dismissed by federal judge — A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit brought by the family a Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that officials believed to be a bomb, saying the student's attorneys failed …

Discussion: Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, IJR and CBS Dallas

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:

West Wing aides brace for big attorney bills — President Donald Trump has deep pockets to pay for personal lawyers to defend him from the evolving federal investigation into his campaign's contacts with Russian officials. It's a very different story for his staff.

Discussion: Raw Story, New York Magazine, The Week, Conservative News Today and Outside the Beltway