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11:45 PM ET, May 25, 2017

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NBC News:
Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Say Officials  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.  —  Investigators believe Kushner …
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Washington Post:
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation  —  Investigators are focusing on a series of meetings held by Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and an influential White House adviser, as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related matters, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Joe Lieberman: FBI Appointment Would Have Looked ‘Terrible’
Reuters:
House panel chairman says FBI declines for now to meet request for Comey-linked documents
Discussion: IJR
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Montana TV Station Won't Air Recording Of GOP Candidate's Attack On Journalist  —  Right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group recently purchased the local NBC affiliate, but the general manager says the company didn't interfere.  —  If Montana residents tuned into the local news Wednesday night …
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Christina Manduley / CNN:
Tapper: If you can't condemn an assault on a reporter, reexamine your love for Constitution  —  Tapper: If you can't condemn an assault...  (CNN)On Wednesday, the Republican candidate in Montana's special congressional election, Greg Gianforte, was charged with misdemeanor assault …
New York Times:
Live Election Results: Montana's At-Large Congressional District  —  Greg Gianforte, a Republican technology executive who was charged with assault on Wednesday night, faces Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate and folk singer, in a special election for Montana's at-large House seat on Thursday.
New York Times:
Assault Charge for Gianforte Lifts Democrats' Montana Election Hopes  —  BOZEMAN, Mont. — Democrats scrambled on Thursday to snatch a last-minute upset in the closely watched House contest in Montana, airing radio and digital ads featuring audio of the election-eve assault on a reporter by the Republican candidate, Greg Gianforte.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Polls close in Montana, with both sides seeing possible roads to victory  —  BOZEMAN, Mont. — Polls closed in Montana Thursday evening with both Democrats and Republicans seeing possible roads to victory in the state's special congressional election.  —  Turnout patterns, late-breaking news …
Discussion: The Resurgent
Edmund Kozak / LifeZette:
Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Says No Neck Grab
Felix Biederman / Washington Post:
Face it: The body-slammed reporter did just what you would have done
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Montana's wild special election: 6 things to watch
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Trump's behavior at NATO is a national embarrassment  —  Poor NATO.  After all of the hoops summit organizers reportedly jumped through to accommodate President Trump and his anemic attention span, he definitely was not on his best behavior.  Trump was the party guest whom no one really wants …
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Wall Street Journal:
How Alleged Russian Hacker Teamed Up With Florida GOP Operative  —  Political consultant Aaron Nevins asked for and received documents from hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ and posted some on his blog, after which the hacker called the blog to the attention of Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Russian Hackers Are Using ‘Tainted’ Leaks to Sow Disinformation  —  Over the past year, the Kremlin's strategy of weaponizing leaks to meddle with democracies around the world has become increasingly clear, first in the US and more recently in France.  But a new report by a group …
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David Filipov / Washington Post:   Researchers say they've uncovered a disinformation campaign with apparent Russian link
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The conservative mind has become diseased  —  To many observers on the left, the initial embrace of Seth Rich conspiracy theories by conservative media figures was merely a confirmation of the right's deformed soul.  But for those of us who remember that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity …
Discussion: The Federalist and Balloon Juice
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artnet News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection  —  The couple has a taste for the works of market-friendly art stars, but lawyers say it's just for decoration.  —  Since their wedding in 2009, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have amassed a formidable collection of contemporary art.
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and Political Wire
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Appeals Court Will Not Reinstate Trump's Revised Travel Ban  —  WASHINGTON — The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., on Thursday refused to reinstate President Trump's revised travel ban, saying it discriminated on the basis of religion.  The decision was a fresh setback …
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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
TRUMP TRAVEL BAN BLOCKED; FIGHT HEADED FOR SUPREME COURT
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court keeps block on revised Trump travel ban; administration vows SCOTUS appeal
Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air and Axios
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Carrier Sends Jobs to Mexico, Workers Say Trump ‘Misled’ Them … Donald Trump stood outside a Carrier manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana weeks before taking office and boasted he just saved 1,100 jobs from being shipped to Mexico.  —  Inside the plant, some workers were skeptical.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Close to a disaster’: Foreign policy scholar explains massive damage done by Trump's NATO speech  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday delivered a speech at NATO headquarters in which he did not explicitly endorse Article 5 …
Discussion: BBC and Shakesville
Manu Raju / CNN:
Hill demands answers on Robert Mueller probe  —  (CNN)A growing number of key lawmakers in both parties are calling on Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller to detail what specifically his Russia investigation is targeting, with one Democratic senator warning bluntly that failing …
Discussion: emptywheel
Daily Mail:
Obama receives rock star welcome in Germany as he appears alongside Merkel and says 'we can't hide behind a wall'  — Former President Obama appeared alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate  — Obama used the opportunity …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Daily Wire
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Key Republicans Are Encouraging Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance To Run For Senate In Ohio  —  Some Republican activists and donors worried about the prospects of their party's Senate candidate in Ohio are kicking around an outside-the-box alternative: Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance.
Discussion: Political Wire
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Harvard's Student Paper Is Drunk and Taking Potshots at Mark Zuckerberg  —  The Harvard Crimson has either become the victim of an incredibly funny prank, or Facebook is beta-testing its silent speech brain interface on college students.  —  Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned …
Daniel Gross / Slate:
Trump Reportedly Wants to Stop Germans From Selling So Many Cars Here, Where They're Made  —  Donald Trump had some tough words for the Germans at the NATO summit in Belgium on Thursday.  “The Germans are bad, very bad,” he reportedly told Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Union.
Dr. David A. Bray / Fight for the Future:
Letter to the FCC from people whose names and addresses were used to submit fake comments against net neutrality  —  445 12th Street, S.W.  —  Washington, D.C. 20554  —  Chief Information Officer  —  Federal Communications Commission  —  445 12th Street, S.W.  —  Washington, D.C. 20554
Linda Yang / broadly:
‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Is Back—And Channeling Her Rage Through BDSM  —  Two years after “Mattress Performance,” Emma Sulkowicz continues to provoke.  Her most recent piece, in which she was bound, berated, and hung from the ceiling, tackles the question of the value of art under the Trump administration.
CBS News:
Mini and small cars have highest traffic deaths rates, IIHS report says  —  A new report says the improving economy has a downside: more traffic deaths.  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) says a stronger economy fuels more driving, leading to an increase in deadly crashes.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Republicans are stuck in a high-school mindset  —  Republicans used to claim to favor the rule of law.  —  Yet what happened when a Republican candidate for Congress in Montana was accused of body-slamming a reporter and cited for misdemeanor assault?  —  The conservative commentator Laura …
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Senate Mulls Health-Law Rewrite Pushing Obamacare Repeal to 2020  —  Senators working to craft more modest version than House plan  —  Little progress on difficult issue: Future of Obamacare taxes  —  Senate Republicans are weighing a two-step process to replace Obamacare that would postpone …
Discussion: Hot Air, Politico, CNBC and The Daily Caller
 
 
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Growing Concern Over Brothers Arrested With Guns, Bomb-Making Materials
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Wall Street Journal:
BlackRock, Vanguard Mull Pressuring Exxon to Disclose Climate Risks
David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Why are doughnut boxes pink? The answer could only come out of Southern California
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Senate Intel heads get broad subpoena power in Russia probe
Discussion: IJR
CNN:
Trump org. to break promise of donating foreign profits
ABC News:
Iraqi troops torture and execute civilians in secret videos
Discussion: IJR
 Earlier Items: 
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Assault on Colleges — and the American Dream
Andrew Mayeda / Bloomberg:
World Bank's Star Economist Is Sidelined in War Over Words
Discussion: Financial Times and Mother Jones
Matthew Balan / Mediaite:
‘You Are Sadly Mistaken’: Don Lemon Rips CNN Guest Who Won't Blame Trump For Alleged Assault On Reporter
Discussion: Breitbart, twitchy.com and theGrio
Washington Post:
‘Anyone . . . with a pulse’: How a Russia-friendly adviser found his way into the Trump campaign
Discussion: Gizmodo, Raw Story and The Week
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Sheriff Clarke directed staff to hassle plane passenger after brief exchange
Discussion: Balloon Juice
BBC:
Manchester attack: Police ‘not sharing information with US’
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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