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12:50 PM ET, May 26, 2017

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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Republicans Broke American Politics, and Media Elites Are Blind to It  —  Greg Gianforte's victory, after assaulting an America reporter, should horrify anyone who cares about the strength of our political institutions.  —  Republican Greg Gianforte defeated Democrat Rob Quist …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President
Discussion: Raw Story
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Gianforte's victory a ‘great win in Montana’
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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon's back  —  The escalating crisis surrounding the Russia investigation (with reports last night on FBI interest in Jared Kushner) looks like good news for somebody in the White House: Steve Bannon.  —  Nine sources in the West Wing and within Trump's close orbit said the Russia situation is Bannon's shot at redemption.
David Freedlander / Politico:
Meet the Real Jared Kushner
Washington Post:
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation
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.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republicans' 7-point win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats  —  Winning narrowly in safe red seats is a bad sign.  —  Greg Gianforte's 7 percentage point win in the Montana special election keeps a seat in Republican hands but fundamentally represents bad news for the GOP.
Breitbart Jerusalem / Associated Press:
Report: Gunmen Massacre Coptic Christians in Egypt, Killing at Least 28  —  CAIRO (AP) — Masked militants riding in three SUVs opened fire Friday on a bus packed with Coptic Christians, including many children, south of the Egyptian capital, killing at least 28 and wounding 25, the Interior Ministry said.
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Reuters:
Gunmen kill 26 in attack on Christians in Egypt
Discussion: RedState and Al Jazeera English
Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Texas teachers give ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 13-year-old  —  Seventh-grader Lizeth Villanueva has been in her school's academic honors program for two years.  She gets good grades and has never been a discipline problem.  Yet on Tuesday, her teacher gave her a “most likely to become a terrorist” award.
Discussion: KFOR-TV, The Daily Caller, AOL and Fusion
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Rose-Ann Aragon / Click2Houston.com:
Mom furious after teacher names daughter ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Discussion: RT and vice
Tegna / KHOU-TV:
Teachers name student ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Discussion: NPR, The Root and myfox8.com
New York Times:
Did the Turkish President's Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington?  What the Video Shows … The New York Times reviewed videos and photos to track the actions of 24 men, including armed members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail, who attacked protesters in Washington last week.
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: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Peter Müller / Spiegel Online:
‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’  —  At a meeting with European Union leaders on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump was sharply critical of Germany.  DER SPIEGEL spoke with meeting participants.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump voiced significant displeasure over Germany's trade surplus …
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Tom McTague / Politico:
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’
Discussion: ABC News
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DHS chief: If you knew what I knew about terror, you'd ‘never leave the house’  —  Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would “never leave the house” if they knew the truth.  —  “I was telling [Fox host] Steve …
Discussion: RedState and The Right Scoop
Karen Jowers / Military Times:
John Glenn's remains were disrespected at the military's mortuary, Pentagon documents allege  —  WASHINGTON — A senior mortuary employee at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware twice offered horrified inspectors a peek at American icon John Glenn's dead body while the famed astronaut awaited burial earlier …
Valerie Jones / Rigzone:
Former House Speaker Boehner: Trump ‘Still Learning How to be President’  —  John Boehner delivers a fierce keynote in which he shares his view on Trump's presidency, whether or not he'd consider running for president and of course, Russia.  —  Regina Mayor, KPMG's global sector head …
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say  —  The FBI is investigating an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization, summoning President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, for an emergency session with the bureau's cybersecurity agents and representatives of the CIA, officials tell ABC News.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Allies, Convicted of High Crimes Without a Trial  —  Maybe Flynn committed treason.  But so far no one has presented any evidence, just innuendo.  That's not justice.  —  Heard any good Mike Flynn jokes lately?  —  How about this one from “Morning Joe,” this week?
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Here's why the FBI is likely to be interested in Jared Kushner's meeting with Russians
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner (Exclusive)  —  In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Overcome by Coughing Fit During Commencement Speech, Needs Water  —  A familiar problem from the campaign trail hit Hillary Clinton while she spoke at Wellesley College's commencement on Friday, when she began coughing and needed some water and a throat lozenge.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
How Republicans Botched Their Drug-Test Legislation  —  The GOP tries to give states more power and hampers them instead.  —  On St. Patrick's Day, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted a photo of himself and Republican Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, both in green ties …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is the Antithesis of Christian Values  —  The contrast between a grim-faced pope and the grinning president at the Vatican this past week was not lost on the press or late-night TV.  But they missed the mark, it seems to me.  They noted merely that the two leaders profoundly disagree on …
 
 
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
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Students berate professor who refused to participate in no-whites ‘Day of Absence’
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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Civil War Museum Closes Doors After Politician Demands Confederate Flags Be Eliminated
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Rumsfeld: 'I'm glad' Trump pressed NATO on defense spending
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Alamo Drafthouse announces a women-only screening of ‘Wonder Woman’ and of course men are upset
Max Boot / USA Today:
Trump talks tough to NATO but bows hypocritically to Saudi Arabia
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
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The Texas Tribune:
Fearing 2018 losses, Texas Republicans in Congress want special session on redistricting
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Democrats making major headway in special election losses
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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