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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.
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David Freedlander / Politico:
Meet the Real Jared Kushner — He was supposed to be the calm one, cool and unflappable under his Ray-Bans and beltless blue bespoke suits. If Steve Bannon was the Rumpelstiltskin of the administration, donning multiple half-tucked dress shirts at a time and always carrying a clutch …
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Washington Post:
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation
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artnet News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection
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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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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought — The darker forces that propelled President Trump's rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party. — When GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter who had attempted to ask him a question Wednesday night in Montana …
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New York Times:
Greg Gianforte, Montana Republican, Captures House Seat Despite Assault Charge — BOZEMAN, Mont. — Greg Gianforte, a wealthy Montana Republican who was charged with assaulting a reporter on Wednesday, nonetheless won the state's lone seat in the House of Representatives on Thursday …
Greg Gianforte / Decision Desk HQ:
Montana At-Large Congressional Election
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Gianforte's victory a ‘great win in Montana’
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republicans' 7-point win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats
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Lauren Fox / CNN:
Republican Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election, CNN projects
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Republican wins Montana election one night after being charged with assault
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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 …
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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’ — Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he had a ‘very frankly constructed meeting’ with US president. — TAORMINA, Italy — Jean-Claude Juncker appeared to confirm reports that Donald Trump had complained in private …
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Daniel Gross / Slate:
Trump Reportedly Wants to Stop Germans From Selling So Many Cars Here, Where They're Made
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President … Every time a new story breaks that moves the Russia story down the field, there's an inevitable eruption from the right and alt-right about the liberal media trying to bring the great man down. It never fails.
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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 …
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Political Wire, The Week and Daily Mail
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.
Reuters:
Gunmen kill 26 in attack on Christians in Egypt — Gunmen attacked buses and a truck taking a group of Coptic Christians to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 25 others, witnesses and the Health Ministry said. — An Interior Ministry spokesman …
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Max Boot / USA Today:
Trump talks tough to NATO but bows hypocritically to Saudi Arabia — His first trip abroad was revealing and not in a good way. He's picking the wrong best friends for America. — At the beginning of his first overseas trip, President Trump spoke in Riyadh on May 21.
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Trump's behavior at NATO is a national embarrassment
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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?
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.
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Raw Story
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.
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Democrats making major headway in special election losses — There have been three special elections in the Trump era, and although Democrats have yet to flip a seat, they've gained considerable ground in each compared to results in the general. — Why it matters: These are tangible signs …
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Political Wire and The Week
New York Daily News:
Milo Yiannopoulos-led protest against CUNY commencement speaker Linda Sarsour turns violent — A raucous rally against CUNY's School of Public Health's commencement speaker ended in violence Thursday when demonstrators clashed with counter-protesters. — The scuffle broke out after an unlikely band …
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