memeorandum: Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault (Ryan Struyk/ABC News)

11:30 AM ET, May 26, 2017

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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.

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought

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Greg Gianforte / Decision Desk HQ:
Montana At-Large Congressional Election

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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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New York Times:
Greg Gianforte, Montana Republican, Captures House Seat Despite Assault Charge

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Gianforte's victory a ‘great win in Montana’

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Lauren Fox / CNN:
Republican Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election, CNN projects

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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 …

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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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Here's why the FBI is likely to be interested in Jared Kushner's meeting with Russians

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artnet News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection

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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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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Montana NBC Affiliate Refused to Cover Gianforte ‘Body Slam’

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A Journalist Was Body Slammed, but Some Conservatives Want the News Media to Apologize

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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Montana TV Station Won't Air Recording Of GOP Candidate's Attack On Journalist

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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 …

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Reuters:
Gunmen kill 26 in attack on Christians in Egypt

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Maggie Michael / americamagazine.org:
Gunmen attack bus carrying Coptic Christians, killing at least 24 in Egypt

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New York Times:
Gunmen Attack Coptic Christian Convoy in Egypt, Killing at Least 26

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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 …

Discussion: Raw Story

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.

Discussion: Hot Air, Axios, The Week and The Daily Caller

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

Tom McTague / Politico:
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’

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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Trump: I'll Put a Stop to Germany Selling Cars in the US

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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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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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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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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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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.

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 …

Mark Harris / The Guardian:

Revealed: details of Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft — Google co-founder is building airship designed to be able to deliver supplies and food on humanitarian missions to remote locations, sources said … Google co-founder Sergey Brin is building …

Discussion: Fast Company, The Verge and Daily Mail

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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